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WISEC
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Towards a theory for securing time synchronization in wireless sensor networks
Time synchronization in highly distributed wireless systems like sensor and ad hoc networks is extremely important in order to maintain a consistent notion of time throughout the ...
Murtuza Jadliwala, Qi Duan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, ...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Learning to satisfy
This paper investigates a class of learning problems called learning satisfiability (LSAT) problems, where the goal is to learn a set in the input (feature) space that satisfies...
Frederic Thouin, Mark Coates, Brian Eriksson, Robe...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Maximizing Non-Monotone Submodular Functions
Submodular maximization generalizes many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems and maximum f...
Uriel Feige, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Jan Vondrák
DCOSS
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Distributed Coalition Formation in Visual Sensor Networks: A Virtual Vision Approach
Abstract. We propose a distributed coalition formation strategy for collaborative sensing tasks in camera sensor networks. The proposed model supports taskdependent node selection ...
Faisal Qureshi, Demetri Terzopoulos