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AIPS
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Lower Bounding Klondike Solitaire with Monte-Carlo Planning
Despite its ubiquitous presence, very little is known about the odds of winning the simple card game of Klondike Solitaire. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use o...
Ronald Bjarnason, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Instance-Optimal Geometric Algorithms
We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
Peyman Afshani, Jérémy Barbay, Timot...
SODA
2012
ACM
245views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Lower bounds for number-in-hand multiparty communication complexity, made easy
In this paper we prove lower bounds on randomized multiparty communication complexity, both in the blackboard model (where each message is written on a blackboard for all players ...
Jeff M. Phillips, Elad Verbin, Qin Zhang
MASCOTS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Distance Reduction in Mobile Wireless Communication: Lower Bound Analysis and Practical Attainment
— The transmission energy required for a wireless communication increases superlinearly with the communication distance. In a mobile wireless network, nodal movement can be explo...
Yu Dong, Wing-Kai Hon, David K. Y. Yau, Jren-Chit ...
STOC
1997
ACM
91views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
14 years 2 days ago
Lower Bounds for Distributed Coin-Flipping and Randomized Consensus
We examine a class of collective coin- ipping games that arises from randomized distributed algorithms with halting failures. In these games, a sequence of local coin ips is gener...
James Aspnes