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FAW
2008
Springer
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The Parameterized Complexity of the Rectangle Stabbing Problem and Its Variants
We study the parameterized complexity of an NP-complete geometric covering problem called d-dimensional Rectangle Stabbing where we are given a set of axis-parallel d-dimensional h...
Michael Dom, Somnath Sikdar
NIPS
2008
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Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
We study the profit-maximization problem of a monopolistic market-maker who sets two-sided prices in an asset market. The sequential decision problem is hard to solve because the ...
Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
CGVR
2006
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Real-time Computation of Area Shadows - A Geometrical Algorithm
The computation of soft shadows created by area light sources is a well-known problem in computer graphics. Due to the complexity of the problem, soft shadows commonly are generat...
Michael Boehl, Wolfgang Stürzlinger
UAI
1998
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The Bayesian Structural EM Algorithm
In recent years there has been a flurry of works on learning Bayesian networks from data. One of the hard problems in this area is how to effectively learn the structure of a beli...
Nir Friedman
DAM
2008
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Edge ranking and searching in partial orders
: We consider a problem of searching an element in a partially ordered set (poset). The goal is to find a search strategy which minimizes the number of comparisons. Ben-Asher, Farc...
Dariusz Dereniowski