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JOURNALS

 


"Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Average-Case Tree Searching Problem"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese, T. Jacobs and M. Molinaro
  Algorithmica  68(4), 1045-1074 (2014)

"Approximating the maximum consecutive subsums of a sequence"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese, O. Weimann and R. Yuster
  Theoretical Computer Science  525, 130-137(2014)

"The Binary Identification Problem for Wighted Trees"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese, T. Jacobs and C. Valentim
  Theoretical Computer Science  459, 100-112 (2012)

"On the competitive ratio of evaluating priced functions"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese
  Journal of ACM 58(3), 9, 2011

"An Approximation Algorithm for Binary Searching in Trees"
  Joint work with M. Molinaro
  Algorithmica 59(4), 601-620(2011)

"Competitive Boolean Function Evaluation: Beyond Monotonicity, and the Symmetric Case"
  Joint work with T. Gagie, F. Cicalese and M. Milanic
  Discrete and Applied Math 59(11)

"Improved Approximations for the Hotlink Assignment Problem"
  Joint work with M. Molinaro
  ACM Transactions on Algorithms 7(3)

"A Randomized Competitive Algorithm for Evaluating Priced AND/OR Trees"
  Theoretical Computer Science  2008

"Reducing human interactions in Web directory searches"
  Joint work with O. Gerstel, S. Kutten, R. Matichin, D. Peleg, A. Pessoa, C. Souza:
 ACM Transactions on Information Systems 25(4), 2007

"A Note on the Size of Minimal Covers"
Joint work with L. Nogueira, E. Haeusler, V. Costa
Information Processing Letters 102, 2007

"Query Priced Information in Databases: The conjunctive case"
Joint work with T. Feder, R. Motwani, Y. Kohayakawa, R. Carmo, R. Panigrahy, L. Callaghan and D. Thomas
ACM Transactions on Algorithms 3(1), 2007

"On the Hardness of the Minimum Height Decision Tree Problem"
Joint work with L. Nogueira
Discrete Applied Mathematics 144, pp 209-212,  2004

"Searching in Random Partially Ordered Sets"
Joint work with Y. Kohayakawa, R. Carmo and J. Donadelli
Theoretical Computer Science 321(1), 41-57,  2004

"The Complexity of makespan minimization for pipeline transportation"
Joint work with R. Milidiu and A. Pessoa
Theoretical Computer Science, 306, Issue 1-3, 2003, pp 339-351

 "Improved bounds for asymmetric communication protocols"
Joint work with Leonardo Holanda
Information Processing Letters 83(4), pp 205-209

 A note on multicolor bipartite Ramsey numbers for K_{2,n}"
Joint work with Emerson M. Carmelo
Ars Combinatoria 69, 2003.

On Binary Searching with Non-uniform Costs"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Siam Journal on Computing 31(4), pp 1022-1047

"Strategies for Searching with Non Uniform Costs"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Theoretical Computer Science, 287, Issue 2, 2002

"Three Space-Economical Algorithms for Calculating Minimum Redundancy Prefix Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 47, Number 6, pp 2185-2199

"Improved Bounds on the Ineficiency of Length Restricted Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú
Algorithmica, Volume 31 - Number 4, 2001, pp 513-529

"The Warm-up Algorithm: A Lagrangean Construction of Length Restricted Huffman Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú
Siam Journal on Computing  30 vol 5, pp 1405-1426

"Improved Analysis of the FGK Algorithm"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Journal of Algorithms 28, August, 1999.

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CONFERENCES


" Speeding up Word Mover's Distance and its variants via properties of distances between embeddings."
  Joint work with M. Werner
 
 ECAI 2020

"Teaching with Limited Information on the Learner's Behaviour ."
  Joint work with F. Cicalese and S. Filho and M. Molinaro
 
 ICML 2020

"New results on information theoretic clustering. ."
  Joint work with F. Cicalese and L. Murtinho
 
 ICML 2019

"Minimization of Gini Impurity: NP-completeness and Approximation Algorithm via Connections with the k-means Problem."
  Joint work L. Murtinho
 
Proceedings of  LAGOS 2019

"Binary Partitions with Approximate Minimum Impurity ."
  Joint work with M. Molinaro and F. de A. M. Pereira
 
 ICML 2018

"On Compression Techniques for Computing Convolutions ."
  Joint work with P. Nuno and L. Pavanelli
 
Proceedings of  DCC 2016

"Trading off Worst and Expected Cost in Decision Tree Problems ."
  Joint work with F. Cicalese and A. Saettler
 
Proceedings of  ISAAC 2015

"Diagnosis determination: decision trees optimizing simultaneously worst and expected testing cost. ."
  Joint work with F. Cicalese and A. Saettler
 
 ICML 2014

"On lower bounds for the Maximum Consecutive Subsums Problem and the (min, +)-convolution."
  Joint work with F. Cicalese and W. Bardalles
 
Proceedings of  ISIT 2014

"Indexes for Jumbled Pattern Matching in Strings, Trees and Graphs"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese, T. Gagie, E. Giaquinta, Z. Liptak, R. Rizzi, A. Tomescu
 
Proceedings of  SPIRE 2013

"Near Linear Time Construction of an Approximate Index for All Maximum Consecutive Sub-sums of a Sequence"
  Joint work with F. Cicalese, O. Weimann and R. Yuster
 
