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STOC
2003
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Polylogarithmic inapproximability
Eran Halperin, Robert Krauthgamer
COCO
2008
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  COCO 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Approximation of Natural W[P]-Complete Minimisation Problems Is Hard
We prove that the weighted monotone circuit satisfiability problem has no fixed-parameter tractable approximation algorithm with constant or polylogarithmic approximation ratio un...
Kord Eickmeyer, Martin Grohe, Magdalena Grübe...
ESA
2007
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  ESA 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
On Minimum Power Connectivity Problems
Given a (directed or undirected) graph with edge costs, the power of a node is the maximum cost of an edge leaving it, and the power of the graph is the sum of the powers of its n...
Yuval Lando, Zeev Nutov
SODA
2008
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
On the approximability of influence in social networks
In this paper, we study the spread of influence through a social network, in a model initially studied by Kempe, Kleinberg and Tardos [14, 15]: We are given a graph modeling a soc...
Ning Chen
CORR
2008
Springer
114views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Algorithmic Pricing via Virtual Valuations
Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a ...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Robert Kleinberg