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VLDB
2011
ACM
276views Database» more  VLDB 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Xuemin Lin
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
ESA
2010
Springer
246views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Estimating the Average of a Lipschitz-Continuous Function from One Sample
We study the problem of estimating the average of a Lipschitz continuous function f defined over a metric space, by querying f at only a single point. More specifically, we explore...
Abhimanyu Das, David Kempe
LATIN
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Euclidean Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest
In this paper, we consider Steiner forest and its generalizations, prize-collecting Steiner forest and k-Steiner forest, when the vertices of the input graph are points in the Euc...
MohammadHossein Bateni, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
ICALP
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Online Scheduling with Bounded Migration
Consider the classical online scheduling problem where jobs that arrive one by one are assigned to identical parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan. We gen...
Peter Sanders, Naveen Sivadasan, Martin Skutella