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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy
VLDB
2000
ACM
129views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Offering a Precision-Performance Tradeoff for Aggregation Queries over Replicated Data
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Chris Olston, Jennifer Widom
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Particle Swarm CMA Evolution Strategy for the optimization of multi-funnel landscapes
— We extend the Evolution Strategy with Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA-ES) by collaborative concepts from Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The proposed Particle Swarm CMA-ES...
Christian L. Müller, Benedikt Baumgartner, Iv...
PVG
2003
IEEE
212views Visualization» more  PVG 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering
Parallel volume rendering offers a feasible solution to the large data visualization problem by distributing both the data and rendering calculations among multiple computers con...
Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, Eric B. Lum, Jame...
WDAG
2010
Springer
218views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Anonymous Asynchronous Systems: The Case of Failure Detectors
Abstract: Due the multiplicity of loci of control, a main issue distributed systems have to cope with lies in the uncertainty on the system state created by the adversaries that ar...
François Bonnet, Michel Raynal