A new priority queue structure, the queap, is introduced. The queap executes insertion in O(1) amortized time and extract-min in O(log(k+2)) amortized time if there are k items th...
Predicting the three dimensional structure of proteins is a difficult task. In the last years several approaches have been proposed for performing this task taking into account d...
Various problems in AI and multiagent systems can be tackled by finding the “most desirable” elements of a set given some binary relation. Examples can be found in areas as d...
We consider two notions for the representations of convex cones: G-representation and liftedG-representation. The former represents a convex cone as a slice of another; the latter...
In recent years, the technological advances in mapping genes have made it increasingly easy to store and use a wide variety of biological data. Such data are usually in the form o...