There exists a polynomial time algorithm to compute the pathwidth of outerplanar graphs [3], but the large exponent makes this algorithm impractical. In this paper, we give an alg...
In this paper, we consider variants of the traveling salesman problem with precedence constraints. We characterize hard input instances for Christofides' algorithm and Hoogeve...
There has long been a competition between simulation and optimization in the modeling of problems in transportation and logistics, machine scheduling and similar highdimensional p...
The connection between similarity logic and the theory of closure operators is examined. Indeed one proves that the consequence relation defined in [14] can be obtained by composin...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...