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ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Efficient information retrieval using mobile agents
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
Irene Sygkouna, Miltiades E. Anagnostou
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STOC
1993
ACM
117views Algorithms» more  STOC 1993»
15 years 7 months ago
Efficient noise-tolerant learning from statistical queries
In this paper, we study the problem of learning in the presence of classification noise in the probabilistic learning model of Valiant and its variants. In order to identify the cl...
Michael J. Kearns
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PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Fast scalable deterministic consensus for crash failures
We study communication complexity of consensus in synchronous message-passing systems with processes prone to crashes. The goal in the consensus problem is to have all the nonfaul...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michal Str...
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GECCO
2007
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential
One of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it ha...
Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen
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KDD
2010
ACM
244views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Finding effectors in social networks
Assume a network (V, E) where a subset of the nodes in V are active. We consider the problem of selecting a set of k active nodes that best explain the observed activation state, ...
Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi, Dimitrios Gunopu...