Efficient sequences of trials

  • Authors:
  • Edith Cohen;Amos Fiat;Haim Kaplan

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T research labs, Florham park, NJ;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SODA '03 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We introduce a problem called sequential trial optimization, a generalization of the well studied set cover problem with a new objective function. We give a simple algorithm that achieves a constant factor approximation to this problem. Sequential trial optimization naturally arises in heterogenous search environments such as peer to peer networks.