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APPROX
2011
Springer
234views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2011»
12 years 7 months ago
Streaming Algorithms with One-Sided Estimation
Abstract. We study the space complexity of randomized streaming algorithms that provide one-sided approximation guarantees; e.g., the algorithm always returns an overestimate of th...
Joshua Brody, David P. Woodruff
COMPGEOM
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Rotational Polygon Containment and Minimum Enclosure
An algorithm and a robust floating point implementation is given for rotational polygon containment: given polygons P1,P2,P3,...,Pk and a container polygon C, find rotations and...
Victor Milenkovic
VC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Solving nonlinear polynomial systems in the barycentric Bernstein basis
We present a method for solving arbitrary systems of N nonlinear polynomials in n variables over an n-dimensional simplicial domain based on polynomial representation in the baryce...
Martin Reuter, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Evan C. Sherbr...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Max registers, counters, and monotone circuits
A method is given for constructing a max register, a linearizable, wait-free concurrent data structure that supports a write operation and a read operation that returns the larges...
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra