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FOCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
FOCS
1990
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Separating Distribution-Free and Mistake-Bound Learning Models over the Boolean Domain
Two of the most commonly used models in computational learning theory are the distribution-free model in which examples are chosen from a fixed but arbitrary distribution, and the ...
Avrim Blum
WADT
1999
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
From States to Histories
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
Manfred Broy
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Distributed localization using noisy distance and angle information
Localization is an important and extensively studied problem in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks. Given the connectivity graph of the sensor nodes, along with additional local info...
Amitabh Basu, Jie Gao, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Giri...
MFCS
1995
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Measure on P: Robustness of the Notion
In AS , we de ned a notion of measure on the complexity class P in the spirit of the work of Lutz L92 that provides a notion of measure on complexity classes at least as large as...
Eric Allender, Martin Strauss