—A simple averaging argument shows that given a randomized algorithm A and a function f such that for every input x, Pr[A(x) = f(x)] ≥ 1−ρ (where the probability is over the...
—Valiant’s concept of Randomized Load Balancing (RLB), also promoted under the name ‘two-phase routing’, has previously been shown to provide a cost-effective way of implem...
Ravi Prasad, Peter J. Winzer, Sem C. Borst, Marina...
Interpreting the relevance of a user-contributed tag with respect to the visual content of an image is an emerging problem in social image retrieval. In the literature this proble...
Abstract. Oracle separation methods are used in cryptography to rule out blackbox reductions between cryptographic primitives. It is sufficient to find an oracle relative to whic...
Data is often stored in summarized form, as a histogram of aggregates (COUNTs, SUMs, or AVeraGes) over speci ed ranges. We study how to estimate the original detail data from the ...
Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish, Nikolaos Sidir...