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APPROX
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
An Approximation Scheme for Terrain Guarding
We obtain a polynomial time approximation scheme for the terrain guarding problem improving upon several recent constant factor approximations. Our algorithm is a local search algo...
Matt Gibson, Gaurav Kanade, Erik Krohn, Kasturi R....
SIAMMAX
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Robust Approximate Cholesky Factorization of Rank-Structured Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
Abstract. Given a symmetric positive definite matrix A, we compute a structured approximate Cholesky factorization A RT R up to any desired accuracy, where R is an upper triangula...
Jianlin Xia, Ming Gu
WAOA
2007
Springer
158views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Deterministic Algorithms for Rank Aggregation and Other Ranking and Clustering Problems
We consider ranking and clustering problems related to the aggregation of inconsistent information. Ailon, Charikar, and Newman [1] proposed randomized constant factor approximatio...
Anke van Zuylen, David P. Williamson
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Connection Preemption in Multi-Class Networks
— We address the problem of connection preemption in a multi-class network environment. Our objective is: i) to minimize the number of preempted connections, and ii) to minimize ...
Fahad Rafique Dogar, Laeeq Aslam, Zartash Afzal Uz...
ESA
2009
Springer
109views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Iterative Rounding for Multi-Objective Optimization Problems
In this paper we show that iterative rounding is a powerful and flexible tool in the design of approximation algorithms for multiobjective optimization problems. We illustrate tha...
Fabrizio Grandoni, R. Ravi, Mohit Singh