SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
The Densest k-subgraph problem (i.e. find a size k subgraph with maximum number of edges), is one of the notorious problems in approximation algorithms. There is a significant g...
JAIR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper, we analyze the decision version of the NK landscape model from the perspective of threshold phenomena and phase transitions under two random distributions, the unif...
JSAT
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
An analysis of the SAT 2005 sub-competition on random instances is given. This year this (sub-)competition set-up was geared to establish a basic setting, focusing on the instance...
JAIR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
We characterize the search landscape of random instances of the job shop scheduling problem (JSP). Specifically, we investigate how the expected values of (1) backbone size, (2) d...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
We consider random instances of constraint satisfaction problems where each variable has domain size O(1), each constraint is on O(1) variables and the constraints are chosen from...
COCOA
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
We introduce a new combinatorial optimization problem, which is a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and which we call Traveling Salesman Problem of Second Orde...
AAAI
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
The study of random instances of NP complete and coNP complete problems has had much impact on our understanding of the nature of hard problems. In this work, we initiate an effor...
LATIN
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Consider a game in which edges of a graph are provided a pair at a time, and the player selects one edge from each pair, attempting to construct a graph with a component as large ...