SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
In this paper we examine problems motivated by on-line financial problems and stochastic games. In particular, we consider a sequence of entirely arbitrary distinct values arrivin...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
Given a collection S of n line segments in the plane, the planar point location problem is to construct a data structure that can e ciently determine for a given query point p the...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
Job-shop scheduling is a classical NP-hard problem. Shmoys, Stein, and Wein presented the first polynomial-time approximation algorithm for this problem that has a good (polylogar...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
We give a polynomial-time algorithm for the following problem: Given a degree sequence in which each degree is bounded from above by a constant, select, uniformly at random, an un...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
We study the generation of uniformly distributed linear extensions using Markov chains. In particular we show that monotone coupling from the past can be applied in the case of lin...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
We study graph partitioning problems on graphs with edge capacities and vertex weights. The problems of b-balanced cuts and k-balanced partitions are unified into a new problem ca...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
Improving on a recent breakthrough of Sharir, we find two minimum-radius circular disks covering a planar point set, in randomized expected time O(n log2 n).
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM
Map labeling is of fundamental importance in cartography and geographical information systems and is one of the areas targeted for research by the ACM Computational Geometry Impac...
SODA
1997
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
1997
ACM