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RECOMB
2007
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Minimizing and Learning Energy Functions for Side-Chain Prediction
Abstract. Side-chain prediction is an important subproblem of the general protein folding problem. Despite much progress in side-chain prediction, performance is far from satisfact...
Chen Yanover, Ora Schueler-Furman, Yair Weiss
SODA
2010
ACM
149views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Sharp kernel clustering algorithms and their associated Grothendieck inequalities
abstract Subhash Khot Assaf Naor In the kernel clustering problem we are given a (large) n ? n symmetric positive semidefinite matrix A = (aij) with n i=1 n j=1 aij = 0 and a (sma...
Subhash Khot, Assaf Naor
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Reducibility among Fractional Stability Problems
— In a landmark paper [32], Papadimitriou introduced a number of syntactic subclasses of TFNP based on proof styles that (unlike TFNP) admit complete problems. A recent series of...
Shiva Kintali, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan Rajara...
ESA
2009
Springer
124views Algorithms» more  ESA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Minimum Makespan Multi-vehicle Dial-a-Ride
Dial-a-Ride problems consist of a set V of n vertices in a metric space (denoting travel time between vertices) and a set of m objects represented as source-destination pairs {(si,...
Inge Li Gørtz, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Embedding ultrametrics into low-dimensional spaces
We study the problem of minimum-distortion embedding of ultrametrics into the plane and higher dimensional spaces. Ultrametrics are a natural class of metrics that frequently occu...
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasi...