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BMCBI
2006
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Determination of the minimum number of microarray experiments for discovery of gene expression patterns
Background: One type of DNA microarray experiment is discovery of gene expression patterns for a cell line undergoing a biological process over a series of time points. Two import...
Fang-Xiang Wu, W. J. Zhang, Anthony J. Kusalik
AMC
2006
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Selecting two different defective coins
In this paper, given a balance scale and the information that there are exactly two different defective coins present, the authors consider the problem of ascertaining the minimum...
Mingnan Qi, Sanyang Liu
ENDM
2008
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Unexpected behaviour of crossing sequences
The nth crossing number of a graph G, denoted crn(G), is the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of G on an orientable surface of genus n. We prove that for every a > b &g...
Matt DeVos, Bojan Mohar, Robert Sámal
DAM
2008
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Searching with lies under error cost constraints
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Rudolf Ahlswede, Ferdinando Cicalese, Christian De...
DAM
2010
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Covering line graphs with equivalence relations
An equivalence graph is a disjoint union of cliques, and the equivalence number eq(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of equivalence subgraphs needed to cover the edges of G. W...
Louis Esperet, John Gimbel, Andrew King
CORR
2010
Springer
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The overlap number of a graph
An overlap representation is an assignment of sets to the vertices of a graph in such a way that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the sets assigned to them overlap. The ov...
Bill Rosgen, Lorna Stewart
CORR
2010
Springer
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A Dense Hierarchy of Sublinear Time Approximation Schemes for Bin Packing
The bin packing problem is to find the minimum number of bins of size one to pack a list of items with sizes a1,
Richard Beigel, Bin Fu
CORR
2010
Springer
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Solution to the Counterfeit Coin Problem and its Generalization
: This work deals with a classic problem: "Given a set of coins among which there is a counterfeit coin of a different weight, find this counterfeit coin using ordinary balanc...
Juan Dominguez-Montes
HM
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid LS-CP Solver for the Shifts and Breaks Design Problem
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
Luca Di Gaspero, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Mus...
SODA
2003
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Multirate rearrangeable clos networks and a generalized edge coloring problem on bipartite graphs
Chung and Ross (SIAM J. Comput., 20, 1991) conjectured that the minimum number m(n, r) of middle-state switches for the symmetric 3-stage Clos network C(n, m(n, r), r) to be rearr...
Hung Q. Ngo, Van H. Vu