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2009
ACM
120views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
A constant-factor approximation for stochastic Steiner forest
We consider the stochastic Steiner forest problem: suppose we were given a collection of Steiner forest instances, and were guaranteed that a random one of these instances would a...
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar
STOC
2006
ACM
113views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Logarithmic hardness of the directed congestion minimization problem
We show that for any constant ε > 0, there is no Ω(log1−ε M)approximation algorithm for the directed congestion minimization problem on networks of size M unless NP ⊆ Z...
Matthew Andrews, Lisa Zhang
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Offline matching approximation algorithms in exchange markets
Motivated by several marketplace applications on rapidly growing online social networks, we study the problem of efficient offline matching algorithms for online exchange markets....
Zeinab Abbassi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
PODS
2008
ACM
153views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Approximation algorithms for co-clustering
Co-clustering is the simultaneous partitioning of the rows and columns of a matrix such that the blocks induced by the row/column partitions are good clusters. Motivated by severa...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish