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2008
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Environmental influences on gender in the IT workforce
In an effort to better understand the underrepresentation of women within the IT profession, one promising line of investigation is the influence of factors in the socio-cultural ...
Eileen M. Trauth, Jeria L. Quesenberry, Benjamin Y...
ECCC
2006
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Constraint satisfaction: a personal perspective
Attempts at classifying computational problems as polynomial time solvable, NP-complete, or belonging to a higher level in the polynomial hierarchy, face the difficulty of undecid...
Tomás Feder
JACM
2000
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The soft heap: an approximate priority queue with optimal error rate
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Bernard Chazelle
MP
2002
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Nonlinear rescaling vs. smoothing technique in convex optimization
We introduce an alternative to the smoothing technique approach for constrained optimization. As it turns out for any given smoothing function there exists a modification with part...
Roman A. Polyak