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SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
FUIN
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study of QBF Encodings: from Treewidth Estimation to Useful Preprocessing
From an empirical point of view, the hardness of quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs), can be characterized by the (in)ability of current state-of-the-art QBF solvers to decide abo...
Luca Pulina, Armando Tacchella
SODA
2008
ACM
156views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Approximating TSP on metrics with bounded global growth
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a canonical NP-complete problem which is known to be MAXSNP hard even on Euclidean metrics (of high dimensions) [40]. In order to circumven...
T.-H. Hubert Chan, Anupam Gupta
MFCS
2005
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Tight Approximability Results for the Maximum Solution Equation Problem over Zp
In the maximum solution equation problem a collection of equations are given over some algebraic structure. The objective is to find an assignment to the variables in the equation...
Fredrik Kuivinen
WAOA
2005
Springer
170views Algorithms» more  WAOA 2005»
14 years 26 days ago
On Approximating Restricted Cycle Covers
A cycle cover of a graph is a set of cycles such that every vertex is part of exactly one cycle. An L-cycle cover is a cycle cover in which the length of every cycle is in the set...
Bodo Manthey