— Design of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) emerges as an increasingly important discipline in business-oriented IT management. In this work, we study utility maximization of con...
David Breitgand, Elean A. Henis, Onn Shehory, John...
—A principal challenge in modern computational finance is efficient portfolio design – portfolio optimization followed by decision-making. Optimization based on even the widely...
Raj Subbu, Piero P. Bonissone, Neil Eklund, Sriniv...
Abstract Abstract. In this paper we improve the analysis of approximation algorithms based on semidefinite programming for the maximum graph partitioning problems MAX-k-CUT, MAX-k...
The formulation of trace quotient is shared by many computer vision problems; however, it was conventionally approximated by an essentially different formulation of quotient trace,...
Abstract-- This paper considers the problem of transferring a file from one source node to multiple receivers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The objective is to minimize the weig...
Bike Xie, Mihaela van der Schaar, Richard D. Wesel