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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
132views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
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A dynamic pari-mutuel market for hedging, wagering, and information aggregation
I develop a new mechanism for risk allocation and information speculation called a dynamic pari-mutuel market (DPM). A DPM acts as hybrid between a pari-mutuel market and a contin...
David M. Pennock
SPAA
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Lower bounds for graph embeddings and combinatorial preconditioners
Given a general graph G, a fundamental problem is to find a spanning tree H that best approximates G by some measure. Often this measure is some combination of the congestion and...
Gary L. Miller, Peter C. Richter
VAST
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Virtual San Storytelling for Children: Content vs. Experience
This paper describes the development of a Virtual Environment (VE) for telling a traditional San story. The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of southern Africa whose t...
Ilda Ladeira, Edwin H. Blake
ACISP
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Single Database Private Information Retrieval with Logarithmic Communication
In this paper, we study the problem of single database private information retrieval, and present schemes with only logarithmic server-side communication complexity. Previously th...
Yan-Cheng Chang
APPROX
2004
Springer
121views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2004»
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Small Pseudo-random Families of Matrices: Derandomizing Approximate Quantum Encryption
A quantum encryption scheme (also called private quantum channel, or state randomization protocol) is a one-time pad for quantum messages. If two parties share a classical random s...
Andris Ambainis, Adam Smith