—As the exponential explosion of various contents generated on the Web, Recommendation techniques have become increasingly indispensable. Innumerable different kinds of recommend...
The increasing popularity of social networks has initiated a fertile research area in information extraction and data mining. Although such analysis can facilitate better understan...
The traveling salesperson problem (TSP) is difficult to solve for input instances with large number of cities. Instead of finding the solution of an input with a large number of c...
Yll Haxhimusa, Walter G. Kropatsch, Zygmunt Pizlo,...
Many backtracking algorithms exhibit heavy-tailed distributions, in which their running time is often much longer than their median. We analyze the behavior of two natural variant...
We consider the problem of pricing items so as to maximize the profit made from selling these items. An instance is given by a set E of n items and a set of m clients, where each c...