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COCO
2009
Springer
155views Algorithms» more  COCO 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Weak Derandomization of Weak Algorithms: Explicit Versions of Yao's Lemma
—A simple averaging argument shows that given a randomized algorithm A and a function f such that for every input x, Pr[A(x) = f(x)] ≥ 1−ρ (where the probability is over the...
Ronen Shaltiel
TCSV
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Streaming: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Approach
While peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming systems have achieved promising results, they introduce a large number of unnecessary traverse links, which consequently leads to substanti...
Yan Chen, Beibei Wang, W. Sabrina Lin, Yongle Wu, ...
COCO
2007
Springer
108views Algorithms» more  COCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
The Communication Complexity of Correlation
We examine the communication required for generating random variables remotely. One party Alice will be given a distribution D, and she has to send a message to Bob, who is then r...
Prahladh Harsha, Rahul Jain, David A. McAllester, ...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...
CORR
2008
Springer
93views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
The end of Sleeping Beauty's nightmare
The way a rational agent changes her belief in certain proposition/hypotheses in the light of new evidence lies in the heart of Bayesian inference. The basic natural assumption, a...
Berry Groisman