Euclidean Distance Matrices and Applications

Over the past decade, Euclidean distance matrices, or EDMs, have been receiving increased attention for two main reasons. The first reason is that the many applications of EDMs, such as molecular conformation in bioinformatics, dimensionality reduction in machine learning and statistics, and especially the problem of wireless sensor network localization, have all become very active areas of research. The second reason for this increased interest is the close connection between EDMs and semidefinite matrices. Our recent ability to solve semidefinite programs, SDPs, efficiently means we can now also solve many problems involving EDMs efficiently.