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PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Sequential item pricing for unlimited supply
We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a selle...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Florin Constantin
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
Epsilon nets and union complexity
We consider the following combinatorial problem: given a set of n objects (for example, disks in the plane, triangles), and an integer L ≥ 1, what is the size of the smallest su...
Kasturi R. Varadarajan
EDBT
2009
ACM
208views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 24 days ago
Flexible and efficient querying and ranking on hyperlinked data sources
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...
NIPS
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical Eigensolver for Transition Matrices in Spectral Methods
We show how to build hierarchical, reduced-rank representation for large stochastic matrices and use this representation to design an efficient algorithm for computing the largest...
Chakra Chennubhotla, Allan D. Jepson