In this paper we develop models for and analyze several randomized work stealing algorithms in a dynamic setting. Our models represent the limiting behavior of systems as the numb...
Abstract The Examination Timetabling problem regards the scheduling for the exams of a set of university courses, avoiding the overlapping of exams having students in common, fairl...
The Matroid Secretary Problem, introduced by Babaioff et al. (2007), is a generalization of the Classical Secretary Problem. In this problem, elements from a matroid are presente...
We show that the set Bn of balanced parenthesis strings with n left and n right parentheses can be generated by prefix shifts. If b1, b2, . . . , b2n is a member of Bn, then the k...
In this paper, we introduce the concept of α-orthogonal patterns to mine a representative set of graph patterns. Intuitively, two graph patterns are α-orthogonal if their simila...
Mohammad Al Hasan, Vineet Chaoji, Saeed Salem, J&e...