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ICDE
2006
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Partial Selection Query in Peer-to-Peer Databases
In this paper, we propose DBSampler, a query execution mechanism to answer "partial selection" queries in peerto-peer databases. A partial selection query is an arbitrar...
Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyrus Shahabi
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Provably good and practically efficient algorithms for CMP dummy fill
Abstract--To reduce chip-scale topography variation in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) process, dummy fill is widely used to improve the layout density uniformity. Previous res...
Chunyang Feng, Hai Zhou, Changhao Yan, Jun Tao, Xu...
SECON
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Deploying Directional Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Connectivity and Coverage
Abstract—In contrast to existing work on the connected coverage problem in wireless sensor networks which assumes omnidirectional sensors with disk-like sensing range, this paper...
Xiaofeng Han, Xiang Cao, Errol L. Lloyd, Chien-Chu...
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
COCOA
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth