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SODA
2010
ACM
202views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Counting Inversions, Offline Orthogonal Range Counting, and Related Problems
We give an O(n lg n)-time algorithm for counting the number of inversions in a permutation on n elements. This improves a long-standing previous bound of O(n lg n/ lg lg n) that ...
Timothy M. Chan, Mihai Patrascu
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An approximation algorithm for conflict-aware broadcast scheduling in wireless ad hoc networks
Broadcast scheduling is a fundamental problem in wireless ad hoc networks. The objective of a broadcast schedule is to deliver a message from a given source to all other nodes in ...
Reza Mahjourian, Feng Chen, Ravi Tiwari, My T. Tha...
CORR
2008
Springer
96views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Improved Approximations for Multiprocessor Scheduling Under Uncertainty
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
PROCEDIA
2010
75views more  PROCEDIA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Two derivative-free optimization algorithms for mesh quality improvement
High-quality meshes are essential in the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), which arise in numerous science and engineering applications, as the mesh quality aff...
Jeonghyung Park, Suzanne M. Shontz
PKDD
2009
Springer
169views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Hybrid Least-Squares Algorithms for Approximate Policy Evaluation
The goal of approximate policy evaluation is to “best” represent a target value function according to a specific criterion. Temporal difference methods and Bellman residual m...
Jeffrey Johns, Marek Petrik, Sridhar Mahadevan