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HIPC
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Experiments with a Parallel External Memory System
Abstract. The theory of bulk-synchronous parallel computing has produced a large number of attractive algorithms, which are provably optimal in some sense, but typically require th...
Mohammad R. Nikseresht, David A. Hutchinson, Anil ...
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DCOSS
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Local PTAS for Independent Set and Vertex Cover in Location Aware Unit Disk Graphs
We present the first local approximation schemes for maximum independent set and minimum vertex cover in unit disk graphs. In the graph model we assume that each node knows its geo...
Andreas Wiese, Evangelos Kranakis
FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Cryptography from Sunspots: How to Use an Imperfect Reference String
The Common Reference String (CRS) model equips all protocol participants with a common string that is sampled from a pre-specified distribution, say the uniform distribution. Thi...
Ran Canetti, Rafael Pass, Abhi Shelat
MOMM
2009
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Sharing large data collections between mobile peers
New directions in the provision of end-user computing experiences mean that we need to determine the best way to share data between small mobile computing devices. Partitioning la...
Brian Tripney, Christopher Foley, Richard Gourlay,...
PPOPP
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
User-controllable coherence for high performance shared memory multiprocessors
In programming high performance applications, shared address-space platforms are preferable for fine-grained computation, while distributed address-space platforms are more suita...
Collin McCurdy, Charles N. Fischer