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IPPS
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Tight Bounds for Wavelength Assignment on Trees of Rings
: A fundamental problem in communication networks is wavelength assignment (WA): given a set of routing paths on a network, assign a wavelength to each path such that the paths wit...
Zhengbing Bian, Qian-Ping Gu, Xiao Zhou
IPCO
2004
144views Optimization» more  IPCO 2004»
13 years 6 months ago
Hedging Uncertainty: Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization Problems
Abstract. We study two-stage, finite-scenario stochastic versions of several combinatorial optimization problems, and provide nearly tight approximation algorithms for them. Our pr...
R. Ravi, Amitabh Sinha
COR
2006
122views more  COR 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Experimental Analysis of Approximation Algorithms for the Vertex Cover and Set Covering Problems
Several approximation algorithms with proven performance guarantees have been proposed to find approximate solutions to classical combinatorial optimization problems. However, the...
Fernando C. Gomes, Cláudio Nogueira de Mene...
PODS
2007
ACM
203views Database» more  PODS 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Decision trees for entity identification: approximation algorithms and hardness results
We consider the problem of constructing decision trees for entity identification from a given relational table. The input is a table containing information about a set of entities...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...
TIT
2008
122views more  TIT 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Identifying Codes and Covering Problems
The identifying code problem for a given graph involves finding a minimum set of vertices whose neighborhoods uniquely overlap at any given graph vertex. Initially introduced in 1...
Moshe Laifenfeld, Ari Trachtenberg