Braess’s Paradox is the counterintuitive but well-known fact that removing edges from a network with “selfish routing” can decrease the latency incurred by traffic in an eq...
Cryptographic applications using an elliptic curve over a finite field filter curves for suitability using their order as the primary criterion: e.g. checking that their order has...
David Jao, Stephen D. Miller, Ramarathnam Venkates...
The rapid growth of the number of videos in YouTube provides enormous potential for users to find content of interest to them. Unfortunately, given the difficulty of searching vid...
Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Ji...
Many backtracking algorithms exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, in which their running time is often much longer than their median. We analyze the behavior of two natural variant...
Many systems for tasks such as question answering, multi-document summarization, and information retrieval need robust numerical measures of lexical relatedness. Standard thesauru...