One of the hardest problems in reasoning about a physical system is finding an approximate model that is mathematically tractable and yet captures the essence of the problem. Appr...
Let P be a combinatorial optimization problem, and let A be an approximation algorithm for P. The domination ratio domr(A, s) is the maximal real q such that the solution x(I) obt...
Although influence diagrams are powerful tools for representing and solving complex decisionmaking problems, their evaluation may require an enormous computational effort and this...
We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in three-dimensions in the presence of a single-obstacle polyhedral terrain, and present a new algorithm that for any p 1, comp...
A new class of parallel normalized preconditioned conjugate gradient type methods in conjunction with normalized approximate inverses algorithms, based on normalized approximate f...