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FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improved Bounds for Online Routing and Packing Via a Primal-Dual Approach
In this work we study a wide range of online and offline routing and packing problems with various objectives. We provide a unified approach, based on a clean primal-dual method...
Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor
SAT
2005
Springer
129views Hardware» more  SAT 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
On Finding All Minimally Unsatisfiable Subformulas
Much attention has been given in recent years to the problem of finding Minimally Unsatisfiable Subformulas (MUSes) of Boolean formulas. In this paper, we present a new view of the...
Mark H. Liffiton, Karem A. Sakallah
SPAA
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Online algorithms for prefetching and caching on parallel disks
Parallel disks provide a cost effective way of speeding up I/Os in applications that work with large amounts of data. The main challenge is to achieve as much parallelism as poss...
Rahul Shah, Peter J. Varman, Jeffrey Scott Vitter
IPCO
2007
108views Optimization» more  IPCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Combinatorial Optimization with Exponential Scenarios
Following the well-studied two-stage optimization framework for stochastic optimization [15, 18], we study approximation algorithms for robust two-stage optimization problems with ...
Uriel Feige, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S...
CORR
2008
Springer
118views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Distributed Constrained Optimization with Semicoordinate Transformations
Recent work has shown how information theory extends conventional full-rationality game theory to allow bounded rational agents. The associated mathematical framework can be used ...
William G. Macready, David Wolpert