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CORR
2011
Springer
193views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 5 months ago
Advice Coins for Classical and Quantum Computation
We study the power of classical and quantum algorithms equipped with nonuniform advice, in the form of a coin whose bias encodes useful information. This question takes on particu...
Scott Aaronson, Andrew Drucker
OSDI
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Design and Implementation of Zap: A System for Migrating Computing Environments
We have created Zap, a novel system for transparent migration of legacy and networked applications. Zap provides a thin virtualization layer on top of the operating system that in...
Steven Osman, Dinesh Subhraveti, Gong Su, Jason Ni...
CIDR
2009
157views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
How to Play Unique Games Using Embeddings
In this paper we present a new approximation algorithm for Unique Games. For a Unique Game with n vertices and k states (labels), if a (1 − ε) fraction of all constraints is sa...
Eden Chlamtac, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makaryc...
FOCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
On the Predictability of Coupled Automata: An Allegory about Chaos
We show a sharp dichotomy between systems of identical automata with a symmetric global control whose behavior is easy to predict, and those whose behavior is hard to predict. The...
Samuel R. Buss, Christos H. Papadimitriou, John N....