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...
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...
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...
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...
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...