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GI
2000
Springer
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days ago
Cost-Distance: Two Metric Network Design
Adam Meyerson, Kamesh Munagala, Serge A. Plotkin
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days 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
14 years 7 days 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...