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COLT
2001
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On Using Extended Statistical Queries to Avoid Membership Queries
The Kushilevitz-Mansour (KM) algorithm is an algorithm that finds all the “large” Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function. It is the main tool for learning decision trees ...
Nader H. Bshouty, Vitaly Feldman
ICALP
2001
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Approximating the Minimum Spanning Tree Weight in Sublinear Time
We present a probabilistic algorithm that, given a connected graph G (represented by adjacency lists) of average degree d, with edge weights in the set {1, . . . , w}, and given a ...
Bernard Chazelle, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Luca Trevisan
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Broadcast Disks with Polynomial Cost Functions
— In broadcast disk systems, information is broadcasted in a shared medium. When a client needs an item from the disk, it waits until that item is broadcasted. The fundamental al...
Amotz Bar-Noy, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Igor Ziper
CPE
1998
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
PET
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
How Unique Is Your Web Browser?
We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to “device fingerprinting” via the version and configuration information that they will transmit to website...
Peter Eckersley