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IAT
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
An Approximate Algorithm for Resource Allocation Using Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
Viswanath Avasarala, Himanshu Polavarapu, Tracy Mu...
FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithms for Hausdorff Metrics via Embeddings
Hausdorff metrics are used in geometric settings for measuring the distance between sets of points. They have been used extensively in areas such as computer vision, pattern recog...
Martin Farach-Colton, Piotr Indyk
ESA
2006
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Learning as search optimization: approximate large margin methods for structured prediction
Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., li...
Daniel Marcu, Hal Daumé III
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SIGMOD
2001
ACM
229views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries
The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vivek R. Narasayya