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DATAMINE
1999
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15 years 4 months ago
A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Self-Organizing Maps with Applications to Sparse Data Mining Problems
Abstract. We describe a scalable parallel implementation of the self organizing map (SOM) suitable for datamining applications involving clustering or segmentation against large da...
Richard D. Lawrence, George S. Almasi, Holly E. Ru...
CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Scaling Populations of a Genetic Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problems Using MapReduce
Inspired by Darwinian evolution, a genetic algorithm (GA) approach is one of the popular heuristic methods for solving hard problems, such as the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP...
Di-Wei Huang, Jimmy Lin
JAL
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Approximations for minimum and min-max vehicle routing problems
: We consider a variety of vehicle routing problems. The input to a problem consists of a graph G = (N, E) and edge lengths l(e) e E. Customers located at the vertices have to be ...
Esther M. Arkin, Refael Hassin, Asaf Levin
ICIP
2000
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Distributional Clustering for Efficient Content-Based Retrieval of Images and Video
In this paper, we presentan approach to clustering images for efficient retrieval using relative entropy. We start with the assumption that visual features are represented by prob...
Giridharan Iyengar, Andrew Lippman
AAIM
2008
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
An Improved Randomized Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Triangle Packing
This paper deals with the maximum triangle packing problem. For this problem, Hassin and Rubinstein gave a randomized polynomial-time approximation algorithm that achieves an expe...
Zhi-Zhong Chen, Ruka Tanahashi, Lusheng Wang