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COCOON
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Finding Paths with Minimum Shared Edges
Motivated by a security problem in geographic information systems, we study the following graph theoretical problem: given a graph G, two special nodes s and t in G, and a number k...
Masoud T. Omran, Jörg-Rüdiger Sack, Hami...
STOC
2006
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Private approximation of search problems
Many approximation algorithms have been presented in the last decades for hard search problems. The focus of this paper is on cryptographic applications, where it is desired to de...
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb
KDD
2006
ACM
153views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Spatial scan statistics: approximations and performance study
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...
APPROX
2008
Springer
142views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Approximating Maximum Subgraphs without Short Cycles
We study approximation algorithms, integrality gaps, and hardness of approximation, of two problems related to cycles of "small" length k in a given graph. The instance f...
Guy Kortsarz, Michael Langberg, Zeev Nutov
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
173views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Approximating pure nash equilibrium in cut, party affiliation, and satisfiability games
Cut games and party affiliation games are well-known classes of potential games. Schaffer and Yannakakis showed that computing pure Nash equilibrium in these games is PLScomplete....
Anand Bhalgat, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sanjeev Khanna