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ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Experience with Approximations in the Trust-Region Parallel Direct Search Algorithm
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
S. M. Shontz, V. E. Howle, P. D. Hough
ICDE
2008
IEEE
152views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient Merging and Filtering Algorithms for Approximate String Searches
We study the following problem: how to efficiently find in a collection of strings those similar to a given query string? Various similarity functions can be used, such as edit dis...
Chen Li, Jiaheng Lu, Yiming Lu
FOCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Paths, Trees, and Minimum Latency Tours
We give improved approximation algorithms for a variety of latency minimization problems. In particular, we give a 3.591 -approximation to the minimum latency problem, improving o...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Brighten Godfrey, Satish Rao, ...
FOCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Asymmetric TSP by Decomposing Directed Regular Multigraphs
A directed multigraph is said to be d-regular if the indegree and outdegree of every vertex is exactly d. By Hall’s theorem one can represent such a multigraph as a combination ...
Haim Kaplan, Moshe Lewenstein, Nira Shafrir, Maxim...
CDC
2009
IEEE
168views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Content distribution by multiple multicast trees and intersession cooperation: Optimal algorithms and approximations
—The paper addresses the problem of massive content distribution in the network where multiple sessions coexist. In the traditional approaches, the sessions form separate overlay...
Xiaoying Zheng, Chunglae Cho, Ye Xia