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SODA
2008
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Analysis of greedy approximations with nonsubmodular potential functions
In this paper, we present two techniques to analyze greedy approximation with nonsubmodular functions restricted submodularity and shifted submodularity. As an application of the ...
Ding-Zhu Du, Ronald L. Graham, Panos M. Pardalos, ...
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...
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Deploying Mesh Nodes under Non-Uniform Propagation
Abstract—Wireless mesh networks are popular as a costeffective means to provide broadband connectivity to large user populations. A mesh network placement provides coverage, such...
Joshua Robinson, Mohit Singh, Ram Swaminathan, Edw...
APPROX
2004
Springer
119views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design
We consider a single-source network design problem from a game-theoretic perspective. Gupta, Kumar and Roughgarden (Proc. 35th Annual ACM STOC, pages 365–372, 2003) developed a ...
Anupam Gupta, Aravind Srinivasan, Éva Tardo...