We study the branching program complexity of the tree evaluation problem, introduced in [BCM+09a] as a candidate for separating NL from LogCFL. The input to the problem is a roote...
Mark Braverman, Stephen A. Cook, Pierre McKenzie, ...
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...
d Abstract] Prosenjit Bose School of Computer Science Carleton University Ottawa, Canada jit@scs.carleton.ca Paz Carmi Dept. of Computer Science Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev Beer-...
Abstract. One of the simplest evolutionary models has molecular sequences evolving from a common ancestor down a bifurcating phylogenetic tree, experiencing point-mutations along t...
The PCP theorem [3, 2] says that every language in NP has a witness format that can be checked probabilistically by reading only a constant number of bits from the proof. The cele...