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FOCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Distributed multiagent resource allocation in diminishing marginal return domains
We consider a multiagent resource allocation domain where the marginal production of each resource is diminishing. A set of identical, self-interested agents requires access to sh...
Yoram Bachrach, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
ENTCS
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Abstract Interpretation of Imperative Programs using Truncated Normal Distributions
istic Abstract Interpretation of Imperative Programs using Truncated Normal Distributions Michael J. A. Smith1 ,2 Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science University of Edinb...
Michael J. A. Smith
EDBT
2004
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
DBDC: Density Based Distributed Clustering
Abstract. Clustering has become an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as marketing and purchasing assistance, multimedia, molecular biology as well as m...
Eshref Januzaj, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle
JOC
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
On Unconditionally Secure Distributed Oblivious Transfer
This paper is about the Oblivious Transfer in the distributed model proposed by M. Naor and B. Pinkas. In this setting a Sender has n secrets and a Receiver is interested in one o...
Carlo Blundo, Paolo D'Arco, Alfredo De Santis, Dou...