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MFCS
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Weights of Exact Threshold Functions
We consider Boolean exact threshold functions defined by linear equations, and in general degree d polynomials. We give upper and lower bounds on the maximum magnitude (absolute va...
László Babai, Kristoffer Arnsfelt Ha...
ICDCSW
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Towards Cyber-Physical Holodeck Systems Via Physically Rendered Environments (PRE's)
We present an early vision of a cyber-physical environment in which computer controlled rendering of physical surfaces, terrains, and environments is achieved by manipulating grid...
Veljko Krunic, Richard Han
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PODC
1997
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
The Load and Availability of Byzantine Quorum Systems
Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Avishai Wool
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ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Q-decomposition and bounded RTDP approach to resource allocation
This paper contributes to solve effectively stochastic resource allocation problems known to be NP-Complete. To address this complex resource management problem, a Qdecomposition...
Pierrick Plamondon, Brahim Chaib-draa, Abder Rezak...
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CORR
2006
Springer
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15 years 22 days ago
Improved Bounds and Schemes for the Declustering Problem
Abstract. The declustering problem is to allocate given data on parallel working storage devices in such a manner that typical requests find their data evenly distributed among the...
Benjamin Doerr, Nils Hebbinghaus, Sören Werth