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JSYML
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
First order properties on nowhere dense structures
A set A of vertices of a graph G is called d-scattered in G if no two d-neighborhoods of (distinct) vertices of A intersect. In other words, A is d-scattered if no two distinct ver...
Jaroslav Nesetril, Patrice Ossona de Mendez
ECCC
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Derandomizing the AW matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators and applications
Ahlswede and Winter [AW02] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound for real-valued random...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
JCT
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Removing even crossings
An edge in a drawing of a graph is called even if it intersects every other edge of the graph an even number of times. Pach and T´oth proved that a graph can always be redrawn so...
Michael J. Pelsmajer, Marcus Schaefer, Daniel Stef...
ITS
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Students' Reasoning About Qualitative Physics: Heuristics for Abductive Proof Search
Abstract. We describe a theorem prover that is used in the Why2Atlas tutoring system for the purposes of evaluating the correctness of a student’s essay and for guiding feedback ...
Maxim Makatchev, Pamela W. Jordan, Kurt VanLehn