Peculiaridades de la Economia islandesa en los albores del siglo XXI [PDF]
Se repasa brevemente la historia y las finanzas islandesas de manera diacr\'onica. Se presenta a Islandia como basti\'on del estallido de la crisis financiera internacional que comienza a gestarse a principios del siglo XXI y cuyo origen se hace evidente en la fecha simb\'olica del a\~no 2008.
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Spindle: Techniques for Optimizing Atomic Multicast on RDMA [PDF]
Leveraging one-sided RDMA for applications that replicate small data objects can be surprisingly difficult: such uses amplify any protocol overheads. Spindle is a set of optimization techniques for systematically tackling this class of challenges for atomic multicast over RDMA.
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Large Scale Enrichment and Statistical Cyber Characterization of Network Traffic (Enriquecimiento a gran escala y caracterización cibernética estadística del tráfico de red) [PDF]
Modern network sensors continuously produce enormous quantities of raw data that are beyond the capacity of human analysts. Cross-correlation of network sensors increases this challenge by enriching every network event with additional metadata. These large volumes of enriched network data present opportunities to statistically characterize network ...
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Specification and Runtime Checking of Derecho, A Protocol for Fast Replication for Cloud Services [PDF]
Reliable distributed systems require replication and consensus among distributed processes to tolerate process and communication failures. Understanding and assuring the correctness of protocols for replication and consensus have been a significant challenge. This paper describes the precise specification and runtime checking of Derecho, a more recent,
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Fast computation of a rational point of a variety over a finite field [PDF]
We exhibit a probabilistic algorithm which computes a rational point of an absolutely irreducible variety over a finite field defined by a reduced regular sequence. Its time--space complexity is roughly quadratic in the logarithm of the cardinality of the field and a geometric invariant of the input system (called its degree), which is always bounded ...
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Deformation techniques for sparse systems [PDF]
We exhibit a probabilistic symbolic algorithm for solving zero-dimensional sparse systems. Our algorithm combines a symbolic homotopy procedure, based on a flat deformation of a certain morphism of affine varieties, with the polyhedral deformation of Huber and Sturmfels.
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Estimacion de carga muscular mediante imagenes [PDF]
Un problema de gran interes en disciplinas como la ocupacional, ergonomica y deportiva, es la medicion de variables biomecanicas involucradas en el movimiento humano (como las fuerzas musculares internas y torque de articulaciones). Actualmente este problema se resuelve en un proceso de dos pasos.
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Extracting and visualizing a new classification system for Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics. A visual analytics framework case study [PDF]
In a world filled with data, it is expected for a nation to take decisions informed by data. However, countries need to first collect and publish such data in a way meaningful for both citizens and policy makers. A good thematic classification could be instrumental in helping users navigate and find the right resources on a rich data repository as the ...
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The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data [PDF]
Transmission utilities routinely collect detailed outage data, including resilience events in which outages bunch up due to weather. The resilience events and their resilience metrics can readily be extracted from this historical outage data. Improvements such as grid hardening or investments in restoration lead to reduced outages or faster restoration.
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The title of this essay, Induced perversity, La perversidad inducida (in Spanish), refers to the side effects of sharing information on social media when it turns out to be false; or when judgments are made about people, events, companies, or facts that can produce effects often leading to consequences that were not initially foreseen.
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