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CORR
2010
Springer
133views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Santa Claus Schedules Jobs on Unrelated Machines
One of the classic results in scheduling theory is the 2-approximation algorithm by Lenstra, Shmoys, and Tardos for the problem of scheduling jobs to minimize makespan on unrelate...
Ola Svensson
CORR
2008
Springer
77views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Principal Graphs and Manifolds
In many physical statistical, biological and other investigations it is desirable to approximate a system of points by objects of lower dimension and/or complexity. For this purpo...
Alexander N. Gorban, Andrei Yu. Zinovyev
SODA
2012
ACM
196views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Polytope approximation and the Mahler volume
The problem of approximating convex bodies by polytopes is an important and well studied problem. Given a convex body K in Rd , the objective is to minimize the number of vertices...
Sunil Arya, Guilherme Dias da Fonseca, David M. Mo...
FOCM
2011
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15 years 1 months ago
Convergence of Fixed-Point Continuation Algorithms for Matrix Rank Minimization
The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding etc. As this problem is NP-hard in ...
Donald Goldfarb, Shiqian Ma
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
Approximate XML joins
XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the for...
Sudipto Guha, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, Divesh ...