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FAW
2008
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  FAW 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
The Parameterized Complexity of the Rectangle Stabbing Problem and Its Variants
We study the parameterized complexity of an NP-complete geometric covering problem called d-dimensional Rectangle Stabbing where we are given a set of axis-parallel d-dimensional h...
Michael Dom, Somnath Sikdar
GECCO
2004
Springer
122views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Gradient-Based Learning Updates Improve XCS Performance in Multistep Problems
This paper introduces a gradient-based reward prediction update mechanism to the XCS classifier system as applied in neuralnetwork type learning and function approximation mechani...
Martin V. Butz, David E. Goldberg, Pier Luca Lanzi
JACM
1998
88views more  JACM 1998»
14 years 9 months ago
A Threshold of ln n for Approximating Set Cover
Given a collection Ᏺ of subsets of S ϭ {1, . . . , n}, set cover is the problem of selecting as few as possible subsets from Ᏺ such that their union covers S, and max k-cover ...
Uriel Feige
FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Approximate Min-Max Theorems of Steiner Rooted-Orientations of Hypergraphs
Given an undirected hypergraph and a subset of vertices S ⊆ V with a specified root vertex r ∈ S, the STEINER ROOTED-ORIENTATION problem is to find an orientation of all the...
Tamás Király, Lap Chi Lau
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Donation Center Location Problem
We introduce and study the donation center location problem, which has an additional application in network testing and may also be of independent interest as a general graph-theor...
Chien-Chung Huang, Zoya Svitkina