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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Facility Location in Sublinear Time
Abstract. In this paper we present a randomized constant factor approximation algorithm for the problem of computing the optimal cost of the metric Minimum Facility Location proble...
Mihai Badoiu, Artur Czumaj, Piotr Indyk, Christian...
AP2PC
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Semantic Overlay Networks for P2P Systems
In a peer-to-peer (P2P) system, nodes typically connect to a small set of random nodes (their neighbors), and queries are propagated along these connections. Such query flooding t...
Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina
BIOADIT
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Searching for a Practical Evidence of the No Free Lunch Theorems
Abstract. According to the No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems all blackbox algorithms perform equally well when compared over the entire set of optimization problems. An important proble...
Mihai Oltean
STACS
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Local Limit Distributions in Pattern Statistics: Beyond the Markovian Models
Motivated by problems of pattern statistics, we study the limit distribution of the random variable counting the number of occurrences of the symbol a in a word of length n chosen...
Alberto Bertoni, Christian Choffrut, Massimiliano ...
ESA
2003
Springer
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The Voronoi Diagram of Planar Convex Objects
This paper presents a dynamic algorithm for the construction of the Euclidean Voronoi diagram of a set of convex objects in the plane. We consider first the Voronoi diagram of smo...
Menelaos I. Karavelas, Mariette Yvinec