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DC
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Approximate distributed top- k queries
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Allon Shafrir
ICDE
2006
IEEE
266views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximation Techniques for Indexing the Earth Mover's Distance in Multimedia Databases
Todays abundance of storage coupled with digital technologies in virtually any scientific or commercial application such as medical and biological imaging or music archives deal w...
Ira Assent, Andrea Wenning, Thomas Seidl
SODA
2001
ACM
102views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
15 years 7 months ago
Approximate majorization and fair online load balancing
This paper relates the notion of fairness in online routing and load balancing to vector majorization as developed by Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya 9]. We de ne -supermajorization ...
Ashish Goel, Adam Meyerson, Serge A. Plotkin
SWAT
2004
Springer
98views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2004»
15 years 11 months ago
Tight Approximability Results for Test Set Problems in Bioinformatics
In this paper, we investigate the test set problem and its variations that appear in a variety of applications. In general, we are given a universe of objects to be “distinguish...
Piotr Berman, Bhaskar DasGupta, Ming-Yang Kao
DASFAA
2005
IEEE
191views Database» more  DASFAA 2005»
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An Efficient Approach to Extracting Approximate Repeating Patterns in Music Databases
Pattern extraction from music strings is an important problem. The patterns extracted from music strings can be used as features for music retrieval or analysis. Previous works on ...
Ning-Han Liu, Yi-Hung Wu, Arbee L. P. Chen