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SIGECOM
2011
ACM
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12 years 10 months ago
GSP auctions with correlated types
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
Brendan Lucier, Renato Paes Leme
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 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...
ICALP
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Vertex Cover in Graphs with Locally Few Colors
In [13], Erd˝os et al. defined the local chromatic number of a graph as the minimum number of colors that must appear within distance 1 of a vertex. For any ∆ ≥ 2, there are ...
Fabian Kuhn, Monaldo Mastrolilli
ALMOB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A stitch in time: Efficient computation of genomic DNA melting bubbles
Background: It is of biological interest to make genome-wide predictions of the locations of DNA melting bubbles using statistical mechanics models. Computationally, this poses th...
Eivind Tøstesen
HVEI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Perceptual quality assessment of color images using adaptive signal representation
Perceptual image distortion measures can play a fundamental role in evaluating and optimizing imaging systems and image processing algorithms. Many existing measures are formulate...
Umesh Rajashekar, Zhou Wang, Eero P. Simoncelli