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EWSPT
2001
Springer
15 years 7 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
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CGI
1998
IEEE
15 years 6 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...
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VLDB
1997
ACM
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15 years 6 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,...
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CORR
2002
Springer
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15 years 2 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
14 years 9 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