The minimum latency problem (MLP) is a well-studied variant of the traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the MLP, the server's goal is to minimize the average latency that the...
In various applications such as data cleansing, being able to retrieve categorical or numerical attributes based on notions of approximate match (e.g., edit distance, numerical di...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
: Nowadays, the database characteristics, such as the huge volume of data, the complexity of the queries, and even the data availability, can demand minutes or hours to process a q...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Rodrigo Salvador Monte...
Non-linear cryptanalysis is a natural extension to Matsui’s linear cryptanalitic techniques in which linear approximations are replaced by nonlinear expressions. Non-linear appro...
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...