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CORR
2008
Springer
127views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
Theory of Rumour Spreading in Complex Social Networks
We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...
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SAT
2010
Springer
165views Hardware» more  SAT 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Optimal Noise and Runtime Distributions in Local Search
This paper presents a detailed empirical study of local search for Boolean satisfiability (SAT), highlighting several interesting properties, some of which were previously unknown...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
TOMACS
2011
139views more  TOMACS 2011»
14 years 8 months ago
The double CFTP method
We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Luc Devroye, Lancelot F. James
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Swarm testing
Swarm testing is a novel and inexpensive way to improve the diversity of test cases generated during random testing. Increased diversity leads to improved coverage and fault detec...
Alex Groce, Chaoqiang Zhang, Eric Eide, Yang Chen,...
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SODA
2012
ACM
229views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 3 months ago
Approximation algorithms for stochastic orienteering
In the Stochastic Orienteering problem, we are given a metric, where each node also has a job located there with some deterministic reward and a random size. (Think of the jobs as...
Anupam Gupta, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Viswanath ...