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2002
ACM
159views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
16 years 7 months ago
On the composition of authenticated byzantine agreement
A fundamental problem of distributed computing is that of simulating a secure broadcast channel, within the setting of a point-to-point network. This problem is known as Byzantine...
Yehuda Lindell, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Rabin
EDBT
2002
ACM
132views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
A Framework for the Physical Design Problem for Data Synopses
Maintaining statistics on multidimensional data distributions is crucial for predicting the run-time and result size of queries and data analysis tasks with acceptable accuracy. To...
Arnd Christian König, Gerhard Weikum
ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
HYPERTEXT
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Automatically annotating textual resources with human intentions
Annotations represent an increasingly popular means for organizing, categorizing and finding resources on the “social” web. Yet, only a small portion of the total resources av...
Markus Strohmaier, Mark Kröll, Christian K&ou...
HRI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Showing robots how to follow people using a broomstick interface
—Robots are poised to enter our everyday environments such as our homes and offices, contexts that present unique questions such as the style of the robot’s actions. Style-orie...
James Everett Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi...