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ESA
2009
Springer
92views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
Minimizing Movement: Fixed-Parameter Tractability
Abstract. We study an extensive class of movement minimization problems which arise from many practical scenarios but so far have little theoretical study. In general, these proble...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, D&aacut...
ESA
2006
Springer
126views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Cooperative TSP
In this paper we introduce and study cooperative variants of the Traveling Salesperson Problem. In these problems a salesperson has to make deliveries to customers who are willing ...
Amitai Armon, Adi Avidor, Oded Schwartz
ESA
2010
Springer
163views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
On the Huffman and Alphabetic Tree Problem with General Cost Functions
We study a wide generalization of two classical problems, the Huffman Tree and Alphabetic Tree Problem. We assume that the cost caused by the ith leaf is fi(di), where di is its d...
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Tobias Jacobs
SIAMCOMP
2000
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13 years 5 months ago
On the Difficulty of Designing Good Classifiers
We consider the problem of designing a near-optimal linear decision tree to classify two given point sets B and W in n. A linear decision tree de nes a polyhedral subdivision of sp...
Michelangelo Grigni, Vincent Mirelli, Christos H. ...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
128views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
13 years 11 months ago
Solving combinatorial exchanges: optimality via a few partial bids
We investigate the problem of matching buyers and sellers in a multi-item multi-unit combinatorial exchange so as to maximize either the surplus (revenue minus cost) or the tradin...
Anshul Kothari, Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri