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APPROX
2008
Springer
89views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
15 years 6 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»
16 years 4 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
16 years 4 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»
16 years 3 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
15 years 7 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