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RSA
2006
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15 years 2 months ago
Concentration inequalities for functions of independent variables
Following the entropy method this paper presents general concentration inequalities, which can be applied to combinatorial optimization and empirical processes. The inequalities g...
Andreas Maurer
IADIS
2003
15 years 3 months ago
Optimizing Web Server's Data Transfer with Hotlinks
We study the optimization of the expected number of bytes that must be transferred by the Web server when a user visits one of its pages. Given a Web site, we want to find an assi...
Evangelos Kranakis, Danny Krizanc, Miguel Vargas M...
MP
2006
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15 years 2 months ago
Optimality conditions in portfolio analysis with general deviation measures
Optimality conditions are derived for problems of minimizing a general measure of deviation of a random variable, with special attention to situations where the random variable cou...
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Stan Uryasev, Michael Zaba...
SODA
2010
ACM
173views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 12 months ago
Distributed Agreement with Optimal Communication Complexity
We consider the problem of fault-tolerant agreement in a crash-prone synchronous system. We present a new randomized consensus algorithm that achieves optimal communication effici...
Seth Gilbert, Dariusz Kowalski
PE
2006
Springer
115views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
15 years 2 months ago
Optimal processor allocation to differentiated job flows
In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic allocation of the resources of a general parallel processing system, comprised of M heterogeneous processors and M heterogeneous tra...
Kimberly M. Wasserman, George Michailidis, Nichola...