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CP
2001
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
New Lower Bounds of Constraint Violations for Over-Constrained Problems
In recent years, many works have been carried out to solve over-constrained problems, and more speci cally the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem (Max-CSP), where the goal is ...
Jean-Charles Régin, Thierry Petit, Christia...
ICALP
1992
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Simplex Range Reporting on a Pointer Machine
Abstract Bernard Chazelle Department of Computer Science Princeton University Burton Rosenberg Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Dartmouth College We give a lower bou...
Bernard Chazelle, Burton Rosenberg
AIPS
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Lower Bounding Klondike Solitaire with Monte-Carlo Planning
Despite its ubiquitous presence, very little is known about the odds of winning the simple card game of Klondike Solitaire. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use o...
Ronald Bjarnason, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
SODA
2010
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Algorithmic Lower Bounds for Problems Parameterized by Clique-width
Many NP-hard problems can be solved efficiently when the input is restricted to graphs of bounded tree-width or clique-width. In particular, by the celebrated result of Courcelle,...
Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, Daniel Lokshtano...
COCO
2010
Springer
135views Algorithms» more  COCO 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Lower Bounds for Testing Function Isomorphism
—We prove new lower bounds in the area of property testing of boolean functions. Specifically, we study the problem of testing whether a boolean function f is isomorphic to a ...
Eric Blais, Ryan O'Donnell