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1997
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Better Approximation Guarantees for Job-shop Scheduling
Job-shop scheduling is a classical NP-hard problem. Shmoys, Stein, and Wein presented the first polynomial-time approximation algorithm for this problem that has a good (polylogar...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mike Paterson, Aravind Sriniv...
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1997
ACM
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Map Labeling and Its Generalizations
Map labeling is of fundamental importance in cartography and geographical information systems and is one of the areas targeted for research by the ACM Computational Geometry Impac...
Srinivas Doddi, Madhav V. Marathe, Andy Mirzaian, ...
SODA
1997
ACM
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Partial Matching of Planar Polylines Under Similarity Transformations
Given two planar polylines T and P with n and m edges, respectively, we present an Om2 n2  time, Omn space algorithm to nd portions of the text" T which are similar in sh...
Scott D. Cohen, Leonidas J. Guibas
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1997
ACM
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Methods for Achieving Fast Query Times in Point Location Data Structures
Given a collection S of n line segments in the plane, the planar point location problem is to construct a data structure that can e ciently determine for a given query point p the...
Michael T. Goodrich, Mark W. Orletsky, Kumar Ramai...
SODA
1997
ACM
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On-Line Difference Maximization
In this paper we examine problems motivated by on-line financial problems and stochastic games. In particular, we consider a sequence of entirely arbitrary distinct values arrivin...
Ming-Yang Kao, Stephen R. Tate