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1998
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Spot-Checkers
On Labor Day weekend, the highway patrol sets up spot-checks at random points on the freeways with the intention of deterring a large fraction of motorists from driving incorrectl...
Funda Ergün, Sampath Kannan, Ravi Kumar, Roni...
STOC
2009
ACM
133views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Near-perfect load balancing by randomized rounding
We consider and analyze a new algorithm for balancing indivisible loads on a distributed network with n processors. The aim is minimizing the discrepancy between the maximum and m...
Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald
STOC
2006
ACM
116views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Linear degree extractors and the inapproximability of max clique and chromatic number
: We derandomize results of H?astad (1999) and Feige and Kilian (1998) and show that for all > 0, approximating MAX CLIQUE and CHROMATIC NUMBER to within n1are NP-hard. We furt...
David Zuckerman
STOC
1999
ACM
85views Algorithms» more  STOC 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
A Theorem on Sensitivity and Applications in Private Computation
In this paper we prove a theorem that gives an (almost) tight upper bound on the sensitivity of a multiple-output Boolean function in terms of the sensitivity of its coordinates an...
Anna Gál, Adi Rosén
SCP
1998
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14 years 9 months ago
Linear-Time Hierarchies for a Functional Language Machine Model
In STOC 93, Jones sketched the existence of a hierarchy within problems decidable in linear time by a first-order functional language based on tree-structured data (F), as well a...
Eva Rose