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Sensing the real world

Juri Ranieri

A sensor is a device that detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it. In other words, a sensor allows us to interact with the surrounding environment, by measuring qualitatively or quantitatively a given phe ...

EPFL2014

Centrality of Trees for Capacitated k-Center

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Hyung Chan An, Aditya Bhaskara

We consider the capacitated k-center problem. In this problem we are given a finite set of locations in a metric space and each location has an associated non-negative integer capacity. The goal is to choose (open) k locations (called centers) and assign e ...

Springer2014

A Polynomial-Time Solution Scheme for Quadratic Stochastic Programs

Daniel Kuhn

We consider quadratic stochastic programs with random recourse—a class of problems which is perceived to be computationally demanding. Instead of using mainstream scenario tree-based techniques, we reduce computational complexity by restricting the space o ...

2013

The School Bus Problem on Trees

Laura Sanità, Adrian Aloysius Bock

The School Bus Problem is an NP-hard vehicle routing problem in which the goal is to route buses that transport children to a school such that for each child, the distance travelled on the bus does not exceed the shortest distance from the child's home to ...

Springer US2013

Constrained Binary Identification Problem

Amin Karbasi, Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We consider the problem of building a binary decision tree, to locate an object within a set by way of the least number of membership queries. This problem is equivalent to the “20 questions game” of information theory and is closely related to lossless so ...

2013

On the Role of the Necessary Conditions of Optimality in Structuring Dynamic Real-Time Optimization Schemes

Dominique Bonvin

In dynamic optimization problems, the optimal input profiles are typically obtained using models that predict the system behavior. In practice, however, process models are often inaccurate, and on-line adaptation is required for appropriate prediction and ...

Elsevier2013

New Results in the Theory of Linear and Integer Programming

Nicolai Hähnle

The polynomial Hirsch conjecture states that the vertex-edge diameter of a d-dimensional polyhedron with n facets is bounded by a polynomial in d and n. For the special case where the polyhedron is defined as the set of points satisfying a system Ax ≤ b of ...

EPFL2012

Quasi-polynomial Local Search for Restricted Max-Min Fair Allocation

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Lukas Polacek

The restricted max-min fair allocation problem (also known as the restricted Santa Claus problem) is one of few problems that enjoys the intriguing status of having a better estimation algorithm than approximation algorithm. Indeed, Asadpour et al. [1] pro ...

Springer2012

On the optimal polynomial approximation of stochastic PDEs by Galerkin and Collocation methods

Fabio Nobile, Lorenzo Tamellini

In this work we focus on the numerical approximation of the solution u of a linear elliptic PDE with stochastic coefficients. The problem is rewritten as a parametric PDE and the functional dependence of the solution on the parameters is approximated by mu ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2012

Santa Claus Schedules Jobs On Unrelated Machines

Ola Nils Anders Svensson

One of the classic results in scheduling theory is the 2-approximation algorithm by Lenstra, Shmoys, and Tardos for the problem of scheduling jobs to minimize makespan on unrelated machines; i.e., job j requires time p(ij) if processed on machine i. More t ...

Siam Publications2012