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TKDE
2002
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14 years 11 months ago
The Presumed-Either Two-Phase Commit Protocol
This paper describes the presumed-either two-phase commit protocol. Presumed-either exploits log piggybacking to reduce the cost of committing transactions. If timely piggybacking ...
Gopi K. Attaluri, Kenneth Salem
EOR
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
The value of early order commitment in a two-level supply chain
One approach to supply chain coordination is early order commitment, whereby a retailer commits to purchase a fixedorder quantity at a fixed delivery time before demand uncertai...
Xiande Zhao, Jinxing Xie, Jerry C. Wei
ICTAI
1993
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Short Term Unit-Commitment Using Genetic Algorithms
Unit commitment is a complex decision-making process because of multiple constraints which must not be violated while nding the optimal or a near-optimal commitment schedule. This...
Dipankar Dasgupta, Douglas R. McGregor
TCC
2010
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Concise Mercurial Vector Commitments and Independent Zero-Knowledge Sets with Short Proofs
Introduced by Micali, Rabin and Kilian (MRK), the basic primitive of zero-knowledge sets (ZKS) allows a prover to commit to a secret set S so as to be able to prove statements such...
Benoît Libert, Moti Yung
AAAI
1990
15 years 29 days ago
On Acting Together
Joint action by a team does not consist merely of simultaneous and coordinated individual actions; to act together, a team must be aware of and care about the status of the group ...
Hector J. Levesque, Philip R. Cohen, José H...