Sciweavers

3415 search results - page 554 / 683
» Lower bounds on kernelization
Sort
View
COCOON
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
On The Bahncard Problem
In this paper, we generalize the Ski-Rental Problem to the Bahncard Problem which is an online problem of practical relevance for all travelers. The Bahncard is a railway pass of t...
Rudolf Fleischer
STOC
1998
ACM
135views Algorithms» more  STOC 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Checking Polynomial Identities over any Field: Towards a Derandomization?
We present a Monte Carlo algorithm for testing multivariate polynomial identities over any field using fewer random bits than other methods. To test if a polynomial P(x1 ::: xn) ...
Daniel Lewin, Salil P. Vadhan
RANDOM
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
On-Line Bin-Stretching
We are given a sequence of items that can be packed into m unit size bins. In the classical bin packing problem we x the size of the bins and try to pack the items in the minimum ...
Yossi Azar, Oded Regev
IPPS
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Cyclic Networks: A Family of Versatile Fixed-Degree Interconnection Architectures
In this paper, we propose a new family of interconnection networks, called cyclic networks (CNs), in which an intercluster connection is defined on a set of nodes whose addresses...
Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Behrooz Parhami
PODC
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Load and Availability of Byzantine Quorum Systems
Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Avishai Wool