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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
147views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 4 days ago
Socially desirable approximations for Dodgson's voting rule
In 1876 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson suggested the intriguing voting rule that today bears his name. Although Dodgson’s rule is one of the most well-studied voting rules, it suffers...
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Nikos Ka...
JUCS
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Analysis of two Sweep-line Algorithms for Constructing Spanning Trees and Steiner Trees
: We give a tight analysis of an old and popular sweep-line heuristic for constructing a spanning tree of a set of n points in the plane. The algorithm sweeps a vertical line acros...
Adrian Dumitrescu, Csaba D. Tóth
APPROX
2008
Springer
173views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Connected Vertex Covers in Dense Graphs
We consider the variant of the minimum vertex cover problem in which we require that the cover induces a connected subgraph. We give new approximation results for this problem in d...
Jean Cardinal, Eythan Levy
STACS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Semi-Online Preemptive Scheduling: One Algorithm for All Variants
We present a unified optimal semi-online algorithm for preemptive scheduling on uniformly related machines with the objective to minimize the makespan. This algorithm works for a...
Tomás Ebenlendr, Jiri Sgall
ICTCS
2005
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Inapproximability Results for the Lateral Gene Transfer Problem
This paper concerns the Lateral Gene Transfer Problem. This minimization problem, defined by Hallet and Lagergren [6], is that of finding the most parsimonious lateral gene trans...
Bhaskar DasGupta, Sergio Ferrarini, Uthra Gopalakr...