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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...
GPEM
2008
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Sporadic model building for efficiency enhancement of the hierarchical BOA
Efficiency enhancement techniques--such as parallelization and hybridization--are among the most important ingredients of practical applications of genetic and evolutionary algori...
Martin Pelikan, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg
CORR
2006
Springer
129views Education» more  CORR 2006»
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On the Optimality of the ARQ-DDF Protocol
The performance of the automatic repeat request-dynamic decode and forward (ARQ-DDF) cooperation protocol is analyzed in two distinct scenarios. The first scenario is the multiple...
Kambiz Azarian, Hesham El Gamal, Philip Schniter
INTEGRATION
2006
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On whitespace and stability in physical synthesis
In the context of physical synthesis, large-scale standard-cell placement algorithms must facilitate incremental changes to layout, both local and global. In particular, flexible ...
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov, Paul G. Villarrub...
CORR
2007
Springer
130views Education» more  CORR 2007»
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Lagrangian Relaxation for MAP Estimation in Graphical Models
Abstract— We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an in...
Jason K. Johnson, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wil...