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FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper we show a reduction from the Unique Games problem to the problem of approximating MAX-CUT to within a factor of GW + , for all > 0; here GW .878567 denotes the a...
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ISPD
1997
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
1997
ACM
— In this paper, we consider the thermal placement problem for gate arrays. We introduce a new combinatorial optimization problem, matrix synthesis problem (MSP), to model the th...
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JCO
2008
15 years 6 months ago
2008
The problem of partitioning a partially ordered set into a minimum number of chains is a well-known problem. In this paper we study a generalization of this problem, where we not ...
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WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2006
ACM
We revisit a problem introduced by Bharat and Broder almost a decade ago: how to sample random pages from the corpus of documents indexed by a search engine, using only the search...
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CORR
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
The Steiner tree problem is a classical NP-hard optimization problem with a wide range of practical applications. In an instance of this problem, we are given an undirected graph ...