We study the problem of covering a set of points or polyhedra in 3 with two axis-aligned boxes in order to minimize a function of the measures of the two boxes, such as the sum or...
Esther M. Arkin, Gill Barequet, Joseph S. B. Mitch...
The Enhanced Pay-Per-View (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media services associates with each continuous-media clip a display frequency that depends on the clip's popula...
Desynchronization is a novel primitive for sensor networks: it implies that nodes perfectly interleave periodic events to occur in a round-robin schedule. This primitive can be us...
Julius Degesys, Ian Rose, Ankit Patel, Radhika Nag...
The IBM Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a multicore processor with a PowerPC host processor (PPE) and 8 synergic processor engines (SPEs). The Cell BE architecture is designed to im...
Tamer F. Rabie, Hashir Karim Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai
We consider the problem of choosing, sequentially, a map which assigns elements of a set A to a few elements of a set B. On each round, the algorithm suffers some cost associated ...
Alexander Rakhlin, Jacob Abernethy, Peter L. Bartl...