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GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Energy efficient exact kNN search in wireless broadcast environments
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
Bugra Gedik, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu
COMPGEOM
2010
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
Computing similarity between piecewise-linear functions
We study the problem of computing the similarity between two piecewise-linear bivariate functions defined over a common domain, where the surfaces they define in 3D—polyhedral...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Marc J. van Kreve...
SODA
2003
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Counting inversions in lists
In a recent paper, Ajtai et al. [1] give a streaming algorithm to count the number of inversions in a stream Ä ¾ Ñ Ò using two passes and Ç´¯ ½ ÔÒÐÓ Ò´ÐÓ Ñ·ÐÓ...
Anupam Gupta, Francis Zane
AIPS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Information-Theoretic Approach to Efficient Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robotic Environmental Sensing
Recent research in robot exploration and mapping has focused on sampling environmental hotspot fields. This exploration task is formalized by Low, Dolan, and Khosla (2008) in a se...
Kian Hsiang Low, John M. Dolan, Pradeep K. Khosla
STOC
2007
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Reordering buffers for general metric spaces
In the reordering buffer problem, we are given an input sequence of requests for service each of which corresponds to a point in a metric space. The cost of serving the requests h...
Matthias Englert, Harald Räcke, Matthias West...