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2006
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Negative Examples for Sequential Importance Sampling of Binary Contingency Tables
The sequential importance sampling (SIS) algorithm has gained considerable popularity for its empirical success. One of its noted applications is to the binary contingency tables p...
Ivona Bezáková, Alistair Sinclair, D...
ESA
2006
Springer
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Necklaces, Convolutions, and X + Y
We give subquadratic algorithms that, given two necklaces each with n beads at arbitrary positions, compute the optimal rotation of the necklaces to best align the beads. Here ali...
David Bremner, Timothy M. Chan, Erik D. Demaine, J...
ESA
2006
Springer
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Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
ESA
2006
Springer
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Robust, Generic and Efficient Construction of Envelopes of Surfaces in Three-Dimensional Spaces
Lower envelopes are fundamental structures in computational geometry, which have many applications, such as computing general Voronoi diagrams and performing hidden surface removal...
Michal Meyerovitch
ESOA
2006
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Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them
Evolutionary algorithms based on "tags" can be adapted to induce cooperation in selfish environments such as peer-to-peer systems. In this approach, nodes periodically co...
Stefano Arteconi, David Hales, Özalp Babaoglu