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COCOON
2010
Springer
13 years 6 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
14 years 2 months 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»
13 years 7 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»
13 years 2 months 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»
13 years 5 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...