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GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Surprisingly, general search heuristics often solve combinatorial problems quite sufficiently, although they do not outperform specialized algorithms. Here, the behavior of simple...
STACS
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Springer
One frequently studied problem in the context of information dissemination in communication networks is the broadcasting problem. In this paper, we study the following randomized b...
JACM
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
We consider the problem of finding a shortest cycle (freely) homotopic to a given simple cycle on a compact, orientable surface. For this purpose, we use a pants decomposition of...
ALGORITHMICA
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We study the Hausdorff Voronoi diagram of point clusters in the plane, a generalization of Voronoi diagrams based on the Hausdorff distance function. We derive a tight combinatori...
STOC
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2003
ACM
We describe a general technique for converting an online algorithm B to a truthtelling mechanism. We require that the original online competitive algorithm has certain "nicen...