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ESA
2008
Springer
115views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Deterministic Sampling Algorithms for Network Design
For several NP-hard network design problems, the best known approximation algorithms are remarkably simple randomized algorithms called Sample-Augment algorithms in [11]. The algor...
Anke van Zuylen
CDC
2009
IEEE
150views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 17 days ago
Cooperative adaptive sampling via approximate entropy maximization
— This work deals with a group of mobile sensors sampling a spatiotemporal random field whose mean is unknown and covariance is known up to a scaling parameter. The Bayesian pos...
Rishi Graham, Jorge Cortés
COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth
SSDBM
2003
IEEE
164views Database» more  SSDBM 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximate String Joins
String data is ubiquitous, and its management has taken on particular importance in the past few years. Approximate queries are very important on string data especially for more c...
Divesh Srivastava
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...