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Publication
SODA 2005
Conference paper
Multidimensional balanced allocations
Abstract
We consider a multidimensional variant of the balls-and-bins problem, where balls correspond to random D-dimensional 0-1 vectors. This variant is motivated by a problem in load balancing documents for distributed search engines. We demonstrate the utility of the power of two choices in this domain.