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ECCC
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Randomized Approximation Schemes for Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines
We consider the problem of Scheduling n Independent Jobs on m Unrelated Parallel Machines, when the number of machines m is xed. We address the standard problem of minimizing the ...
Pavlos Efraimidis, Paul G. Spirakis
SODA
2004
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Approximation schemes for Metric Bisection and partitioning
We design polynomial time approximation schemes (PTASs) for Metric BISECTION, i.e. dividing a given finite metric space into two halves so as to minimize or maximize the sum of di...
Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega, Marek Karpinski, C...
WADS
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Near-Optimal Pricing in Near-Linear Time
We present efficient approximation algorithms for a number of problems that call for computing the prices that maximize the revenue of the seller on a set of items. Algorithms for ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vladlen Koltun
FOCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Optimality of Planar and Geometric Approximation Schemes
We show for several planar and geometric problems that the best known approximation schemes are essentially optimal with respect to the dependence on ǫ. For example, we show that...
Dániel Marx
STOC
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Linear time approximation schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp game and related minimization problems
We design a linear time approximation scheme for the GaleBerlekamp Switching Game and generalize it to a wider class of dense fragile minimization problems including the Nearest C...
Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy