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SPAA
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On-the-fly maintenance of series-parallel relationships in fork-join multithreaded programs
A key capability of data-race detectors is to determine whether one thread executes logically in parallel with another or whether the threads must operate in series. This paper pr...
Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert...
ESA
2008
Springer
96views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Stabbing Convex Polygons with a Segment or a Polygon
Let O = {O1, . . . , Om} be a set of m convex polygons in R2 with a total of n vertices, and let B be another convex k-gon. A placement of B, any congruent copy of B (without refle...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Danny Z. Chen, Shashidhara K. G...
ESA
2010
Springer
246views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Estimating the Average of a Lipschitz-Continuous Function from One Sample
We study the problem of estimating the average of a Lipschitz continuous function f defined over a metric space, by querying f at only a single point. More specifically, we explore...
Abhimanyu Das, David Kempe
BMCBI
2010
154views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
An algorithm for automated closure during assembly
Background: Finishing is the process of improving the quality and utility of draft genome sequences generated by shotgun sequencing and computational assembly. Finishing can invol...
Sergey Koren, Jason R. Miller, Brian Walenz, Grang...
CORR
2010
Springer
176views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Sequential item pricing for unlimited supply
We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a selle...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Florin Constantin