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2009
ACM
172views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Linear time approximation schemes for the Gale-Berlekamp game and related minimization problems
We design a linear time approximation scheme for the GaleBerlekamp Switching Game and generalize it to a wider class of dense fragile minimization problems including the Nearest C...
Marek Karpinski, Warren Schudy
PODS
2006
ACM
134views Database» more  PODS 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate quantiles and the order of the stream
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling uncertainty by distributions. Suppose we wish to compute a function of a stream whose elements are samples drawn independen...
Sudipto Guha, Andrew McGregor
KDD
2009
ACM
146views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Online allocation of display advertisements subject to advanced sales contracts
In this paper we propose a utility model that accounts for both sales and branding advertisers. We first study the computational complexity of optimization problems related to bo...
Saeed Alaei, Esteban Arcaute, Samir Khuller, Wenji...
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
PTAS for geometric hitting set problems via local search
We consider the problem of computing minimum geometric hitting sets in which, given a set of geometric objects and a set of points, the goal is to compute the smallest subset of p...
Nabil H. Mustafa, Saurabh Ray
CIKM
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Utilizing a geometry of context for enhanced implicit feedback
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
Massimo Melucci, Ryen W. White