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IMC
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
The importance of being overheard: throughput gains in wireless mesh networks
A flurry of recent work has focused on the performance gains that may be achieved by leveraging the broadcast nature of the wireless channel. In particular, researchers have obse...
Mikhail Afanasyev, Alex C. Snoeren
CIE
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
The Complexity Ecology of Parameters: An Illustration Using Bounded Max Leaf Number
In the framework of parameterized complexity, exploring how one parameter affects the complexity of a different parameterized (or unparameterized problem) is of general interest....
Michael R. Fellows, Frances A. Rosamond
CMSB
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Expressive Models for Synaptic Plasticity
We explore some presynaptic mechanisms of the calyx of Held synapse through a stochastic model. The model, drawn from a kinetic approach developed in literature, exploits process c...
Andrea Bracciali, Marcello Brunelli, Enrico Catald...
SMI
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Designing with Distance Fields
Distance fields provide an implicit representation of shape that has advantages in many application areas; in this overview, we focus on their use in digital design. Distance fi...
Sarah F. Frisken, Ronald N. Perry
PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...