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SIAMCOMP
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Randomized Competitive Algorithms for Generalized Caching
We consider online algorithms for the generalized caching problem. Here we are given a cache of size k and pages with arbitrary sizes and fetching costs. Given a request sequence ...
Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond partitions: Allowing overlapping groups in pairwise clustering
The field of pairwise clustering is currently dominated by the idea of dividing a set of objects into disjoints classes, thereby giving rise to (hard) partitions of the input dat...
Andrea Torsello, Samuel Rota Bulò, Marcello...
EUROCRYPT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Perfect Non-interactive Zero Knowledge for NP
Non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proof systems are fundamental cryptographic primitives used in many constructions, including CCA2-secure cryptosystems, digital signatures, an...
Jens Groth, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai
AAAI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Anytime Coordination Using Separable Bilinear Programs
Developing scalable coordination algorithms for multi-agent systems is a hard computational challenge. One useful approach, demonstrated by the Coverage Set Algorithm (CSA), explo...
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
SODA
2007
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  SODA 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Aggregation of partial rankings, p-ratings and top-m lists
We study the problem of aggregating partial rankings. This problem is motivated by applications such as meta-searching and information retrieval, search engine spam fighting, e-c...
Nir Ailon