AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
AAAI
2011
13 years 13 days ago
2011
We study iterative randomized greedy algorithms for generating (elimination) orderings with small induced width and state space size - two parameters known to bound the complexity...
CPAIOR
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2011
Springer
We introduce the Upgrading Shortest Paths Problem, a new combinatorial problem for improving network connectivity with a wide range of applications from multicast communication to ...
CORR
2011
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2011
Springer
We study the problem of selecting a subset of k random variables from a large set, in order to obtain the best linear prediction of another variable of interest. This problem can ...
TIT
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is the canonical greedy algorithm for sparse approximation. In this paper we demonstrate that the restricted isometry property (RIP) can be used f...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Springer
We investigate optimal routing and scheduling strategies for multi-hop wireless networks with rateless codes. Rateless codes allow each node of the network to accumulate mutual in...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2011
IEEE
We analyze the computational problem of multi-object tracking in video sequences. We formulate the problem using a cost function that requires estimating the number of tracks, as ...
SCHEDULING
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
The “ Priority Algorithm” is a model of computation introduced by Borodin, Nielsen and Rackoff [BNR03] which formulates a wide class of greedy algorithms. For an arbitrary se...
JCB
2000
14 years 6 days ago
2000
For aligning DNA sequences that differ only by sequencing errors, or by equivalent errors from other sources, a greedy algorithm can be much faster than traditional dynamic progra...
CORR
2002
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
2002
Springer
Inthisarticle,wewillformalizethemethodofdualfittingandtheideaoffactor-revealingLP. This combination is used to design and analyze two greedy algorithms for the metric uncapacitated...