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PODC
2006
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
Computing separable functions via gossip
Motivated by applications to sensor, peer-to-peer, and adhoc networks, we study the problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a totally distributed man...
Damon Mosk-Aoyama, Devavrat Shah
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
PODS
2010
ACM
215views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem
We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet...
Daniel M. Kane, Jelani Nelson, David P. Woodruff
PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
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COLT
1993
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Parameterized Learning Complexity
We describe three applications in computational learning theory of techniques and ideas recently introduced in the study of parameterized computational complexity. (1) Using param...
Rodney G. Downey, Patricia A. Evans, Michael R. Fe...