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COMPGEOM
1992
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Subexponential Bound for Linear Programming
We present a simple randomized algorithm which solves linear programs with n constraints and d variables in expected minfO(d 22dn); e 2 pdln(n= p d)+O( p d+lnn)g time in the unit ...
Jirí Matousek, Micha Sharir, Emo Welzl
SPAA
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated Objects in a Distributed Environment
Consider a set of shared objects in a distributed network, where several copies of each object may exist at any given time. To ensure both fast access to the objects as well as e ...
C. Greg Plaxton, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Andréa...
COCOON
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Packing Two Disks into a Polygonal Environment
: We consider the following problem. Given a polygon P, possibly with holes, and having n vertices, compute a pair of equal radius disks that do not intersect each other, are conta...
Prosenjit Bose, Pat Morin, Antoine Vigneron
STOC
2003
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Work-competitive scheduling for cooperative computing with dynamic groups
The problem of cooperatively performing a set of t tasks in a decentralized setting where the computing medium is subject to failures is one of the fundamental problems in distrib...
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell, Alexander A....