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PODC
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
MIS on trees
A maximal independent set on a graph is an inclusion-maximal set of mutually non-adjacent nodes. This basic symmetry breaking structure is vital for many distributed algorithms, w...
Christoph Lenzen, Roger Wattenhofer
SIAMAM
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Kinetics of Swelling Gels
We develop a general theory of the swelling kinetics of polymer gels, with the view that a polymer gel is a two-phase fluid. The model we propose is a free boundary problem and ca...
James P. Keener, Sarthok Sircar, Aaron L. Fogelson
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Scalable query rewriting: a graph-based approach
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and data warehouses. We consider its simplest ...
George Konstantinidis, José Luis Ambite
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
234views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Ranking with uncertain scoring functions: semantics and sensitivity measures
Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
ICCV
2011
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Optimal Landmark Detection using Shape Models and Branch and Bound
Fitting statistical 2D and 3D shape models to images is necessary for a variety of tasks, such as video editing and face recognition. Much progress has been made on local fitting...
Brian Amberg, Thomas Vetter