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2006
ACM
129views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 2 days ago
Optimal phylogenetic reconstruction
One of the major tasks of evolutionary biology is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular data. The evolutionary model is given by a Markov chain on the true evolu...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Elchanan Mossel, Sé...
STOC
2003
ACM
171views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 2 days ago
Primal-dual meets local search: approximating MST's with nonuniform degree bounds
We present a new bicriteria approximation algorithm for the degree-bounded minimum-cost spanning tree problem: Given an undirected graph with nonnegative edge weights and degree b...
Jochen Könemann, R. Ravi
PODS
2007
ACM
159views Database» more  PODS 2007»
15 years 12 months ago
Generalized hypertree decompositions: np-hardness and tractable variants
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Georg Gottlob, Thomas Schwentick, Zoltán Mi...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
An O(log n) dominating set protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks under the physical interference model
Dealing with interference is one of the primary challenges to solve in the design of protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks. Most of the work in the literature assumes localized o...
Christian Scheideler, Andréa W. Richa, Paol...
SODA
2010
ACM
209views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Counting Stars and Other Small Subgraphs in Sublinear Time
Detecting and counting the number of copies of certain subgraphs (also known as network motifs or graphlets), is motivated by applications in a variety of areas ranging from Biolo...
Mira Gonen, Dana Ron, Yuval Shavitt