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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Bid optimization for broad match ad auctions
Ad auctions in sponsored search support"broad match"that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving mo...
Eyal Even-Dar, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan...
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Low-dimensional embedding with extra information
A frequently arising problem in computational geometry is when a physical structure, such as an ad-hoc wireless sensor network or a protein backbone, can measure local information...
Mihai Badoiu, Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Haji...
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Inapproximability of Vertex Cover on k-Partite k-Uniform Hypergraphs
Computing a minimum vertex cover in graphs and hypergraphs is a well-studied optimizaton problem. While intractable in general, it is well known that on bipartite graphs, vertex c...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rishi Saket
MST
2006
149views more  MST 2006»
13 years 6 months ago
Parameterized Intractability of Distinguishing Substring Selection
A central question in computational biology is the design of genetic markers to distinguish between two given sets of (DNA) sequences. This question is formalized as the NP-comple...
Jens Gramm, Jiong Guo, Rolf Niedermeier
STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Near-optimal algorithms for unique games
Unique games are constraint satisfaction problems that can be viewed as a generalization of Max-Cut to a larger domain size. The Unique Games Conjecture states that it is hard to ...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...