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COCOON
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On Sorting Permutations by Double-Cut-and-Joins
The problem of sorting permutations by double-cut-and-joins (SBD) arises when we perform the double-cut-and-join (DCJ) operations on pairs of unichromosomal genomes without the gen...
Xin Chen
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Approximation Algorithms for Data Broadcast in Wireless Networks
—Broadcasting is a fundamental operation in wireless networks and plays an important role in the communication protocol design. In multihop wireless networks, however, interferen...
Rajiv Gandhi, Yoo-Ah Kim, Seungjoon Lee, Jiho Ryu,...
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
15 years 5 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
OL
2011
242views Neural Networks» more  OL 2011»
15 years 27 days ago
On connected domination in unit ball graphs
Given a simple undirected graph, the minimum connected dominating set problem is to find a minimum cardinality subset of vertices D inducing a connected subgraph such that each ve...
Sergiy Butenko, Sera Kahruman-Anderoglu, Oleksii U...
SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...