The Small-Set Expansion Hypothesis (Raghavendra, Steurer, STOC 2010) is a natural hardness assumption concerning the problem of approximating the edge expansion of small sets in g...
Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer, Madhur Tulsiani
In this paper, we describe a scheme for tolerating and recovering from mid-query faults in a distributed shared nothing database. Rather than aborting and restarting queries, our s...
Christopher Yang, Christine Yen, Ceryen Tan, Samue...
Employees depend on other people in the enterprise for rapid access to important information. But current systems for finding experts do not adequately address the social implicat...
Kate Ehrlich, Ching-Yung Lin, Vicky Griffiths-Fish...
In this paper we study the neighbourhood of 15-variable Patterson-Wiedemann (PW) functions, i.e., the functions that differ by a small Hamming distance from the PW functions in te...
At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk takin...