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CPC
1999
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13 years 9 months ago
Total Path Length For Random Recursive Trees
Total path length, or search cost, for a rooted tree is defined as the sum of all root-to-node distances. Let Tn be the total path length for a random recursive tree of order n. M...
Robert P. Dobrow, James Allen Fill
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Algorithms for Universal Portfolios
A constant rebalanced portfolio is an investment strategy that keeps the same distribution of wealth among a set of stocks from day to day. There has been much work on Cover'...
Adam Kalai, Santosh Vempala
ISAAC
1999
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Multiple Spin-Block Decisions
We study the online problem of holding a number of idle threads on an application server, which we have ready for processing new requests. The problem stems from the fact that bot...
Peter Damaschke
ICTAI
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Fine Structure of Large Search Spaces
Recently there has been significant progress in our understanding of the computational nature of combinatorial problems. Randomized search methods, both complete and incomplete, o...
Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman
STOC
2006
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
Linear degree extractors and the inapproximability of max clique and chromatic number
: We derandomize results of H?astad (1999) and Feige and Kilian (1998) and show that for all > 0, approximating MAX CLIQUE and CHROMATIC NUMBER to within n1are NP-hard. We furt...
David Zuckerman