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JACM
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Benny Chor, Tamir Tuller
ICALP
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
On the Limitations of Greedy Mechanism Design for Truthful Combinatorial Auctions
We study the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which m objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special ca...
Allan Borodin, Brendan Lucier
ISAAC
2010
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
On Tractable Cases of Target Set Selection
We study the NP-complete TARGET SET SELECTION (TSS) problem occurring in social network analysis. Complementing results on its approximability and extending results for its restric...
André Nichterlein, Rolf Niedermeier, Johann...
PREMI
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Geometric Decision Rules for Instance-Based Learning Problems
In the typical nonparametric approach to classification in instance-based learning and data mining, random data (the training set of patterns) are collected and used to design a d...
Binay K. Bhattacharya, Kaustav Mukherjee, Godfried...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Relay Node Placement in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
— Existing work on placing additional relay nodes in wireless sensor networks to improve network connectivity typically assumes homogeneous wireless sensor nodes with an identica...
Xiaofeng Han, Xiang Cao, Errol L. Lloyd, Chien-Chu...