The "direct product code" of a function f gives its values on all k-tuples (f(x1), . . . , f(xk)). This basic construct underlies "hardness amplification" in c...
Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets, Avi Wigde...
—In greedy routing, each relay node forwards the message to a neighbor (also called successor) that is closer to the destination. However, the successor candidate set (SCS) is di...
Abstract. Gradients are distributed distance estimates used as a building block in many sensor network applications. In large or long-lived deployments, it is important for the est...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, Mar...
Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are an increasingly important tool for genetic and biomedical research. Although current genomic databases contain information o...