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ICDE
2010
IEEE
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16 years 6 months ago
Approximate Confidence Computation in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract-- This paper introduces a deterministic approximation algorithm with error guarantees for computing the probability of propositional formulas over discrete random variable...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
ESA
2009
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Label Cover Problems
In this paper we consider both the maximization variant Max Rep and the minimization variant Min Rep of the famous Label Cover problem, for which, till now, the best approximation ...
Moses Charikar, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Howard J...
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Approximate center points with proofs
We present the Iterated-Tverberg algorithm, the first deterministic algorithm for computing an approximate centerpoint of a set S ∈ Rd with running time sub-exponential in d. T...
Gary L. Miller, Donald Sheehy
WAW
2007
Springer
144views Algorithms» more  WAW 2007»
16 years 20 days ago
Approximating Betweenness Centrality
Betweenness is a centrality measure based on shortest paths, widely used in complex network analysis. It is computationally-expensive to exactly determine betweenness; currently th...
David A. Bader, Shiva Kintali, Kamesh Madduri, Mil...
STACS
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Deterministic Truthful Approximation Mechanisms for Scheduling Related Machines
Abstract. We consider the problem of scheduling jobs on related machines owned by selfish agents and provide the first deterministic mechanisms with constant approximation that a...
Vincenzo Auletta, Roberto De Prisco, Paolo Penna, ...