ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Lower envelopes are fundamental structures in computational geometry, which have many applications, such as computing general Voronoi diagrams and performing hidden surface removal...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The objective of this paper is to characterize classes of problems for which a greedy algorithm finds solutions provably close to optimum. To that end, we introduce the notion of k...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Social networks are navigable small worlds, in which two arbitrary people are likely connected by a short path of intermediate friends that can be found by a "decent...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
An instance of the generalized partial cover problem consists of a ground set U and a family of subsets S 2U . Each element e U is associated with a profit p(e), whereas each su...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
A standard technique from the hashing literature is to use two hash functions h1(x) and h2(x) to simulate additional hash functions of the form gi(x) = h1(x) + ih2(x). We demonstra...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
We show that enumerating all minimal spanning and connected subsets of a given matroid is quasi-polynomially equivalent to the well-known hypergraph transversal problem, and thus ...
ESA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. This paper addresses strategies for the stable marriage problem. For the Gale-Shapley algorithm with men proposing, a classical theorem states that it is impossible for e...