Colouring a graph with its chromatic number of colours is known to be NP-hard. Identifying an algorithm in which descisions are made locally with no information about the graph...
The Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem is introduced and its complexity, especially the hardness-of-approximation, is studied. The problem generalizes the Set Cover probl...
We describe a new algorithm for the problem of perfect sorting a signed permutation by reversals. The worst-case time complexity of this algorithm is parameterized by the maximum p...
We consider three variants of the open-end bin packing problem. Such variants of bin packing allow the total size of items packed into a bin to exceed the capacity of a bin, provi...
The Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds are fundamental probabilistic tools. An elementary approach is presented to obtain a Chernoff-type upper-tail bound for the number of prime factors o...