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ACTA
2008
136views more  ACTA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Two-dimensional packing with conflicts
We study the two-dimensional version of the bin packing problem with conflicts. We are given a set of (two-dimensional) squares V = {1, 2, . . . , n} with sides s1, s2 . . . , sn ...
Leah Epstein, Asaf Levin, Rob van Stee
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Combinatorial Problems with Discounted Price Functions in Multi-agent Systems
ABSTRACT. Motivated by economic thought, a recent research agenda has suggested the algorithmic study of combinatorial optimization problems under functions which satisfy the prope...
Gagan Goel, Pushkar Tripathi, Lei Wang
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
101views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Fairness and optimality in congestion games
We study two problems, that of computing social optimum and that of finding fair allocations, in the congestion game model of Milchtaich[8] Although we show that the general prob...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Viswanath Na...
STOC
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
14 years 27 days ago
An Improved LP-based Approximation for Steiner Tree
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li