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SDM
2009
SIAM
219views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
15 years 7 months ago
A Hybrid Data Mining Metaheuristic for the p-Median Problem.
Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In t...
Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuch...
PODS
2009
ACM
119views Database» more  PODS 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Exceeding expectations and clustering uncertain data
Database technology is playing an increasingly important role in understanding and solving large-scale and complex scientific and societal problems and phenomena, for instance, un...
Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala
SODA
2010
ACM
174views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Differentially Private Combinatorial Optimization
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...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Combining multiple heuristics on discrete resources
—In this work we study the portfolio problem which is to find a good combination of multiple heuristics to solve given instances on parallel resources in minimum time. The resou...
Marin Bougeret, Pierre-François Dutot, Alfr...
SODA
2008
ACM
84views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Robust cost colorings
We consider graph coloring problems where the cost of a coloring is the sum of the costs of the colors, and the cost of a color is a monotone concave function of the total weight ...
Takuro Fukunaga, Magnús M. Halldórss...