A Sublinear Time Approximation Scheme for Clustering in Metric Spaces

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Indyk

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '99 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The metric 2-clustering problem is defined as follows: given a metric (X; d), partition X into two sets S1 and S2 in order to minimize the value of \math\math d(u,v) i {u,v}\math Si In this paper we show an approximation scheme for this problem.