10 research outputs found
Distributed match-making
In many distributed computing environments, processes are concurrently executed by nodes in a store- and-forward communication network. Distributed control issues as diverse as name server, mutual exclusion, and replicated data management involve making matches between such processes. We propose a formal problem called distributed match-making as the generic paradigm. Algorithms for distributed match-making are developed and the complexity is investigated in terms of messages and in terms of storage needed. Lower bounds on the complexity of distributed match-making are established. Optimal algorithms, or nearly optimal algorithms, are given for particular network topologies
Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google
We survey a new area of parameter-free similarity distance measures
useful in data-mining,
pattern recognition, learning and automatic semantics extraction.
Given a family of distances on a set of objects,
a distance is universal up to a certain precision for that family if it
minorizes every distance in the family between every two objects
in the set, up to the stated precision (we do not require the universal
distance to be an element of the family).
We consider similarity distances
for two types of objects: literal objects that as such contain all of their
meaning, like genomes or books, and names for objects.
The latter may have
literal embodyments like the first type, but may also
be abstract like ``red\u27\u27 or ``christianity.\u27\u27 For the first type
we consider
a family of computable distance measures
corresponding to parameters expressing similarity according to
particular features
between
pairs of literal objects. For the second type we consider similarity
distances generated by web users corresponding to particular semantic
relations between the (names for) the designated objects.
For both families we give universal similarity
distance measures, incorporating all particular distance measures
in the family. In the first case the universal
distance is based on compression and in the second
case it is based on Google page counts related to search terms.
In both cases experiments on a massive scale give evidence of the
viability of the approaches
06051 Abstracts Collection -- Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications
From 29.01.06 to 03.02.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06051 ``Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI),
Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented
their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were
discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar
as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together
in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and
goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are
provided, if available
მაცნე 1980, N6
Ray J. Solomonoff died on December 7, 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of complications of a stroke caused by an aneurism in his head. Ray was the first inventor of Algorithmic Information Theory which deals with the shortest effective description length of objects and is commonly designated by the term “Kolmogorov complexity.” In the 1950s Solomonoff was one of the first researchers to treat probabilistic grammars and the associated languages. He treated probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (AI) when “probabilistic” was unfashionable, and treated questions of machine learning early on. But his greatest contribution is the creation of Algorithmic Information Theory. [...
Two Heads are Better than Two Tapes
We show that a Turing machine with two single-head one-dimensional tapes cannot recognize the set {x 2 x \prime \mid x \in {0,1} \ast and x \prime is a prefix of x} in real time, although it can do so with three tapes, two two-dimensional tapes, or one two-head tape, or in linear time with just one tape. In particular, this settles the longstanding conjecture that a two-head Turing machine can recognize more languages in real time if its heads are on the same one-dimensional tape than if they are on separate one-dimensional tapes
Computer Science and Engineering Research Review 1985-1986
Table of Contents:
Counting is Easy / Joel Seiferas, P.M.B. Vitanyi p.5;
Self-Testing Pipelines / Andrzej Krasniewski, Alexander Albicki p. 13;
Concurrency and Linear Hashing Systems / Carla Schlatter Ellis p. 21;
List of Faculty p.29;
Publications p. 31;
Seminars p. 37;
Grant Support p. 39;
Industrial Support p. 40