SODA
2012
ACM
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2012
ACM
We consider the dictionary problem in external memory and improve the update time of the wellknown buffer tree by roughly a logarithmic factor. For any λ ≥ max{lg lg n, logM/B(...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
We resolve the problem of small-space approximate selection in random-order streams. Specifically, we present an algorithm that reads the n elements of a set in random order and ...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
In this work we design a general method for proving moment inequalities for polynomials of independent random variables. Our method works for a wide range of random variables incl...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
We give the first linear kernels for DOMINATING SET and CONNECTED DOMINATING SET problems on graphs excluding a fixed graph H as a minor. In other words, we give polynomial time...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
ABSTRACT∗ Arman Yousefi† Neal E. Young‡ Minimum-weight triangulation (MWT) is NP-hard. It has a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm, and a variety of e...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
The following distributed coalescence protocol was introduced by Dahlia Malkhi in 2006 motivated by applications in social networking. Initially there are n agents wishing to coal...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
We describe a data structure for submatrix maximum queries in Monge matrices or Monge partial matrices, where a query specifies a contiguous submatrix of the given matrix, and it...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
In the Stochastic Orienteering problem, we are given a metric, where each node also has a job located there with some deterministic reward and a random size. (Think of the jobs as...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
We study the role that parallelism plays in time complexariants of Winfree’s abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), a model of molecular algorithmic self-assembly. In the “hiera...