We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
Given the ubiquity of time series data, the data mining community has spent significant time investigating the best time series similarity measure to use for various tasks and dom...
Qiang Zhu 0002, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Thana...
This paper introduces the queue-read, queue-write (qrqw) parallel random access machine (pram) model, which permits concurrent reading and writing to shared memory locations, but ...
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Vijaya Ramachand...
We address the problem of lowering the buyer’s expected payments in shortest path auctions, where the buyer’s goal is to purchase a path in a graph in which edges are owned by...
In this paper, we study the two-dimensional geometrical bin packing problem (2DBP): given a list of rectangles, provide a packing of all these into the smallest possible number of ...