Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
This paper presents a novel Second Order Cone Programming (SOCP) formulation for large scale binary classification tasks. Assuming that the class conditional densities are mixture...
J. Saketha Nath, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, M. Naras...
We consider the problem of bounded-error quantum state identification: given either state 0 or state 1, we are required to output `0', `1' or `?' ("don't ...
Dmitry Gavinsky, Julia Kempe, Oded Regev, Ronald d...
We study the cover time of multiple random walks. Given a graph G of n vertices, assume that k independent random walks start from the same vertex. The parameter of interest is the...
Abstract. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in designing algorithms for querying and analyzing streaming data (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) ...
Alin Dobra, Minos N. Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke,...