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AAAI
2010
15 years 20 days ago
Approximation Algorithms and Mechanism Design for Minimax Approval Voting
We consider approval voting elections in which each voter votes for a (possibly empty) set of candidates and the outcome consists of a set of k candidates for some parameter k, e....
Ioannis Caragiannis, Dimitris Kalaitzis, Evangelos...
CCS
1998
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Authenticated Group Key Agreement and Friends
Many modern computing environments involve dynamic peer groups. Distributed simulation, multi-user games, conferencing and replicated servers are just a few examples. Given the op...
Giuseppe Ateniese, Michael Steiner, Gene Tsudik
SIAMCOMP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
The Chow Parameters Problem
Abstract. In the 2nd Annual FOCS (1961), Chao-Kong Chow proved that every Boolean threshold function is uniquely determined by its degree-0 and degree-1 Fourier coefficients. These...
Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
PODC
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Local approximation schemes for topology control
This paper presents a distributed algorithm for wireless adhoc networks that runs in polylogarithmic number of rounds in the size of the network and constructs a lightweight, line...
Mirela Damian, Saurav Pandit, Sriram V. Pemmaraju
SECON
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Coverage Problem for Sensors Embedded in Temperature Sensitive Environments
— The coverage and connectivity problem in sensor networks has received significant attention of the research community in the recent years. In this paper, we study this problem...
Arunabha Sen, Nibedita Das, Ling Zhou, Bao Hong Sh...