In this paper, we initiate the study of the approximability of the facility location problem in a distributed setting. In particular, we explore a trade-off between the amount of...
A significant problem encounteredwhen building Augmented Reality (AR) systems is that all spatial knowledge about the world has uncertainty associated with it. This uncertainty m...
Enylton Machado Coelho, Blair MacIntyre, Simon Jul...
Cycle covering is a well-studied problem in computer science. In this paper, we develop approximation algorithms for variants of cycle covering problems which bound the size and/o...
Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S. Mirro...
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
Abstract— This paper describes Atlas, a hybrid metrical/topological approach to SLAM that achieves efficient mapping of large-scale environments. The representation is a graph o...
Michael Bosse, Paul M. Newman, John J. Leonard, Ma...