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REPLICATION
2010
15 years 3 months ago
A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Ken Birman
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Characterizing and modeling the behavior of context switch misses
One of the essential features in modern computer systems is context switching, which allows multiple threads of execution to time-share a limited number of processors. While very ...
Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Seongbeom Kim, Abd...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluating the performance of DCOP algorithms in a real world, dynamic problem
Complete algorithms have been proposed to solve problems modelled as distributed constraint optimization (DCOP). However, there are only few attempts to address real world scenari...
Robert Junges, Ana L. C. Bazzan
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WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Using a model of social dynamics to predict popularity of news
Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items ...
Kristina Lerman, Tad Hogg
STOC
1997
ACM
111views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
15 years 9 months ago
The Swendsen-Wang Process Does Not Always Mix Rapidly
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...
Vivek Gore, Mark Jerrum