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USENIX
2007
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Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems
The ability to checkpoint a running application and restart it later can provide many useful benefits including fault recovery, advanced resources sharing, dynamic load balancing...
Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh
WSC
2008
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Optimizing portfolio tail measures: Asymptotics and efficient simulation optimization
We consider a portfolio allocation problem where the objective function is a tail event such as probability of large portfolio losses. The dependence between assets is captured th...
Sandeep Juneja
APPROX
2008
Springer
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Tight Bounds for Hashing Block Sources
It is known that if a 2-universal hash function H is applied to elements of a block source (X1, . . . , XT ), where each item Xi has enough min-entropy conditioned on the previous...
Kai-Min Chung, Salil P. Vadhan
ATAL
2008
Springer
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Multi-robot Markov random fields
We propose Markov random fields (MRFs) as a probabilistic mathematical model for unifying approaches to multi-robot coordination or, more specifically, distributed action selectio...
Jesse Butterfield, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brian ...
CDC
2008
IEEE
149views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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Distributed computation under bit constraints
Abstract-- A network of nodes communicate via noisy channels. Each node has some real-valued initial measurement or message. The goal of each of the nodes is to acquire an estimate...
Ola Ayaso, Devavrat Shah, Munther A. Dahleh