JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We present an incentive-compatible polynomial-time approximation scheme for multiunit auctions with general k-minded player valuations. The mechanism fully optimizes over an appro...
MST
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
A central question in computational biology is the design of genetic markers to distinguish between two given sets of (DNA) sequences. This question is formalized as the NP-comple...
COR
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
This paper studies the two-machine permutation flowshop scheduling problem with anticipatory setup times and an availability constraint imposed only on the first machine. The obje...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
A pants decomposition of an orientable surface is a collection of simple cycles that partition into pants, i.e., surfaces of genus zero with three boundary cycles. Given a set P...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1995
IEEE
We consider the special case of the traveling salesman problem TSP in which the distance metric is the shortest-path metric of a planar unweighted graph. We present a polynomial...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
This paper studies —from the perspective of efficient computation— a type of competition that is widespread throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, higher education, politic...
FCT
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. The NP-complete Distinguishing Substring Selection problem (DSSS for short) asks, given a set of “good” strings and a set of “bad” strings, for a solution string ...
WADS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We give processor-allocation algorithms for grid architectures, where the objective is to select processors from a set of available processors to minimize the average num...
COCOON
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The Satisfactory Partition problem consists of deciding if a given graph has a partition of its vertex set into two nonempty parts such that each vertex has at least as many neighb...
RTAS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Multiprocessor platforms have been widely adopted in both embedded and server systems. In addition to the performance improvement, multiprocessor systems could have the flexibili...