Background: One type of DNA microarray experiment is discovery of gene expression patterns for a cell line undergoing a biological process over a series of time points. Two import...
In this paper, given a balance scale and the information that there are exactly two different defective coins present, the authors consider the problem of ascertaining the minimum...
The nth crossing number of a graph G, denoted crn(G), is the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of G on an orientable surface of genus n. We prove that for every a > b &g...
An equivalence graph is a disjoint union of cliques, and the equivalence number eq(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of equivalence subgraphs needed to cover the edges of G. W...
An overlap representation is an assignment of sets to the vertices of a graph in such a way that two vertices are adjacent if and only if the sets assigned to them overlap. The ov...
: This work deals with a classic problem: "Given a set of coins among which there is a counterfeit coin of a different weight, find this counterfeit coin using ordinary balanc...
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
Chung and Ross (SIAM J. Comput., 20, 1991) conjectured that the minimum number m(n, r) of middle-state switches for the symmetric 3-stage Clos network C(n, m(n, r), r) to be rearr...