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COMPGEOM
2005
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Learning smooth objects by probing
We consider the problem of discovering a smooth unknown surface S bounding an object O in R3 . The discovery process consists of moving a point probing device in the free space ar...
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Leonidas J. Guibas, Steve ...
DCOSS
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Local PTAS for Independent Set and Vertex Cover in Location Aware Unit Disk Graphs
We present the first local approximation schemes for maximum independent set and minimum vertex cover in unit disk graphs. In the graph model we assume that each node knows its geo...
Andreas Wiese, Evangelos Kranakis
ESA
2008
Springer
195views Algorithms» more  ESA 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A Characterization of 2-Player Mechanisms for Scheduling
We study the mechanism design problem of scheduling unrelated machines and we completely characterize the decisive truthful mechanisms for two players when the domain contains bot...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Angelina ...
NIPS
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Theoretical Analysis of Heuristic Search Methods for Online POMDPs
Planning in partially observable environments remains a challenging problem, despite significant recent advances in offline approximation techniques. A few online methods have a...
Stéphane Ross, Joelle Pineau, Brahim Chaib-...
SODA
2008
ACM
86views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
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Parallel monotonicity reconstruction
We investigate the problem of monotonicity reconstruction, as defined in [3], in a parallel setting. We have oracle access to a nonnegative real-valued function f defined on domai...
Michael E. Saks, C. Seshadhri