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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
156views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Robust mechanisms for risk-averse sellers
The existing literature on optimal auctions focuses on optimizing the expected revenue of the seller, and is appropriate for risk-neutral sellers. In this paper, we identify good ...
Mukund Sundararajan, Qiqi Yan
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On the Inapproximability of Vertex Cover on k-Partite k-Uniform Hypergraphs
Computing a minimum vertex cover in graphs and hypergraphs is a well-studied optimizaton problem. While intractable in general, it is well known that on bipartite graphs, vertex c...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rishi Saket
AIRWEB
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Robust PageRank and locally computable spam detection features
Since the link structure of the web is an important element in ranking systems on search engines, web spammers widely use the link structure of the web to increase the rank of the...
Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes...
ESA
2010
Springer
207views Algorithms» more  ESA 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Budgeted Red-Blue Median and Its Generalizations
In a Content Distribution Network application, we have a set of servers and a set of clients to be connected to the servers. Often there are a few server types and a hard budget co...
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Rohit Khandekar, Guy Kor...
SPAA
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Scheduling to minimize power consumption using submodular functions
We develop logarithmic approximation algorithms for extremely general formulations of multiprocessor multiinterval offline task scheduling to minimize power usage. Here each proce...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam