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APPROX
2008
Springer
89views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Santa Claus Meets Hypergraph Matchings
We consider the problem of max-min fair allocation of indivisible goods. Our focus will be on the restricted version of the problem in which there are m items, each of which assoc...
Arash Asadpour, Uriel Feige, Amin Saberi
TCC
2009
Springer
132views Cryptology» more  TCC 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Authenticated Adversarial Routing
: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of authenticated throughput-ecient routing in an unreliable and dynamically changing synchronous network in which the majo...
Yair Amir, Paul Bunn, Rafail Ostrovsky
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Bayesian hierarchical clustering
We present a novel algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering based on evaluating marginal likelihoods of a probabilistic model. This algorithm has several advantages ove...
Katherine A. Heller, Zoubin Ghahramani
ICDE
2010
IEEE
227views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Approximate Confidence Computation in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract-- This paper introduces a deterministic approximation algorithm with error guarantees for computing the probability of propositional formulas over discrete random variable...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
FOCS
2004
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Extracting Randomness Using Few Independent Sources
In this work we give the first deterministic extractors from a constant number of weak sources whose entropy rate is less than 1/2. Specifically, for every > 0 we give an expl...
Boaz Barak, Russell Impagliazzo, Avi Wigderson