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2002
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Copulae as a new tool in financial modelling
The paper presents an overview of financial applications of copulas. Copulas permit to represent joint distribution functions by splitting the marginal behavior, embedded in the ma...
Elisa Luciano, Marina Marena
GECCO
2007
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
Some novel locality results for the blob code spanning tree representation
The Blob Code is a bijective tree code that represents each tree on n labelled vertices as a string of n − 2 vertex labels. In recent years, several researchers have deployed th...
Tim Paulden, David K. Smith
SIGCOMM
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Minimizing churn in distributed systems
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
SIGCOMM
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Using redundancy to cope with failures in a delay tolerant network
We consider the problem of routing in a delay tolerant network (DTN) in the presence of path failures. Previous work on DTN routing has focused on using precisely known network dy...
Sushant Jain, Michael J. Demmer, Rabin K. Patra, K...
SIGMETRICS
2005
ACM
117views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2005»
15 years 4 months ago
Classifying scheduling policies with respect to higher moments of conditional response time
In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter