While data compression and Kolmogorov complexity are both about effective coding of words, the two settings differ in the following respect. A compression algorithm or compressor...
A spanner of an undirected unweighted graph is a subgraph that approximates the distance metric of the original graph with some specified accuracy. Specifically, we say H ⊆ G i...
In this paper, we consider the mechanism design version of the fractional variant of the scheduling problem on unrelated machines. We give a lower bound of 2 − 1/n for any fracti...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Annam&aac...
d Abstract) Paul Beame1, , Matei David2, , Toniann Pitassi2, , and Philipp Woelfel2,† 1 University of Washington 2 University of Toronto Abstract. We solve some fundamental probl...
Paul Beame, Matei David, Toniann Pitassi, Philipp ...