The principle of maximum entropy provides a powerful framework for statistical models of joint, conditional, and marginal distributions. However, there are many important distribu...
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
In [6], we proposed a new commit protocol, OPT, specially designed for use in distributed firm-deadline real-time database systems. OPT allows transactions to “optimistically...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
Executing subordinate activities by pushing return addresses on the stack is the most e cient working mode for sequential programs. It is supported by all current processors, yet i...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...