On the approximability of numerical taxonomy

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn Part F129447, Issue , 1996, Pages 365-372

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

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

APPROXIMABILITY; DISTANCE MATRICES; NP-HARD; NUMERICAL TAXONOMY; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84969399236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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