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JACM
2000
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13 years 8 months ago
The soft heap: an approximate priority queue with optimal error rate
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Bernard Chazelle
PODS
2011
ACM
238views Database» more  PODS 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi
SIGECOM
2011
ACM
219views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
GSP auctions with correlated types
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
Brendan Lucier, Renato Paes Leme
SIAMCOMP
2012
11 years 11 months ago
Randomized Competitive Algorithms for Generalized Caching
We consider online algorithms for the generalized caching problem. Here we are given a cache of size k and pages with arbitrary sizes and fetching costs. Given a request sequence ...
Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor
STOC
2005
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Coresets in dynamic geometric data streams
A dynamic geometric data stream consists of a sequence of m insert/delete operations of points from the discrete space {1, . . . , ∆}d [26]. We develop streaming (1 + )-approxim...
Gereon Frahling, Christian Sohler