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PODC
2005
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Facility location: distributed approximation
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...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
UIST
2005
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
Supporting interaction in augmented reality in the presence of uncertain spatial knowledge
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...
STACS
2005
Springer
16 years 9 days ago
Cycle Cover with Short Cycles
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...
PRICAI
2004
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
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...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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16 years 3 days ago
An atlas framework for scalable mapping
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...