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FCT
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2003
Springer
The closest substring problem, where a short string is sought that minimizes the number of mismatches between it and each of a given set of strings, is a minimization problem with ...
ALMOB
2006
13 years 8 months ago
2006
The String Barcoding (SBC) problem, introduced by Rash and Gusfield (RECOMB, 2002), consists in finding a minimum set of substrings that can be used to distinguish between all mem...
ISAAC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2009
Springer
Given m unit disks and n points in the plane, the discrete unit disk cover problem is to select a minimum subset of the disks to cover the points. This problem is NP-hard [11] and ...
ESA
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2003
Springer
We prove that various geometric covering problems, related to the Travelling Salesman Problem cannot be efficiently approximated to within any constant factor unless P = NP. This ...
CGF
2006
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Spline curves are useful in a variety of geometric modeling and graphics applications and covering problems abound in practical settings. This work defines a class of covering dec...