—The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problem...
—We consider the problem of designing a network which minimizes the total cost of the switching facilities and the fiber links, by choosing the subset of nodes at which to insta...
Temperature Discovery Search (TDS) is a new minimaxbased game tree search method designed to compute or approximate the temperature of a combinatorial game. TDS is based on the co...
The design of effective neighborhood structures is fundamentally important for creating better local search and metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization. Significant...
We describe a simple iterative method for proving a variety of results in combinatorial optimization. It is inspired by Jain’s iterative rounding method (FOCS 1998) for designing...