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FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
Amit Kumar, Anupam Gupta, Tim Roughgarden
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Partition Technique for Overlays of Envelopes
We obtain a near-tight bound of O(n3+ε ), for any ε > 0, on the complexity of the overlay of the minimization diagrams of two collections of surfaces in four dimensions. This...
Vladlen Koltun, Micha Sharir
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Learning Intersections and Thresholds of Halfspaces
We give the first polynomial time algorithm to learn any function of a constant number of halfspaces under the uniform distribution on the Boolean hypercube to within any constan...
Adam Klivans, Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Protocols and Impossibility Results for Gossip-Based Communication Mechanisms
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...
David Kempe, Jon M. Kleinberg
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Zero-Knowledge
We show new lower bounds and impossibility results for general (possibly non-black-box) zero-knowledge proofs and arguments. Our main results are that, under reasonable complexity...
Oded Goldreich
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On-Line End-to-End Congestion Control
Naveen Garg, Neal E. Young
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Dependent Rounding in Bipartite Graphs
Rajiv Gandhi, Samir Khuller, Srinivasan Parthasara...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Testing Juntas
We consider the problem of testing functions for the property of being a k-junta (i.e., of depending on at most k variables). Fischer, Kindler, Ron, Safra, and Samorodnitsky (J. Co...
Eldar Fischer, Guy Kindler, Dana Ron, Shmuel Safra...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Implicit B-Trees: New Results for the Dictionary Problem
We reopen the issue of finding an implicit data structure for the dictionary problem. In particular, we examine the problem of maintaining Ò data values in the first Ò locatio...
Gianni Franceschini, Roberto Grossi, J. Ian Munro,...