On the approximability of numerical taxonomy (fitting distances by tree metrics)

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1073-1085

  Agarwala, Richa ^a,b   Bafna, Vineet ^a,c   Farach, Martin ^d   Paterson, Mike ^e   Thorup, Mikkel ^f  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithm; Taxonomy; Tree metric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

TAXONOMY; TREE METRIC;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0032256591     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0097539795296334     Document Type: Article

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