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PODS
2008
ACM
159views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Approximation algorithms for clustering uncertain data
There is an increasing quantity of data with uncertainty arising from applications such as sensor network measurements, record linkage, and as output of mining algorithms. This un...
Graham Cormode, Andrew McGregor
ICC
2007
IEEE
120views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Maximizing Throughput in Layered Peer-to-Peer Streaming
—Layered streaming is an effective solution to address the receiver heterogeneity in peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia distribution. This paper targets a fundamental challenge in thi...
Liang Dai, Yi Cui, Yuan Xue
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
TALG
2010
123views more  TALG 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Lower-bounded facility location
We study the lower-bounded facility location problem, which generalizes the classical uncapacitated facility location problem in that it comes with lower bound constraints for the...
Zoya Svitkina
STOC
2004
ACM
110views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
On sums of independent random variables with unbounded variance, and estimating the average degree in a graph
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Uriel Feige