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COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Oblivious and Adaptive Strategies for the Majority and Plurality Problems
In the well-studied Majority problem, we are given a set of n balls colored with two or more colors, and the goal is to use the minimum number of color comparisons to find a ball ...
Fan R. K. Chung, Ronald L. Graham, Jia Mao, Andrew...
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Reverse Greedy Algorithm for the Metric K-Median Problem
The Reverse Greedy algorithm (RGREEDY) for the k-median problem works as follows. It starts by placing facilities on all nodes. At each step, it removes a facility to minimize the...
Marek Chrobak, Claire Kenyon, Neal E. Young
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A PTAS for a Disc Covering Problem Using Width-Bounded Separators
In this paper, we study the following disc covering problem: Given a set of discs of various radii on the plane, find a subset of discs to maximize the area covered by exactly on...
Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu, Yong Tang, Binhai Zhu
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Quadratic Lower Bound for Rocchio's Similarity-Based Relevance Feedback Algorithm
Rocchio’s similarity-based relevance feedback algorithm, one of the most important query reformation methods in information retrieval, is essentially an adaptive supervised lear...
Zhixiang Chen, Bin Fu
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Server Allocation Algorithms for Tiered Systems
Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Anshul Kothari, Rudi Pendaving...
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On the Approximation of Computing Evolutionary Trees
Given a set of leaf-labelled trees with identical leaf sets, the well-known MAST problem consists of finding a subtree homeomorphically included in all input trees and with the la...
Vincent Berry, Sylvain Guillemot, François ...
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Algorithms for the K-Maximum Subarray Problem for Small K
The maximum subarray problem for a one- or two-dimensional array is to find the array portion that maiximizes the sum of array elements in it. The K-maximum subarray problem is to...
Sung Eun Bae, Tadao Takaoka
COCOON
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Tight Analysis of the Maximal Matching Heuristic
We study the worst-case performance of the maximal matching heuristic applied to the Minimum Vertex Cover and Minimum Maximal Matching problems, through a careful analysis of tigh...
Jean Cardinal, Martine Labbé, Stefan Langer...