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Pictures from Mongolia – Partial Sorting in a Partial World

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Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2007)

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You are back from that very long, marvelous journey. You have a thousand pictures, but your friends and relatives will stand just a few dozens. Choosing is a painful process, in particular when you cannot decide between the silent vastity of that desert and the idyllic picture of that tranquil, majestic lake. We are going to help.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia

    Paolo Boldi & Sebastiano Vigna

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italia

    Flavio Chierichetti

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  1. Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 65, 50134, Firenze, Italy

    Pierluigi Crescenzi

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Giuseppe Prencipe

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/B, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Geppino Pucci

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Boldi, P., Chierichetti, F., Vigna, S. (2007). Pictures from Mongolia – Partial Sorting in a Partial World. In: Crescenzi, P., Prencipe, G., Pucci, G. (eds) Fun with Algorithms. FUN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72914-3_8

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