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TSP
2012
14 years 1 days ago
Optimized Compact-Support Interpolation Kernels
Abstract—In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing compact-support interpolation kernels for a given class of signals. By using calculus of variations, we simplify t...
Ramtin Madani, Ali Ayremlou, Arash Amini, Farrokh ...
PVM
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Toward Performance Models of MPI Implementations for Understanding Application Scaling Issues
Abstract. Designing and tuning parallel applications with MPI, particularly at large scale, requires understanding the performance implications of different choices of algorithms ...
Torsten Hoefler, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Jes...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
109views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
A new perspective on implementation by voting trees
Voting trees describe an iterative procedure for selecting a single vertex from a tournament. vide a very general abstract model of decision-making among a group of individuals, a...
Felix A. Fischer, Ariel D. Procaccia, Alex Samorod...
STOC
2009
ACM
96views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
MaxMin allocation via degree lower-bounded arborescences
We consider the problem of MaxMin allocation of indivisible goods. There are m items to be distributed among n players. Each player i has a nonnegative valuation pij for an item j...
MohammadHossein Bateni, Moses Charikar, Venkatesan...
IPSN
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous placement and scheduling of sensors
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...
Andreas Krause, Ram Rajagopal, Anupam Gupta, Carlo...