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DASFAA
2005
IEEE
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16 years 8 days ago
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
ICCSA
2004
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
A Robust and Fast Algorithm for Computing Exact and Approximate Shortest Visiting Routes
Abstract. Given a simple n-sided polygon in the plane with a boundary partitioned into subchains some of which are convex and colored, we consider the following problem: Which is t...
Håkan Jonsson
FOCS
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithms for Hausdorff Metrics via Embeddings
Hausdorff metrics are used in geometric settings for measuring the distance between sets of points. They have been used extensively in areas such as computer vision, pattern recog...
Martin Farach-Colton, Piotr Indyk
ESA
2006
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximation in Preemptive Stochastic Online Scheduling
Abstract. We present a first constant performance guarantee for preemptive stochastic scheduling to minimize the sum of weighted completion times. For scheduling jobs with release ...
Nicole Megow, Tjark Vredeveld
CORR
2010
Springer
112views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Efficient Approximation of Optimal Control for Markov Games
The success of probabilistic model checking for discrete-time Markov decision processes and continuous-time Markov chains has led to rich academic and industrial applications. The ...
Markus Rabe, Sven Schewe, Lijun Zhang