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KDD
2005
ACM
149views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A distributed learning framework for heterogeneous data sources
We present a probabilistic model-based framework for distributed learning that takes into account privacy restrictions and is applicable to scenarios where the different sites ha...
Srujana Merugu, Joydeep Ghosh
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Relay Placement for Higher Order Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Sensors typically use wireless transmitters to communicate with each other. However, sensors may be located in a way that they cannot even form a connected network (e.g...
Abhishek Kashyap, Samir Khuller, Mark A. Shayman
JGO
2008
101views more  JGO 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic equilibria of group vaccination strategies in a heterogeneous population
Abstract In this paper we present an evolutionary variational inequality model of vaccination strategies games in a population with a known vaccine coverage profile over a certain ...
Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru
SODA
2003
ACM
133views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Integrality ratio for group Steiner trees and directed steiner trees
The natural relaxation for the Group Steiner Tree problem, as well as for its generalization, the Directed Steiner Tree problem, is a flow-based linear programming relaxation. We...
Eran Halperin, Guy Kortsarz, Robert Krauthgamer, A...
STOC
2009
ACM
150views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations
We prove strong lower bounds on integrality gaps of Sherali?Adams relaxations for MAX CUT, Vertex Cover, Sparsest Cut and other problems. Our constructions show gaps for Sherali?A...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...