Abstract— We consider the following problem of decentralized statistical inference: given i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution, estimate an arbitrary quantile subject to l...
—Reliability analysis has become a tool of fundamental importance to virtually all electrical and computer engineers because of the extensive usage of hardware systems in safety ...
We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...
—We address the problem of selecting a banner advertisement, based on the profile of the online user. The profile consists of the set of webpages opened by the online user, opt...
Giovanni Giuffrida, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Giu...
1 The arms race between copyright agencies and P2P users is an ongoing and evolving struggle. On the one hand, content providers are using several techniques to stealthily find un...
Rahul Potharaju, Jeff Seibert, Sonia Fahmy, Cristi...