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FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
The Coin Problem and Pseudorandomness for Branching Programs
The Coin Problem is the following problem: a coin is given, which lands on head with probability either 1/2 + or 1/2 - . We are given the outcome of n independent tosses of this co...
Joshua Brody, Elad Verbin
SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
ALENEX
2009
172views Algorithms» more  ALENEX 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Rank Aggregation: Together We're Strong
We consider the problem of finding a ranking of a set of elements that is "closest to" a given set of input rankings of the elements; more precisely, we want to find a p...
Frans Schalekamp, Anke van Zuylen
DLT
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Crucial Words for Abelian Powers
A word is crucial with respect to a given set of prohibited words (or simply prohibitions) if it avoids the prohibitions but it cannot be extended to the right by any letter of its...
Amy Glen, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Sergey Kit...
CORR
2011
Springer
191views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 4 months ago
On Approximating Four Covering and Packing Problems
In this paper, we consider approximability issues of the following four problems: triangle packing, full sibling reconstruction, maximum profit coverage and 2-coverage. All of th...
Mary V. Ashley, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Piotr Berman...