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CP
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Breaking Symmetry of Interchangeable Variables and Values
Abstract. A common type of symmetry is when both variables and values partition into interchangeable sets. Polynomial methods have been introduced to eliminate all symmetric soluti...
Yat Chiu Law, Jimmy Ho-Man Lee, Toby Walsh, J. Y. ...
AINA
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
The Power of Orientation in Symmetry-Breaking
—Symmetry breaking is a fundamental operation in distributed computing. It has applications to important problems such as graph vertex and edge coloring, maximal independent sets...
Satya Krishna Pindiproli, Kishore Kothapalli
PODC
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
A new technique for distributed symmetry breaking
We introduce Multi-Trials, a new technique for symmetry breaking for distributed algorithms and apply it to various problems in general graphs. For instance, we present three rand...
Johannes Schneider, Roger Wattenhofer
SIAMCOMP
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
Self-Stabilizing Symmetry Breaking in Constant Space
abstract Alain Mayer Yoram Ofeky Rafail Ostrovskyz Moti Yungx We investigate the problem of self-stabilizing round-robin token management scheme on an anonymous bidirectional ring...
Alain J. Mayer, Rafail Ostrovsky, Yoram Ofek, Moti...
CPAIOR
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Models and Symmetry Breaking for 'Peaceable Armies of Queens'
We discuss a di cult optimization problem on a chess-board, requiring equal numbers of black and white queens to be placed on the board so that the white queens cannot attack the b...
Barbara M. Smith, Karen E. Petrie, Ian P. Gent