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TOG
2008
293views more  TOG 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A perceptually validated model for surface depth hallucination
Capturing detailed surface geometry currently requires specialized equipment such as laser range scanners, which despite their high accuracy, leave gaps in the surfaces that must ...
Mashhuda Glencross, Gregory J. Ward, Francho Melen...
STOC
2009
ACM
150views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations
We prove strong lower bounds on integrality gaps of Sherali?Adams relaxations for MAX CUT, Vertex Cover, Sparsest Cut and other problems. Our constructions show gaps for Sherali?A...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
96views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Expressive negotiation over donations to charities
When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as negotiating material to induce other parties interested in the charity to dona...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 9 days ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
MOBICOM
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing Processor Power Consumption by Improving Processor Time Management in a Single-user Operating System
The CPU is one of the major power consumers in a portable computer, and considerable power can be saved by turning off the CPU when it is not doing useful work. In Apple's Ma...
Jacob R. Lorch, Alan Jay Smith