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WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Consideration set generation in commerce search
In commerce search, the set of products returned by a search engine often forms the basis for all user interactions leading up to a potential transaction on the web. Such a set of...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kamesh Mu...
SODA
1998
ACM
106views Algorithms» more  SODA 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
Greedy Strikes Back: Improved Facility Location Algorithms
A fundamental facility location problem is to choose the location of facilities, such as industrial plants and warehouses, to minimize the cost of satisfying the demand for some c...
Sudipto Guha, Samir Khuller
IPCO
2001
166views Optimization» more  IPCO 2001»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximate k-MSTs and k-Steiner Trees via the Primal-Dual Method and Lagrangean Relaxation
Garg [10] gives two approximation algorithms for the minimum-cost tree spanning k vertices in an undirected graph. Recently Jain and Vazirani [16] discovered primal-dual approxima...
Fabián A. Chudak, Tim Roughgarden, David P....
ICDT
2005
ACM
149views Database» more  ICDT 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Approximately Dominating Representatives
We propose and investigate from the algorithmic standpoint a novel form of fuzzy query called approximately dominating representatives or ADRs. The ADRs of a multidimensional point...
Vladlen Koltun, Christos H. Papadimitriou
ICC
2008
IEEE
126views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Joint Stream Control and Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Networks with MIMO Links
—MIMO links can significantly improve network throughput by supporting multiple concurrent data streams between a pair of nodes and suppressing wireless interference. In this pa...
Brendan Mumey, Jian Tang, Timothy Hahn
APPROX
2009
Springer
149views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
On the Complexity of the Asymmetric VPN Problem
We give the first constant factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric Virtual Private Network (Vpn) problem with arbitrary concave costs. We even show the stronger result, ...
Thomas Rothvoß, Laura Sanità