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IJCAI
1993
14 years 11 months ago
A Tractable Class of Abduction Problems
literal: Let p be a proposition. Then p and -p are literals. clause: A clause is a disjunction of literals. Horn Clause: A Horn Clause is a clause in which there is at most one po...
Kave Eshghi
PODC
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Oblivious interference scheduling
In the interference scheduling problem, one is given a set of n communication requests described by pairs of points from a metric space. The points correspond to devices in a wire...
Alexander Fanghänel, Berthold Vöcking, H...
SODA
2010
ACM
185views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Solving MAX-r-SAT Above a Tight Lower Bound
We present an exact algorithm that decides, for every fixed r ≥ 2 in time O(m) + 2O(k2 ) whether a given multiset of m clauses of size r admits a truth assignment that satisfi...
Noga Alon, Gregory Gutin, Eun Jung Kim, Stefan Sze...
SODA
2010
ACM
214views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Amplified Hardness of Approximation for VCG-Based Mechanisms
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
Shaddin Dughmi, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
IPPS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Combining multiple heuristics on discrete resources
—In this work we study the portfolio problem which is to find a good combination of multiple heuristics to solve given instances on parallel resources in minimum time. The resou...
Marin Bougeret, Pierre-François Dutot, Alfr...