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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Routing, Anycast, and Multicast for Mesh and Sensor Networks
Abstract— This paper studies routing schemes and their distributed construction in limited wireless networks, such as sensor or mesh networks. We argue that the connectivity of s...
Roland Flury, Roger Wattenhofer
WINE
2007
Springer
151views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Computing Optimal Bundles for Sponsored Search
A context in sponsored search is additional information about a query, such as the user’s age, gender or location, that can change an advertisement’s relevance or an advertise...
Arpita Ghosh, Hamid Nazerzadeh, Mukund Sundararaja...
ECCC
2008
108views more  ECCC 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
The Complexity of Rationalizing Matchings
Given a set of observed economic choices, can one infer preferences and/or utility functions for the players that are consistent with the data? Questions of this type are called r...
Shankar Kalyanaraman, Christopher Umans
SIAMCOMP
2010
147views more  SIAMCOMP 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Uniform Direct Product Theorems: Simplified, Optimized, and Derandomized
The classical direct product theorem for circuits says that if a Boolean function f : {0, 1}n → {0, 1} is somewhat hard to compute on average by small circuits, then the correspo...
Russell Impagliazzo, Ragesh Jaiswal, Valentine Kab...
APPROX
2007
Springer
87views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 18 days ago
Stochastic Steiner Tree with Non-uniform Inflation
We study the Steiner Tree problem in the model of two-stage stochastic optimization with non-uniform inflation factors, and give a poly-logarithmic approximation factor for this pr...
Anupam Gupta, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Amit Kumar