SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We consider the following well-known problem, which is called the edge-disjoint paths problem. Input: A graph G with n vertices and m edges, k pairs of vertices (s1, t1), (s2, t2)...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Regular expression matching is a key task (and often computational bottleneck) in a variety of software tools and applications. For instance, the standard grep and sed utilities, ...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We address the vexing issue of deletions in balanced trees. Rebalancing after a deletion is generally more complicated than rebalancing after an insertion. Textbooks neglect delet...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Detecting and counting the number of copies of certain subgraphs (also known as network motifs or graphlets), is motivated by applications in a variety of areas ranging from Biolo...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
The hypergraph matching problem is to find a largest collection of disjoint hyperedges in a hypergraph. This is a well-studied problem in combinatorial optimization and graph theo...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We introduce the classified stable matching problem, a problem motivated by academic hiring. Suppose that a number of institutes are hiring faculty members from a pool of applican...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Spectral methods have been widely used in a broad range of application fields. One important object involved in such methods is the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a manifold. Indeed...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We consider a robust model proposed by Scarf, 1958, for stochastic optimization when only the marginal probabilities of (binary) random variables are given, and the correlation be...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Many combinatorial problems--such as the traveling salesman, feedback arcset, cutwidth, and treewidth problem-can be formulated as finding a feasible permutation of n elements. Ty...
SODA
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
The minimum latency problem (MLP) is a well-studied variant of the traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the MLP, the server's goal is to minimize the average latency that the...