STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
We examine a class of collective coin- ipping games that arises from randomized distributed algorithms with halting failures. In these games, a sequence of local coin ips is gener...
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
Shor has showed how to perform fault tolerant quantum computation when the probability for an error in a qubit or a gate, η, decays with the size of the computation polylogarithmi...
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1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
We consider exploration problems where a robot has to construct a complete map of an unknown environment. We assume that the environment is modeled by a directed, strongly connecte...
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
We study a classical problem in online scheduling. A sequence of jobs must be scheduled on m identical parallel machines. As each job arrives, its processing time is known. The goa...