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VOSS
2004
Springer
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Analysing Randomized Distributed Algorithms
Abstract. Randomization is of paramount importance in practical applications and randomized algorithms are used widely, for example in co-ordinating distributed computer networks, ...
Gethin Norman
COCO
2009
Springer
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Weak Derandomization of Weak Algorithms: Explicit Versions of Yao's Lemma
—A simple averaging argument shows that given a randomized algorithm A and a function f such that for every input x, Pr[A(x) = f(x)] ≥ 1−ρ (where the probability is over the...
Ronen Shaltiel
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
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Lightweight Coloring and Desynchronization for Networks
—We study the distributed desynchronization problem for graphs with arbitrary topology. Motivated by the severe computational limitations of sensor networks, we present a randomi...
Arik Motskin, Tim Roughgarden, Primoz Skraba, Leon...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Randomized model predictive control for robot navigation
— We suggest a new navigation approach to mobile robots, within a nonlinear model predictive control framework where a navigation function is used as a control Lyapunov function....
Jorge L. Piovesan, Herbert G. Tanner

Lecture Notes
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15 years 2 months ago
Combinatorial Algorithms
"This is a standard senior-level algorithms class required of every computer science undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Illinois."
Jeff Erickson