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IJCAI
1993
15 years 5 months ago
A Tractable Class of Abduction Problems
literal: Let p be a proposition. Then p and -p are literals. clause: A clause is a disjunction of literals. Horn Clause: A Horn Clause is a clause in which there is at most one po...
Kave Eshghi
PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Oblivious interference scheduling
In the interference scheduling problem, one is given a set of n communication requests described by pairs of points from a metric space. The points correspond to devices in a wire...
Alexander Fanghänel, Berthold Vöcking, H...
SODA
2010
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Solving MAX-r-SAT Above a Tight Lower Bound
We present an exact algorithm that decides, for every fixed r ≥ 2 in time O(m) + 2O(k2 ) whether a given multiset of m clauses of size r admits a truth assignment that satisfi...
Noga Alon, Gregory Gutin, Eun Jung Kim, Stefan Sze...
SODA
2010
ACM
214views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Amplified Hardness of Approximation for VCG-Based Mechanisms
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
Shaddin Dughmi, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
IPPS
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Combining multiple heuristics on discrete resources
—In this work we study the portfolio problem which is to find a good combination of multiple heuristics to solve given instances on parallel resources in minimum time. The resou...
Marin Bougeret, Pierre-François Dutot, Alfr...