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SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
FOGA
2011
12 years 10 months ago
Approximating the distribution of fitness over hamming regions
The distribution of fitness values across a set of states sharply influences the dynamics of evolutionary processes and heuristic search in combinatorial optimization. In this p...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe
APPROX
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Sublinear Algorithms for Approximating String Compressibility
We raise the question of approximating the compressibility of a string with respect to a fixed compression scheme, in sublinear time. We study this question in detail for two popu...
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dana Ron, Ronitt Rubinfeld, A...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Distributed Scheduling of Parallel I/O in the Presence of Data Replication
This paper studies distributed scheduling of parallel I/O data transfers on systems that provide data replication. In our previous work, we proposed a centralized algorithm for so...
Jan-Jan Wu, Pangfeng Liu
TIT
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Max-Product for Maximum Weight Matching: Convergence, Correctness, and LP Duality
Abstract--Max-product "belief propagation" (BP) is an iterative, message-passing algorithm for finding the maximum a posteriori (MAP) assignment of a discrete probability...
Mohsen Bayati, Devavrat Shah, Mayank Sharma