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VLDB
2005
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Indexing Mixed Types for Approximate Retrieval
In various applications such as data cleansing, being able to retrieve categorical or numerical attributes based on notions of approximate match (e.g., edit distance, numerical di...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
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APPROX
2000
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Approximating node connectivity problems via set covers
Given a graph (directed or undirected) with costs on the edges, and an integer k, we consider the problem of nding a k-node connected spanning subgraph of minimum cost. For the ge...
Guy Kortsarz, Zeev Nutov
SIAMCOMP
1998
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15 years 11 days ago
Genericity, Randomness, and Polynomial-Time Approximations
Polynomial-time safe and unsafe approximations for intractable sets were introduced by Meyer and Paterson [Technical Report TM-126, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge,...
Yongge Wang
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
156views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 2 months ago
Reasoning About Approximate Match Query Results
Join techniques deploying approximate match predicates are fundamental data cleaning operations. A variety of predicates have been utilized to quantify approximate match in such o...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Xiao...
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan