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ICC
2009
IEEE
120views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
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Back-of-the-Envelope Computation of Throughput Distributions in CSMA Wireless Networks
— This paper presents a simple method for computing throughputs of links in a CSMA network. We call our method back-of-the-envelop (BoE) computation, because for many network con...
Soung Chang Liew, Caihong Kai, Jason Leung, Bill W...
COCO
2009
Springer
106views Algorithms» more  COCO 2009»
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Improved Approximation of Linear Threshold Functions
We prove two main results on how arbitrary linear threshold functions f(x) = sign(w · x − θ) over the n-dimensional Boolean hypercube can be approximated by simple threshold f...
Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
182views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2009»
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The age of gossip: spatial mean field regime
Disseminating a piece of information, or updates for a piece of information, has been shown to benefit greatly from simple randomized procedures, sometimes referred to as gossipi...
Augustin Chaintreau, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nikodin ...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
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Optimization of data prefetch helper threads with path-expression based statistical modeling
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow
SCHULE
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Exploratory Learning
: In our department we have a long history of developing interfaces for learning, which are framed by constructivist and constructionist theories of learning. Thus we try to create...
Ivan Kalas, D. Lehotska