We present a very simple way of derandomizing the algorithm proposed by Gupta, Kumar and Roughgarden for Single Source Rent-or-Buy by using the method of conditional expectation. ...
Robust optimization has traditionally focused on uncertainty in data and costs in optimization problems to formulate models whose solutions will be optimal in the worstcase among ...
Kedar Dhamdhere, Vineet Goyal, R. Ravi, Mohit Sing...
Given a set P of n points in the plane, the two-circle point-labeling problem consists of placing 2n uniform, non-intersecting, maximum-size open circles such that each point touc...
We raise the question of approximating the compressibility of a string with respect to a fixed compression scheme, in sublinear time. We study this question in detail for two popu...
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dana Ron, Ronitt Rubinfeld, A...
This paper describes a method for optimizing the cost matrix of any approximate string matching algorithm based on the Levenshtein distance. The method, which uses genetic algorit...