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ACG
2006
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
An Event-Based Pool Physics Simulator
A method to simulate the physics of the game of pool is presented. The method is based upon a parametrization of ball motion which allows the time of occurrence of events, such as...
Will Leckie, Michael A. Greenspan
CRYPTO
2005
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Pebbling and Proofs of Work
We investigate methods for providing easy-to-check proofs of computational effort. Originally intended for discouraging spam, the concept has wide applicability as a method for co...
Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Hoeteck Wee
STACS
2005
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Worst-Case and Average-Case Approximations by Simple Randomized Search Heuristics
Abstract. In recent years, probabilistic analyses of algorithms have received increasing attention. Despite results on the average-case complexity and smoothed complexity of exact ...
Carsten Witt
WABI
2005
Springer
132views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
Perfect Sorting by Reversals Is Not Always Difficult
—We propose new algorithms for computing pairwise rearrangement scenarios that conserve the combinatorial structure of genomes. More precisely, we investigate the problem of sort...
Sèverine Bérard, Anne Bergeron, Cedr...
ICALP
2004
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Note on Karr's Algorithm
We give a simple formulation of Karr’s algorithm for computing all affine relationships in affine programs. This simplified algorithm runs in time O(nk3 ) where n is the progr...
Markus Müller-Olm, Helmut Seidl