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JACM
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Benny Chor, Tamir Tuller
TALG
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Limitations of cross-monotonic cost-sharing schemes
A cost-sharing scheme is a set of rules defining how to share the cost of a service (often computed by solving a combinatorial optimization problem) amongst serviced customers. A ...
Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian, Vahab S. Mirro...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Detecting hubs and quasi cliques in scale-free networks
Scale-free networks are believed to closely model most real-world networks. An interesting property of such networks is the existence of so-called hub and community structures. In...
Sriganesh Srihari, Hoong Kee Ng, Kang Ning, Hon Wa...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Local Graph Partitions for Approximation and Testing
—We introduce a new tool for approximation and testing algorithms called partitioning oracles. We develop methods for constructing them for any class of bounded-degree graphs wit...
Avinatan Hassidim, Jonathan A. Kelner, Huy N. Nguy...
SODA
2010
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Bidimensionality and Kernels
Bidimensionality theory appears to be a powerful framework in the development of meta-algorithmic techniques. It was introduced by Demaine et al. [J. ACM 2005 ] as a tool to obtai...
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Saket Saurabh, ...