In this paper we develop a methodology for defining stopping rules in a general class of global random search algorithms that are based on the use of statistical procedures. To bu...
Abstract. The vertex cover problem is a classical NP-complete problem for which the best worst-case approximation ratio is 2− o(1). In this paper, we use a collection of simple g...
In this paper, we first show that many independent pseudorandom permutations over {0, 1}n can be obtained from a single public random permutation and secret n bits. We next prove ...
—We study the distributed desynchronization problem for graphs with arbitrary topology. Motivated by the severe computational limitations of sensor networks, we present a randomi...
Arik Motskin, Tim Roughgarden, Primoz Skraba, Leon...
We describe a simple random-sampling based procedure for producing sparse matrix approximations. Our procedure and analysis are extremely simple: the analysis uses nothing more th...