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CPAIOR
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Symmetry and Search in a Network Design Problem
Abstract. An optimization problem arising in the design of optical fibre networks is discussed. A network contains client nodes, each installed on one or more SONET rings. A const...
Barbara M. Smith
APPROX
2005
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization
The field of stochastic optimization studies decision making under uncertainty, when only probabilistic information about the future is available. Finding approximate solutions to...
Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, R. Ravi, Amitabh ...
WECWIS
2005
IEEE
143views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
A Groves Mechanism Approach to Decentralized Design of Supply Chains
In this paper, a generic optimization problem arising in supply chain design is modeled in a game theoretic framework and solved as a decentralized problem using a mechanism desig...
Dinesh Garg, Yadati Narahari, Earnest Foster, Deva...
ICDM
2005
IEEE
146views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Merging Interface Schemas on the Deep Web via Clustering Aggregation
We consider the problem of integrating a large number of interface schemas over the Deep Web, The scale of the problem and the diversity of the sources present serious challenges ...
Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement T. Yu
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Rule-Based Power-Balanced VLIW Instruction Scheduling with Uncertainty
Abstract. Power-balanced instruction scheduling for Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors is an optimization problem which requires a good instruction-level power model for ...
Shu Xiao, Edmund Ming-Kit Lai, A. Benjamin Premkum...
SRDS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
How To Safeguard Your Sensitive Data
In order to safeguard a sensitive database, we must ensure both its privacy and its longevity. However, privacy and longevity tend to be competing objectives. We show how to desig...
Bob Mungamuru, Hector Garcia-Molina, Subhasish Mit...
ICDM
2006
IEEE
108views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Minimum Enclosing Spheres Formulations for Support Vector Ordinal Regression
We present two new support vector approaches for ordinal regression. These approaches find the concentric spheres with minimum volume that contain most of the training samples. B...
Shirish Krishnaj Shevade, Wei Chu
ICDE
2006
IEEE
147views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Multiple Queries in Distributed Data Stream Systems
We consider the problem of query optimization in distributed stream based systems where multiple continuous queries may be executing simultaneously. In such systems, distribution ...
Sangeetha Seshadri, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Utility Optimization for Event-Driven Distributed Infrastructures
Event-driven distributed infrastructures are becoming increasingly important for information dissemination and application integration. We examine the problem of optimal resource ...
Cristian Lumezanu, Sumeer Bhola, Mark Astley
WINE
2007
Springer
124views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Stochastic Models for Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, Zoya Svitkina