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FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Markovian Coupling vs. Conductance for the Jerrum-Sinclair Chain
We show that no Markovian Coupling argument can prove rapid mixing of the Jerrum-Sinclair Markov chain for sampling almost uniformly from the set of perfect and near perfect match...
V. S. Anil Kumar, H. Ramesh
ICCV
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Geodesic Active Regions for Supervised Texture Segmentation
This paper presents a novel variational method for supervised texture segmentation. The textured feature space is generated by filtering the given textured images using isotropic ...
Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Performance Model of Speculative Prefetching in Distributed Information Systems
Previous studies in speculative prefetching focus on building and evaluating access models for the purpose of access prediction. This paper investigates a complementary area which...
Nor Jaidi Tuah, Mohan Kumar, Svetha Venkatesh
CRYPTO
1999
Springer
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Information Theoretically Secure Communication in the Limited Storage Space Model
Abstract. We provide a simple secret-key two-party secure communication scheme, which is provably information-theoretically secure in the limited-storage-space model. The limited-s...
Yonatan Aumann, Michael O. Rabin
ICDCS
1998
IEEE
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Accelerated Heartbeat Protocols
Heartbeat protocols are used by distributed programs to ensure that if a process in a program terminates or fails, then the remaining processes in the program terminate. We presen...
Mohamed G. Gouda, Tommy M. McGuire