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CORR
2008
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
POPL
2003
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Pure patterns type systems
We introduce a new framework of algebraic pure type systems in which we consider rewrite rules as lambda terms with patterns and rewrite rule application as abstraction applicatio...
Gilles Barthe, Horatiu Cirstea, Claude Kirchner, L...
STOC
2003
ACM
171views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 7 months ago
Primal-dual meets local search: approximating MST's with nonuniform degree bounds
We present a new bicriteria approximation algorithm for the degree-bounded minimum-cost spanning tree problem: Given an undirected graph with nonnegative edge weights and degree b...
Jochen Könemann, R. Ravi
SODA
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Bidimensionality and Kernels
Bidimensionality theory appears to be a powerful framework in the development of meta-algorithmic techniques. It was introduced by Demaine et al. [J. ACM 2005 ] as a tool to obtai...
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Saket Saurabh, ...
TPHOL
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Verifying Nonlinear Real Formulas Via Sums of Squares
Techniques based on sums of squares appear promising as a general approach to the universal theory of reals with addition and multiplication, i.e. verifying Boolean combinations of...
John Harrison