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FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load uneven distribution problem. Things are even worse in unstructured P2P systems. The objecti...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
The following source coding problem was introduced by Birk and Kol: a sender holds a word x ∈ {0, 1}n , and wishes to broadcast a codeword to n receivers, R1, . . . , Rn. The re...
DIM
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2006
ACM
An emerging approach to the problem of reducing the identity theft is represented by the adoption of biometric authentication systems. Such systems however present however several...