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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
New Approaches for Virtual Private Network Design
Virtual Private Network Design is the following NP-hard problem. We are given a communication network, represented as a weighted graph with thresholds on the nodes which represent...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo...
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ACMICEC
2004
ACM
162views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Balanced matching of buyers and sellers in e-marketplaces: the barter trade exchange model
In this paper, we describe the operation of barter trade exchanges by identifying key techniques used by trade brokers to stimulate trade and satisfy member needs, and present alg...
Peter Haddawy, Namthip Rujikeadkumjorn, Khaimook D...
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GECCO
2004
Springer
134views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Combining a Memetic Algorithm with Integer Programming to Solve the Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem
The prize-collecting Steiner tree problem on a graph with edge costs and vertex profits asks for a subtree minimizing the sum of the total cost of all edges in the subtree plus th...
Gunnar W. Klau, Ivana Ljubic, Andreas Moser, Petra...
STOC
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An Improved LP-based Approximation for Steiner Tree
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
ERCIMDL
2001
Springer
205views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2001»
15 years 2 months ago
Building and Indexing a Distributed Multimedia Presentation Archive Using SMIL
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
Jane Hunter, Suzanne Little