We study the online problem of holding a number of idle threads on an application server, which we have ready for processing new requests. The problem stems from the fact that bot...
abstract for submission to Random '98 not for distribution Andrei Z. Broder Moses Charikar Michael Mitzenmacher Min-wise independence is a recently introduced notion of limit...
Andrei Z. Broder, Moses Charikar, Michael Mitzenma...
Given a pair of nonidentical complex objects, de ning and determining how similar they are to each other is a nontrivial problem. In data mining applications, one frequently nee...
We extend results about heights of random trees (Devroye, 1986, 1987, 1998b). In this paper, a general split tree model is considered in which the normalized subtree sizes of node...
The Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem asserts that any reasonable voting rule cannot be strategyproof. A large body of research in AI deals with circumventing this theorem via computa...