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SAC
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal service level allocation in environmentally powered embedded systems
Energy management is a critical concern in the design of embedded systems to prolong the lifetime or to maximize the performance under energy constraints. In particular, the emerg...
Clemens Moser, Jian-Jia Chen, Lothar Thiele
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FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
ViBE: A powerful random technique to estimate the background in video sequences
Background subtraction is a crucial step in many automatic video content analysis applications. While numerous acceptable techniques have been proposed so far for background extra...
Olivier Barnich, Marc Van Droogenbroeck
GROUP
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Wikipedians are born, not made: a study of power editors on Wikipedia
Open content web sites depend on users to produce information of value. Wikipedia is the largest and most well-known such site. Previous work has shown that a small fraction of ed...
Katherine A. Panciera, Aaron Halfaker, Loren G. Te...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
The Power of Reordering for Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling
In the classic minimum makespan scheduling problem, we are given an input sequence of jobs with processing times. A scheduling algorithm has to assign the jobs to m parallel machi...
Matthias Englert, Deniz Özmen, Matthias Weste...