A symmetric group action on the maximal chains in a finite, ranked poset is local if the adjacent transpositions act in such a way that (i, i + 1) sends each maximal chain either ...
In 1964, Ronald Graham proved that there exist relatively prime natural numbers a and b such that the sequence {An} defined by An = An-1 + An-2 (n 2; A0 = a, A1 = b) contains no ...
This paper explores the fundamental question of how many iterations the celebrated HITS algorithm requires on a general graph to converge in score and, perhaps more importantly, in...
Lagrangian relaxation is commonly used in combinatorial optimization to generate lower bounds for a minimization problem. We propose a modified Lagrangian relaxation which used i...
In this paper we survey the basic features of state-of-the-art branch-and-cut algorithms for the solution of general mixed integer programming problems. In particular we focus on p...