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OOPSLA
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Ownership and immutability in generic Java
The Java language lacks the important notions of ownership (an object owns its representation to prevent unwanted aliasing) and immutability (the division into mutable, immutable,...
Yoav Zibin, Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Mahmood Ali, M...
FOCS
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Stability Yields a PTAS for k-Median and k-Means Clustering
We consider k-median clustering in finite metric spaces and k-means clustering in Euclidean spaces, in the setting where k is part of the input (not a constant). For the k-means pr...
Pranjal Awasthi, Avrim Blum, Or Sheffet
CORR
2010
Springer
140views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `So...
Jing Han, Ming Li, Lei Guo
ECEASST
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Safe Integration of Annotated Components in Open Source Projects
: The decision of using existing software components versus building from scratch custom software is one of the most complex and important choices of the entire development/integra...
Sergio Areias, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Ran...
CORR
2011
Springer
185views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 4 months ago
Sound and Complete Query Answering in Intensional P2P Data Integration
Contemporary use of the term ’intension’ derives from the traditional logical doctrine that an idea has both an extension and an intension. In this paper we introduce an intens...
Zoran Majkic