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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multiply-constrained distributed constraint optimization
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) has emerged as a useful technique for multiagent coordination. While previous DCOP work focuses on optimizing a single team objective, i...
Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo
COCO
2004
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Limitations of Quantum Advice and One-Way Communication
Abstract: Although a quantum state requires exponentially many classical bits to describe, the laws of quantum mechanics impose severe restrictions on how that state can be accesse...
Scott Aaronson
AUSAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Character Recognition Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Network
There is increasing evidence to suggest that the neocortex of the mammalian brain does not consist of a collection of specialised and dedicated cortical architectures, but instead ...
John Thornton, Torbjorn Gustafsson, Michael Blumen...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Shuffling by Semi-Random Transpositions
In the cyclic-to-random shuffle, we are given n cards arranged in a circle. At step k, we exchange the k'th card along the circle with a uniformly chosen random card. The pro...
Elchanan Mossel, Yuval Peres, Alistair Sinclair
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Graceful Quorum Reconfiguration in a Robust Emulation of Shared Memory
Providing shared-memory abstraction in messagepassing systems often simplifies the development of distributed algorithms and allows for the reuse of sharedmemory algorithms in the...
Burkhard Englert, Alexander A. Shvartsman