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ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Quasirandom Rumor Spreading: Expanders, Push vs. Pull, and Robustness
Abstract Randomized rumor spreading is an efficient protocol to distribute information in networks. Recently, a quasirandom version has been proposed and proven to work equally we...
Benjamin Doerr, Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald
LICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Functional Reachability
—What is reachability in higher-order functional programs? We formulate reachability as a decision problem in the setting of the prototypical functional language PCF, and show th...
C.-H. Luke Ong, Nikos Tzevelekos
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
MFCS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Query Automata for Nested Words
We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We de...
P. Madhusudan, Mahesh Viswanathan
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore