A data structure is said to be persistent when any update operation returns a new structure without altering the old version. This paper introduces a new notion of persistence, cal...
: Let (C1, C1), (C2, C2), . . . , (Cm, Cm) be a sequence of ordered pairs of 2CNF clauses chosen uniformly at random (with repetition) from the set of all 4 n 2 clauses on n variab...
We consider worst case time bounds for NP-complete problems including 3-SAT, 3-coloring, 3-edge-coloring, and 3list-coloring. Our algorithms are based on a constraint satisfaction...
It is well known that any non-binary discrete constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be translated into an equivalent binary CSP. Two translations are known: the dual graph tra...
Wepropose a method called Selection by Performance Prediction (SPP) which allows one, when faced with a particular problem instance, to select a Branch and Boundalgorithm from amo...