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JUCS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
NP-completeness and FPT Results for Rectilinear Covering Problems
Abstract: This paper discusses three rectilinear (that is, axis-parallel) covering problems in d dimensions and their variants. The first problem is the Rectilinear Line Cover whe...
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Apichat Heednacram, Fran...
AAAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Depth-First Branch-and-Bound versus Local Search: A Case Study
Depth-first branch-and-bound (DFBnB) is a complete algorithm that is typically used to find optimal solutions of difficult combinatorial optimization problems. It can also be adap...
Weixiong Zhang
COMBINATORICA
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Approximation algorithms via contraction decomposition
We prove that the edges of every graph of bounded (Euler) genus can be partitioned into any prescribed number k of pieces such that contracting any piece results in a graph of bou...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Bojan M...
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On Scaling Multi-Agent Task Reallocation Using Market-Based Approach
Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a promising technology for addressing problems such as search and rescue missions, mine sweeping, and surveillance. These problems are a form of ...
Rajesh K. Karmani, Timo Latvala, Gul Agha
ADHOC
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
Power efficient routing trees for ad hoc wireless networks using directional antenna
In ad hoc wireless networks, nodes are typically powered by batteries. Therefore saving energy has become a very important objective, and different algorithms have been proposed t...
Fei Dai, Qing Dai, Jie Wu