Duality between quasi-concave functions and monotone linkage functions
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Duality between quasi-concave functions and monotone linkage functions
A function F defined on all subsets of a finite ground set E is quasiconcave if F (X∪Y ) ≥ min{F (X), F (Y )} for all X, Y ⊂ E. Quasi-concave functions arise in many fields of mathematics and computer science such as social choice, theory of graph, data mining, clustering and other fields. The maximization of quasi-concave function takes, in general, exponential time. However, if a quasi-concav...
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عنوان ژورنال: Discrete Mathematics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2009.09.001