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SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Why Large Closest String Instances Are Easy to Solve in Practice
We initiate the study of the smoothed complexity of the Closest String problem by proposing a semi-random model of Hamming distance. We restrict interest to the optimization versio...
Christina Boucher, Kathleen Wilkie
WINE
2007
Springer
151views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 1 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...
ESA
2004
Springer
145views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 26 days ago
Flows on Few Paths: Algorithms and Lower Bounds
Abstract. Classical network flow theory allows decomposition of flow into several chunks of arbitrary sizes traveling through the network on different paths. In the first part ...
Maren Martens, Martin Skutella
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Finding Independent Sets in Unions of Perfect Graphs
ABSTRACT. The maximum independent set problem (MAXIS) on general graphs is known to be NPhard to approximate within a factor of n1-, for any > 0. However, there are many "...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
FemtoCaching: Wireless video content delivery through distributed caching helpers
Abstract—We suggest a novel approach to handle the ongoing explosive increase in the demand for video content in wireless/mobile devices. We envision femtocell-like base stations...
Negin Golrezaei, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Alexandros...