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FOCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Hierarchical Placement and Network Design Problems
In this paper, we give the first constant-approximations for a number of layered network design problems. We begin by modeling hierarchical caching, where caches are placed in la...
Sudipto Guha, Adam Meyerson, Kamesh Munagala
ALGORITHMICA
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Scalable Parallel Algorithms for FPT Problems
Algorithmic methods based on the theory of fixed-parameter tractability are combined with powerful computational platforms to launch systematic attacks on combinatorial problems o...
Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Michael A. Langston, Pushkar ...
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Combinatorial Problems with Discounted Price Functions in Multi-agent Systems
ABSTRACT. Motivated by economic thought, a recent research agenda has suggested the algorithmic study of combinatorial optimization problems under functions which satisfy the prope...
Gagan Goel, Pushkar Tripathi, Lei Wang
CSCLP
2007
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Combining Two Structured Domains for Modeling Various Graph Matching Problems
Abstract. Graph pattern matching is a central application in many fields. In various areas, the structure of the pattern can only be approximated and exact matching is then too ac...
Yves Deville, Grégoire Dooms, Stépha...