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RANDOM
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Minimizing Stall Time in Single and Parallel Disk Systems Using Multicommodity Network Flows
We study integrated prefetching and caching in single and parallel disk systems. A recent approach used linear programming to solve the problem. We show that integrated prefetching...
Susanne Albers, Carsten Witt
RANDOM
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Proclaiming Dictators and Juntas or Testing Boolean Formulae
We consider the problem of determining whether a given function ¢ £ ¤¥ ¦ §¨©  ¤¥ ¦ §¨ belongs to a certain class of Boolean functions  or whether it is far from the...
Michal Parnas, Dana Ron, Alex Samorodnitsky
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Characterization of Context-Free Languages with Polynomially Bounded Ambiguity
Abstract. We prove that the class of context-free languages with polynomially bounded ambiguity (PCFL) is the closure of the class of unambiguous languages (UCFL) under projections...
Klaus Wich
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On the Approximability of the Steiner Tree Problem
We show that it is not possible to approximate the minimum Steiner tree problem within 1 + 1 162 unless RP = NP. The currently best known lower bound is 1 + 1 400. The reduction i...
Martin Thimm
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Size of Power Automata
We describe a class of simple transitive semiautomata that exhibit full exponential blow-up during deterministic simulation. For arbitrary semiautomata we show that it is PSPACE-c...
Klaus Sutner
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
From Bidirectionality to Alternation
We describe an explicit simulation of 2-way nondeterministic automata by 1-way alternating automata with quadratic blow-up. We first describe the construction for automata on fin...
Nir Piterman, Moshe Y. Vardi
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Rational Graphs Trace Context-Sensitive Languages
This paper shows that the traces of rational graphs coincide with the context-sensitive languages.
Christophe Morvan, Colin Stirling
MFCS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
News from the Online Traveling Repairman
In the traveling repairman problem (Trp), a tour must be found through every one of a set of points (cities) in some metric space such that the weighted sum of completion times of ...
Sven Oliver Krumke, Willem de Paepe, Diana Poensge...