SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two equalsize sets of points in Rd is defined to be the minimum cost of a bipartite matching between the two pointsets. It is a natural metr...
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
A data structure is presented for point location in convex planar subdivisions when the distribution of queries is known in advance. The data structure has an expected query time t...
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
In this paper we consider problems related to the sortedness of a data stream. First we investigate the problem of estimating the distance to monotonicity; given a sequence of len...
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
In the past decades the Gn,p model of random graphs, introduced by Erdos and R
SODA
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We address the extension of the binary search technique from sorted arrays and totally ordered sets to trees and tree-like partially ordered sets. As in the sorted array case, the...