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STOC
2001
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
On optimal slicing of parallel programs
Optimal program slicing determines for a statement S in a program whether or not S affects a specified set of statements, given that all conditionals in are interpreted as non-d...
Markus Müller-Olm, Helmut Seidl
PODS
2007
ACM
159views Database» more  PODS 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Generalized hypertree decompositions: np-hardness and tractable variants
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Georg Gottlob, Thomas Schwentick, Zoltán Mi...
APPROX
2009
Springer
112views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
16 years 26 days ago
Deterministic Approximation Algorithms for the Nearest Codeword Problem
The Nearest Codeword Problem (NCP) is a basic algorithmic question in the theory of error-correcting codes. Given a point v ∈ Fn 2 and a linear space L ⊆ Fn 2 of dimension k NC...
Noga Alon, Rina Panigrahy, Sergey Yekhanin
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
16 years 26 days ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
What Can We Learn Privately?
Learning problems form an important category of computational tasks that generalizes many of the computations researchers apply to large real-life data sets. We ask: what concept ...
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Homin K. Lee, Kobbi ...