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2012
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14 years 2 months ago
Low Randomness Rumor Spreading via Hashing
We consider the classical rumor spreading problem, where a piece of information must be disseminated from a single node to all n nodes of a given network. We devise two simple pus...
George Giakkoupis, Thomas Sauerwald, He Sun, Phili...
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SOFSEM
2012
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Randomized Group Testing Both Query-Optimal and Minimal Adaptive
The classical group testing problem asks to determine at most d defective elements in a set of n elements, by queries to subsets that return Yes if the subset contains some defecti...
Peter Damaschke, Azam Sheikh Muhammad
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SOFSEM
2012
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Visibly Pushdown Transducers with Look-Ahead
Visibly Pushdown Transducers (VPT) form a subclass of pushdown transducers. In this paper, we investigate the extension of VPT with visibly pushdown look-ahead (VPTla). Their trans...
Emmanuel Filiot, Frédéric Servais
SOFSEM
2012
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Iterated Hairpin Completions of Non-crossing Words
Abstract. Iterated hairpin completion is an operation on formal languages that is inspired by the hairpin formation in DNA biochemistry. Iterated hairpin completion of a word (or m...
Lila Kari, Steffen Kopecki, Shinnosuke Seki
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SOFSEM
2012
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Turing Machines for Dummies - Why Representations Do Matter
Abstract. Various methods exists in the literature for denoting the configuration of a Turing Machine. A key difference is whether the head position is indicated by some integer ...
Peter van Emde Boas