— An important class of queries over sensor networks are network-wide aggregation queries. In this work we study a class of aggregation queries which we refer to as aggregate thr...
As the saying goes, "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." Networking research has a wealth of good papers on both s...
Inspired by AND/OR search spaces for graphical models recently introduced, we propose to augment Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) with AND nodes, in order to capture function ...
Robert Mateescu, Rina Dechter, Radu Marinescu 0002
We present a general approximation technique for a large class of graph problems. Our technique mostly applies to problems of covering, at minimum cost, the vertices of a graph wit...
Abstract Consider a situation where a group of agents wishes to share the costs of their joint actions, and needs to determine how to distribute the costs amongst themselves in a f...