▽no title ●05/02 10:41 Drawing with DistanceAuthors: Bart Jacobs.Drawing (a multiset of) coloured balls from an urn is one of the most basic models in discrete probability theory. Three modes of drawing are commonly distinguished: multinomial (draw-replace), hypergeometric (draw-delete), and Polya (draw-add). These drawing operations are represented as maps from urns to distributions over multisets of draws. The set o
▽Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’09) ●04/26 13:03 USENIX HomePublicationsMembershipHotCloud '09 HomeRegistrationOrganizersWorkshop SessionsHotel/TravelCall for PapersFor ParticipantsThanks to those of you who joined us in San Diego, CA, for HotCloud '09!The online proceedings and conference report from ;login: are now available.HotCloud '09 was held in conjunction with the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09), June 14–
