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COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Allocating Goods to Maximize Fairness
Given a set A of m agents and a set I of n items, where agent A ∈ A has utility uA,i for item i ∈ I, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specificall...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khan...
CORR
2008
Springer
114views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Algorithmic Pricing via Virtual Valuations
Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a ...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Robert Kleinberg
SODA
2008
ACM
200views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Clustering for metric and non-metric distance measures
We study a generalization of the k-median problem with respect to an arbitrary dissimilarity measure D. Given a finite set P, our goal is to find a set C of size k such that the s...
Marcel R. Ackermann, Johannes Blömer, Christi...
ESA
2006
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Path Hitting in Acyclic Graphs
An instance of the path hitting problem consists of two families of paths, D and H, in a common undirected graph, where each path in H is associated with a non-negative cost. We r...
Ojas Parekh, Danny Segev