—Aspnes et al [2] introduced an innovative game for modeling the containment of the spread of viruses and worms (security breaches) in a network. In this model, nodes choose to i...
V. S. Anil Kumar, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Zhifeng Sun,...
We consider the problem of scheduling jobs on a pool of machines. Each job requires multiple machines on which it executes in parallel. For each job, the input specifies release ti...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Yogi...
In this paper we deal with the problem of finding an optimal query execution plan in database systems. We improve the analysis of a polynomial-time approximation algorithm due to M...
Parasitic extraction techniques are used to estimate signal delay in VLSI chips. Inductance extraction is a critical component of the parasitic extraction process in which on-chip ...
We investigate issues regarding two hard problems related to voting, the optimal weighted lobbying problem and the winner problem for Dodgson elections. Regarding the former, Chris...