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AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Robust Cuts Over Time: Combatting the Spread of Invasive Species with Unreliable Biological Control
Widespread accounts of the harmful effects of invasive species have stimulated both practical and theoretical studies on how the spread of these destructive agents can be containe...
Gwen Spencer
TKDE
2012
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Subscriber Assignment for Wide-Area Content-Based Publish/Subscribe
— We study the problem of assigning subscribers to brokers in a wide-area content-based publish/subscribe system. A good assignment should consider both subscriber interests in t...
Albert Yu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jun Yang
SODA
2012
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
On a linear program for minimum-weight triangulation
ABSTRACT∗ Arman Yousefi† Neal E. Young‡ Minimum-weight triangulation (MWT) is NP-hard. It has a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm, and a variety of e...
Arman Yousefi, Neal E. Young
SODA
2012
ACM
229views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Approximation algorithms for stochastic orienteering
In the Stochastic Orienteering problem, we are given a metric, where each node also has a job located there with some deterministic reward and a random size. (Think of the jobs as...
Anupam Gupta, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Viswanath ...
SODA
2012
ACM
226views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
On the hardness of pricing loss-leaders
Consider the problem of pricing n items under an unlimited supply with m buyers. Each buyer is interested in a bundle of at most k of the items. These buyers are single minded, wh...
Preyas Popat, Yi Wu
SODA
2012
ACM
205views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Approximate duality of multicommodity multiroute flows and cuts: single source case
Given an integer h, a graph G = (V, E) with arbitrary positive edge capacities and k pairs of vertices (s1, t1), (s2, t2), . . . , (sk, tk), called terminals, an h-route cut is a ...
Petr Kolman, Christian Scheideler
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
On exploiting flow allocation with rate adaptation for green networking
Abstract—Network power consumption can be reduced considerably by adapting link data rates to their offered traffic loads. In this paper, we exploit how to leverage rate adaptat...
Jian Tang, Brendan Mumey, Yun Xing, Andy Johnson
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
DEAR: Delay-bounded Energy-constrained Adaptive Routing in wireless sensor networks
— Reliability and energy efficiency are critical issues in wireless sensor networks. In this work, we study Delay-bounded Energy-constrained Adaptive Routing (DEAR) problem with...
Shi Bai, Weiyi Zhang, Guoliang Xue, Jian Tang, Cho...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Constant-approximation for target coverage problem in wireless sensor networks
—When a large amount of sensors are randomly deployed into a field, how can we make a sleep/activate schedule for sensors to maximize the lifetime of target coverage in the fie...
Ling Ding, Weili Wu, James Willson, Lidong Wu, Zai...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 months ago
Maximizing capacity with power control under physical interference model in duplex mode
—This paper addresses the joint selection and power assignment of a largest set of given links which can communicate successfully at the same time under the physical interference...
Peng-Jun Wan, Dechang Chen, Guojun Dai, Zhu Wang, ...