We provide a smoothed analysis of Hoare’s find algorithm and we revisit the smoothed analysis of quicksort. Hoare’s find algorithm – often called quickselect – is an easy...
Mahmoud Fouz, Manfred Kufleitner, Bodo Manthey, Ni...
We report on the aftermath of the discovery of a severe vulnerability in the Debian Linux version of OpenSSL. Systems affected by the bug generated predictable random numbers, mo...
Scott Yilek, Eric Rescorla, Hovav Shacham, Brandon...
In this paper we show the power of sampling techniques in designing efficient distributed algorithms. In particular, we show that using sampling techniques, on some networks, sele...
In the unconditionally reliable message transmission (URMT) problem, two non-faulty players, the sender S and the receiver R are part of a synchronous network modeled as a directe...
We introduce a class of voting rules called generalized scoring rules. Under such a rule, each vote generates a vector of k scores, and the outcome of the voting rule is based onl...