Edit distance has been extensively studied for the past several years. Nevertheless, no linear-time algorithm is known to compute the edit distance between two strings, or even to...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, T. S. Jayram, Robert Krauthgamer, ...
We revisit and use the dependence transformation method to generate parallel algorithms suitable for cluster and grid computing. We illustrate this method in two applications: to o...
Ulisses Kendi Hayashida, Kunio Okuda, Jairo Panett...
We study the mechanism design problem of scheduling unrelated machines and we completely characterize the decisive truthful mechanisms for two players when the domain contains bot...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Angelina ...
Background: Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) is a powerful tool to determine gene expression profiles. Two types of SAGE libraries, ShortSAGE and LongSAGE, are classified...
Yi-Ju Li, Puting Xu, Xuejun Qin, Donald E. Schmech...
: This communication describes a representation of images as a set of edges characterized by their position and orientation. This representation allows the comparison of two images...