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93-01
Abstract:
A Randomized Algorithm for Finding
Maximum with O((log n)^2) Polynomial Tests
Hing F. Ting and Andrew C. Yao
93-02
Abstract:
Projective Orientations of
Matroids I. M. Gelfand, G. Rybnikov and D. Stone
93-03
Abstract:
k-Neighborhood
Covering and Independence Problems
Shiow-Fen Hwang and Gerard J. Chang
93-04
Abstract:
A Polynomial-time
Algorithm for the Phylogeny Problem
When the Number of Character States is Fixed
R. Agarwala and D. Fernandez-Baca
93-05
Abstract:
Monotone Gray Codes and
the Middle Levels Problem
Carla D. Savage and Peter Winkler
93-06
Abstract:
Optimal Compression
of Propositional Horn Knowledge Bases: Complexity and Approximation
Peter L. Hammer and Alexander Kogan
93-07
Abstract:
On Computing Algebraic Functions Using Logarithms and Exponentials
Dima Grigoriev, Michael Singer, and Andrew Yao
93-08
Abstract:
Hilbert Series of Group Representations and Grobner Bases for Generic Modules
Shmuel Onn
93-09
Abstract:
Asymptotic Results for Permutation Groups
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Laszlo Pyber
93-10
Abstract:
Probabilistically
Checkable Debate Systems and Approximation Algorithms for
PSPACE-Hard Functions
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter Shor
93-11
Abstract:
The
L(2,1)-Labeling Problem on Graphs
Gerard J. Chang and David Kuo
93-12
Abstract:
A Tight Bound for Edge Guards in Rectilinear Monotone Polygons
Iliana Bjorling-Sachs
93-13
Abstract:
Combinatorial Optimization and Computations in the Ring of Polynomials
Alexander I. Barvinok
93-14
Abstract:
Testing Simple Polygons
Esther M. Arkin, Patrice Belleville, Joseph S.B. Mitchell,
David Mount, Kathleen Romanik, Steven Salzberg, Diane L. Souvaine
93-15
Abstract:
Enumerating Consecutive and Nested Partitions for Graphs
G. J. Chang and F. K. Hwang
93-16
Abstract:
Confluently Persistent Deques via Data-Structural Bootstrapping
A. L. Buchsbaum and R. E. Tarjan
93-17
Abstract:
On the Structure of Co-Critical Graphs
Anna Galluccio, Miklos Simonovits, Gabor Simonyi
93-18
Abstract:
Convex Relaxations of 0-1 Quadratic Programming
Svatopluk Poljak and Henry Wolkowicz
93-19
Abstract:
Indefinite Trust Region Subproblems and Nonsymmetric
Eigenvalue Perturbations
Ronald J. Stern and Henry Wolkowicz
93-20
Abstract:
A First-Order Isomorphism Theorem
Eric Allender, Jose Balcazar, and Neil Immerman
93-21
Abstract:
Dept Reduction for Noncommutative Arithmetic Circuits
Eric Allender and Jia Jiao
93-22
Abstract:
A Robust Model for Finding Optimal Evolutionary Trees
Martin Farach, Sampath Kannan, and Tandy Warnow
93-23
Abstract:
Consecutive Cuts and Paths, and Bounds on k-Terminal Reliability
Heidi J. Strayer and Charles J. Colbourn
93-24
Abstract:
Weighted Independent Perfect Domination on Cocomparability Graphs
Gerard J. Chang, C. Pandu Rangan and Satyan R. Coorg
93-25
Abstract:
The Russian Option: Reduced Regret
Larry Shepp and A. N. Shiryaev
93-26
Abstract:
A Dual Russian Option for Selling Short
Larry Shepp and A. N. Shiryaev
93-27
Abstract:
Non-Stanley Bounds for Network Reliability
Jason I. Brown and Charles J. Colbourn
93-28
Abstract:
Some Open Problems on Reliability Polynomials
Charles J. Colbourn
93-29
Abstract:
Combinatorial Optimization: A Survey Martin Grotschel and Laszlo Lovasz
93-30
Abstract:
Lazy Structure Sharing for Query Optimization
Adam L. Buchsbaum, Rajamani Sundar and Robert E. Tarjan
93-31
Abstract:
Constructing Language Instances Based on Partial Information
Laura A. Sanchis
93-32
Abstract:
Research Problems in Discrete Geometry:
Packing and Covering
