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WADS
2005
Springer
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15 years 9 months ago
Improved Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Two Feedback Set Problems
Abstract. Settling a ten years open question, we show that the NPcomplete Feedback Vertex Set problem is deterministically solvable in O(ck ·m) time, where m denotes the number of...
Jiong Guo, Jens Gramm, Falk Hüffner, Rolf Nie...
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TCBB
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm
The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set...
Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple
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FOCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
An Approximation Algorithm for the Disjoint Paths Problem in Even-Degree Planar Graphs
In joint work with ´Eva Tardos in 1995, we asked whether it was possible to obtain a polynomial-time, polylogarithmic approximation algorithm for the disjoint paths problem in th...
Jon M. Kleinberg
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ICDT
2007
ACM
148views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Ask a Better Question, Get a Better Answer A New Approach to Private Data Analysis
Cryptographic techniques for reasoning about information leakage have recently been brought to bear on the classical problem of statistical disclosure control – revealing accurat...
Cynthia Dwork
ECCC
2011
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14 years 10 months ago
On the complexity of computational problems regarding distributions (a survey)
We consider two basic computational problems regarding discrete probability distributions: (1) approximating the statistical difference (aka variation distance) between two given d...
Oded Goldreich, Salil P. Vadhan