How much can an imperfect source of randomness affect an algorithm? We examine several simple questions of this type concerning the long-term behavior of a random walk on a finite...
Yossi Azar, Andrei Z. Broder, Anna R. Karlin, Nath...
Abstract. We describe two methods for estimating the size and depth of decision trees where a linear test is performed at each node. Both methods are applied to the question of dec...
Service order provisioning is an important telecommunication application that automates the process of providing telephone services in response to the customer requests. It is an ...
Mansoor Ansari, Linda Ness, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Am...
We propose an extended relational database model which can model both uncertainty and imprecision in data. This model is basedon Dempster-Shafertheory which has become popular in ...
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...