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FCT
2005
Springer
16 years 8 days ago
The Maximum Resource Bin Packing Problem
Usually, for bin packing problems, we try to minimize the number of bins used or in the case of the dual bin packing problem, maximize the number or total size of accepted items. ...
Joan Boyar, Leah Epstein, Lene M. Favrholdt, Jens ...
STACS
2005
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Algorithmics in Exponential Time
Exponential algorithms, i.e. algorithms of complexity O(cn ) for some c > 1, seem to be unavoidable in the case of NP-complete problems (unless P=NP), especially if the problem ...
Uwe Schöning
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGMOD
1994
ACM
106views Database» more  SIGMOD 1994»
15 years 10 months ago
Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins
Spatial joins are one of the most important operations for combining spatial objects of several relations. In this paper, spatial join processing is studied in detail for extended...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Disjoint Paths in Densely Embedded Graphs
We consider the following maximum disjoint paths problem (mdpp). We are given a large network, and pairs of nodes that wish to communicate over paths through the network — the g...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Éva Tardos