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PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays
A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Degree Bounded Network Design with Metric Costs
Given a complete undirected graph, a cost function on edges and a degree bound B, the degree bounded network design problem is to find a minimum cost simple subgraph with maximum...
Yuk Hei Chan, Wai Shing Fung, Lap Chi Lau, Chun Ko...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
203views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Energy Saving Target Tracking Using Mobile Sensor Networks
Abstract Minimizing the energy consumption of target tracking using a mobile sensor network is proved to be NPcomplete. Based on proximity graph, an approximately optimal solution ...
Yingying Li, Yun-Hui Liu
CCCG
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Competitive Search for Longest Empty Intervals
A problem arising in statistical data analysis and pattern recognition is to find a longest interval free of data points, given a set of data points in the unit interval. We use t...
Peter Damaschke
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...