Let H 2V be a hypergraph on vertex set V . For a positive integer r, we call H r-exact, if any minimal transversal of H intersects any hyperedge of H in at most r vertices. This ...
The Employee Timetabling Problem (ETP) is a general class of problems widely encountered in service organizations (such as call centers for instance). Given a set of activities, a ...
Sophie Demassey, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin Rouss...
We study vindictive bidding, a strategic bidding behavior in keyword auctions where a bidder forces his competitor to pay more without affecting his own payment. We show that most...
String-to-string transduction is a central problem in computational linguistics and natural language processing. It occurs in tasks as diverse as name transliteration, spelling co...
The paper presents the position analysis of a spatial structure composed of two platforms mutually connected by one RRP and three SS serial kinematic chains, where R, P, and S sta...