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PODC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Distributed and parallel algorithms for weighted vertex cover and other covering problems
The paper presents distributed and parallel -approximation algorithms for covering problems, where is the maximum number of variables on which any constraint depends (for example...
Christos Koufogiannakis, Neal E. Young
STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Near-optimal algorithms for unique games
Unique games are constraint satisfaction problems that can be viewed as a generalization of Max-Cut to a larger domain size. The Unique Games Conjecture states that it is hard to ...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
RTAS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Execution Strategies for PTIDES, a Programming Model for Distributed Embedded Systems
—We define a family of execution policies for a programming model called PTIDES (Programming Temporally Integrated Distributed Embedded Systems). A PTIDES application (factory a...
Jia Zou, Slobodan Matic, Edward A. Lee, Thomas Hui...
IROS
2009
IEEE
146views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Robust constraint-consistent learning
— Many everyday human skills can be framed in terms of performing some task subject to constraints imposed by the environment. Constraints are usually unobservable and frequently...
Matthew Howard, Stefan Klanke, Michael Gienger, Ch...