Motivated by a problem that arises in the study of mirrored storage systems, we describe, for any fixed , > 0 and any integer d 2, explicit or randomized constructions of d-r...
—This paper addresses the problem of self-validated labeling of Markov random fields (MRFs), namely to optimize an MRF with unknown number of labels. We present graduated graph c...
Local Search problem, which finds a local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both practical and theoretical importance to combinatorial optimization, complexi...
— Peer-to-peer systems are becoming increasingly popular, with millions of simultaneous users and a wide range of applications. Understanding existing systems and devising new pe...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...
In this paper we consider the problem of computing the expected hitting time to a vertex for random walks on graphs. We give a method for computing an upper bound on the expected ...