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APPROX
2007
Springer
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A Knapsack Secretary Problem with Applications
We consider situations in which a decision-maker with a fixed budget faces a sequence of options, each with a cost and a value, and must select a subset of them online so as to ma...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, David Kempe, Rob...
SOFSEM
2007
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Competitive Maintenance of Minimum Spanning Trees in Dynamic Graphs
Abstract. We consider the problem of maintaining a minimum spanning tree within a graph with dynamically changing edge weights. An online algorithm is confronted with an input sequ...
Miroslaw Dynia, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Jaroslaw Ku...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Better lossless condensers through derandomized curve samplers
Lossless condensers are unbalanced expander graphs, with expansion close to optimal. Equivalently, they may be viewed as functions that use a short random seed to map a source on ...
Amnon Ta-Shma, Christopher Umans
WIDM
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic models for focused web crawling
A Focused crawler must use information gleaned from previously crawled page sequences to estimate the relevance of a newly seen URL. Therefore, good performance depends on powerfu...
Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Jeannette Janssen
ICALP
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Group Spreading: A Protocol for Provably Secure Distributed Name Service
In order to enable communication between a dynamic collection of peers with given ID’s, such as “machine.cs.school.edu”, over the Internet, a distributed name service must b...
Baruch Awerbuch, Christian Scheideler