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ESA
2008
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
A Characterization of 2-Player Mechanisms for Scheduling
We study the mechanism design problem of scheduling unrelated machines and we completely characterize the decisive truthful mechanisms for two players when the domain contains bot...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Angelina ...
WEA
2005
Springer
100views Algorithms» more  WEA 2005»
16 years 21 days ago
Rounding to an Integral Program
We present a general framework for approximating several NP-hard problems that have two underlying properties in common. First, the problems we consider can be formulated as intege...
Refael Hassin, Danny Segev
FOCM
2008
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15 years 7 months ago
On Smale's 17th Problem: A Probabilistic Positive Solution
Smale's 17th Problem asks "Can a zero of n complex polynomial equations in n unknowns be found approximately, on the average [for a suitable probability measure on the s...
Carlos Beltrán, Luis Miguel Pardo
TCOM
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of the distance spectrum of variable-length finite-state codes
The class of variable-length finite-state joint source-channel codes is defined and a polynomial complexity algorithm for the evaluation of their distance spectrum presented. Issu...
Claudio Weidmann, Michel Kieffer
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SODA
2010
ACM
197views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Quasirandom Load Balancing
We propose a simple distributed algorithm for balancing indivisible tokens on graphs. The algorithm is completely deterministic, though it tries to imitate (and enhance) a random ...
Tobias Friedrich, Martin Gairing, Thomas Sauerwald