Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
The usefulness of parameterized algorithmics has often depended on what Niedermeier has called, "the art of problem parameterization." In this paper we introduce and expl...
Michael R. Fellows, Serge Gaspers, Frances A. Rosa...
Abstract. Protein structural alignment is an indispensable tool used for many different studies in bioinformatics. Most structural alignment algorithms assume that the structural ...
Joe Dundas, T. Andrew Binkowski, Bhaskar DasGupta,...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
In multiagent settings where agents have different preferences, preference aggregation can be an important issue. Voting is a general method to aggregate preferences. We consider ...