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2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
On the Impossibility of Obfuscation with Auxiliary Input
Barak et al. formalized the notion of obfuscation, and showed that there exist (contrived) classes of functions that cannot be obfuscated. In contrast, Canetti and Wee showed how ...
Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Tauman Kalai
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Towards a Final Analysis of Pairing Heaps
Fredman, Sedgewick, Sleator, and Tarjan proposed the pairing heap as a self-adjusting, streamlined version of the Fibonacci heap. It provably supports all priority queue operation...
Seth Pettie
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Sampling-based Approximation Algorithms for Multi-stage Stochastic
Stochastic optimization problems provide a means to model uncertainty in the input data where the uncertainty is modeled by a probability distribution over the possible realizatio...
Chaitanya Swamy, David B. Shmoys
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Beyond VCG: Frugality of Truthful Mechanisms
We study truthful mechanisms for auctions in which the auctioneer is trying to hire a team of agents to perform a complex task, and paying them for their work. As common in the ï¬...
Anna R. Karlin, David Kempe, Tami Tamir
FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Safraless Decision Procedures
The automata-theoretic approach is one of the most fundamental approaches to developing decision procedures in mathematical logics. To decide whether a formula in a logic with the...
Orna Kupferman, Moshe Y. Vardi