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CATS
2007
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A Linear Time Algorithm for Pricing European Sequential Barrier Options
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
Peng Gao, Ron van der Meyden
CCCG
2008
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Draining a Polygon - or - Rolling a Ball out of a Polygon
We introduce the problem of draining water (or balls representing water drops) out of a punctured polygon (or a polyhedron) by rotating the shape. For 2D polygons, we obtain combi...
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Coll...
DAGSTUHL
2007
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Weighted Voronoi Region Algorithms for Political Districting
Automated political districting shares with electronic voting the aim of preventing electoral manipulation and pursuing an impartial electoral mechanism. Political districting can...
Bruno Simeone, Federica Ricca, Andrea Scozzari
AAAI
1990
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Operationality Criteria for Recursive Predicates
Current explanation-based generalization (EBG) techniques can perform badly when the problem being solved involves recursion. Often an infinite series of learned concepts are gene...
Stanley Letovsky
CAS
2008
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Very Strongly Constrained Problems: an Ant Colony Optimization Approach
: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a class of metaheuristic algorithms sharing the common approach of constructing a solution on the basis of information provided both by a standar...
Vittorio Maniezzo, Matteo Roffilli