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ICALP
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Names Trump Malice: Tiny Mobile Agents Can Tolerate Byzantine Failures
Abstract. We introduce a new theoretical model of ad hoc mobile computing in which agents have severely restricted memory, highly unpredictable movement and no initial knowledge of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert
CIE
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Computable Exchangeable Sequences Have Computable de Finetti Measures
Abstract. We prove a uniformly computable version of de Finetti’s theorem on exchangeable sequences of real random variables. In the process, we develop machinery for computably ...
Cameron E. Freer, Daniel M. Roy
DBPL
2009
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
General Database Statistics Using Entropy Maximization
Abstract. We propose a framework in which query sizes can be estimated from arbitrary statistical assertions on the data. In its most general form, a statistical assertion states t...
Raghav Kaushik, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu
IFIP
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Quantifying the Uncertainty in Measurements for MBAC
Abstract. In Measurement Based Admission Control (MBAC), the decision of accepting or rejecting a new flow is based on measurements of the current traffic situation. An in-depth u...
Anne Nevin, Peder J. Emstad, Yuming Jiang, Guoqian...
CP
2007
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Uncertainty in Bipolar Preference Problems
Preferences and uncertainty are common in many real-life problems. In this paper, we focus on bipolar preferences and on uncertainty modelled via uncontrollable variables. However,...
Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca R...