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TALG
2008
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Limitations of cross-monotonic cost-sharing schemes
A cost-sharing scheme is a set of rules defining how to share the cost of a service (often computed by solving a combinatorial optimization problem) amongst serviced customers. A ...
Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S. Mirro...
TALG
2008
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Compact dictionaries for variable-length keys and data with applications
Daniel K. Blandford, Guy E. Blelloch
TALG
2008
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Embeddings of negative-type metrics and an improved approximation to generalized sparsest cut
In this paper, we study the metrics of negative type, which are metrics (V, d) such that d is an Euclidean metric; these metrics are thus also known as " 2-squared" met...
Shuchi Chawla, Anupam Gupta, Harald Räcke
TALG
2008
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Uniform deterministic dictionaries
Abstract. We present a new analysis of the well-known family of multiplicative hash functions, and improved deterministic algorithms for selecting "good" hash functions. ...
Milan Ruzic
TALG
2008
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Thin heaps, thick heaps
The Fibonacci heap was devised to provide an especially efficient implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. Although asyptotically efficient, it is not as fast in...
Haim Kaplan, Robert Endre Tarjan
TALG
2008
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Improved bounds for scheduling conflicting jobs with minsum criteria
Rajiv Gandhi, Magnús M. Halldórsson,...