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SPAA
2004
ACM
16 years 1 days ago
Lower bounds for graph embeddings and combinatorial preconditioners
Given a general graph G, a fundamental problem is to find a spanning tree H that best approximates G by some measure. Often this measure is some combination of the congestion and...
Gary L. Miller, Peter C. Richter
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
155views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Tight information-theoretic lower bounds for welfare maximization in combinatorial auctions
We provide tight information-theoretic lower bounds for the welfare maximization problem in combinatorial auctions. In this problem, the goal is to partition m items among k bidde...
Vahab S. Mirrokni, Michael Schapira, Jan Vondr&aac...
ICDT
2009
ACM
150views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Optimizing user views for workflows
A technique called user views has recently been proposed to focus user attention on relevant information in response to provenance queries over workflow executions [1, 2]: Given u...
Olivier Biton, Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, ...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
198views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Addressing diverse user preferences in SQL-query-result navigation
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Zhiyuan Chen, Tao Li
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Scalable location services for hierarchically organized mobile ad hoc networks
This paper proposes a location service to assist location-based routing protocols, realized through a novel Associativity-Based clustering protocol. The main goal of our scheme, w...
Siva Sivavakeesar, George Pavlou