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SAT
2010
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimal Noise and Runtime Distributions in Local Search
This paper presents a detailed empirical study of local search for Boolean satisfiability (SAT), highlighting several interesting properties, some of which were previously unknown...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
16 years 10 days ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
EUROCAST
1997
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
A Computational Model for Visual Size, Location and Movement
The ability to detect object size, location and movement is essential for a visual system in either a biological or man made environment. In this paper we present a model for esti...
Miguel Alemán-Flores, K. Nicholas Leibovic,...
ECCC
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Derandomizing the AW matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators and applications
Ahlswede and Winter [AW02] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound for real-valued random...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
IJSN
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
On pairwise connectivity of wireless multihop networks
This paper experimentally investigates the service availability of wireless multihop networks based on the following two metrics: average pairwise connectivity and pairwise connec...
Fangting Sun, Mark A. Shayman