IJCAI
1989
14 years 5 months ago
1989
We consider a representation for temporal relations between intervals introduced by James Allen, and its associated computational or reasoning problem: given possibly indefinite ...
SODA
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Abstract Packet-scheduling is a particular challenge in wireless networks due to interference from nearby transmissions. A distance-2 interference model serves as a useful abstract...
SODA
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2001
ACM
Covering and packing integer programs model a large family of combinatorial optimization problems. The current-best approximation algorithms for these are an instance of the basic...
SODA
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2001
ACM
We give an implementation of the Goemans-Williamson clustering procedure which is at the core of several approximation algorithms including those for Generalized Steiner Trees, Pr...
SODA
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2001
ACM
We provide improved approximation algorithms for several rectangle tiling and packing problems (RTILE, DRTILE and d-RPACK) studied in the literature. Our algorithms are highly eff...
IJCAI
2001
14 years 5 months ago
2001
Although a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) provides an appealing model for problems of planning under uncertainty, exact algorithms for POMDPs are intractable...
IPCO
2004
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Abstract. We study two-stage, finite-scenario stochastic versions of several combinatorial optimization problems, and provide nearly tight approximation algorithms for them. Our pr...
SODA
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
We study the problem of aggregating partial rankings. This problem is motivated by applications such as meta-searching and information retrieval, search engine spam fighting, e-c...
SDM
2007
SIAM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
SIAM
Consensus clustering has emerged as one of the principal clustering problems in the data mining community. In recent years the theoretical computer science community has generated...
SPLC
2008
14 years 5 months ago
2008
Software Product-lines (SPLs) use modular software components that can be reconfigured into different variants for different requirements sets. Feature modeling is a common method...