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COCO
2009
Springer
131views Algorithms» more  COCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A Multi-Round Communication Lower Bound for Gap Hamming and Some Consequences
—The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to...
Joshua Brody, Amit Chakrabarti
ALGORITHMICA
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Crossing Numbers of Graphs with Rotation Systems
We show that computing the crossing number and the odd crossing number of a graph with a given rotation system is NP-complete. As a consequence we can show that many of the well-k...
Michael J. Pelsmajer, Marcus Schaefer, Daniel Stef...
BIRD
2008
Springer
162views Bioinformatics» more  BIRD 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences
Finding motifs in biological sequences is one of the most intriguing problems for string algorithms designers due to, on the one hand, the numerous applications of this problem in...
Maria Federico, Nadia Pisanti
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Text joins in an RDBMS for web data integration
The integration of data produced and collected across autonomous, heterogeneous web services is an increasingly important and challenging problem. Due to the lack of global identi...
Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas...
PODS
2000
ACM
179views Database» more  PODS 2000»
14 years 6 days ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...