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OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
HQ Replication: A Hybrid Quorum Protocol for Byzantine Fault Tolerance
There are currently two approaches to providing Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine replication: a replica-based approach, e.g., BFT, that uses communication between replicas t...
James A. Cowling, Daniel S. Myers, Barbara Liskov,...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Naming People from Dialog: Temporal Grouping and Weak Supervision
We address the character identification problem in movies and television videos: assigning names to faces on the screen. Most prior work on person recognition in video assumes s...
Timothee Cour, Benjamin Sapp, Akash Nagle, Ben Tas...
ICC
2009
IEEE
144views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Analysis, Insights and Generalization of a Fast Decentralized Relay Selection Mechanism
Relay selection for cooperative communications has attracted considerable research interest recently. While several criteria have been proposed for selecting one or more relays an...
Virag Shah, Neelesh B. Mehta, Raymond Yim
ISCC
2009
IEEE
250views Communications» more  ISCC 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Access point-coordinated contention resolution for channel access in wireless LANs
MAHBOOB, AHMED M. Access Point-Coordinated Contention Resolution for Channel Access in Wireless LANs. (Under the direction of Assistant Professor Khaled A. Harfoush.) The most wid...
Ahmed M. Mahboob, Manjunath M. Prabhu, Khaled A. H...
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman