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COCOON
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
On Smoothed Analysis of Quicksort and Hoare's Find
We provide a smoothed analysis of Hoare’s find algorithm and we revisit the smoothed analysis of quicksort. Hoare’s find algorithm – often called quickselect – is an easy...
Mahmoud Fouz, Manfred Kufleitner, Bodo Manthey, Ni...
BMCBI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
The contrasting properties of conservation and correlated phylogeny in protein functional residue prediction
Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
On the Value of Multiple Read/Write Streams for Approximating Frequency Moments
We consider the read/write streams model, an extension of the standard data stream model in which an algorithm can create and manipulate multiple read/write streams in addition to...
Paul Beame, Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng
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STOC
2007
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Reordering buffers for general metric spaces
In the reordering buffer problem, we are given an input sequence of requests for service each of which corresponds to a point in a metric space. The cost of serving the requests h...
Matthias Englert, Harald Räcke, Matthias West...