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COMPGEOM
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we introduce a simple, randomized dynamic data structure for storing multidimensional point sets, called a quadtreap. This data structure is a randomized, balanced ...
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Abstract-- The efficacy of end-to-end multicast transport protocols depends critically upon their ability to scale efficiently to a large number of receivers. Several research mult...
NLP
2000
13 years 9 months ago
2000
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is (1) to provide a theoretical justification for the use of Monte-Carlo sampling for approximate resolution of NP-hard maximization problems in...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
We consider a robust model proposed by Scarf, 1958, for stochastic optimization when only the marginal probabilities of (binary) random variables are given, and the correlation be...