While there is a lot of empirical evidence showing that traditional rule learning approaches work well in practice, it is nearly impossible to derive analytical results about thei...
Based on the framework of parameterized complexity theory, we derive tight lower bounds on the computational complexity for a number of well-known NP-hard problems. We start by pr...
Jianer Chen, Benny Chor, Mike Fellows, Xiuzhen Hua...
The edge dominating set (EDS) and edge cover (EC) problems are classical graph covering problems in which one seeks a minimum cost collection of edges which covers the edges or ve...
Abstract. In an implicit combinatorial optimization problem, the constraints are not enumerated explicitly but rather stated implicitly through equations, other constraints or auxi...
Mary V. Ashley, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, Wanpracha Ar...
The String Barcoding (SBC) problem, introduced by Rash and Gusfield (RECOMB, 2002), consists in finding a minimum set of substrings that can be used to distinguish between all mem...