Other Research

Introduction

From time to time, hallway discussions (or a more focused effort) here in the computer science department lead to collaborative work ourside of my usual research areas.

Publications

  1. Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Algebraic Formulas

    N. H. Bshouty, R. Cleve, and W. Eberly
    Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Algebraic Formulae
    Proceedings, 32nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
    San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1991; pp. 334–341
    (Preliminary Report)

    N. H. Bshouty, R. Cleve, and W. Eberly
    Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Algebraic Formulas
    SIAM Journal on Computing 24 (1995), pp. 682–705
    Please send me email for a copy of this paper.

    A classical result, due to Richard Brent, implies that for any algebraic formula, there is an algebraic circuit of "small" size and "similar" depth that computes the same the same function. In this paper, we considered the existence of algebraic formulas with small size and similar depth as any given formula, as well, and established tradeoff bounds between the size and depth that could be achieved.

  2. Wait-Free Algorithms for Renaming

    W. Eberly, L. Higham, and J. Warpechowska-Gruca
    Long-Lived, Fast Waitfree Renaming with Optimal Name Space and High Throughput
    Proceedings, 12th International Symposium in Distributed Computing, DISC '98
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1499
    Andros, Greece, 1998; pp. 149–160

    Newer results concerning the renaming problem in distributed computing (establishing better bounds than we presented) appeared almost immediately after the publication of this work. However, our attempt to perform a kind of amortized analysis on a randomized algorithm may be of some interest.


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