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STOC
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
2012
ACM
We consider submodular optimization problems, and provide a general way of translating oracle inapproximability results arising from the symmetry gap technique to computational co...
CORR
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Springer
In Combinatorial Public Projects, there is a set of projects that may be undertaken, and a set of selfinterested players with a stake in the set of projects chosen. A public plann...
SPAA
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
We develop logarithmic approximation algorithms for extremely general formulations of multiprocessor multiinterval offline task scheduling to minimize power usage. Here each proce...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
For revenue and welfare maximization in singledimensional Bayesian settings, Chawla et al. (STOC10) recently showed that sequential posted-price mechanisms (SPMs), though simple i...
IPSN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...