We show that a popular variant of the well known k-d tree data structure satisfies an important packing lemma. This variant is a binary spatial partitioning tree T defined on a set...
Matthew Dickerson, Christian A. Duncan, Michael T....
Abstract— The paper investigates theoretical issues in applying the universal swarming technique to efficient content distribution. In a swarming session, a file is distributed...
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Recent years have seen a significant increase in our understanding of high-dimensional nearest neighbor search (NNS) for distances like the 1 and 2 norms. By contrast, our underst...
Virtual Private Network Design is the following NP-hard problem. We are given a communication network, represented as a weighted graph with thresholds on the nodes which represent...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo...