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COMBINATORICS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
A Survey on Packing and Covering Problems in the Hamming Permutation Space
Consider the symmetric group Sn equipped with the Hamming metric dH . Packing and covering problems in the finite metric space (Sn, dH ) are surveyed, including a combination of b...
Jörn Quistorff
AUSSOIS
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exact Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems: A Survey
We discuss fast exponential time solutions for NP-complete problems. We survey known results and approaches, we provide pointers to the literature, and we discuss several open prob...
Gerhard J. Woeginger
ECCC
2011
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13 years 3 months ago
On the complexity of computational problems regarding distributions (a survey)
We consider two basic computational problems regarding discrete probability distributions: (1) approximating the statistical difference (aka variation distance) between two given d...
Oded Goldreich, Salil P. Vadhan
IPPS
1998
IEEE
14 years 24 days ago
A Survey of Randomness and Parallelism in Comparison Problems
A survey of results for the problems of selection, mergingand sorting in the Randomized Parallel Comparison Tree RPCT model is given. The results indicate that while randomization ...
Danny Krizanc
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
the asteroid surveying problem and other puzzles
We consider two variants of the well-known “sailor in the fog” puzzle. The first version (the “asteroid surveying” problem) is set in three dimensions and asks for the sh...
Timothy M. Chan, Alexander Golynski, Alejandro L&o...