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FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
How to Pay, Come What May: Approximation Algorithms for Demand-Robust Covering Problems
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
COMGEO
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Approximation algorithm for the kinetic robust K-center problem
Clustering is an important problem and has numerous applications. In this paper we consider an important clustering problem, called the k-center problem. We are given a discrete p...
Sorelle A. Friedler, David M. Mount
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STOC
2003
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Approximation schemes for clustering problems
We present a general approach for designing approximation algorithms for a fundamental class of geometric clustering problems in arbitrary dimensions. More specifically, our appro...
Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega, Marek Karpinski, C...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Design and implementation of an "approximate" communication system for wireless media applications
All practical wireless communication systems are prone to errors. At the symbol level such wireless errors have a well-defined structure: when a receiver decodes a symbol erroneou...
Sayandeep Sen, Syed Gilani, Shreesha Srinath, Step...
AI
2011
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Approximation of action theories and its application to conformant planning
This paper describes our methodology for building conformant planners, which is based on recent advances in the theory of action and change and answer set programming. The develop...
Phan Huy Tu, Tran Cao Son, Michael Gelfond, A. Ric...