APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we consider two new online optimization problems (each with several variants), present similar online algorithms for both, and show that one reduces to the...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We introduce and study the following model for routing uncertain demands through a network. We are given a capacitated multicommodity flow network with a single source an...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In the minimum entropy set cover problem, one is given a collection of k sets which collectively cover an n-element ground set. A feasible solution of the problem is a partition o...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
We describe a simple random-sampling based procedure for producing sparse matrix approximations. Our procedure and analysis are extremely simple: the analysis uses nothing more th...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. This paper investigates the relationship between the dimension theory of partial orders and the problem of scheduling precedenceconstrained jobs on a single machine to mi...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
For a given graph with weighted vertices, the goal of the minimum-weight dominating set problem is to compute a vertex subset of smallest weight such that each vertex of the graph...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper we relate the problem of finding structures related to perfect matchings in bipartite graphs to a stochastic process similar to throwing balls into bins. Given a bip...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
Gupta (SODA'01) considered the Steiner Point Removal (SPR) problem on trees. Given an edge-weighted tree T and a subset S of vertices called terminals in the tree, find an edg...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer