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GI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Taming the Tiger: How to Cope with Real Database Products in Transactional Federations for Internet Applications
Data consistency in transactional federations is a key requirement of advanced E-service applications on the Internet, such as electronic auctions or real-estate purchase. Federat...
Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Succinct quantum proofs for properties of finite groups
In this paper we consider a quantum computational variant of nondeterminism based on the notion of a quantum proof, which is a quantum state that plays a role similar to a certifi...
John Watrous
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Approximating the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem
Abstract. In the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem, commodities must be routed simultaneously from a common source vertex to certain destination vertices in a given ...
Martin Skutella
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
How Bad is Selfish Routing?
We consider the problem of routing traffic to optimize the performance of a congested network. We are given a network, a rate of traffic between each pair of nodes, and a latency ...
Tim Roughgarden, Éva Tardos
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Cost-Distance: Two Metric Network Design
Adam Meyerson, Kamesh Munagala, Serge A. Plotkin
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Algorithms for Universal Portfolios
A constant rebalanced portfolio is an investment strategy that keeps the same distribution of wealth among a set of stocks from day to day. There has been much work on Cover'...
Adam Kalai, Santosh Vempala
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Topological Persistence and Simplification
We formalize a notion of topological simplification within the framework of a filtration, which is the history of a growing complex. We classify a topological change that happens ...
Herbert Edelsbrunner, David Letscher, Afra Zomorod...
FOCS
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Recommendation Systems: A Probabilistic Analysis
A recommendation system tracks past actions of a group of users to make recommendations toindividualmembersofthe group. The growth ofcomputer-mediatedmarketingandcommerce has led ...
Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopala...