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Comparing genomes with rearrangements and segmental duplications

Bernard Moret, Mingfu Shao

Motivation: Large-scale evolutionary events such as genomic rearrange. ments and segmental duplications form an important part of the evolution of genomes and are widely studied from both biological and computational perspectives. A basic computational pro ...

Oxford University Press2015

Towards Tight Lower Bounds for Scheduling Problems

Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Abbas Bazzi

We show a close connection between structural hardness for k-partite graphs and tight inapproximability results for scheduling problems with precedence constraints. Assuming a natural but nontrivial generalisation of the bipartite structural hardness resul ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

Centrality of trees for capacitated -center

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Hyung Chan An, Aditya Bhaskara

We consider the capacitated -center problem. In this problem we are given a finite set of locations in a metric space and each location has an associated non-negative integer capacity. The goal is to choose (open) locations (called centers) and assign each ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

On multiscale methods in Petrov-Galerkin formulation

Patrick Henning

In this work we investigate the advantages of multiscale methods in Petrov-Galerkin (PG) formulation in a general framework. The framework is based on a localized orthogonal decomposition of a high dimensional solution space into a low dimensional multisca ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

A production scheduling problem with uncertain sequence-dependent set-up times and random yield

Paul Xirouchakis, Byung Jun Joo

A scheduling problem in a real production line with uncertain sequence-dependent set-up times and a random yield is considered. The production line can produce multiple product types as production lots, each of which is composed of a number of products of ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Multi-Objective Quality-Driven Service Selection-A Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme

Boi Faltings, Immanuel Trummer

The goal of multi-objective quality-driven service selection (QDSS) is to find service selections for a workflow whose quality-of-service (QoS) values are Pareto-optimal. We consider multiple QoS attributes such as response time, cost, and reliability. A s ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Node-weighted network design and maximum sub-determinants

Carsten Moldenhauer

We consider the Node-weighted Steiner Forest problem on planar graphs. Demaine et al. showed that a generic primal-dual algorithm gives a 6-approximation. We present two different proofs of an approximation factor of~

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. Then, we draw a connection to Goem ...

EPFL2014

An Exact Algorithm to Compute the DCJ Distance for Genomes with Duplicate Genes

Bernard Moret, Yu Lin, Mingfu Shao

Computing the edit distance between two genomes is a basic problem in the study of genome evolution. The double-cut-and-join (DCJ) model has formed the basis for most algorithmic research on rearrangements over the last few years. The edit distance under t ...

Springer Verlag2014

Wireless Network Simplification: The Gaussian N-Relay Diamond Network

Christina Fragouli

We consider the Gaussian N-relay diamond network, where a source wants to communicate to destination node through a layer of N-relay nodes. We investigate the following question: what fraction of the capacity can we maintain using only k out of the N avail ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Centrality of Trees for Capacitated k-Center

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Hyung Chan An, Aditya Bhaskara

We consider the capacitated k-center problem. In this problem we are given a finite set of locations in a metric space and each location has an associated non-negative integer capacity. The goal is to choose (open) k locations (called centers) and assign e ...

Springer2014

Node-weighted network design and maximum sub-determinants

Carsten Moldenhauer

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. Then, we draw a connection to Goem ...

EPFL2014