Proceedings of  Combinatorial Pattern Matching 2012

"An efficient language-independent method to extract content from news webpages"
  Joint work with E. Cardoso, Iam Jabour, R. Rodrigues and Pedro Cardoso
 
Proceedings of  ACM Simposium on Document Engineering 2011

Binary Identification Problems for Weighted Trees
  Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese, Caio Valentim and Tobias Jacobs
 
Proceedings of  WADS 2011

On Greedy Algorithms for Decision Trees
  Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese, Marco Molinaro and Tobias Jacobs
 
Proceedings of  ISAAC 2010

On the complexity of searching in tree: the averae case minimization
  Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese, Marco Molinaro and Tobias Jacobs
 
Proceedings of  ICALP 2010

A fast and simple method for extracting relevant content from news webpages
  Joint work with C. Souza, I. Jabour, E. Amorim, R. Renteria, L. Tinoco, C. Valentim, CIKM 2010

Function Evaluation via Linear Programming in the Priced Information Model
  Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese
 
Proceedings of  ICALP 2008 (Acceptance Ratio 70/ 269 )
 

An Approximation Algorithm for Binary Searching in Trees
  Joint work with Marco Molinaro
 
Proceedings of  ICALP 2008 (Acceptance Ratio 70/ 269 )

A Polite Policy for Revisiting Web Pages
  Joint work C. Souza and E. Cardoso and C. Valentim
Proceedings of  LA-Web 2007

On Behalf the Seller and Society:  a Bicriteria Mechanism for Unit Demnd Combinatorial Auctions
Joint work Claudson Bornstein and Marcelo Mas
Proceedings of LATIN 2006 (Acceptance Ratio 66 / 224 )

On the Competitive Ratio of  Evaluating Priced Functions

Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese
Proceedings of  SODA 2006   (Acceptance Ratio 135 / 432 )


An Optimal Algorithm for Querying Priced Information: Monotone Boolean Functions and Game Trees

Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese
Proceedings of  ESA 2005   (Acceptance Ratio 55/185)

 
A New Strategy for Qurying Priced Information

Joint work with Ferdinando Cicalese
Proceedings of  ACM STOC 2005  (Acceptance Ratio 84/289)


Efficient Algorithms for the Hotlink Assignment Problem: the worst case search
Joint work with Criston Souza and Artur Pessoa
Proceedings of  ISAAC 2004

Querying Priced Information in Databases: the Conjuntive Case 
Eduardo S. Laber, Renato Carmo and Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

Proceedings of  LATIN 2004  (Acceptance Ratio 59/178, Full paper in ACM TALG)

A Randomized Competitive Algorithm for Evaluating Priced AND/OR Trees
Eduardo Sany Laber
Proceedings of STACS 2004 (Full paper in Theoretical Coomputer Science)


Efficient Implementation of a Hotlink Assignment Algorithm for Web Sites
Joint Work with Artur Pessoa and Criston Souza
Proceedings of  ALENEX 2004

Cherry Picking: A Semantic Query Processing Strategy for the Evaluation of Expensive Predicates
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez:
Proceedings of SBBD 2003

Complexity of Makespan Minimization for Pipeline Transportation of Petroleum Products
R. L. Milidiu and A. Pessoa and E. Laber
Proceedings of APPROX 2002.
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2462

"Randomized Approximation Algorithms for Query Optimization Problems on Two Processors"
Joint work with O. Parekh and R. Ravi
Proceedings of ESA 2002.
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2461

"Pipeline Transportation of Petroleum Products with no Due Dates"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of LATIN 2002.
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2286   
(Acceptance Ratio 44/107)

"Searching in Random Partially Ordered Sets "
Joint work with Renato Carmo, Jair Donadelli and Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
Proceedings of LATIN 2002.
Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2286
Full paper in Theoretical Computer Science

"On the Hardness of the Minimum Height Decision Tree Problem"
Joint work with Loana Nogueira
COSSAC 2001
Full paper in Discrete and Applied Math.

"On asymmetric communication protocols"
Joint work with Leonardo Holanda
Proceedings of Graco 2001
Full Paper in Information Processing Letter

"Fast Searching on Trees"
Joint work with Loana Tito Nogueira
Proceedings of Graco 2001

"On Binary Search with non Uniform Costs"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiu and Artur Alves Pessoa
Proceedings of ACM-SIAM SODA 2001
Full paper in Siam Journal on Computing

"Linear Time Recogintion of Optimal L-Restricted Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú                                                                                                   Proceedings of LATIN 2000
Lecture Notes in Computer Science:  

"Practical Constructions of L-Restricted Alphabetic Prefix Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the SPIRE'99

Strategies for Searching with Different Access Costs"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA99)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1623. Fulll paper in Theoretical Computer Science

"Two Space-Economical Algorithms for Calculating Minimum Redundancy Prefix Codes"(abstract)
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the  IEEE DATA COMPRESSION CONFERENCE (DCC'99)
Full Paper in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

"A Work Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Constructing Huffman Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the IEEE DATA COMPRESSION CONFERENCE DCC'99

"Efficient Implementation of the WARM-UP Algorithm for the Construction of Length-Restricted Prefix Codes" (abstract)(source code)
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the ALENEX'99
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1623.

"In-place Length-Restricted Prefix Coding" (abstract)(source code)
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the SPIRE'98

"Practical Use of the WARM-UP Algorithm on Length-Restricted Codes"
Joint work with Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa
Proceedings of the WSP'97
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