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AC
2003
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Concentration Inequalities
Concentration inequalities deal with deviations of functions of independent random variables from their expectation. In the last decade new tools have been introduced making it pos...
Stéphane Boucheron, Gábor Lugosi, Ol...
STACS
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Almost-Uniform Sampling of Points on High-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties
We consider the problem of uniform sampling of points on an algebraic variety. Specifically, we develop a randomized algorithm that, given a small set of multivariate polynomials ...
Mahdi Cheraghchi, Amin Shokrollahi
COCOON
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Packing Two Disks into a Polygonal Environment
: We consider the following problem. Given a polygon P, possibly with holes, and having n vertices, compute a pair of equal radius disks that do not intersect each other, are conta...
Prosenjit Bose, Pat Morin, Antoine Vigneron
RANDOM
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On the Equivalence between the Primal-Dual Schema and the Local-Ratio Technique
We discuss two approximation approaches, the primal-dual schema and the local-ratio technique. We present two relatively simple frameworks, one for each approach, which extend know...
Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Dror Rawitz
SPAA
1992
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Matching the Bisection Bound for Routing and Sorting on the Mesh
d abstract) Michael Kaufmann Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Jop F. Sibeyn In this paper we present randomized algorithms for kk routing, k-k sorting, and cut through routing on the mesh ...
Michael Kaufmann, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Jop F. ...