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PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Deterministic distributed vertex coloring in polylogarithmic time
Consider an n-vertex graph G = (V, E) of maximum degree ∆, and suppose that each vertex v ∈ V hosts a processor. The processors are allowed to communicate only with their neig...
Leonid Barenboim, Michael Elkin
FLOPS
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Contracts as Pairs of Projections
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Blume
SODA
2008
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Better bounds for online load balancing on unrelated machines
We study the problem of scheduling permanent jobs on unrelated machines when the objective is to minimize the Lp norm of the machine loads. The problem is known as load balancing ...
Ioannis Caragiannis
NETWORKING
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Modeling the Short-Term Unfairness of IEEE 802.11 in Presence of Hidden Terminals
: IEEE 802.11 exhibits both short-term and long-term unfairness [15]. The short-term fairness automatically gives rise to long-term fairness, but not vice versa [11]. When we thoro...
Zhifei Li, Sukumar Nandi, Anil K. Gupta
BMCBI
2008
71views more  BMCBI 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A tale of two symmetrical tails: Structural and functional characteristics of palindromes in proteins
Background: It has been previously shown that palindromic sequences are frequently observed in proteins. However, our knowledge about their evolutionary origin and their possible ...
Armita Sheari, Mehdi Kargar, Ali Katanforoush, Sha...