Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
In the age of electronic commerce, with low-cost information access, it has been recognized that a bundle search in a combinatorial trade is very valuable for buyers. Optimal trav...
The class of algorithms for approximating reasoning tasks presented in this paper is based on approximating the general bucket elimination framework. The algorithms have adjustabl...
Background: High-throughput methods for detecting protein-protein interactions enable us to obtain large interaction networks, and also allow us to computationally identify the as...