Abstract. We propose a dynamic process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of i...
Augustin Chaintreau, Pierre Fraigniaud, Emmanuelle...
We give new constructions of randomness extractors and lossless condensers that are optimal to within constant factors in both the seed length and the output length. For extractor...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Christopher Umans, Salil P. ...
We consider the problem of finding a shortest cycle (freely) homotopic to a given simple cycle on a compact, orientable surface. For this purpose, we use a pants decomposition of...
The availability of indoor positioning renders it possible to deploy location-based services in indoor spaces. Many such services will benefit from the efficient support for k n...
The board game FragmindTM poses the following problem: The player has to reconstruct an (unknown) string s over the alphabet . To this end, the game reports the following informati...