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COCOON
2005
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
On the Approximation of Computing Evolutionary Trees
Given a set of leaf-labelled trees with identical leaf sets, the well-known MAST problem consists of finding a subtree homeomorphically included in all input trees and with the la...
Vincent Berry, Sylvain Guillemot, François ...
MFCS
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
An Improved Approximation Bound for Spanning Star Forest and Color Saving
We present a simple algorithm for the maximum spanning star forest problem. We take advantage of the fact that the problem is a special case of complementary set cover and we adapt...
Stavros Athanassopoulos, Ioannis Caragiannis, Chri...
SIAMCOMP
2000
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15 years 6 months ago
Approximating the Stretch Factor of Euclidean Graphs
There are several results available in the literature dealing with efficient construction of t-spanners for a given set S of n points in Rd. t-spanners are Euclidean graphs in whic...
Giri Narasimhan, Michiel H. M. Smid
PODS
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
A generic flow algorithm for shared filter ordering problems
We consider a fundamental flow maximization problem that arises during the evaluation of multiple overlapping queries defined on a data stream, in a heterogenous parallel environm...
Zhen Liu, Srinivasan Parthasarathy 0002, Anand Ran...
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Physical Search Problems Applying Economic Search Models
This paper considers the problem of an agent searching for a resource or a tangible good in a physical environment, where at each stage of its search it observes one source where ...
Yonatan Aumann, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus, David Sar...