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JCO
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
A 2-approximation for the preceding-and-crossing structured 2-interval pattern problem
The 2-interval pattern problem over its various models and restrictions was proposed by Vialette (2004) for the application of RNA secondary structure prediction. We present an O(n...
Minghui Jiang
STOC
2006
ACM
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14 years 9 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
APPROX
2010
Springer
176views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Min-Max Generalization Problems
Abstract. We provide improved approximation algorithms for the minmax generalization problems considered by Du, Eppstein, Goodrich, and Lueker [1]. In min-max generalization proble...
Piotr Berman, Sofya Raskhodnikova
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity-Type Problems with Guarantees Independent of the Graph Size
— Linial, London and Rabinovich [16] and Aumann and Rabani [3] proved that the min-cut max-flow ratio for general maximum concurrent flow problems (when there are k commodities...
Ankur Moitra
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Hardness and Approximation of the Survivable Multi-Level Fat Tree Problem
—With the explosive deployment of “triple play” (voice, video and data services) over the same access network, guaranteeing a certain-level of survivability for the access ne...
Hung Q. Ngo, Thanh-Nhan Nguyen, Dahai Xu