In this work we consider the problem of approximating the number of relevant variables in a function given query access to the function. Since obtaining a multiplicative factor ap...
Given an undirected graph with edge costs and a subset of k ≥ 3 nodes called terminals, a multiway, or k-way, cut is a subset of the edges whose removal disconnects each termina...
David R. Karger, Philip N. Klein, Clifford Stein, ...
—In this paper, we study the theory of collaborative upload bandwidth measurement in peer-to-peer environments. A host can use a bandwidth estimation probe to determine the bandw...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
Abstract Ilan Gronau Shlomo Moran Sagi Snir Phylogenetic reconstruction is the problem of reconstructing an evolutionary tree from sequences corresponding to leaves of that tree. ...
Abstract This paper is concerned with the problem where a mobile robot of size D has to navigate to a target in an unknown planar environment. The competitiveness of an on-line nav...