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IJRR
2010
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Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots
Robots consisting of several concentric, preshaped, elastic tubes can work dexterously in narrow, constrained, and/or winding spaces, as are commonly found in minimally invasive s...
D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III, Gregory S....
JCT
2010
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Pancyclicity of Hamiltonian and highly connected graphs
A graph G on n vertices is Hamiltonian if it contains a cycle of length n and pancyclic if it contains cycles of length for all 3 ≤ ≤ n. Write α(G) for the independence numbe...
Peter Keevash, Benny Sudakov
SIAMCOMP
2010
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Edge Disjoint Paths in Moderately Connected Graphs
Abstract. We study the Edge Disjoint Paths (EDP) problem in undirected graphs: Given a graph G with n nodes and a set T of pairs of terminals, connect as many terminal pairs as pos...
Satish Rao, Shuheng Zhou
SWAT
2010
Springer
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Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
SYNTHESE
2010
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The Classical Model of Science: a millennia-old model of scientific rationality
Throughout more than two millennia philosophers adhered massively to ideal standards of scientific rationality going back ultimately to Aristotle’s Analytica posteriora. These s...
Willem R. de Jong, Arianna Betti