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COCO
2010
Springer
135views Algorithms» more  COCO 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Lower Bounds for Testing Function Isomorphism
—We prove new lower bounds in the area of property testing of boolean functions. Specifically, we study the problem of testing whether a boolean function f is isomorphic to a ...
Eric Blais, Ryan O'Donnell
GD
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Constrained Simultaneous and Near-Simultaneous Embeddings
A geometric simultaneous embedding of two graphs G1 = (V1, E1) and G2 = (V2, E2) with a bijective mapping of their vertex sets γ : V1 → V2 is a pair of planar straightline drawi...
Fabrizio Frati, Michael Kaufmann, Stephen G. Kobou...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
Amit Kumar, Anupam Gupta, Tim Roughgarden
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
201views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Truthful assignment without money
We study the design of truthful mechanisms that do not use payments for the generalized assignment problem (GAP) and its variants. An instance of the GAP consists of a bipartite g...
Shaddin Dughmi, Arpita Ghosh
BIBE
2007
IEEE
128views Bioinformatics» more  BIBE 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
QOMA2: Optimizing the alignment of many sequences
Abstract—We consider the problem of aligning multiple protein sequences with the goal of maximizing the SP (Sum-of-Pairs) score, when the number of sequences is large. The QOMA (...
Xu Zhang, Tamer Kahveci