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CIAC
2006
Springer
160views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2006»
14 years 14 days ago
An Approximation Algorithm for a Bottleneck Traveling Salesman Problem
Consider a truck running along a road. It picks up a load Li at point i and delivers it at i, carrying at most one load at a time. The speed on the various parts of the road in on...
Ming-Yang Kao, Manan Sanghi
SIAMNUM
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Approximation of the Buckling Problem for Reissner-Mindlin Plates
This paper deals with the approximation of the buckling coefficients and modes of a clamped plate modeled by the Reissner-Mindlin equations. These coefficients are related with the...
Carlo Lovadina, David Mora, Rodolfo Rodrígu...
WABI
2005
Springer
117views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Faster Algorithms for Optimal Multiple Sequence Alignment Based on Pairwise Comparisons
Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is one of the most fundamental problems in computational molecular biology. The running time of the best known scheme for finding an optimal ali...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Yonatan Bilu, Rachel Kolodny
ESA
2006
Springer
134views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
14 years 12 days ago
A Unified Approach to Approximating Partial Covering Problems
An instance of the generalized partial cover problem consists of a ground set U and a family of subsets S 2U . Each element e U is associated with a profit p(e), whereas each su...
Jochen Könemann, Ojas Parekh, Danny Segev
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák