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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An Evaluation of Weak State Mechanism Design for Indirection in Dynamic Networks
—State signaling and maintenance mechanisms play crucial roles in communication network protocols. State is used to facilitate indirections in protocols such as routing. Design a...
Utku Gunay Acer, Alhussein A. Abouzeid, Shivkumar ...
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Functionally Private Approximations of Negligibly-Biased Estimators
ABSTRACT. We study functionally private approximations. An approximation function g is functionally private with respect to f if, for any input x, g(x) reveals no more information ...
André Madeira, S. Muthukrishnan
ITICSE
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Gender gap in computer science does not exist in one former soviet republic: results of a study
It is well known that women’s involvement in the field of Computer Science is very low in the USA. This is viewed as a significant problem and has become a great concern to educ...
Hasmik Gharibyan, Stephan Gunsaulus
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
On the dynamics of delegation, cooperation, and control: a logical account
We present dcl-pc: a dynamic logic of delegation and cooperation. The logical foundation of dcl-pc is cl-pc, a logic for reasoning about cooperation in which the powers of agents ...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wooldridge
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Salton Award Lecture - Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship
Following the tradition of these acceptance talks, I will be giving my thoughts on where our field is going. Any discussion of the future of information retrieval (IR) research, h...
W. Bruce Croft