Motivation: The functioning of biological networks depends in large part on their complex underlying structure. When studying their systemic nature many modeling approaches focus ...
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Braess’s Paradox is the counterintuitive but well-known fact that removing edges from a network with “selfish routing” can decrease the latency incurred by traffic in an eq...
The rapid growth of the number of videos in YouTube provides enormous potential for users to find content of interest to them. Unfortunately, given the difficulty of searching vid...
Shumeet Baluja, Rohan Seth, D. Sivakumar, Yushi Ji...
Many backtracking algorithms exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, in which their running time is often much longer than their median. We analyze the behavior of two natural variant...