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FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
TARK
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Sequential voting rules and multiple elections paradoxes
Multiple election paradoxes arise when voting separately on each issue from a set of related issues results in an obviously undesirable outcome. Several authors have argued that a...
Lirong Xia, Jérôme Lang, Mingsheng Yi...
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A general approach for cache-oblivious range reporting and approximate range counting
We present cache-oblivious solutions to two important variants of range searching: range reporting and approximate range counting. Our main contribution is a general approach for ...
Peyman Afshani, Chris H. Hamilton, Norbert Zeh
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SODA
2012
ACM
297views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 1 months ago
Constant factor approximation algorithm for the knapsack median problem
We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the following generalization of the k-median problem. We are given a set of clients and facilities in a metric space. Each fa...
Amit Kumar
SMI
2005
IEEE
138views Image Analysis» more  SMI 2005»
15 years 4 months ago
An Accurate Error Measure for Adaptive Subdivision Surfaces
A tight estimate on the maximum distance between a subdivision surface and its linear approximation is introduced to guide adaptive subdivision with guaranteed accuracy.
Xiaobin Wu, Jörg Peters