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APPROX
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
abstract Manor Mendel1 and Assaf Naor2 1 The Open University of Israel 2 Courant Institute Let (X, dX ) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over ...
Manor Mendel, Assaf Naor
ICALP
2010
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
FOCS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fairness Measures for Resource Allocation
In many optimization problems, one seeks to allocate a limited set of resources to a set of individuals with demands. Thus, such allocations can naturally be viewed as vectors, wi...
Amit Kumar, Jon M. Kleinberg
ESA
2008
Springer
115views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Deterministic Sampling Algorithms for Network Design
For several NP-hard network design problems, the best known approximation algorithms are remarkably simple randomized algorithms called Sample-Augment algorithms in [11]. The algor...
Anke van Zuylen
STOC
2001
ACM
122views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
14 years 7 months ago
Provisioning a virtual private network: a network design problem for multicommodity flow
Consider a setting in which a group of nodes, situated in a large underlying network, wishes to reserve bandwidth on which to support communication. Virtual private networks (VPNs...
Anupam Gupta, Jon M. Kleinberg, Amit Kumar, Rajeev...