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SODA
2012
ACM
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12 years 1 months ago
Simultaneous approximations for adversarial and stochastic online budgeted allocation
Motivated by online ad allocation, we study the problem of simultaneous approximations for the adversarial and stochastic online budgeted allocation problem. This problem consists...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Shayan Oveis Gharan, Morteza Za...
IACR
2011
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12 years 10 months ago
Fully Homomorphic Encryption without Bootstrapping
We present a radically new approach to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that dramatically improves performance and bases security on weaker assumptions. A central conceptual con...
Zvika Brakerski, Craig Gentry, Vinod Vaikuntanatha...
ESA
2011
Springer
251views Algorithms» more  ESA 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Bipartite Correlation Clustering
In this work we study the problem of Bipartite Correlation Clustering (BCC), a natural bipartite counterpart of the well studied Correlation Clustering (CC) problem. Given a bipart...
Nir Ailon, Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Edo Liberty, Anke...
ALGORITHMICA
1998
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13 years 10 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Connected Dominating Sets
The dominatingset problemin graphs asks for a minimumsize subset of vertices with the followingproperty: each vertex is required to either be in the dominating set, or adjacent to...
Sudipto Guha, Samir Khuller
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Sequential item pricing for unlimited supply
We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a selle...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Florin Constantin
CCCG
2006
14 years 8 days ago
An Improved Approximation Factor For The Unit Disk Covering Problem
We present a polynomial time algorithm for the unit disk covering problem with an approximation factor 72, and show that this is the best possible approximation factor based on th...
Sada Narayanappa, Petr Vojtechovský
COCO
2004
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
The Complexity of the Covering Radius Problem on Lattices and Codes
We initiate the study of the computational complexity of the covering radius problem for point lattices, and approximation versions of the problem for both lattices and linear cod...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Daniele Micciancio, Oded Reg...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed Construction of Connected Dominating Set in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
—Connected dominating set (CDS) has been proposed as virtual backbone or spine of wireless ad hoc networks. Three distributed approximation algorithms have been proposed in the l...
Peng-Jun Wan, Khaled M. Alzoubi, Ophir Frieder
HICSS
2002
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
New Distributed Algorithm for Connected Dominating Set in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
—Connected dominating set (CDS) has been proposed as virtual backbone or spine of wireless ad hoc networks. Three distributed approximation algorithms have been proposed in the l...
Khaled M. Alzoubi, Peng-Jun Wan, Ophir Frieder
PDCAT
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Approximating Spanning Trees with Inner Nodes Cost
We consider the practical NP-complete problem of finding a minimum weight spanning tree with both edge weights and inner nodes weights. We present two polynomial time algorithms ...
Rudolf Fleischer, Qi Ge, Jian Li, Shijun Tian, Hai...