@InProceedings{manthey_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.52, author = {Manthey, Bodo and van Rhijn, Jesse}, title = {{Worst-Case and Smoothed Analysis of the Hartigan-Wong Method for k-Means Clustering}}, booktitle = {41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)}, pages = {52:1--52:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-311-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {289}, editor = {Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.52}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197628}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.52}, annote = {Keywords: k-means clustering, smoothed analysis, probabilistic analysis, local search, heuristics} }