Background: Exhaustive methods of sequence alignment are accurate but slow, whereas heuristic approaches run quickly, but their complexity makes them more difficult to implement. ...
Tracking humans in an indoor environment is an essential part of surveillance systems. Vision based and microphone array based trackers have been extensively researched in the pas...
Shankar T. Shivappa, Mohan M. Trivedi, Bhaskar D. ...
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
Space constrained optimization problems arise in a multitude of important applications such as data warehouses and pervasive computing. A typical instance of such problems is to s...
Themistoklis Palpanas, Nick Koudas, Alberto O. Men...
We study the problem of auditing databases which support statistical sum queries to protect the security of sensitive information; we focus on the special case in which the sensit...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Prabh...