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PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
ISMIR
2004
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
A Comparison of Rhythmic Similarity Measures
Measuring the similarity between rhythms is a fundamental problem in computational music theory, with many applications such as music information retrieval and copyright infringem...
Godfried T. Toussaint
MKM
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Flexible Encoding of Mathematics on the Computer
This paper reports on refinements and extensions to the MathLang framework that add substantial support for natural language text. We show how the extended framework supports mult...
Fairouz Kamareddine, Manuel Maarek, J. B. Wells
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A provably sound TAL for back-end optimization
Typed assembly languages provide a way to generate machinecheckable safety proofs for machine-language programs. But the soundness proofs of most existing typed assembly languages...
Juan Chen, Dinghao Wu, Andrew W. Appel, Hai Fang
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A type and effect system for atomicity
Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected and nondeterministic interactions between threads. Previous work addressed th...
Cormac Flanagan, Shaz Qadeer