Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...
In this article, we describe the results from our survey in the ITdepartment of a large Oil and Gas company in Norway (Statoil ASA), in order to characterize developers’ views o...
Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Anita Gupta, Reidar Conra...
Statistical information about the flow sizes in the traffic passing through a network link helps a network operator to characterize network resource usage, infer traffic demands,...
Abhishek Kumar, Minho Sung, Jun Xu, Ellen W. Zegur...
Shared memory in a parallel computer provides prowith the valuable abstraction of a shared address space--through which any part of a computation can access any datum. Although un...