Extractors (defined by Nisan and Zuckerman) are procedures that use a small number of truly random bits (called the seed) to extract many (almost) truly random bits from arbitrar...
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
d Abstract appeared in STACS `98) Joel H. Spencer1 and Katherine St. John2 1 Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY 10012 2 Department of Mathematics, Santa Clara Uni...
Relational data exchange deals with translating a relational database instance over some source schema into a relational database instance over some target schema, according to a ...
This paper addresses the problem of allocating (assigning and scheduling) periodic task modules to processing nodes in distributed real-time systems subject to task precedence and ...