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ICDT
2011
ACM
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12 years 11 months ago
(Approximate) uncertain skylines
Given a set of points with uncertain locations, we consider the problem of computing the probability of each point lying on the skyline, that is, the probability that it is not do...
Peyman Afshani, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Kasp...
IPL
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
An efficient approximation for the Generalized Assignment Problem
We present a simple family of algorithms for solving the Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP). Our technique is based on a novel combinatorial translation of any algorithm for the...
Reuven Cohen, Liran Katzir, Danny Raz
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Selecting Stars: The k Most Representative Skyline Operator
Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of selecting k skyline points so that the number of points,...
Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan, Qing Zhang, Ying Zhang
RECOMB
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the complexity and approximation of syntenic distance
The paper studies the computational complexity and approximation algorithms for a new evolutionary distance between multi-chromosomal genomes introduced recently by Ferretti, Nade...
Bhaskar DasGupta, Tao Jiang, Sampath Kannan, Ming ...
JAL
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A primal-dual schema based approximation algorithm for the element connectivity problem
The element connectivity problem falls in the category of survivable network design problems { it is intermediate to the versions that ask for edge-disjoint and vertex-disjoint pa...
Kamal Jain, Ion I. Mandoiu, Vijay V. Vazirani, Dav...