Correlation Clustering was defined by Bansal, Blum, and Chawla as the problem of clustering a set of elements based on a possibly inconsistent binary similarity function between e...
Abstract. A parametric weighted graph is a graph whose edges are labeled with continuous real functions of a single common variable. For any instantiation of the variable, one obta...
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Oded Lachish, R...
Abstract— A number of recent results on optimization problems involving submodular functions have made use of the ”multilinear relaxation” of the problem [3], [8], [24], [14]...
— The coverage and connectivity problem in sensor networks has received significant attention of the research community in the recent years. In this paper, we study this problem...
Arunabha Sen, Nibedita Das, Ling Zhou, Bao Hong Sh...
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...