We study a particular aspect of the balanced allocation paradigm (also known as the “two-choices paradigm”): constant sized bins, packed as tightly as possible. Let d ≥ 1 be...
Abstract. Weighted automata are used to describe quantitative properties in various areas such as probabilistic systems, image compression, speech-to-text processing. The behaviour...
In the Euclidean group Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), we are given a set of points P in the plane and a set of m connected regions, each containing at least one point of P. We w...
Khaled M. Elbassioni, Aleksei V. Fishkin, Nabil H....
We study interval coloring problems and present new upper and lower bounds for several variants. We are interested in four problems, online coloring of intervals with and without b...
We introduce Recursive Markov Decision Processes (RMDPs) and Recursive Simple Stochastic Games (RSSGs), which are classes of (finitely presented) countable-state MDPs and zero-su...