FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Working in Winfree’s abstract tile assembly model, we show that a constant-size tile assembly system can be programmed through relative tile concentrations to build an n × n...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
We give an explicit construction of an -biased set over k bits of size O k 2 log(1/ ) 5/4 . This improves upon previous explicit constructions when is roughly (ignoring logarith
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract— We give approximation algorithms for the Generalized Steiner Network (GSN) problem. The input consists of a graph
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
We prove the existence of an algorithm A for computing 2-d or 3-d convex hulls that is optimal for every point set in the following sense: for every set S of n points and for ever...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We present a general method for proving upper bounds on the eigenvalues of the graph Laplacian. In particular, we show that for any positive integer k, the kth smallest eigenva...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Canetti, Goldreich, Goldwasser, and Micali (STOC 2000) introduced the notion of resettable zeroknowledge proofs, where the protocol must be zero-knowledge even if a cheating veriï...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
—We introduce a new tool for approximation and testing algorithms called partitioning oracles. We develop methods for constructing them for any class of bounded-degree graphs wit...