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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Can good learners always compensate for poor learners?
Can a good learner compensate for a poor learner when paired in a coordination game? Previous work has given an example where a special learning algorithm (FMQ) is capable of doin...
Keith Sullivan, Liviu Panait, Gabriel Catalin Bala...
CIMCA
2008
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Clustering Algorithm Incorporating Density and Direction
This paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the K-means algorithm and the DENCLUE algorithm. In order to realise the automation of clustering analysis and eliminate hu...
Yu-Chen Song, Michael J. O'Grady, Gregory M. P. O'...
LATIN
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Lightweight Data Indexing and Compression in External Memory
In this paper we describe algorithms for computing the BWT and for building (compressed) indexes in external memory. The innovative feature of our algorithms is that they are light...
Paolo Ferragina, Travis Gagie, Giovanni Manzini
CG
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A Parallel Monte-Carlo Tree Search Algorithm
Monte-Carlo tree search is a powerful paradigm for the game of Go. We present a parallel Master-Slave algorithm for Monte-Carlo tree search. We experimented the algorithm on a netw...
Tristan Cazenave, Nicolas Jouandeau
ICSAP
2010
13 years 12 months ago
Tamper Proofing 3D Models
- This paper describes a novel algorithm designed for tamper proofing of 3D models. Fragile watermarking is a known technique for detecting location of tamper in the artwork. Howev...
Mukesh C. Motwani, Balaji Sridharan, Rakhi C. Motw...
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Resource Oblivious Sorting on Multicores
We present a new deterministic sorting algorithm that interleaves the partitioning of a sample sort with merging. Sequentially, it sorts n elements in O(n log n) time cache-oblivi...
Richard Cole, Vijaya Ramachandran
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A best-first anytime algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures
This work presents a best-first anytime algorithm for computing optimal coalition structures. The approach is novel in that it generates coalition structures based on coalition va...
Chattrakul Sombattheera, Aditya Ghose
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
115views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
An optimal algorithm for sizing sequential circuits for industrial library based designs
In this paper, we propose an optimal gate sizing and clock skew optimization algorithm for globally sizing synchronous sequential circuits. The number of constraints and variables ...
Sanghamitra Roy, Yu Hen Hu, Charlie Chung-Ping Che...
APPROX
2008
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Deterministic 7/8-Approximation for the Metric Maximum TSP
We present the first 7/8-approximation algorithm for the maximum traveling salesman problem with triangle inequality. Our algorithm is deterministic. This improves over both the r...
Lukasz Kowalik, Marcin Mucha