FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper connects two fundamental ideas from theoretical computer science: hard-core set construction, a type of hardness amplification from computational complexity, and boosti...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Naor and Yung show that a one-bit-compressing universal one-way hash function (UOWHF) can be constructed based on a one-way permutation. This construction can be iterated to build...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
The metric 2-clustering problem is de ned as follows: given a metric (X;d), partition X into two sets S1 and S2 in order to minimize the value of X i X fu;vg Si d(u;v) In this pap...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Various efforts ([?, ?, ?]) have been made in recent years to derandomize probabilistic algorithms using the complexity theoretic assumption that there exists a problem in E = dti...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
We present a randomized algorithm for computing portions of an arrangement of n arcs in the plane, each pair of which intersect in at most t points. We use this algorithm to perfo...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
We consider the DIRECTED STEINER NETWORK problem, also called the POINT-TO-POINT CONNECTION problem, where given a directed graph G and p pairs {(s1,t1),...,(sp,tp)} of nodes in t...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
Hausdorff metrics are used in geometric settings for measuring the distance between sets of points. They have been used extensively in areas such as computer vision, pattern recog...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE