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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
269views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient approximate entity extraction with edit distance constraints
Named entity recognition aims at extracting named entities from unstructured text. A recent trend of named entity recognition is finding approximate matches in the text with respe...
Wei Wang 0011, Chuan Xiao, Xuemin Lin, Chengqi Zha...
COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Method for Periodic Task Scheduling with Storage Requirement Minimization
Abstract. In this paper, we study an efficient approximate integer linear programming formulation of the general problem of one-dimensional periodic task scheduling under storage r...
Karine Deschinkel, Sid Ahmed Ali Touati
APPROX
2009
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties
Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergr...
Jon Lee, Maxim Sviridenko, Jan Vondrák
STOC
2006
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Private approximation of search problems
Many approximation algorithms have been presented in the last decades for hard search problems. The focus of this paper is on cryptographic applications, where it is desired to de...
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb
SODA
2012
ACM
297views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Constant factor approximation algorithm for the knapsack median problem
We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the following generalization of the k-median problem. We are given a set of clients and facilities in a metric space. Each fa...
Amit Kumar