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SIGCOMM
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Peer-to-peer information retrieval using self-organizing semantic overlay networks
Content-based full-text search is a challenging problem in Peer-toPeer (P2P) systems. Traditional approaches have either been centralized or use flooding to ensure accuracy of th...
Chunqiang Tang, Zhichen Xu, Sandhya Dwarkadas
DCOSS
2006
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
GIST: Group-Independent Spanning Tree for Data Aggregation in Dense Sensor Networks
Abstract. Today, there exist many algorithms and protocols for constructing agregation or dissemination trees for wireless sensor networks that are optimal (for different notions o...
Lujun Jia, Guevara Noubir, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Rav...
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments
Idle desktops have been successfully used to run sequential and master-slave task parallel codes on a large scale in the context of volunteer computing. However, execution of messa...
Troy P. LeBlanc, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Rate-Distortion via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
We propose an approach to lossy source coding, utilizing ideas from Gibbs sampling, simulated annealing, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). The idea is to sample a reconstructio...
Shirin Jalali, Tsachy Weissman
BMCBI
2007
132views more  BMCBI 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Dependence of paracentric inversion rate on tract length
Background: We develop a Bayesian method based on MCMC for estimating the relative rates of pericentric and paracentric inversions from marker data from two species. The method al...
Thomas L. York, Richard Durrett, Rasmus Nielsen