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The complexity issues of two clustering problems are studied. We prove that the Smooth Clustering and Biclustering problems are NP-hard; we also propose an 0.5 approximation algorithm and 0.8 inapproximability for a simplified clutering problem.
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- Cluster Problem
- Partition Problem
- Cluster Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Matrix
- cDNA Microarray Experiment
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Zhang, L., Zhu, S. (2001). Complexity Study on Two Clustering Problems. In: Eades, P., Takaoka, T. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45678-3_56
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