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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing Nonblocking Switching Networks using Linear Programming (Duality)
Abstract—The main task in analyzing a switching network design (including circuit-, multirate-, and photonic-switching) is to determine the minimum number of some switching compo...
Hung Q. Ngo, Atri Rudra, Anh N. Le, Thanh-Nhan Ngu...
COMPGEOM
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Guard placement for efficient point-in-polygon proofs
We consider the problem of placing a small number of angle guards inside a simple polygon P so as to provide efficient proofs that any given point is inside P. Each angle guard vi...
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Nodari Sitchi...
COCO
2010
Springer
153views Algorithms» more  COCO 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Communication Complexity with Synchronized Clocks
Abstract—We consider two natural extensions of the communication complexity model that are inspired by distributed computing. In both models, two parties are equipped with synchr...
Russell Impagliazzo, Ryan Williams
SODA
2010
ACM
190views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
One-Counter Markov Decision Processes
We study the computational complexity of some central analysis problems for One-Counter Markov Decision Processes (OC-MDPs), a class of finitely-presented, countable-state MDPs. O...
Tomas Brazdil, Vaclav Brozek, Kousha Etessami, Ant...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak