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2010
Springer
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On Table Arrangements, Scrabble Freaks, and Jumbled Pattern Matching
Given a string s, the Parikh vector of s, denoted p(s), counts the multiplicity of each character in s. Searching for a match of Parikh vector q (a “jumbled string”) in the tex...
Peter Burcsi, Ferdinando Cicalese, Gabriele Fici, ...
FUN
2010
Springer
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Simple Wriggling Is Hard Unless You Are a Fat Hippo
Irina Kostitsyna, Valentin Polishchuk
FUN
2010
Springer
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The Complexity of Flood Filling Games
We study the complexity of the popular one player combinatorial game known as Flood-It. In this game the player is given an n×n board of tiles where each tile is allocated one of ...
David Arthur, Raphaël Clifford, Markus Jalsen...
FUN
2010
Springer
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Fighting Censorship with Algorithms
In countries such as China or Iran where Internet censorship is prevalent, users usually rely on proxies or anonymizers to freely access the web. The obvious difficulty with this a...
Mohammad Mahdian
FUN
2010
Springer
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Mapping an Unfriendly Subway System
We consider a class of highly dynamic networks modelled on an urban subway system. We examine the problem of creating a map of such a subway in less than ideal conditions, where th...
Paola Flocchini, Matthew Kellett, Peter C. Mason, ...
FUN
2010
Springer
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Christmas Gift Exchange Games
The Christmas gift exchange is a popular party game played around Christmas. Each participant brings a Christmas present to the party, and a random ordering of the participants, ac...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian
FUN
2010
Springer
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Symmetric Monotone Venn Diagrams with Seven Curves
An n-Venn diagram consists of n curves drawn in the plane in such a way that each of the 2n possible intersections of the interiors and exteriors of the curves forms a connected no...
Tao Cao, Khalegh Mamakani, Frank Ruskey
FUN
2010
Springer
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UNO Is Hard, Even for a Single Player
UNOR is one of the world-wide well-known and popular card games. We investigate UNO from the viewpoint of combinatorial algorithmic game theory by giving some simple and concise ma...
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Ryuhei Uehara,...
FUN
2010
Springer
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An Algorithmic Analysis of the Honey-Bee Game
The Honey-Bee game is a two-player board game that is played on a connected hexagonal colored grid, or in a generalized setting, on a connected graph with colored nodes. In a singl...
Rudolf Fleischer, Gerhard J. Woeginger
FUN
2010
Springer
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Computational Complexity of Two-Dimensional Platform Games
Abstract. We analyze the computational complexity of various twodimensional platform games. We identify common properties of these games that allow us to state several meta-theorem...
Michal Forisek