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SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
CDC
2009
IEEE
168views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
15 years 2 months ago
Content distribution by multiple multicast trees and intersession cooperation: Optimal algorithms and approximations
—The paper addresses the problem of massive content distribution in the network where multiple sessions coexist. In the traditional approaches, the sessions form separate overlay...
Xiaoying Zheng, Chunglae Cho, Ye Xia
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TPDS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Data Gathering with Tunable Compression in Sensor Networks
We study the problem of constructing a data gathering tree over a wireless sensor network in order to minimize the total energy for compressing and transporting information from a ...
Yang Yu, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Viktor K. Prasann...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Approximating the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem
Abstract. In the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem, commodities must be routed simultaneously from a common source vertex to certain destination vertices in a given ...
Martin Skutella
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Symmetry and Approximability of Submodular Maximization Problems
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
Jan Vondrák