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COCO
1994
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  COCO 1994»
14 years 6 days ago
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...
SIGMOD
1993
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 1993»
14 years 5 days ago
Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
AFRIGRAPH
2007
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Generic computation of bulletin boards into geometric kernels
Nowadays, many commercial CAD systems are built on proprietary geometric kernels which provide an API containing a set of high level geometric operations (boolean operations, slot...
Mehdi Baba-ali, David Marcheix, Xavier Skapin, Yve...
PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 hour ago
A new technique for distributed symmetry breaking
We introduce Multi-Trials, a new technique for symmetry breaking for distributed algorithms and apply it to various problems in general graphs. For instance, we present three rand...
Johannes Schneider, Roger Wattenhofer
PODC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 hour ago
Eventually linearizable shared objects
Linearizability is the strongest known consistency property of shared objects. In asynchronous message passing systems, Linearizability can be achieved with 3S and a majority of c...
Marco Serafini, Dan Dobre, Matthias Majuntke, P&ea...