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WISE
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Scalable Instance Retrieval for the Semantic Web by Approximation
Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
Holger Wache, Perry Groot, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
ATMOS
2007
177views Optimization» more  ATMOS 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming for rail operations
Abstract. Approximate dynamic programming offers a new modeling and algorithmic strategy for complex problems such as rail operations. Problems in rail operations are often modeled...
Warren B. Powell, Belgacem Bouzaïene-Ayari
ALGORITHMICA
2004
150views more  ALGORITHMICA 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Sum Coloring of Bipartite Graphs with Bounded Degree
We consider the Chromatic Sum Problem on bipartite graphs which appears to be much harder than the classical Chromatic Number Problem. We prove that the Chromatic Sum Problem is NP...
Michal Malafiejski, Krzysztof Giaro, Robert Jancze...
NETWORKS
2007
14 years 9 months ago
Incremental flow
This paper defines an incremental version of the maximum flow problem. In this model, the capacities increase over time and the resulting solution is a sequence of flows that b...
Jeff Hartline, Alexa Sharp