We study several properties of sets that are complete for NP. We prove that if L is an NP-complete set and S ⊇ L is a p-selective sparse set, then L − S is ≤p m-hard for NP....
—Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interestin...
Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, Chr...
Recent technology mappers for LUT based FPGAs employ cut enumeration. Although many cuts are often needed to nd good network, enumerating all cuts with large size consumes run-tim...
We coiisider a situation where two parties, Alice and Bob, share a common secret string arid would like to mutually check their knowledge of that string. We describe a simple and e...
Abstract. Blin et al. (2006) proposed a distributed protocol that enables the smallest number of searchers to clear any unknown asynchronous graph in a decentralized manner. Unknow...