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SPAA
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated Objects in a Distributed Environment
Consider a set of shared objects in a distributed network, where several copies of each object may exist at any given time. To ensure both fast access to the objects as well as e ...
C. Greg Plaxton, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Andréa...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Fast Convergence of Natural Bargaining Dynamics in Exchange Networks
Bargaining networks model the behavior of a set of players who need to reach pairwise agreements for making profits. Nash bargaining solutions in this context correspond to soluti...
Yashodhan Kanoria, Mohsen Bayati, Christian Borgs,...
TMC
2008
127views more  TMC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Time and Energy Complexity of Distributed Computation of a Class of Functions in Wireless Sensor Networks
We consider a scenario in which a wireless sensor network is formed by randomly deploying n sensors to measure some spatial function over a field, with the objective of computing a...
Nilesh Khude, Anurag Kumar, Aditya Karnik
BMCBI
2006
109views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
A computational approach to discovering the functions of bacterial phytochromes by analysis of homolog distributions
Background: Phytochromes are photoreceptors, discovered in plants, that control a wide variety of developmental processes. They have also been found in bacteria and fungi, but for...
Tilman Lamparter
FCCM
2006
IEEE
138views VLSI» more  FCCM 2006»
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Efficient Hardware Generation of Random Variates with Arbitrary Distributions
This paper presents a technique for efficiently generating random numbers from a given probability distribution. This is achieved by using a generic hardware architecture, which t...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk