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FECS
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
Will There Ever Be Consensus on CS1?
- The choice of programming language, the approach by which students are taught and the software tools made available to students have been controversial issues in many ways. While...
Robert M. Siegfried, David Chays, Katherine Herber...
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
The Naming Game in Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...
Qiming Lu, Gyorgy Korniss, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
128views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 2 months ago
Temporal aggregates and temporal universal quantification in standard SQL
Although it has been acknowledged for many years that querying and updating time-varying information using standard (i.e., non-temporal) SQL is a challenging task, the proposed te...
Esteban Zimányi
WDAG
2007
Springer
79views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2007»
15 years 8 months ago
A Simple Population Protocol for Fast Robust Approximate Majority
We describe and analyze a 3-state one-way population protocol to compute approximate majority in the model in which pairs of agents are drawn uniformly at random to interact. Given...
Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, David Eisenstat
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Continual coordination through shared activities
Interacting agents that interleave planning and execution must reach consensus on their commitments to each other. In domains where agents have varying degrees of interaction and ...
Bradley J. Clement, Anthony C. Barrett