Finding the closest ultrametric

DOI10.1016/j.dam.2014.07.023zbMath1303.05046MaRDI QIDQ476304

J. Herrera, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 28 November 2014

Published in: Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2014.07.023

zbMATH Keywords

approximation algorithm; phylogenetic reconstruction; ultrametric; cluster deletion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D15: Problems related to evolution

05C70: Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.)

05C12: Distance in graphs

68Q17: Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.)

68W25: Approximation algorithms