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CORR
2007
Springer
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14 years 11 months ago
One-bit Distributed Sensing and Coding for Field Estimation in Sensor Networks
Abstract—This paper formulates and studies a general distributed field reconstruction problem using a dense network of noisy one-bit randomized scalar quantizers in the presence...
Ye Wang, Prakash Ishwar, Venkatesh Saligrama
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
SIAMCOMP
1998
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14 years 10 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
DAM
2010
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14 years 11 months ago
New results on optimizing rooted triplets consistency
Abstract. A set of phylogenetic trees with overlapping leaf sets is consistent if it can be merged without conflicts into a supertree. In this paper, we study the polynomial-time a...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Sylvain Guillemot, Jesper Jansson
FOCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg