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2006
ACM
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Optimal phylogenetic reconstruction
One of the major tasks of evolutionary biology is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular data. The evolutionary model is given by a Markov chain on the true evolu...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Elchanan Mossel, Sé...
STOC
2003
ACM
171views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
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Primal-dual meets local search: approximating MST's with nonuniform degree bounds
We present a new bicriteria approximation algorithm for the degree-bounded minimum-cost spanning tree problem: Given an undirected graph with nonnegative edge weights and degree b...
Jochen Könemann, R. Ravi
STOC
2002
ACM
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The price of anarchy is independent of the network topology
We study the degradation in network performance caused by the selfish behavior of noncooperative network users. We consider a model of selfish routing in which the latency experie...
Tim Roughgarden
ICALP
2009
Springer
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Elimination Graphs
A graph is chordal if it does not contain any induced cycle of size greater than three. An alternative characterization of chordal graphs is via a perfect elimination ordering, whi...
Yuli Ye, Allan Borodin
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
Indexing Spatio-Temporal Trajectories with Chebyshev Polynomials
In this paper, we attempt to approximate and index a ddimensional (d 1) spatio-temporal trajectory with a low order continuous polynomial. There are many possible ways to choose ...
Yuhan Cai, Raymond T. Ng