Abstract--The electrostatic discharge (ESD) problem has become a challenging reliability issue in nanometer-circuit design. High voltages that resulted from ESD might cause high cu...
Let G = (V, E) be a weighted undirected graph having non-negative edge weights. An estimate ˆδ(u, v) of the actual distance δ(u, v) between u, v ∈ V is said to be of stretch t...
We show that a random walk on a tournament on n vertices finds either a sink or a 3-cycle in expected time O √ n · log n · log∗ n , that is, sublinear both in the size of th...
We propose a method of deriving chronological order of events in natural language texts by constraining temporal boundaries associated to events and projecting them on a timeline....
This is a summary of the most important results presented in the author's PhD thesis (Spanjaard, 2003). This thesis, written in French, was defended on 16 December 2003 and su...