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SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Brief announcement: parameterized maximum and average degree approximation in topic-based publish-subscribe overlay network desi
Designing an overlay network for publish/subscribe communication in a system where nodes may subscribe to many different topics of interest is of fundamental importance. For scala...
Melih Onus, Andréa W. Richa
FSTTCS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Set Cover with Pairs Problem
Abstract. We consider a generalization of the set cover problem, in which elements are covered by pairs of objects, and we are required to find a minimum cost subset of objects th...
Refael Hassin, Danny Segev
COCOON
2006
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
A PTAS for Cutting Out Polygons with Lines
We present a simple O(m+n6 / 12 ) time (1+ )-approximation algorithm for the problem of cutting a convex n-gon out of a convex m-gon with line cuts of minimum total cutting length....
Sergey Bereg, Ovidiu Daescu, Minghui Jiang
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Algorithms on negatively curved spaces
d abstract] Robert Krauthgamer ∗ IBM Almaden James R. Lee † Institute for Advanced Study We initiate the study of approximate algorithms on negatively curved spaces. These spa...
Robert Krauthgamer, James R. Lee