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INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Inference of Multicast Routing Trees and Bottleneck Bandwidths Using End-to-end Measurements
Abstract-- The efficacy of end-to-end multicast transport protocols depends critically upon their ability to scale efficiently to a large number of receivers. Several research mult...
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Steven McCanne
160
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FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Stochastic Optimization is (Almost) as easy as Deterministic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
David B. Shmoys, Chaitanya Swamy
165
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IROS
2006
IEEE
202views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Topological characterization of mobile robot behavior
— We propose to classify the behaviors of a mobile robot thanks to topological methods as an alternative to metric ones. To do so, we adapt an analysis scheme from Physics of non...
Aurélien Hazan, Frédéric Dave...
113
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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig
100
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DAGSTUHL
2007
15 years 5 months ago
Matrix Analytic Methods in Branching processes
We examine the question of solving the extinction probability of a particular class of continuous-time multi-type branching processes, named Markovian binary trees (MBT). The exti...
Sophie Hautphenne, Guy Latouche, Marie-Ange Remich...