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SMA
2003
ACM
163views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2003»
14 years 18 days ago
Fast swept volume approximation of complex polyhedral models
We present an efficient algorithm to approximate the swept volume (SV) of a complex polyhedron along a given trajectory. Given the boundary description of the polyhedron and a pat...
Young J. Kim, Gokul Varadhan, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh ...
JEA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Approximating the true evolutionary distance between two genomes
As more and more genomes are sequenced, evolutionary biologists are becoming increasingly interested in evolution at the level of whole genomes, in scenarios in which the genome e...
Krister M. Swenson, Mark Marron, Joel V. Earnest-D...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Cost Estimation for Tree Edit Distance Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Recently, there is a growing interest in working with tree-structured data in different applications and domains such as computational biology and natural language processing. Mor...
Yashar Mehdad
BIRD
2008
Springer
162views Bioinformatics» more  BIRD 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences
Finding motifs in biological sequences is one of the most intriguing problems for string algorithms designers due to, on the one hand, the numerous applications of this problem in...
Maria Federico, Nadia Pisanti
ESA
2003
Springer
189views Algorithms» more  ESA 2003»
14 years 17 days ago
On the Complexity of Approximating TSP with Neighborhoods and Related Problems
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 ...
Shmuel Safra, Oded Schwartz