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ESA
2010
Springer
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Estimating the Average of a Lipschitz-Continuous Function from One Sample
We study the problem of estimating the average of a Lipschitz continuous function f defined over a metric space, by querying f at only a single point. More specifically, we explore...
Abhimanyu Das, David Kempe
FOCS
2008
IEEE
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Set Covering with our Eyes Closed
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...
Fabrizio Grandoni, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi,...
AI
2008
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Modelling and solving temporal reasoning as propositional satisfiability
Representing and reasoning about time dependent information is a key research issue in many areas of computer science and artificial intelligence. One of the best known and widely...
Duc Nghia Pham, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
BMCBI
2008
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Gene Ontology term overlap as a measure of gene functional similarity
Background: The availability of various high-throughput experimental and computational methods allows biologists to rapidly infer functional relationships between genes. It is oft...
Meeta Mistry, Paul Pavlidis
CORR
2008
Springer
128views Education» more  CORR 2008»
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A Fast Generic Sequence Matching Algorithm
A string matching--and more generally, sequence matching--algorithm is presented that has a linear worst-case computing time bound, a low worst-case bound on the number of compari...
David R. Musser, Gor V. Nishanov