This paper considers grasps and fixtures whose contacts react according to force-displacement laws consistent with friction constrains at the contacts. The passive force closure s...
The Feedback Vertex Set problem asks whether a graph contains q vertices meeting all its cycles. This is not a local property, in the sense that we cannot check if q vertices meet...
Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan, Jan Arne Telle, Martin Vatshel...
In many settings there exists a set of potential participants, but the set of participants who are actually active in the system, and in particular their number, is unknown. This ...
Microprocessor technology is increasingly used for many applications; the large market volumes call for cost containment in the production phase. Process yield for processor produ...
: Semiorders may form the simplest class of ordered sets with a not necessarily transitive indifference relation. Their generalization has given birth to many other classes of orde...