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PR
1998
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15 years 1 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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16 years 1 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 8 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 4 months 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
16 years 3 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