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SARA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximate Model-Based Diagnosis Using Preference-Based Compilation
Abstract. This article introduces a technique for improving the efficiency of diagnosis through approximate compilation. We extend the approach of compiling a diagnostic model, as...
Gregory M. Provan
CIAC
2003
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations
Abstract. We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the...
Evangelos Kranakis, Paolo Penna, Konrad Schlude, D...
FLAIRS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Random Subsets Support Learning a Mixture of Heuristics
Problem solvers, both human and machine, have at their disposal many heuristics that may support effective search. The efficacy of these heuristics, however, varies with the probl...
Smiljana Petrovic, Susan L. Epstein
P2P
2005
IEEE
112views Communications» more  P2P 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Randomized Protocols for Duplicate Elimination in Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems
Distributed peer-to-peer systems rely on voluntary participation of peers to effectively manage a storage pool. In such systems, data is generally replicated for performance and a...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, An...
APPROX
2009
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties
Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergr...
Jon Lee, Maxim Sviridenko, Jan Vondrák