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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Parallel Repetition Theorem for Any Interactive Argument
— The question of whether or not parallel repetition reduces the soundness error is a fundamental question in the theory of protocols. While parallel repetition reduces (at an ex...
Iftach Haitner
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PEWASUN
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
An M/MMGI/1/K queuing model for IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks
An M/MMGI/1/K queuing model is developed for the analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF using RTS/CTS. Results are based on arbitrary contention conditions, namely, collision probabilities, ...
Mustafa Özdemir, A. Bruce McDonald
RANDOM
1997
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Combinatorial Consistency Lemma with Application to Proving the PCP Theorem
The current proof of the PCP Theorem (i.e., NP = PCP(log, O(1))) is very complicated. One source of difficulty is the technically involved analysis of low-degree tests. Here, we r...
Oded Goldreich, Shmuel Safra
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CCS
2005
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A rewriting-based inference system for the NRL protocol analyzer: grammar generation
The NRL Protocol Analyzer (NPA) is a tool for the formal specification and analysis of cryptographic protocols that has been used with great effect on a number of complex real-l...
Santiago Escobar, Catherine Meadows, José M...
75
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GECCO
2007
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Fitness-proportional negative slope coefficient as a hardness measure for genetic algorithms
The Negative Slope Coefficient (nsc) is an empirical measure of problem hardness based on the analysis of offspring-fitness vs. parent-fitness scatterplots. The nsc has been teste...
Riccardo Poli, Leonardo Vanneschi