Spatial search problems abound in the real world, from locating hidden nuclear or chemical sources to finding skiers after an avalanche. We exemplify the formalism and solution fo...
good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
We define a new NP search problem, the “local improvement” principle, about labellings of an acyclic, bounded-degree graph. We show that, provably in PV, it characterizes the...
Leszek Aleksander Kolodziejczyk, Phuong Nguyen, Ne...
Many search problems contain large amounts of redundancy in the search. In this paper we examine how to automatically exploit remaining subproblem equivalence, which arises when tw...
Geoffrey Chu, Maria Garcia de la Banda, Peter J. S...
Music sequences can be treated as texts in order to perform music retrieval tasks on them. However, the text search problems that result from this modeling are unique to music retr...
Automatedreasoning or theorem proving essentially amounts to solving search problems. Despite significant progress in recent years theorem provers still have manyshortcomings. The...
This paper closes a gap in the foundations of the theory of average case complexity. First, we clarify the notion of a feasible solution for a search problem and prove its robustne...
We develop an Answer Set Programming formalism based on Default Logic. We show that computing generating sets of extensions in this formalism captures all ΣP 2 search problems.
Abstract. Secure multiparty computation allows a group of distrusting parties to jointly compute a (possibly randomized) function of their inputs. However, it is often the case tha...
Amos Beimel, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinre...
– A problem of searching with multiple searchers and scouts is presented. Unlike most search problems that terminate as soon as the target is found, successful detections by scou...