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William Moser and Janos Pach
93-33
Abstract:
Inverse Theorems in Additive Number Theory
Melvyn B. Nathanson
93-34
Abstract:
Trust Regions and the
Quadratic Assignment Problem
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Stefan E. Karisch, Franz Rendl, and Henry Wolkowicz
93-35
Abstract:
Entropy Splitting Hypergraphs
Gabor Simonyi
93-36
Abstract:
Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Unstructured & Dynamic Problems
Bill Aiello, Albert G. Greenberg, Andrew Ogielski
93-37
Abstract:
Quasi-Acyclic Propositional Horn Knowledge Bases: Optimal Compression
Peter L. Hammer and Alexander Kogan
93-38
Abstract:
Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems
Grama Y. Ananth, Vipin Kumar, and Panos M. Pardalos
93-39
Abstract:
The Simplex Algorithm with a New Primal and Dual Pivot Rule
Hsin-Der Chen, Panos M. Pardalos, and Michael A. Saunders
93-40
Abstract:
On Lattice-Free Polytopes
Michel Deza and Shmuel Onn
93-41
Abstract:
On Edge Bijections of Graphs
A. K. Kelmans
93-42
Abstract:
On a Covering Property of Maximal Sperner Families
Peter L. Erdos and Niall Graham
93-43
Abstract:
Relationships Among PL, #L, and the Determinant
Eric Allender and Mitsunori Ogiwara
93-44
Abstract:
Half-integral Flows in a Planar Graph With Four Holes
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Alexander V. Karzanov
93-45
Abstract:
An Efficient Algorithm for Dynamic Text Indexing
Ming Gu, Martin Farach and Richard Beigel
93-46
Abstract:
Fast Comparison of Evolutionary Trees
Martin Farach and Mikkel Thorup
93-47
Abstract:
A New Approach to the Construction of Optimal Designs
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
93-48
Abstract:
Covering Arrays and Intersecting Codes
N.J.A. Sloane
93-49
Abstract:
The Nordstrom-Robinson Code is the Binary Image of the Octacode
G. David Forney, Jr., N.J.A. Sloane and Mitchell D. Trott
93-50
Abstract:
A Linear Construction for Certain Kerdock and Preparata Codes
A.R. Calderbank, A.R. Hammons, Jr., and P. Vijay Kumar
93-51
Abstract:
Operating Manual for Gosset: A General-Purpose Program for
Constructing Experimental Designs (Second Edition)
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
93-52
Abstract:
The Z sub 4-Linearity of Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals and Related Codes
A.R. Hammons, Jr., P. Vijay Kumar, A.R. Calderbank, N.J.A. Sloane, and Patrick Sole
93-53
Abstract:
Quaternary Constructions for the Binary Single-Error-Correcting
Codes of Julin, Best and Others
J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
93-54
Abstract:
Expressing (a sup 2 + b sup 2 + c sup 2 + d sup 2) sup 3
as a Sum of 23 Sixth Powers
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
93-55
Abstract:
D sub 4, E sub 8, Leech and Certain Other Lattices are Symplectic
J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
93-56
Abstract:
A Pedestrian Approach to Ray Shooting: Shoot a Ray, Take a Walk
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
93-57
Abstract:
Finding a Shortest Diagonal of a Simple Polygon in Linear Time
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
93-58
Abstract:
Matrix Searching with the Shortest Path Metric
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
93-59
Abstract:
Can Visibility Graphs Be Represented Compactly?
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Noga Alon, Boris Aronov, Subhash Suri
93-60
Abstract:
Shortcutting Planar Digraphs and
(second part of this paper in postscript)
Mikkel Thorup
93-61
Abstract:
Controlled Grammatic Ambiguity
First Part ,
Second Part , and
Third Part .
