Decision trees for entity identification: Approximation algorithms and hardness results

Proceedings of the ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 53-62

  Chakaravarthy, Venkatesan T ^a   Pandit, Vinayaka ^a   Roy, Sambuddha ^a   Awasthi, Pranjal ^a   Mohania, Mukesh ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithm; Decision tree; Ramsey theory

Indexed keywords

BINARY TABLES; RAMSEY NUMBER;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FAULT DETECTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 35448979553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1265530.1265538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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