With random inputs, certain decision problems undergo a “phase transition”. We prove similar behavior in an optimization context. Given a conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula...
Don Coppersmith, David Gamarnik, Mohammad Taghi Ha...
We introduce the following consensus estimate problem. Several processors hold private and possibly different lower bounds on a value. The processors do not communicate with each ...
—A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized in...
Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma, Paul M. B. Vit&...
We give the first linear kernels for DOMINATING SET and CONNECTED DOMINATING SET problems on graphs excluding a fixed graph H as a minor. In other words, we give polynomial time...
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Saket Saurabh, ...
The natural relaxation for the Group Steiner Tree problem, as well as for its generalization, the Directed Steiner Tree problem, is a flow-based linear programming relaxation. We...
Eran Halperin, Guy Kortsarz, Robert Krauthgamer, A...