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INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
Constant-approximation for target coverage problem in wireless sensor networks
—When a large amount of sensors are randomly deployed into a field, how can we make a sleep/activate schedule for sensors to maximize the lifetime of target coverage in the fie...
Ling Ding, Weili Wu, James Willson, Lidong Wu, Zai...
APPROX
2008
Springer
107views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
A General Framework for Designing Approximation Schemes for Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Many Objectives Combined in
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a general framework for designing fully polynomial time approximation schemes for combinatorial optimization problems, in which more than one ob...
Shashi Mittal, Andreas S. Schulz
ICALP
2001
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
On the Approximability of Average Completion Time Scheduling under Precedence Constraints
Abstract. We consider the scheduling problem of minimizing the average weighted job completion time on a single machine under precedence constraints. We show that this problem with...
Gerhard J. Woeginger
SODA
2004
ACM
203views Algorithms» more  SODA 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximation schemes for multidimensional packing
We consider a classic multidimensional generalization of the bin packing problem, namely, packing d-dimensional rectangles into the minimum number of unit cubes. Our two results a...
José R. Correa, Claire Kenyon
ISAAC
2007
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the Crossing Number of Toroidal Graphs
Abstract. CrossingNumber is one of the most challenging algorithmic problems in topological graph theory, with applications to graph drawing and VLSI layout. No polynomial time con...
Petr Hlinený, Gelasio Salazar