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FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
STOC
2003
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
A tight bound on approximating arbitrary metrics by tree metrics
In this paper, we show that any n point metric space can be embedded into a distribution over dominating tree metrics such that the expected stretch of any edge is O(log n). This ...
Jittat Fakcharoenphol, Satish Rao, Kunal Talwar
CIC
2004
118views Communications» more  CIC 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
An Efficient Delay Sensitive Multicast Routing Algorithm
As a key issue in multicast routing with quality of service (QoS) support, constrained minimum Steiner tree (CMST) problem has been a research focus for more than a decade, and ten...
Gang Feng
APPROX
2005
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization
The field of stochastic optimization studies decision making under uncertainty, when only probabilistic information about the future is available. Finding approximate solutions to...
Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, R. Ravi, Amitabh ...
ALGORITHMICA
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Connected Dominating Sets
The dominatingset problemin graphs asks for a minimumsize subset of vertices with the followingproperty: each vertex is required to either be in the dominating set, or adjacent to...
Sudipto Guha, Samir Khuller