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1998
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Spot-Checkers
On Labor Day weekend, the highway patrol sets up spot-checks at random points on the freeways with the intention of deterring a large fraction of motorists from driving incorrectl...
Funda Ergün, Sampath Kannan, Ravi Kumar, Roni...
STOC
2009
ACM
133views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Near-perfect load balancing by randomized rounding
We consider and analyze a new algorithm for balancing indivisible loads on a distributed network with n processors. The aim is minimizing the discrepancy between the maximum and m...
Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald
STOC
2006
ACM
116views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Linear degree extractors and the inapproximability of max clique and chromatic number
: We derandomize results of H?astad (1999) and Feige and Kilian (1998) and show that for all > 0, approximating MAX CLIQUE and CHROMATIC NUMBER to within n1are NP-hard. We furt...
David Zuckerman
STOC
1999
ACM
85views Algorithms» more  STOC 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
A Theorem on Sensitivity and Applications in Private Computation
In this paper we prove a theorem that gives an (almost) tight upper bound on the sensitivity of a multiple-output Boolean function in terms of the sensitivity of its coordinates an...
Anna Gál, Adi Rosén
SCP
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Linear-Time Hierarchies for a Functional Language Machine Model
In STOC 93, Jones sketched the existence of a hierarchy within problems decidable in linear time by a first-order functional language based on tree-structured data (F), as well a...
Eva Rose