Abstract: Owing to several applications in large scale learning and vision problems, fast submodular function minimization (SFM) has become a very important problem.

Abstract: A threshold gate is a Boolean function that accepts its input based on whether some weighted linear combination of its inputs exceeds some fixed threshold value or not. A threshold circuit is a circuit made up of threshold gates.

Abstract: We consider a slotted Gaussian  multiple access system where independent arrivals are queued at each transmitter. The arriving packets at each terminal have to delivered to the receiver within a max-delay constraint.

Abstract: Applications that combine code and data from multiple sources are hard to program and even harder to get right. For example, cryptographic protocols for Secure Multi-party Computation (SMC) are known for a long time.

Abstrat: Current garbage collectors leave much heap-allocated data uncollected because they preserve data reachable from a root set.