Deterministic algorithms for rank aggregation and other ranking and clustering problems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4927 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 260-273

  Van Zuylen, Anke ^a   Williamson, David P ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Derandomization; Feedback arc set in tournaments; Rank aggregation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING PROBLEMS; CONSTANT-FACTOR APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DERANDOMIZATION; DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK ARC SET IN TOURNAMENTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING RELAXATION; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS; RANK AGGREGATION; RANKING PROBLEMS; TRIANGLE INEQUALITIES;

AGGLOMERATION; ALGORITHMS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FLOW OF SOLIDS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 45449113068     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77918-6_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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