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ISAAC
2003
Springer
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14 years 22 days ago
The Intractability of Computing the Hamming Distance
Given a string x and a language L, the Hamming distance of x to L is the minimum Hamming distance of x to any string in L. The edit distance of a string to a language is analogous...
Bodo Manthey, Rüdiger Reischuk
AAAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Methods for Boosting Revenue in Combinatorial Auctions
We study the recognized open problem of designing revenuemaximizing combinatorial auctions. It is unsolved even for two bidders and two items for sale. Rather than pursuing the pu...
Anton Likhodedov, Tuomas Sandholm
IS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Semantic optimization techniques for preference queries
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Jan Chomicki
COMPGEOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Zigzag persistent homology and real-valued functions
We study the problem of computing zigzag persistence of a sequence of homology groups and study a particular sequence derived from the levelsets of a real-valued function on a top...
Gunnar Carlsson, Vin de Silva, Dmitriy Morozov
COMPGEOM
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Vines and vineyards by updating persistence in linear time
Persistent homology is the mathematical core of recent work on shape, including reconstruction, recognition, and matching. Its pertinent information is encapsulated by a pairing o...
David Cohen-Steiner, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Dmitriy...