We introduce an algorithm for learning a local metric to a continuous input space that measures distances in terms of relevance to the processing task. The relevance is defined a...
A commitment protocol is a fundamental cryptographic primitive used as a basic buildingblock throughoutmodern cryptography. In STOC 1991, Dolev Dwork and Naor showed that in many ...
Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovs...
The Swendsen-Wang process provides one possible dynamics for the Qstate Potts model in statistical physics. Computer simulations of this process are widely used to estimate the ex...
Motivation: Database search programs such as FASTA, BLAST or a rigorous Smith–Waterman algorithm produce lists of database entries, which are assumed to be related to the query....
Abstract. The Choice Coordination Problem with k alternatives (kCCP) was introduced by Rabin in 1982 [Rab82]. The goal is to design a wait-free protocol for n asynchronous processe...