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2004
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Approximating Additive Distortion of Embeddings into Line Metrics
We consider the problem of fitting metric data on n points to a path (line) metric. Our objective is to minimize the total additive distortion of this mapping. The total additive ...
Kedar Dhamdhere
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2004
Springer
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The Sketching Complexity of Pattern Matching
Abstract. We address the problems of pattern matching and approximate pattern matching in the sketching model. We show that it is impossible to compress the text into a small sketc...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, T. S. Jayram, Robert Krauthgamer, ...
APPROX
2004
Springer
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The Greedy Algorithm for the Minimum Common String Partition Problem
In the Minimum Common String Partition problem (MCSP) we are given two strings on input, and we wish to partition them into the same collection of substrings, minimizing the numbe...
Marek Chrobak, Petr Kolman, Jiri Sgall
APPROX
2004
Springer
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A Stateful Implementation of a Random Function Supporting Parity Queries over Hypercubes
Abstract. Motivated by an open problem recently suggested by Goldreich et al., we study truthful implementations of a random binary function supporting compound XOR queries over su...
Andrej Bogdanov, Hoeteck Wee
APPROX
2004
Springer
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Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design
We consider a single-source network design problem from a game-theoretic perspective. Gupta, Kumar and Roughgarden (Proc. 35th Annual ACM STOC, pages 365–372, 2003) developed a ...
Anupam Gupta, Aravind Srinivasan, Éva Tardo...