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PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Transactional predication: high-performance concurrent sets and maps for STM
Concurrent collection classes are widely used in multi-threaded programming, but they provide atomicity only for a fixed set of operations. Software transactional memory (STM) pr...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Jared Casper, Hassan Chafi,...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Describing differences between databases
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Heiko Müller, Johann Christoph Freytag, Ulf L...
AAAI
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Scaling Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based Clustering
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide an appropriately rich model for agents operating under partial knowledge of the environment. Since finding an opti...
Yan Virin, Guy Shani, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ronen ...
CGF
2010
146views more  CGF 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Polygonal Boundary Evaluation of Minkowski Sums and Swept Volumes
We present a novel technique for the efficient boundary evaluation of sweep operations applied to objects in polygonal boundary representation. These sweep operations include Mink...
Marcel Campen, Leif Kobbelt
DC
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Solo-valency and the cost of coordination
This paper introduces solo-valency, a variation on the valency proof technique originated by Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson. The new technique focuses on critical events that influe...
Danny Hendler, Nir Shavit