We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Relational joins are at the core of relational algebra, which in turn is the core of the standard database query language SQL. As their evaluation is expensive and very often domi...
We study the k-wise independent relaxation of the usual model G(N, p) of random graphs where, as in this model, N labeled vertices are fixed and each edge is drawn with probabili...
Abstract—With the proliferation of wireless multimedia applications, multicast/broadcast has been recognized as an efficient technique to transmit a large volume of data to mult...
Juan Liu, Wei Chen, Zhigang Cao, Ying Jun Zhang, S...
—Immediate notification of urgent but rare events and delivery of time sensitive actuation commands appear in many practical wireless sensor and actuator network applications. M...