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SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Greedy Heuristics and an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Bounded-Diameter Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Given a connected, weighted, undirected graph G and a bound D, the bounded-diameter minimum spanning tree problem seeks a spanning tree on G of lowest weight in which no path betw...
Günther R. Raidl, Bryant A. Julstrom
SODA
2010
ACM
208views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Correlation Robust Stochastic Optimization
We consider a robust model proposed by Scarf, 1958, for stochastic optimization when only the marginal probabilities of (binary) random variables are given, and the correlation be...
Shipra Agrawal, Yichuan Ding, Amin Saberi, Yinyu Y...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Prize-Collecting Data Fusion for Cost-Performance Tradeoff in Distributed Inference
—A novel formulation for optimal sensor selection and in-network fusion for distributed inference known as the prizecollecting data fusion (PCDF) is proposed in terms of optimal ...
Animashree Anandkumar, Meng Wang, Lang Tong, Anant...
WAOA
2004
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
More Powerful and Simpler Cost-Sharing Methods
We provide a new technique to derive group strategyproof mechanisms for the cost-sharing problem. Our technique is simpler and provably more powerful than the existing one based on...
Paolo Penna, Carmine Ventre
ICDE
2007
IEEE
111views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 10 months ago
Finding Top-k Min-Cost Connected Trees in Databases
It is widely realized that the integration of database and information retrieval techniques will provide users with a wide range of high quality services. In this paper, we study ...
Bolin Ding, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Shan Wang, Lu Qin, Xiao...