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2010
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The focus of attention problem
Dries Goossens, Sergey Polyakovskiy, Frits Spieksm...
SODA
2010
ACM
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On the Optimality of Spiral Search
Searching for a point in the plane is a well-known search game problem introduced in the early eigthies. The best known search strategy is given by a spiral and achieves a competi...
Elmar Langetepe
SODA
2010
ACM
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Sharp kernel clustering algorithms and their associated Grothendieck inequalities
abstract Subhash Khot Assaf Naor In the kernel clustering problem we are given a (large) n ? n symmetric positive semidefinite matrix A = (aij) with n i=1 n j=1 aij = 0 and a (sma...
Subhash Khot, Assaf Naor
SODA
2010
ACM
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Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
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2010
ACM
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Data Structures for Range Minimum Queries in Multidimensional Arrays
Given a d-dimensional array A with N entries, the Range Minimum Query (RMQ) asks for the minimum element within a contiguous subarray of A. The 1D RMQ problem has been studied int...
Hao Yuan, Mikhail J. Atallah
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2010
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Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Path and Directed Latency Problems
We study integrality gaps and approximability of two closely related problems on directed graphs. Given a set V of n nodes in an underlying asymmetric metric and two specified nod...
Zachary Friggstad, Mohammad R. Salavatipour, Zoya ...
SODA
2010
ACM
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VC v. VCG: Inapproximability of Combinatorial Auctions via Generalizations of the VC Dimension
Elchanan Mossel, Christos Papadimitriou, Michael S...
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2010
ACM
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Rumour spreading and graph conductance
Flavio Chierichetti, Silvio Lattanzi, Alessandro P...
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2010
ACM
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Approximating the Crossing Number of Graphs Embeddable in Any Orientable Surface
The crossing number of a graph is the least number of pairwise edge crossings in a drawing of the graph in the plane. We provide an O(n log n) time constant factor approximation al...
Petr Hlineny, Markus Chimani