In this paper, we initiate the study of the approximability of the facility location problem in a distributed setting. In particular, we explore a trade-off between the amount of...
The relative worst order ratio, a new measure for the quality of on-line algorithms, was recently defined and applied to two bin packing problems. Here, we extend the definition ...
Given a set of service requests, each char acterize d by a temporal interval and a category, an integer k, and an integer hc for each categoryc, the Server A llocation with Bounde...
Alan A. Bertossi, Maria Cristina Pinotti, Romeo Ri...
We study ways to expedite Yates's algorithm for computing the zeta and Moebius transforms of a function defined on the subset lattice. We develop a trimmed variant of Moebius ...
We consider the problem of visualizing the evolution of tags within the Flickr (flickr.com) online image sharing community. Any user of the Flickr service may append a tag to any ...
Micah Dubinko, Ravi Kumar, Joseph Magnani, Jasmine...