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FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Allocating Goods to Maximize Fairness
Given a set A of m agents and a set I of n items, where agent A ∈ A has utility uA,i for item i ∈ I, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specificall...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khan...
CPM
2009
Springer
121views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
LCS Approximation via Embedding into Local Non-repetitive Strings
A classical measure of similarity between strings is the length of the longest common subsequence(LCS) between the two given strings. The search for efficient algorithms for findi...
Gad M. Landau, Avivit Levy, Ilan Newman
SODA
2008
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
On the approximability of influence in social networks
In this paper, we study the spread of influence through a social network, in a model initially studied by Kempe, Kleinberg and Tardos [14, 15]: We are given a graph modeling a soc...
Ning Chen
IPCO
2010
160views Optimization» more  IPCO 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
On Column-Restricted and Priority Covering Integer Programs
In a column-restricted covering integer program (CCIP), all the non-zero entries of any column of the constraint matrix are equal. Such programs capture capacitated versions of cov...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Elyot Grant, Jochen Kö...
ESA
2008
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Parallel Imaging Problem
Metric Labeling problems have been introduced as a model for understanding noisy data with pair-wise relations between the data points. One application of labeling problems with pa...
Thành Nguyen, Éva Tardos