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ICALP
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Names Trump Malice: Tiny Mobile Agents Can Tolerate Byzantine Failures
Abstract. We introduce a new theoretical model of ad hoc mobile computing in which agents have severely restricted memory, highly unpredictable movement and no initial knowledge of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Strong Barrier Coverage with Directional Sensors
Abstract—The barrier coverage model was proposed for applications in which sensors are deployed for intrusion detection. In this paper, we study a strong barrier coverage problem...
Li Zhang, Jian Tang, Weiyi Zhang
SEFM
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Implementation Correctness of a Real-Time Operating System
—In the modern car, electronic devices are even employed for safety-critical missions like brake control, where failures might cost human lives. Among various approaches to incre...
Matthias Daum, Norbert Schirmer, Mareike Schmidt
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CIE
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Computable Exchangeable Sequences Have Computable de Finetti Measures
Abstract. We prove a uniformly computable version of de Finetti’s theorem on exchangeable sequences of real random variables. In the process, we develop machinery for computably ...
Cameron E. Freer, Daniel M. Roy
DBPL
2009
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
General Database Statistics Using Entropy Maximization
Abstract. We propose a framework in which query sizes can be estimated from arbitrary statistical assertions on the data. In its most general form, a statistical assertion states t...
Raghav Kaushik, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu