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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Relay Node Placement in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
— Existing work on placing additional relay nodes in wireless sensor networks to improve network connectivity typically assumes homogeneous wireless sensor nodes with an identica...
Xiaofeng Han, Xiang Cao, Errol L. Lloyd, Chien-Chu...
IPCO
2001
166views Optimization» more  IPCO 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximate k-MSTs and k-Steiner Trees via the Primal-Dual Method and Lagrangean Relaxation
Garg [10] gives two approximation algorithms for the minimum-cost tree spanning k vertices in an undirected graph. Recently Jain and Vazirani [16] discovered primal-dual approxima...
Fabián A. Chudak, Tim Roughgarden, David P....
STOC
2004
ACM
126views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Bypassing the embedding: algorithms for low dimensional metrics
The doubling dimension of a metric is the smallest k such that any ball of radius 2r can be covered using 2k balls of raThis concept for abstract metrics has been proposed as a na...
Kunal Talwar
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...