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COCOON
2007
Springer
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Scheduling Selfish Tasks: About the Performance of Truthful Algorithms
This paper deals with problems which fall into the domain of selfish scheduling: a protocol is in charge of building a schedule for a set of tasks without directly knowing their l...
George Christodoulou, Laurent Gourvès, Fann...
COCOON
2007
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Efficient Testing of Forecasts
Each day a weather forecaster predicts a probability of each type of weather for the next day. After n days, all the predicted probabilities and the real weather data are sent to a...
Ching-Lueh Chang, Yuh-Dauh Lyuu
CPM
2004
Springer
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Two Algorithms for LCS Consecutive Suffix Alignment
The problem of comparing two sequences A and B to determine their similarity is one of the fundamental problems in pattern matching. A challenging, basic variation of the sequence...
Gad M. Landau, Eugene W. Myers, Michal Ziv-Ukelson
CPM
2004
Springer
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Sorting by Reversals in Subquadratic Time
The problem of sorting a signed permutation by reversals is inspired by genome rearrangements in computational molecular biology. Given two genomes represented as two signed permut...
Eric Tannier, Marie-France Sagot
COCOON
2006
Springer
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On Dynamic Bin Packing: An Improved Lower Bound and Resource Augmentation Analysis
We study the dynamic bin packing problem introduced by Coffman, Garey and Johnson. This problem is a generalization of the bin packing problem in which items may arrive and depart...
Wun-Tat Chan, Prudence W. H. Wong, Fencol C. C. Yu...