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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
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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Fast and Approximate Stream Mining of Quantiles and Frequencies Using Graphics Processors
We present algorithms for fast quantile and frequency estimation in large data streams using graphics processor units (GPUs). We exploit the high computational power and memory ba...
Naga K. Govindaraju, Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Dinesh Ma...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP
In this paper we consider the following maximum budgeted allocation (MBA) problem: Given a set of m indivisible items and n agents; each agent i willing to pay bij on item j and w...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel
ALMOB
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
The approximability of the String Barcoding problem
The String Barcoding (SBC) problem, introduced by Rash and Gusfield (RECOMB, 2002), consists in finding a minimum set of substrings that can be used to distinguish between all mem...
Giuseppe Lancia, Romeo Rizzi
ANOR
2004
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14 years 9 months ago
Approximations and Randomization to Boost CSP Techniques
Abstract. In recent years we have seen an increasing interest in combining constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) formulations and linear programming (LP) based techniques for solvi...
Carla P. Gomes, David B. Shmoys