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SWAT
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Tight Approximability Results for Test Set Problems in Bioinformatics
In this paper, we investigate the test set problem and its variations that appear in a variety of applications. In general, we are given a universe of objects to be “distinguish...
Piotr Berman, Bhaskar DasGupta, Ming-Yang Kao
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A hierarchical model of data locality
In POPL 2002, Petrank and Rawitz showed a universal result-finding optimal data placement is not only NP-hard but also impossible to approximate within a constant factor if P = NP...
Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Mitsunori Ogihara, Yu...
AAIM
2007
Springer
94views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
An Ingenious, Piecewise Linear Interpolation Algorithm for Pricing Arithmetic Average Options
Abstract. Pricing arithmetic average options continues to intrigue researchers in the field of financial engineering. Since there is no analytical solution for this problem until...
Tian-Shyr Dai, Jr-Yan Wang, Hui-Shan Wei
SDM
2007
SIAM
137views Data Mining» more  SDM 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Are approximation algorithms for consensus clustering worthwhile?
Consensus clustering has emerged as one of the principal clustering problems in the data mining community. In recent years the theoretical computer science community has generated...
Michael Bertolacci, Anthony Wirth
IPL
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem
The Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem is introduced and its complexity, especially the hardness-of-approximation, is studied. The problem generalizes the Set Cover probl...
Pauli Miettinen