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PR
1998
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14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing the cost matrix for approximate string matching using genetic algorithms
This paper describes a method for optimizing the cost matrix of any approximate string matching algorithm based on the Levenshtein distance. The method, which uses genetic algorit...
Marc Parizeau, Nadia Ghazzali, Jean-Françoi...
STOC
2002
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
On the advantage over a random assignment
: We initiate the study of a new measure of approximation. This measure compares the performance of an approximation algorithm to the random assignment algorithm. This is a useful ...
Johan Håstad, Srinivasan Venkatesh
DFG
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Survey on Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling with Machine Unavailability
In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
13 years 10 days ago
Constant-approximation for target coverage problem in wireless sensor networks
—When a large amount of sensors are randomly deployed into a field, how can we make a sleep/activate schedule for sensors to maximize the lifetime of target coverage in the fie...
Ling Ding, Weili Wu, James Willson, Lidong Wu, Zai...
ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Solving Image Registration Problems Using Interior Point Methods
Abstract. This paper describes a novel approach to recovering a parametric deformation that optimally registers one image to another. The method proceeds by constructing a global c...
Camillo J. Taylor, Arvind Bhusnurmath