Besides search, complete inference methods can also be used to solve soft constraint problems. Their main drawback is the high spatial complexity. To improve its practical usage, w...
We consider the practical NP-complete problem of finding a minimum weight spanning tree with both edge weights and inner nodes weights. We present two polynomial time algorithms ...
Rudolf Fleischer, Qi Ge, Jian Li, Shijun Tian, Hai...
Binary tree encryption (BTE), a relaxation of hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE), has recently emerged as a useful and intriguing primitive. On the one hand, the defini...
Ordering a set of items so as to minimize the sum of distances between consecutive elements is a fundamental optimization problem occurring in many settings. While it is NP-hard i...
Conventional algorithms for decision tree induction use an attribute-value representation scheme for instances. This paper explores the empirical consequences of using set-valued ...