Sciweavers

152 search results - page 14 / 31
» Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
Sort
View
SIAMCOMP
2010
174views more  SIAMCOMP 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
On the Complexity of Nash Equilibria and Other Fixed Points
We reexamine what it means to compute Nash equilibria and, more generally, what it means to compute a fixed point of a given Brouwer function, and we investigate the complexity o...
Kousha Etessami, Mihalis Yannakakis
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
STOC
2005
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
14 years 7 months ago
Low-distortion embeddings of general metrics into the line
A low-distortion embedding between two metric spaces is a mapping which preserves the distances between each pair of points, up to a small factor called distortion. Low-distortion...
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasi...
AMAI
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
New Look-Ahead Schemes for Constraint Satisfaction
This paper presents new look-ahead schemes for backtracking search when solving constraint satisfaction problems. The look-ahead schemes compute a heuristic for value ordering and...
Kalev Kask, Rina Dechter, Vibhav Gogate
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Distributed localization using noisy distance and angle information
Localization is an important and extensively studied problem in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks. Given the connectivity graph of the sensor nodes, along with additional local info...
Amitabh Basu, Jie Gao, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Giri...