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FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
The Coin Problem and Pseudorandomness for Branching Programs
The Coin Problem is the following problem: a coin is given, which lands on head with probability either 1/2 + or 1/2 - . We are given the outcome of n independent tosses of this co...
Joshua Brody, Elad Verbin
STOC
2009
ACM
99views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Testing juntas nearly optimally
A function on n variables is called a k-junta if it depends on at most k of its variables. In this article, we show that it is possible to test whether a function is a k-junta or ...
Eric Blais
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
On randomized representations of graphs using short labels
Informative labeling schemes consist in labeling the nodes of graphs so that queries regarding any two nodes (e.g., are the two nodes adjacent?) can be answered by inspecting mere...
Pierre Fraigniaud, Amos Korman
EWSN
2006
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Sift: A MAC Protocol for Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Networks
Nodes in sensor networks often encounter spatially-correlated contention, where multiple nodes in the same neighborhood all sense an event they need to transmit information about....
Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, Y. C. Tay
WSDM
2010
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...