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FOCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
APPROX
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees
Abstract. We give a (ln n + 1)-approximation for the decision tree (DT) problem. An instance of DT is a set of m binary tests T = (T1, . . . , Tm) and a set of n items X = (X1, . ....
Micah Adler, Brent Heeringa
SODA
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
On allocations that maximize fairness
We consider a problem known as the restricted assignment version of the max-min allocation problem with indivisible goods. There are n items of various nonnegative values and m pl...
Uriel Feige
SIAMSC
2008
179views more  SIAMSC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Multigrid Algorithms for Inverse Problems with Linear Parabolic PDE Constraints
Abstract. We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of distributed parameter inverse problems constrained by variable-coefficient linear parabolic partial differential equa...
Santi S. Adavani, George Biros
SWAT
2010
Springer
242views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam