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ISAAC
2010
Springer
226views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
On Tractable Cases of Target Set Selection
We study the NP-complete TARGET SET SELECTION (TSS) problem occurring in social network analysis. Complementing results on its approximability and extending results for its restric...
André Nichterlein, Rolf Niedermeier, Johann...
IS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
The complexity and approximation of fixing numerical attributes in databases under integrity constraints
Consistent query answering is the problem of characterizing and computing the semantically correct answers to queries from a database that may not satisfy certain integrity constr...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Feasible Rate Allocation in Wireless Networks
—Rate allocation is a fundamental problem in the operation of a wireless network because of the necessity to schedule the operation of mutually interfering links between the node...
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah, R...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
137views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
An exact almost optimal algorithm for target set selection in social networks
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...