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2006
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Better lossless condensers through derandomized curve samplers
Lossless condensers are unbalanced expander graphs, with expansion close to optimal. Equivalently, they may be viewed as functions that use a short random seed to map a source on ...
Amnon Ta-Shma, Christopher Umans
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Contraflow network reconfiguration for evacuation planning: a summary of results
Contraflow, or lane reversal, is a way of increasing outbound capacity of a real network by reversing the direction of inbound roads during evacuations. The contraflow is consider...
Sangho Kim, Shashi Shekhar
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Failures of the VCG mechanism in combinatorial auctions and exchanges
The VCG mechanism is the canonical method for motivating bidders in combinatorial auctions and exchanges to bid truthfully. We study two related problems concerning the VCG mechan...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
CORR
2006
Springer
160views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Frugality ratios and improved truthful mechanisms for vertex cover
In set-system auctions, there are several overlapping teams of agents, and a task that can be completed by any of these teams. The auctioneer's goal is to hire a team and pay...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
STOC
2009
ACM
133views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
Near-perfect load balancing by randomized rounding
We consider and analyze a new algorithm for balancing indivisible loads on a distributed network with n processors. The aim is minimizing the discrepancy between the maximum and m...
Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald