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ISTCS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Exact Analysis of Exact Change
We introduce the k-payment problem: given a total budget of N units, the problem is to represent this budget as a set of coins, so that any k exact payments of total value at most ...
Pat Frankel
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Maximizing revenue in symmetric resource allocation systems when user utilities exhibit diminishing returns
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
Roie Zivan, Miroslav Dudík, Praveen Paruchu...
ICDE
2005
IEEE
173views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Stabbing the Sky: Efficient Skyline Computation over Sliding Windows
We consider the problem of efficiently computing the skyline against the most recent N elements in a data stream seen so far. Specifically, we study the n-of-N skyline queries; th...
Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan, Wei Wang 0011, Hongjun Lu
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A scalable application placement controller for enterprise data centers
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...
STOC
2004
ACM
158views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
Collective asynchronous reading with polylogarithmic worst-case overhead
The Collect problem for an asynchronous shared-memory system has the objective for the processors to learn all values of a collection of shared registers, while minimizing the tot...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Alexander ...