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PODC
2006
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Quorum placement in networks: minimizing network congestion
A quorum system over a universe of logical elements is a collection of subsets (quorums) of elements, any two of which intersect. In numerous distributed algorithms, the elements ...
Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Flor...
COCO
2005
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
16 years 4 days ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case Then It is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma
WDAG
2009
Springer
94views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Local Computation of Nearly Additive Spanners
Abstract. An (α, β)-spanner of a graph G is a subgraph H that approximates distances in G within a multiplicative factor α and an additive error β, ensuring that for any two no...
Bilel Derbel, Cyril Gavoille, David Peleg, Laurent...
COMCOM
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A dynamic routing protocol for keyword search in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
The idea of building query-oriented routing indices has changed the way of improving keyword search efficiency from the basis as it can learn the content distribution from the que...
Cong Shi, Dingyi Han, Yuanjie Liu, Shicong Meng, Y...
CC
2007
Springer
121views System Software» more  CC 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case, Then it is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma