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IWPEC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Paths of Bounded Length and Their Cuts: Parameterized Complexity and Algorithms
We study the parameterized complexity of two families of problems: the bounded length disjoint paths problem and the bounded length cut problem. From Menger’s theorem both proble...
Petr A. Golovach, Dimitrios M. Thilikos
CAEPIA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Empirical Hardness for Mixed Auctions
Mixed Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions (MMUCAs) offer a high potential to be employed for the automated assembly of supply chains of agents. However, little is known about the fac...
Pablo Almajano, Jesús Cerquides, Juan A. Ro...
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
We study the profit-maximization problem of a monopolistic market-maker who sets two-sided prices in an asset market. The sequential decision problem is hard to solve because the ...
Sanmay Das, Malik Magdon-Ismail
ALGORITHMICA
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Sum Coloring of Bipartite Graphs with Bounded Degree
We consider the Chromatic Sum Problem on bipartite graphs which appears to be much harder than the classical Chromatic Number Problem. We prove that the Chromatic Sum Problem is NP...
Michal Malafiejski, Krzysztof Giaro, Robert Jancze...
GD
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Moving Vertices to Make Drawings Plane
In John Tantalo’s on-line game Planarity the player is given a non-plane straight-line drawing of a planar graph. The aim is to make the drawing plane as quickly as possible by m...
Xavier Goaoc, Jan Kratochvíl, Yoshio Okamot...