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PODC
2005
ACM
15 years 4 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 5 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 5 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
15 years 20 days 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 11 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...