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PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A distributed placement service for graph-structured and tree-structured data
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Gregory Buehrer, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Shirish...
ILP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Monte Carlo Study of Randomised Restarted Search in ILP
Recent statistical performance surveys of search algorithms in difficult combinatorial problems have demonstrated the benefits of randomising and restarting the search procedure. ...
Filip Zelezný, Ashwin Srinivasan, David Pag...
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation
We study a representative task allocation problem called shortest paths: Let G be a graph in which the edges are owned by self interested agents. The cost of each edge is privatel...
Artur Czumaj, Amir Ronen
DC
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Distributed algorithms for covering, packing and maximum weighted matching
Abstract This paper gives poly-logarithmic-round, distributed δ-approximation algorithms for covering problems with submodular cost and monotone covering constraints (Submodular-c...
Christos Koufogiannakis, Neal E. Young
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Getting What You Pay For: Is Exploration in Distributed Hill Climbing Really Worth it?
Abstract--The Distributed Stochastic Algorithm (DSA), Distributed Breakout Algorithm (DBA), and variations such as Distributed Simulated Annealing (DSAN), MGM-1, and DisPeL, are di...
Melanie Smith, Roger Mailler