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EWSPT
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Mobile Agent Approach to Process-Based Dynamic Adaptation of Complex Software Systems
We describe an approach based upon software process technology to on-the-fly monitoring, redeployment, reconfiguration, and in general dynamic adaptation of distributed software ap...
Giuseppe Valetto, Gail E. Kaiser, Gaurav S. Kc
CGI
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Fast Approximate Quantitative Visibility for Complex Scenes
Ray tracing and Monte-Carlo based global illumination, as well as radiosity and other finite-element based global illumination methods, all require repeated evaluation of quantita...
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischin...
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
Arjan Pellenkoft, César A. Galindo-Legaria,...
CORR
2002
Springer
125views Education» more  CORR 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Complexity of Manipulating Elections with Few Candidates
In multiagent settings where the agents have different preferences, preference aggregation is a central issue. Voting is a general method for preference aggregation, but seminal r...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Differences in the mechanics of information diffusion across topics: idioms, political hashtags, and complex contagion on twitte
There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it ...
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, Jon M. Kleinberg