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@@ -121,16 +121,16 @@ problem to get a reasonable solution:
request.
\end{enumerate}
-Solutions \ref{over-serve}. and \ref{min-screen}. seem to lead to very complex
-combinatorial problems (dynamic programming gives a running time of
-$O(n2^{|T|})$). Solution \ref{fractional}. seem to be more realistic: what is
-the point of having screens if you do not leverage their ability to change their
-content frequently?
+Solutions \ref{over-serve}. and \ref{min-screen}. seem to lead to very
+complex combinatorial problems (dynamic programming gives a running
+time of $O(n2^{|T|})$). Solution \ref{fractional}. seems to be more
+realistic: what is the point of having screens if you do not leverage
+their ability to change their content frequently?
-Without taking the constraint of the advertisers into account (for each
-advertiser, there is a subset of node where his ad can be displayed), the
-optimization problem is simply choosing a subset of advertisers $A$ that
-maximizes:
+Without taking the constraint of the advertisers into account (for
+each advertiser, there is a subset of node where his ad can be
+displayed), the optimization problem is simply choosing a subset of
+advertisers $A$ that maximizes:
\begin{displaymath}
\sum_{i\in A} b_i n_i
\end{displaymath}
@@ -138,15 +138,22 @@ subject to the constraint:
\begin{displaymath}
\sum_{i\in A} n_i \leq B
\end{displaymath}
-where $B$ is the number of views' capacity of the tree. This is nothing else
-than a Knapsack Problem. In this case, the placement of ads has no importance:
-the tree is just seen as a pool of available number of views that can be filled
-continuously, and the position of ads has no importance.
+where $B$ is the number of views' capacity of the tree. This is
+nothing else than a Knapsack Problem.
+\paragraph{Remarks}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item the placement of ads has no importance: the tree is simply seen
+ as a pool of available number of views that can be filled
+ continuously.
+\item the topology of the graph has no impact on the problem, only the
+ number of nodes does.
+\end{itemize}
+Articles to read: \cite{Johnson:PCKP,DBLP:journals/telsys/ShawCC97}
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+\end{document}