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PODS
2010
ACM
232views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Optimal sampling from distributed streams
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
DAGSTUHL
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Logical Particle Filtering
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of filtering in relational hidden Markov models. We present a compact representation for such models and an associated logical par...
Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Hanna M. Pasula, Leslie Pack ...
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
COCO
2005
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case Then It is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma
CPAIOR
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Optimal Interdiction of Unreactive Markovian Evaders
The interdiction problem arises in a variety of areas including military logistics, infectious disease control, and counter-terrorism. In the typical formulation of network interdi...
Alexander Gutfraind, Aric A. Hagberg, Feng Pan