Algorithmic methods based on the theory of fixed-parameter tractability are combined with powerful computational platforms to launch systematic attacks on combinatorial problems o...
Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Michael A. Langston, Pushkar ...
A novel combination of emergent algorithmic methods, powerful computational platforms and supporting infrastructure is described. These complementary tools and technologies are us...
Faisal N. Abu-Khzam, Michael A. Langston, Pushkar ...
Fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) techniques have recently been successful in solving NP-complete problem instances of practical importance which were too large to be solved with...
James Cheetham, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Andrew Rau-C...
Abstract: This paper discusses three rectilinear (that is, axis-parallel) covering problems in d dimensions and their variants. The first problem is the Rectilinear Line Cover whe...
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Apichat Heednacram, Fran...
Abstract. Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be very successful for a wide range of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. We investigate the NP-hard problem of compu...
Stefan Kratsch, Per Kristian Lehre, Frank Neumann,...