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IPSN
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Distributed optimization in sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks are capable of collecting an enormous amount of data over space and time. Often, the ultimate objective is to derive an estimate of a parameter or functio...
Michael Rabbat, Robert D. Nowak
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
FOCS
1994
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
The Load, Capacity and Availability of Quorum Systems
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Moni Naor, Avishai Wool
SIGMOD
1993
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 1993»
15 years 3 months ago
Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
AFRIGRAPH
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Generic computation of bulletin boards into geometric kernels
Nowadays, many commercial CAD systems are built on proprietary geometric kernels which provide an API containing a set of high level geometric operations (boolean operations, slot...
Mehdi Baba-ali, David Marcheix, Xavier Skapin, Yve...