We define an algorithmic paradigm, the stack model, that captures many primal-dual and local-ratio algorithms for approximating covering and packing problems. The stack model is ...
Let T = (V, E) be an undirected tree, in which each edge is associated with a non-negative cost, and let {s1, t1}, . . . , {sk, tk} be a collection of k distinct pairs of vertices...
Abstract. Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Algorithms based on Gaussian mutation and deterministic selection, are today considered the best choice as far as parameter optimizatio...
Abstract. We consider the problem of clustering data into k 2 clusters given complex relations -- going beyond pairwise -- between the data points. The complex n-wise relations ar...
Clustering is an important data mining problem. Most of the earlier work on clustering focussed on numeric attributes which have a natural ordering on their attribute values. Rece...
Venkatesh Ganti, Johannes Gehrke, Raghu Ramakrishn...