Mikkel Thorup
93-62
Abstract:
Minors and the Chromatic Index of r-graphs
K. Kilakos and B. Shepherd
93-63
Abstract:
A Note on a Conjecture of Toft
T. R. Jensen and F. B. Shepherd
93-64
Abstract:
On Enumeration of Near to Best Solutions in Discrete and Dynamic Programming
Joseph V. Romanovsky
93-65
Abstract:
Instance-Hiding Proof Systems
D. Beaver, J. Feigenbaum, R. Ostrovsky, and V. Shoup
93-66
Abstract:
The Least Possible Value at Zero of Some Nonnegative Cosine Polynomials
Szilard Gy. Revesz
93-67
Abstract:
Approximation Clustering for Homogeneous Data Tables
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Boris Mirkin
93-68
Abstract:
Generalization of the Tetrad Representation Theorem
Glenn Shafer, Alexander Kogan and Peter Spirtes
93-69
Abstract:
Some Experimental and Theoretical Results on Test Case Generators
for the Maximum Clique Problem
Laura A. Sanchis and Arun Jagota
93-70
Abstract:
Eigenvalues and Expansion of Regular Graphs
Nabil Kahale
93-71
Abstract:
A Randomized Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Minimum Spanning
Philip N. Klein and Robert E. Tarjan
93-72
Abstract:
Symmetric Quasi-Definite Matrices
Robert J. Vanderbei
93-73
Abstract:
Affine-Scaling Trajectories Associated with a Semi-Infinite Linear Program
Robert J. Vanderbei
93-74
Abstract:
Brownian Bandits
Avi Mandelbaum and Robert J. Vanderbei
93-75
Abstract:
Interior-Point Methods for Max-Min Eigenvalue Problems
Franz Rendl, Robert J. Vanderbei, and Henry Wolkowicz
93-76
Abstract:
Bipartite Dimensions and Bipartite Degrees of Graphs
Peter C. Fishburn and Peter L. Hammer
93-77
Abstract:
An Analog of Freiman's Theorem in Groups
Imre Z. Ruzsa
93-78
Abstract:
On Reducing the Cut Ratio to the Multicut Problem
Nabil Kahale
93-79
Abstract:
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund and Peter Shor
93-80
Abstract:
On Sums With Small Prime Factors
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Gabor Sarkozy
93-81
Abstract:
Fast Parallel Algorithms or Finding Hamiltonian Cycles and Trees in Graphs
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Gabor Sarkozy
93-82
Abstract:
A Geometric Approach for Denoting and Intersecting TR Subgroups of the Euclidean Group
Yanxi Liu
93-83
Abstract:
Isoperimetric Inequalities and Eigenvalues
Nabil Kahale
93-84
Abstract:
Notes on the Kolakoski Sequence
Vasek Chvatal
93-85
Abstract:
On the Diameter of the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope
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Fred J. Rispoli
93-87
Abstract:
Workshop on Models, Architectures, and
Technologies for Parallel Computation
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P.B. Gibbons, R.M. Karp, C.E. Leiserson, G.M. Papadopoulos
93-88
Abstract:
On Lattices Equivalent to Their Duals
J. H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
93-89
Abstract:
Optimization Methods for Computing Global Minima of Nonconvex Potential Energy Functions
Panos M. Pardalos, David Shalloway, and Guoliang Xue
93-90
Abstract:
Workshop on Parallel Algorithms:
From Solving Combinatorial Problems to Solving Grand Challenge Problems
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James Flanagan, Yossi Matias, and Vijaya Ramachandran
93-91
Abstract:
Balancing Updates vs Queries for
the Partial Sum Problem
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Haripriyan Hampapuram and Michael L. Fredman
93-92
Abstract:
DIMACS Annual Report
93-93
Abstract:
On the Very Weak 0-1 Law for Random Graphs With Orders
Saharon Shelah
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