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FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
We present a technique for transforming classical approximation algorithms into constant-time algorithms that approximate the size of the optimal solution. Our technique is applic...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—We introduce a new tool for approximation and testing algorithms called partitioning oracles. We develop methods for constructing them for any class of bounded-degree graphs wit...
STOC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper studies constant-time approximation algorithms for problems on degree-bounded graphs. Let n and d be the number of vertices and the degree bound, respectively. This pap...
AINA
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Symmetry breaking is a fundamental operation in distributed computing. It has applications to important problems such as graph vertex and edge coloring, maximal independent sets...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We consider the problem of finding a sparse set of edges containing the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a random subgraph of G with high probability. The two random models that we ...