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SODA
2012
ACM
177views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 2 days ago
Stochastic coalescence in logarithmic time
The following distributed coalescence protocol was introduced by Dahlia Malkhi in 2006 motivated by applications in social networking. Initially there are n agents wishing to coal...
Po-Shen Loh, Eyal Lubetzky
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan
ICDE
2005
IEEE
139views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 11 months ago
Compressing Bitmap Indices by Data Reorganization
Many scientific applications generate massive volumes of data through observations or computer simulations, bringing up the need for effective indexing methods for efficient stora...
Ali Pinar, Tao Tao, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Analysis of WWW traffic in Cambodia and Ghana
In this paper we present an analysis of HTTP traffic captured from Internet caf?es and kiosks from two different developing countries ? Cambodia and Ghana. This paper has two main...
Bowei Du, Michael J. Demmer, Eric A. Brewer
ICDCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Down the Block and Around the Corner The Impact of Radio Propagation on Inter-vehicle Wireless Communication
Vehicular networks are emerging as a new distributed system environment with myriad possible applications. Most studies on vehicular networks are carried out via simulation, given...
John S. Otto, Fabián E. Bustamante, Randall...