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CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
On The Complexity of Manipulating Elections
We study the manipulation of voting schemes, where a voter lies about their preferences in the hope of improving the election’s outcome. All voting schemes are potentially manip...
Tom Coleman, Vanessa Teague
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Constructing Optimal Highways
For two points p and q in the plane, a straight line h, called a highway, and a real v > 1, we define the travel time (also known as the city distance) from p and q to be the ...
Hee-Kap Ahn, Helmut Alt, Tetsuo Asano, Sang Won Ba...
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Effective Prediction and its Computational Complexity
A model for the problem of predicting the outputs of a process, based only on knowledge of previous outputs, is proposed in terms of a decision problem. The strength of this parti...
Richard Taylor
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
On the Power of Structural Violations in Priority Queues
We give a priority queue that guarantees the worstcase cost of Θ(1) per minimum finding, insertion, and decrease; and the worst-case cost of Θ(lg n) with at most lg n + O( √ ...
Amr Elmasry, Claus Jensen, Jyrki Katajainen
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Linear Time Algorithm for Pricing European Sequential Barrier Options
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
Peng Gao, Ron van der Meyden
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Analysis of Busy Beaver Machines via Induction Proofs
The busy beaver problem is to find the maximum number of 1’s that can be printed by an n-state Turing machine of a particular type. A critical step in the evaluation of this va...
James Harland
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Some Structural and Geometric Properties of Two-Connected Steiner Networks
We consider the problem of constructing a shortest Euclidean 2-connected Steiner network (SMN) for a set of terminals. This problem has natural applications in the design of survi...
K. Hvam, L. Reinhardt, Pawel Winter, Martin Zachar...
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Constructing Strictly Positive Families
In order to represent, compute and reason with advanced data types one must go beyond the traditional treatment of data types as being inductive types and, instead, consider them ...
Peter Morris, Thorsten Altenkirch, Neil Ghani
CATS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
An Optimal Broadcasting Protocol for Mobile Video-on-Demand
The advance of wireless and mobile technology introduces a new type of Video-on-Demand (VOD) systems, namely the mobile VOD systems, that provide VOD services to mobile clients. I...
Regant Y. S. Hung, Hing-Fung Ting