A preorder consists of linearly ordered equivalence classes called blocks, and an alignment is a sequence of cycles on n labelled elements. We investigate the block structure of a...
We give a polynomial-time algorithm for the following problem: Given a degree sequence in which each degree is bounded from above by a constant, select, uniformly at random, an un...
We describe CSAR, a novel technique for generating cryptographically strong, accountable randomness. Using CSAR, we can generate a pseudo-random sequence and a proof that the elem...
Michael Backes, Peter Druschel, Andreas Haeberlen,...
Two classic “phase transitions” in discrete mathematics are the emergence of a giant component in a random graph as the density of edges increases, and the transition of a rand...
Given a sequence S of n symbols over some alphabet Σ, we develop a new compression method that is (i) very simple to implement; (ii) provides O(1) time random access to any symbol...