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STOC
2006
ACM
166views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
New upper and lower bounds for randomized and quantum local search
Local Search problem, which finds a local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both practical and theoretical importance to combinatorial optimization, complexi...
Shengyu Zhang
STOC
2003
ACM
95views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
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Random knapsack in expected polynomial time
In this paper, we present the first average-case analysis proving an expected polynomial running time for an exact algorithm for the 0/1 knapsack problem. In particular, we prove,...
René Beier, Berthold Vöcking
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
92views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples
Random sampling is one of the most fundamental data management tools available. However, most current research involving sampling considers the problem of how to use a sample, and...
Chris Jermaine, Abhijit Pol, Subramanian Arumugam
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Distributed Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Random Access
— The aggregate capacity of wireless ad-hoc networks can be substantially increased if each wireless node is equipped with multiple network interface cards (NICs) and each NIC op...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent W. S. Wong
ICCSA
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Speculative Parallelization of a Randomized Incremental Convex Hull Algorithm
Finding the fastest algorithm to solve a problem is one of the main issues in Computational Geometry. Focusing only on worst case analysis or asymptotic computations leads to the d...
Marcelo H. Cintra, Diego R. Llanos Ferraris, Bel&e...