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PIMRC
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A distributed extended information filter for Self-Localization in Sensor Networks
—In this paper the Self-Localization problem for Sensor Networks is addressed. Given a set of nodes deployed in an environment, self-localization consists of finding out the loc...
Andrea Gasparri, Federica Pascucci, Giovanni Ulivi
SODA
2004
ACM
161views Algorithms» more  SODA 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Approximation schemes for Metric Bisection and partitioning
We design polynomial time approximation schemes (PTASs) for Metric BISECTION, i.e. dividing a given finite metric space into two halves so as to minimize or maximize the sum of di...
Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega, Marek Karpinski, C...
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
CPM
2009
Springer
94views Combinatorics» more  CPM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Online Approximate Matching with Non-local Distances
Abstract. A black box method was recently given that solves the problem of online approximate matching for a class of problems whose distance functions can be classified as being ...
Raphaël Clifford, Benjamin Sach
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
15 years 10 months ago
Approximate XML joins
XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the for...
Sudipto Guha, H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, Divesh ...