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A combinatorial, strongly polynomial-time algorithm for minimizing submodular functions
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Pages: 97 - 106  
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN:1-58113-184-4
Authors
Satoru Iwata  Grad. School of Eng. Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
Lisa Fleischer  Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Oper. Res., Columbia University, New York, NY
Satoru Fujishige  Grad. School of Eng. Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Lisa Fleischer: colleagues
Satoru Fujishige: colleagues