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APPROX
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees
Abstract. We give a (ln n + 1)-approximation for the decision tree (DT) problem. An instance of DT is a set of m binary tests T = (T1, . . . , Tm) and a set of n items X = (X1, . ....
Micah Adler, Brent Heeringa
AAAI
2012
11 years 9 months ago
Tree-Based Solution Methods for Multiagent POMDPs with Delayed Communication
Planning under uncertainty is an important and challenging problem in multiagent systems. Multiagent Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (MPOMDPs) provide a powerful fr...
Frans Adriaan Oliehoek, Matthijs T. J. Spaan
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Combinatorial Problems with Discounted Price Functions in Multi-agent Systems
ABSTRACT. Motivated by economic thought, a recent research agenda has suggested the algorithmic study of combinatorial optimization problems under functions which satisfy the prope...
Gagan Goel, Pushkar Tripathi, Lei Wang
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Degree Bounded Network Design with Metric Costs
Given a complete undirected graph, a cost function on edges and a degree bound B, the degree bounded network design problem is to find a minimum cost simple subgraph with maximum...
Yuk Hei Chan, Wai Shing Fung, Lap Chi Lau, Chun Ko...
COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Elementary Approximation Algorithms for Prize Collecting Steiner Tree Problems
This paper deals with approximation algorithms for the prize collecting generalized Steiner forest problem, defined as follows. The input is an undirected graph G = (V, E), a colle...
Shai Gutner