Gaifman’s locality theorem states that every first-order sentence is equivalent to a local sentence. We show that there is no elementary bound on the length of the local sentenc...
Anuj Dawar, Martin Grohe, Stephan Kreutzer, Nicole...
Embedding metrics into constant-dimensional geometric spaces, such as the Euclidean plane, is relatively poorly understood. Motivated by applications in visualization, ad-hoc netw...
MohammadHossein Bateni, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi,...
In this paper we investigate protocols for scheduling applications that consist of large numbers of identical, independent tasks on large-scale computing platforms. By imposing a ...
Barbara Kreaseck, Larry Carter, Henri Casanova, Je...
Multiple sequence alignment is a central problem in Bioinformatics. A known integer programming approach is to apply branch-and-cut to exponentially large graph-theoretic models. T...
Steven David Prestwich, Desmond G. Higgins, Orla O...
Distributed decision making in networked systems depends critically on the timely availability of critical fresh information. Performance of networked systems, from the perspective...