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SWAT
2010
Springer
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14 years 23 days ago
Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Optimizing query rewrites for keyword-based advertising
We consider the problem of query rewrites in the context of keyword advertisement. Given a three-layer graph consisting of queries, query rewrites, and the corresponding ads that ...
Azarakhsh Malekian, Chi-Chao Chang, Ravi Kumar, Gr...
FOCS
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
Amit Kumar, Anupam Gupta, Tim Roughgarden
SOFSEM
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On the Complexity of the Highway Pricing Problem
Abstract. The highway pricing problem asks for prices to be determined for segments of a single highway such as to maximize the revenue obtainable from a given set of customers wit...
Alexander Grigoriev, Joyce van Loon, Marc Uetz