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INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Dissemination in opportunistic mobile ad-hoc networks: The power of the crowd
—Opportunistic ad-hoc communication enables portable devices such as smartphones to effectively exchange information, taking advantage of their mobility and locality. The nature ...
Gjergji Zyba, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stratis Ioannid...
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IPSN
2011
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Sensor networks for the detection and tracking of radiation and other threats in cities
This paper presents results from experiments, mathematical analysis, and simulations of a network of static and mobile sensors for detecting threats on city streets and in open ar...
Annie H. Liu, Julian J. Bunn, K. Mani Chandy
JOTA
2011
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14 years 7 months ago
Outer Trust-Region Method for Constrained Optimization
Given an algorithm A for solving some mathematical problem based on the iterative solution of simpler subproblems, an Outer Trust-Region (OTR) modification of A is the result of ...
Ernesto G. Birgin, Emerson V. Castelani, Andr&eacu...
PODC
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MIS on trees
A maximal independent set on a graph is an inclusion-maximal set of mutually non-adjacent nodes. This basic symmetry breaking structure is vital for many distributed algorithms, w...
Christoph Lenzen, Roger Wattenhofer
SIAMMAX
2011
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14 years 7 months ago
A Condition for Convexity of a Product of Positive Definite Quadratic Forms
A sufficient condition for the convexity of a finite product of positive definite quadratic forms is given in terms of the condition numbers of the underlying matrices. When only...
Minghua Lin, Gord Sinnamon