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STACS
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Economical Caching
Abstract. We study the management of buffers and storages in environments with unpredictably varying prices in a competitive analysis. In the economical caching problem, there is ...
Matthias Englert, Heiko Röglin, Jacob Spö...
ALGORITHMICA
1999
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13 years 4 months ago
Competitive Optimal On-Line Leasing
Consider an on-line player who needs some equipment (e.g., a computer) for an initially unknown number of periods. At the start of each period it is determined whether the player w...
Ran El-Yaniv, R. Kaniel, Nathan Linial
DAC
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems
Randomness is inherent to biochemistry: at each instant, the sequence of reactions that fires is a matter of chance. Some biological systems exploit such randomness, choosing betw...
Brian Fett, Jehoshua Bruck, Marc D. Riedel
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Stability Yields a PTAS for k-Median and k-Means Clustering
We consider k-median clustering in finite metric spaces and k-means clustering in Euclidean spaces, in the setting where k is part of the input (not a constant). For the k-means pr...
Pranjal Awasthi, Avrim Blum, Or Sheffet
SAGA
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolutionary Search for Smooth Maps in Motor Control Unit Calibration
We study the combinatorial optimization task of choosing the smoothest map from a given family of maps, which is motivated from motor control unit calibration. The problem is of a ...
Jan Poland, Kosmas Knödler, Alexander Mittere...