SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We consider server scheduling strategies to minimize average flow time in a multicast pull system where data items have uniform size. The algorithm Longest Wait First (LWF) always...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We define a deterministic metric of "well-behaved data" that enables searching along the lines of interpolation search. Specifically, define to be the ratio of distance...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We introduce a new data structuring paradigm in which operations can be performed on a data structure not only in the present but also in the past. In this new paradigm, called ret...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We solve an open problem posed by Eppstein in 1995 [14, 15] and re-enforced by Grohe [16, 17] concerning locally bounded treewidth in minor-closed families of graphs. A graph has ...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
Asian options are path-dependent derivatives. How to price them efficiently and accurately has been a longstanding research and practical problem. Asian options can be priced on t...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
Given an undirected graph, finding either a minimum 2-edge-connected spanning subgraph or a minimum 2vertex-connected (biconnected) spanning subgraph is MaxSNP-hard. We show that ...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We consider a classic multidimensional generalization of the bin packing problem, namely, packing d-dimensional rectangles into the minimum number of unit cubes. Our two results a...
SODA
2004
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM