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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Offline matching approximation algorithms in exchange markets
Motivated by several marketplace applications on rapidly growing online social networks, we study the problem of efficient offline matching algorithms for online exchange markets....
Zeinab Abbassi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
NIPS
2001
15 years 6 months ago
A General Greedy Approximation Algorithm with Applications
Greedy approximation algorithms have been frequently used to obtain sparse solutions to learning problems. In this paper, we present a general greedy algorithm for solving a class...
T. Zhang
DISOPT
2006
155views more  DISOPT 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Cyclical scheduling and multi-shift scheduling: Complexity and approximation algorithms
We consider the multiple shift scheduling problem modelled as a covering problem. Such problems are characterized by a constraint matrix that has in every column blocks of consecu...
Dorit S. Hochbaum, Asaf Levin
KDD
2006
ACM
112views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
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K-means clustering versus validation measures: a data distribution perspective
K-means is a widely used partitional clustering method. While there are considerable research efforts to characterize the key features of K-means clustering, further investigation...
Hui Xiong, Junjie Wu, Jian Chen
SODA
2003
ACM
107views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
15 years 6 months ago
Fault-tolerant facility location
We consider a fault-tolerant generalization of the classical uncapacitated facility location problem, where each client j has a requirement that rj distinct facilities serve it, i...
Chaitanya Swamy, David B. Shmoys