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PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
A distributed polylogarithmic time algorithm for self-stabilizing skip graphs
Peer-to-peer systems rely on scalable overlay networks that enable efficient routing between its members. Hypercubic topologies facilitate such operations while each node only nee...
Riko Jacob, Andréa W. Richa, Christian Sche...
SIAMAM
2011
14 years 2 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
ATAL
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A model of norm emergence and innovation in language change
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Samarth Swarup, Andrea Apolloni, Zsuzsanna Fagyal
ATAL
2011
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Conviviality measures
Conviviality has been introduced as a social science concept for multiagent systems to highlight soft qualitative requirements like user friendliness of systems. In this paper we ...
Patrice Caire, Baptiste Alcalde, Leendert van der ...
WONS
2012
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Obfuscating IEEE 802.15.4 communication using secret spreading codes
—The IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies an M-ary spread spectrum system with public and fixed spreading sequences. We propose instead to use secret and dynamic, random spreading ...
Bjorn Muntwyler, Vincent Lenders, Franck Legendre,...