We consider the problem of minimizing average flow time on multiple machines when each job can be assigned only to a specified subset of the machines. This is a special case of sc...
Given an undirected graph G = (V;E) and three speci ed terminal nodes t1;t2;t3, a 3-cut is a subset A of E such that no two terminals are in the same component of GnA. If a non-neg...
Kevin K. H. Cheung, William H. Cunningham, Lawrenc...
—Dual descent methods are commonly used to solve network optimization problems because their implementation can be distributed through the network. However, their convergence rat...
Michael Zargham, A. Ribeiro, Ali Jadbabaie, Asuman...
We consider the design of strategyproof cost-sharing mechanisms. We give two simple, but extremely versatile, black-box reductions, that in combination reduce the cost-sharing mec...
In this paper we design an iterative rounding approach for the classic prize-collecting Steiner forest problem and more generally the prize-collecting survivable Steiner network de...