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SODA
2010
ACM
169views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Efficiently Decodable Non-adaptive Group Testing
We consider the following "efficiently decodable" nonadaptive group testing problem. There is an unknown string x {0, 1}n with at most d ones in it. We are allowed to t...
Piotr Indyk, Hung Q. Ngo, Atri Rudra
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Index Policies for Real-Time Multicast Scheduling for Wireless Broadcast Systems
Abstract—Motivated by the increasing usage of wireless broadcast networks for multicast real-time applications like video, this paper considers a canonical real-time multicast sc...
Vivek Raghunathan, Vivek S. Borkar, Min Cao, P. R....
CRYPTO
2000
Springer
149views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
A Cryptographic Solution to a Game Theoretic Problem
In this work we use cryptography to solve a game-theoretic problem which arises naturally in the area of two party strategic games. The standard game-theoretic solution concept for...
Yevgeniy Dodis, Shai Halevi, Tal Rabin
PDCN
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Speculative prefetching of optional locks in distributed systems
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal