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VLDB
2002
ACM
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16 years 5 months ago
A formal perspective on the view selection problem
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
Rada Chirkova, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu
CRYPTO
2009
Springer
154views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2009»
16 years 6 days ago
On Bounded Distance Decoding, Unique Shortest Vectors, and the Minimum Distance Problem
We prove the equivalence, up to a small polynomial approximation factor n/ log n, of the lattice problems uSVP (unique Shortest Vector Problem), BDD (Bounded Distance Decoding) and...
Vadim Lyubashevsky, Daniele Micciancio
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Donation Center Location Problem
We introduce and study the donation center location problem, which has an additional application in network testing and may also be of independent interest as a general graph-theor...
Chien-Chung Huang, Zoya Svitkina
GECCO
2007
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 11 months ago
On solving hierarchical problems with top down control
We review recent work on the Hierarchical-If-And-Only-If problem and present a new hierarchical problem, HIFF-M that does not fit with previous explanations for evolutionary diffi...
Susan Khor
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COCOON
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Oblivious and Adaptive Strategies for the Majority and Plurality Problems
In the well-studied Majority problem, we are given a set of n balls colored with two or more colors, and the goal is to use the minimum number of color comparisons to find a ball ...
Fan R. K. Chung, Ronald L. Graham, Jia Mao, Andrew...