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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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Enhancing the quality of learning and understanding of first-year mathematics for computer science related majors
Most courses on Discrete Mathematics are designed to emphasize problem solving, in general. When the goal is to cover the content, the learning and understanding takes a second pl...
Francis Suraweera
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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A tutorial program for propositional logic with human/computer interactive learning
This paper describes a tutorial program that serves a double role as an educational tool and a research environment. First, it introduces students to fundamental concepts of propo...
Stacy Lukins, Alan Levicki, Jennifer Burg
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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A specimen MPI application: N-Queens in parallel
: The generalized problem of placing n queens on an n-by-n board provides an "embarrassingly parallel" problem for parallel solution. This paper expands on the discussion...
Timothy J. Rolfe
EJC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Pooling spaces associated with finite geometry
3 Motivated by the works of Ngo and Du [H. Ngo, D. Du, A survey on combinatorial group testing 4 algorithms with applications to DNA library screening, DIMACS Series in Discrete Ma...
Tayuan Huang, Kaishun Wang, Chih-wen Weng
IWFM
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Mathematics for Formal Methods, a Proposal for Education Reform
It is widely recognized that there is a body of mathematics which is crucial to the underpinning of computer science, software engineering, and information and communications tech...
Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh
ITICSE
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Has our curriculum become math-phobic? (an American perspective)
We are concerned about a view in undergraduate computer science education, especially in the early courses, that it’s okay to be math-phobic and still prepare oneself to become ...
Charles Kelemen, Allen B. Tucker, Peter Henderson,...
PODC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Facility location: distributed approximation
In this paper, we initiate the study of the approximability of the facility location problem in a distributed setting. In particular, we explore a trade-off between the amount of...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
GECCO
2007
Springer
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Some novel locality results for the blob code spanning tree representation
The Blob Code is a bijective tree code that represents each tree on n labelled vertices as a string of n − 2 vertex labels. In recent years, several researchers have deployed th...
Tim Paulden, David K. Smith
ISMM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Discrete Driver Assistance
Applying computer technology, such as computer vision in driver assistance, implies that processes and data are modeled as being discretized rather than being continuous. The area ...
Reinhard Klette, Ruyi Jiang, Sandino Morales, Tobi...