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EDBT
2009
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Estimating aggregates in time-constrained approximate queries in Oracle
The concept of time-constrained SQL queries was introduced to address the problem of long-running SQL queries. A key approach adopted for supporting time-constrained SQL queries i...
Ying Hu, Seema Sundara, Jagannathan Srinivasan
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SIROCCO
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Computing Approximate Nash Equilibria in Network Congestion Games
We consider the problem of computing -approximate Nash equilibria in network congestion games. The general problem is known to be PLS-complete for every > 0, but the reductions...
Andreas Emil Feldmann, Heiko Röglin, Berthold...
128
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EUROPAR
2010
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Fast 5/2-Approximation Algorithm for Hierarchical Scheduling
We present in this article a new approximation algorithm for scheduling a set of n independent rigid (meaning requiring a fixed number of processors) jobs on hierarchical parallel ...
Marin Bougeret, Pierre-François Dutot, Klau...
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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Maintaining Approximate Minimum Steiner Tree and k-center for Mobile Agents in a Sensor Network
Abstract--We study the problem of maintaining group communication between m mobile agents, tracked and helped by n static networked sensors. We develop algorithms to maintain a O(l...
Dengpan Zhou, Jie Gao
ICAI
2009
15 years 1 months ago
On the Construction of Initial Basis Function for Efficient Value Function Approximation
- We address the issues of improving the feature generation methods for the value-function approximation and the state space approximation. We focus the improvement of feature gene...
Chung-Cheng Chiu, Kuan-Ta Chen