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DAGSTUHL
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Optimal Approximation of Elliptic Problems by Linear and Nonlinear Mappings
We study the optimal approximation of the solution of an operator equation A(u) = f by four types of mappings: a) linear mappings of rank n; b) n-term approximation with respect t...
Erich Novak, Stephan Dahlke, Winfried Sickel
CORR
2011
Springer
215views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 8 months ago
Lasserre Hierarchy, Higher Eigenvalues, and Approximation Schemes for Quadratic Integer Programming with PSD Objectives
We present an approximation scheme for optimizing certain Quadratic Integer Programming problems with positive semidefinite objective functions and global linear constraints. Thi...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Ali Kemal Sinop
ISAAC
2004
Springer
106views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
Minimum Common String Partition Problem: Hardness and Approximations
String comparison is a fundamental problem in computer science, with applications in areas such as computational biology, text processing or compression. In this paper we address t...
Avraham Goldstein, Petr Kolman, Jie Zheng
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum
PODS
2007
ACM
203views Database» more  PODS 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Decision trees for entity identification: approximation algorithms and hardness results
We consider the problem of constructing decision trees for entity identification from a given relational table. The input is a table containing information about a set of entities...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...