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CORR
2008
Springer
74views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Analysis of the Karmarkar-Karp Differencing Algorithm
The Karmarkar-Karp differencing algorithm is the best known polynomial time heuristic for the number partitioning problem, fundamental in both theoretical computer science and stat...
Stefan Boettcher, Stephan Mertens
EUMAS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Near-Optimal Anytime Coalition Structure Generation
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this endeavour is the problem of determining the best set of agents that...
Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet Dung Dan...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
182views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
Efficient set joins on similarity predicates
In this paper we present an efficient, scalable and general algorithm for performing set joins on predicates involving various similarity measures like intersect size, Jaccard-coe...
Sunita Sarawagi, Alok Kirpal
IROS
2006
IEEE
97views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic Search for a Moving Target in an Indoor Environment
– We consider a search for a target moving within a known indoor environment partitioned into interconnected regions of varying sizes. The knowledge of target location is describ...
Haye Lau, Shoudong Huang, Gamini Dissanayake
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cache-oblivious nested-loop joins
We propose to adapt the newly emerged cache-oblivious model to relational query processing. Our goal is to automatically achieve an overall performance comparable to that of fine-...
Bingsheng He, Qiong Luo