A note on the computational complexity of hierarchical overlapping clustering

Mirko Křivánek

Aplikace matematiky (1985)

  • Volume: 30, Issue: 6, page 453-460
  • ISSN: 0862-7940

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In this paper the computational complexity of the problem of the approximation of a given dissimilarity measure on a finite set X by a k -ultrametric on X and by a Robinson dissimilarity measure on X is investigared. It is shown that the underlying decision problems are NP-complete.

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Křivánek, Mirko. "A note on the computational complexity of hierarchical overlapping clustering." Aplikace matematiky 30.6 (1985): 453-460. <http://eudml.org/doc/15427>.

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