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PODS
2012
ACM
11 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
We study the mergeability of data summaries. Informally speaking, mergeability requires that, given two summaries on two data sets, there is a way to merge the two summaries into ...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Springer
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Several peer-to-peer systems for live streaming have been recently deployed (e.g. CoolStreaming, PPLive, SopCast). These all rely on distributed, epidemic-style dissemination mech...
ML
1998
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
1998
ACM
It is well known that prior knowledge or bias can speed up learning, at least in theory. It has proved di cult to make constructive use of prior knowledge, so that approximately c...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Fine-grained network measurement requires routers and switches to update large arrays of counters at very high link speed (e.g. 40 Gbps). A naive algorithm needs an infeasible amo...