We study the NP-complete TARGET SET SELECTION (TSS) problem occurring in social network analysis. Complementing results on its approximability and extending results for its restric...
Consistent query answering is the problem of characterizing and computing the semantically correct answers to queries from a database that may not satisfy certain integrity constr...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
—Rate allocation is a fundamental problem in the operation of a wireless network because of the necessity to schedule the operation of mutually interfering links between the node...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
The Target Set Selection problem proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos, gives a nice clean combinatorial formulation for many problems arising in economy, sociology, and medicin...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Danny Hermelin, Daniel Lokshtanov, I...