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APPROX
2011
Springer
234views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2011»
13 years 9 months ago
Streaming Algorithms with One-Sided Estimation
Abstract. We study the space complexity of randomized streaming algorithms that provide one-sided approximation guarantees; e.g., the algorithm always returns an overestimate of th...
Joshua Brody, David P. Woodruff
COMPGEOM
1998
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Rotational Polygon Containment and Minimum Enclosure
An algorithm and a robust floating point implementation is given for rotational polygon containment: given polygons P1,P2,P3,...,Pk and a container polygon C, find rotations and...
Victor Milenkovic
VC
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Solving nonlinear polynomial systems in the barycentric Bernstein basis
We present a method for solving arbitrary systems of N nonlinear polynomials in n variables over an n-dimensional simplicial domain based on polynomial representation in the baryce...
Martin Reuter, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Evan C. Sherbr...
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Max registers, counters, and monotone circuits
A method is given for constructing a max register, a linearizable, wait-free concurrent data structure that supports a write operation and a read operation that returns the larges...
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra