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IJRR
2008
115views more  IJRR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Planning High-quality Paths and Corridors Amidst Obstacles
The motion-planning problem, involving the computation of a collision-free path for a moving entity amidst obstacles, is a central problem in fields like Robotics and Game Design....
Ron Wein, Jur P. van den Berg, Dan Halperin
TCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Scheduling to maximize participation
We study a problem of scheduling client requests to servers. Each client has a particular latency requirement at each server and may choose either to be assigned to some server in ...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Panagiot...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
150views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Performance of random medium access control, an asymptotic approach
Random Medium-Access-Control (MAC) algorithms have played an increasingly important role in the development of wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and yet the performanc...
Charles Bordenave, David McDonald, Alexandre Prout...
STOC
2006
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan
SODA
2008
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Better bounds for online load balancing on unrelated machines
We study the problem of scheduling permanent jobs on unrelated machines when the objective is to minimize the Lp norm of the machine loads. The problem is known as load balancing ...
Ioannis Caragiannis