It is well known that prior knowledge or bias can speed up learning, at least in theory. It has proved di cult to make constructive use of prior knowledge, so that approximately c...
— Uniform sampling in networks is at the core of a wide variety of randomized algorithms. Random sampling can be performed by modeling the system as an undirected graph with asso...
Asad Awan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan...
We consider the problem of sampling URLs uniformly at random from the Web. A tool for sampling URLs uniformly can be used to estimate various properties of Web pages, such as the ...
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Allan Heydon, Michael Mitz...
Abstract—It may not be feasible for sensor networks monitoring nature and inaccessible geographical regions to include powered sinks with Internet connections. We consider the sc...
Consider k particles, 1 red and k −1 white, chasing each other on the nodes of a graph G. If the red one catches one of the white, it “infects” it with its color. The newly ...
Tassos Dimitriou, Sotiris E. Nikoletseas, Paul G. ...