Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to de...
d Abstract) James Aspnes Maurice Herlihyy Nir Shavitz Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Lab CRL 90/11 September 18, 1991 Many fundamental multi-processor coordinati...
We present a range of new results for testing properties of Boolean functions that are defined in terms of the Fourier spectrum. Broadly speaking, our results show that the propert...
Parikshit Gopalan, Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Served...