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SODA
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
Approximating rooted Steiner networks
The Directed Steiner Tree (DST) problem is a cornerstone problem in network design. We focus on the generalization of the problem with higher connectivity requirements. The proble...
Joseph Cheriyan, Bundit Laekhanukit, Guyslain Nave...
SWAT
2010
Springer
242views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
WAOA
2010
Springer
256views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
The Train Delivery Problem - Vehicle Routing Meets Bin Packing
Abstract. We consider the train delivery problem which is a generalization of the bin packing problem and is equivalent to a one dimensional version of the vehicle routing problem ...
Aparna Das, Claire Mathieu, Shay Mozes
SIAMCOMP
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Approximating the Stretch Factor of Euclidean Graphs
There are several results available in the literature dealing with efficient construction of t-spanners for a given set S of n points in Rd. t-spanners are Euclidean graphs in whic...
Giri Narasimhan, Michiel H. M. Smid
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Combinatorial Problems with Discounted Price Functions in Multi-agent Systems
ABSTRACT. Motivated by economic thought, a recent research agenda has suggested the algorithmic study of combinatorial optimization problems under functions which satisfy the prope...
Gagan Goel, Pushkar Tripathi, Lei Wang