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CRYPTO
2008
Springer
186views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Communication Complexity in Algebraic Two-Party Protocols
In cryptography, there has been tremendous success in building various two-party protocols with small communication complexity out of homomorphic semantically-secure encryption sc...
Rafail Ostrovsky, William E. Skeith III
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
14 years 4 months ago
QuakeTM: parallelizing a complex sequential application using transactional memory
“Is transactional memory useful?” is the question that cannot be answered until we provide substantial applications that can evaluate its capabilities. While existing TM appli...
Vladimir Gajinov, Ferad Zyulkyarov, Osman S. Unsal...
DATAMINE
2007
110views more  DATAMINE 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
The complexity of non-hierarchical clustering with instance and cluster level constraints
Recent work has looked at extending clustering algorithms with instance level must-link (ML) and cannot-link (CL) background information. Our work introduces δ and ǫ cluster lev...
Ian Davidson, S. S. Ravi
STOC
2005
ACM
112views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
The complexity of agreement
A celebrated 1976 theorem of Aumann asserts that honest, rational Bayesian agents with common priors will never "agree to disagree": if their opinions about any topic ar...
Scott Aaronson
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Complexity of determining nonemptiness of the core
Coalition formation is a key problem in automated negotiation among self-interested agents, and other multiagent applications. A coalition of agents can sometimes accomplish thing...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm