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STOC
2010
ACM
228views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
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On the searchability of small-world networks with arbitrary underlying structure
Revisiting the “small-world” experiments of the ’60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two p...
Pierre Fraigniaud and George Giakkoupis
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An asymmetric distributed shared memory model for heterogeneous parallel systems
Heterogeneous computing combines general purpose CPUs with accelerators to efficiently execute both sequential control-intensive and data-parallel phases of applications. Existin...
Isaac Gelado, Javier Cabezas, Nacho Navarro, John ...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
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The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
197views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
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Coloring spatial point processes with applications to peer discovery in large wireless networks
In this paper, we study distributed channel assignment in wireless networks with applications to peer discovery in ad hoc wireless networks. We model channel assignment as a color...
Jian Ni, R. Srikant, Xinzhou Wu
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
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Low overhead concurrency control for partitioned main memory databases
Database partitioning is a technique for improving the performance of distributed OLTP databases, since “single partition” transactions that access data on one partition do no...
Evan P. C. Jones, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madden