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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
140views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 17 days ago
Better vaccination strategies for better people
In this paper, we study the vaccination of graphs against the outbreak of infectious diseases, in the following natural model generalizing a model by Aspnes et al.: An infectious ...
Po-An Chen, Mary David, David Kempe
SODA
2010
ACM
208views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Correlation Robust Stochastic Optimization
We consider a robust model proposed by Scarf, 1958, for stochastic optimization when only the marginal probabilities of (binary) random variables are given, and the correlation be...
Shipra Agrawal, Yichuan Ding, Amin Saberi, Yinyu Y...
ICALP
2010
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
SODA
2012
ACM
203views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Black-box reductions for cost-sharing mechanism design
We consider the design of strategyproof cost-sharing mechanisms. We give two simple, but extremely versatile, black-box reductions, that in combination reduce the cost-sharing mec...
Konstantinos Georgiou, Chaitanya Swamy
DATE
2002
IEEE
74views Hardware» more  DATE 2002»
14 years 22 days ago
Maze Routing with Buffer Insertion under Transition Time Constraints
In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous routing and buffer insertion. Recently in [12, 22], the authors considered simultaneous maze routing and buffer insertion und...
Li-Da Huang, Minghorng Lai, D. F. Wong, Youxin Gao