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ALMOB
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Reconstructing phylogenies from noisy quartets in polynomial time with a high success probability
Background: In recent years, quartet-based phylogeny reconstruction methods have received considerable attentions in the computational biology community. Traditionally, the accura...
Gang Wu, Ming-Yang Kao, Guohui Lin, Jia-Huai You
STOC
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Bypassing the embedding: algorithms for low dimensional metrics
The doubling dimension of a metric is the smallest k such that any ball of radius 2r can be covered using 2k balls of raThis concept for abstract metrics has been proposed as a na...
Kunal Talwar
ICALP
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Network Design via Core Detouring for Problems without a Core
Some of the currently best-known approximation algorithms for network design are based on random sampling. One of the key steps of such algorithms is connecting a set of source nod...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoß
APPROX
2007
Springer
67views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
abstract Manor Mendel1 and Assaf Naor2 1 The Open University of Israel 2 Courant Institute Let (X, dX ) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over ...
Manor Mendel, Assaf Naor
COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth