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SWAT
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months 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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13 years 11 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 4 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 8 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