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Two-dimensional Spin Ice and the Sixteen-Vertex Model
In this thesis we present a thorough study of the static and dynamic properties of the 2D sixteen-vertex model or, in other words, a simplified version of the dipolar... -
Load-balancing and resource-provisioning in large distributed systems
The main theme of this thesis is load-balancing in large sparse random graphs. In the computer science context, a load-balancing problem occurs when we have a set of...
