STOC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 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...
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1997
ACM
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 months ago
1997
ACM
STOC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 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
14 years 3 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...