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IPL
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
The cost of probabilistic agreement in oblivious robot networks
In this paper, we look at the time complexity of two agreement problems in networks of oblivious mobile robots, namely, at the gathering and scattering problems. Given a set of ro...
Julien Clement, Xavier Défago, Maria Gradin...
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Soft arc consistency revisited
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a generic optimization problem defined by a network of local cost functions defined over discrete variables. It has applicatio...
Martin C. Cooper, Simon de Givry, M. Sanchez, Thom...
SIAMJO
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Sample Approximation Approach for Optimization with Probabilistic Constraints
We study approximations of optimization problems with probabilistic constraints in which the original distribution of the underlying random vector is replaced with an empirical dis...
James Luedtke, Shabbir Ahmed
CN
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Slotted Aloha as a game with partial information
This paper studies distributed choice of retransmission probabilities in slotted ALOHA. Both the cooperative team problem as well as the noncooperative game problem are considered...
Eitan Altman, Rachid El Azouzi, Tania Jimén...
COCOON
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-party Quantum Communication Complexity with Routed Messages
This paper describes a general quantum lower bounding technique for the communication complexity of a function that depends on the inputs given to two parties connected via paths,...
Seiichiro Tani, Masaki Nakanishi, Shigeru Yamashit...