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2007
ACM
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An unbiased pointing operator for unlabeled structures, with applications to counting and sampling
We introduce a general method to count and randomly sample unlabeled combinatorial structures. The approach is based on pointing unlabeled structures in an “unbiased” way, i.e...
Manuel Bodirsky, Éric Fusy, Mihyun Kang, St...
SODA
2012
ACM
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Improved competitive ratio for the matroid secretary problem
The Matroid Secretary Problem, introduced by Babaioff et al. (2007), is a generalization of the Classical Secretary Problem. In this problem, elements from a matroid are presente...
Sourav Chakraborty, Oded Lachish
SODA
2007
ACM
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On the K-simple shortest paths problem in weighted directed graphs
We obtain the first approximation algorithm for finding the k-simple shortest paths connecting a pair of vertices in a weighted directed graph. Our algorithm is deterministic an...
Liam Roditty
SODA
2007
ACM
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Matroids, secretary problems, and online mechanisms
We study a generalization of the classical secretary problem which we call the “matroid secretary problem”. In this problem, the elements of a matroid are presented to an onli...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, Robert Kleinberg
SODA
2007
ACM
115views Algorithms» more  SODA 2007»
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Strong price of anarchy
A strong equilibrium (Aumann 1959) is a pure Nash equilibrium which is resilient to deviations by coalitions. We define the strong price of anarchy to be the ratio of the worst c...
Nir Andelman, Michal Feldman, Yishay Mansour