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ALMOB
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Reconstructing phylogenies from noisy quartets in polynomial time with a high success probability
Background: In recent years, quartet-based phylogeny reconstruction methods have received considerable attentions in the computational biology community. Traditionally, the accura...
Gang Wu, Ming-Yang Kao, Guohui Lin, Jia-Huai You
STOC
2004
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Bypassing the embedding: algorithms for low dimensional metrics
The doubling dimension of a metric is the smallest k such that any ball of radius 2r can be covered using 2k balls of raThis concept for abstract metrics has been proposed as a na...
Kunal Talwar
ICALP
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Network Design via Core Detouring for Problems without a Core
Some of the currently best-known approximation algorithms for network design are based on random sampling. One of the key steps of such algorithms is connecting a set of source nod...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoß
APPROX
2007
Springer
67views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
16 years 24 days ago
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
abstract Manor Mendel1 and Assaf Naor2 1 The Open University of Israel 2 Courant Institute Let (X, dX ) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over ...
Manor Mendel, Assaf Naor
COCOA
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth