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Thin Partitions: Isoperimetric Inequalities and a Sampling Algorithm for Star Shaped Bodies
Star-shaped bodies are an important nonconvex generalization of convex bodies (e.g., linear programming with violations). Here we present an efficient algorithm for sampling a giv...
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Daniel Dadush, Santosh...
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2010
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Energy Efficient Scheduling via Partial Shutdown
Motivated by issues of saving energy in data centers we define a collection of new problems referred to as "machine activation" problems. The central framework we introd...
Samir Khuller, Jian Li, Barna Saha
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2010
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14 years 7 months ago
On the Optimality of Spiral Search
Searching for a point in the plane is a well-known search game problem introduced in the early eigthies. The best known search strategy is given by a spiral and achieves a competi...
Elmar Langetepe
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2010
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Limits on the Social Welfare of Maximal-In-Range Auction Mechanisms
Many commonly-used auction mechanisms are "maximal-in-range". We show that any maximalin-range mechanism for n bidders and m items cannot both approximate the social wel...
Dave Buchfuhrer, Chris Umans
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2010
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How good is the Chord algorithm?
The Chord algorithm is a popular, simple method for the succinct approximation of curves, which is widely used, under different names, in a variety of areas, such as, multiobjecti...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Ilias Diakonikolas, Mihal...