The Index Coding problem has recently attracted a significant attention from the research community. In this problem, a server needs to deliver data to a set of wireless clients over the broadcast channel. Each client...
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(纸本)9781424492688
The Index Coding problem has recently attracted a significant attention from the research community. In this problem, a server needs to deliver data to a set of wireless clients over the broadcast channel. Each client requires one or more packets, but it might have access to the packets requested by other clients as side information. The goal is to deliver the required data to each client with minimum number of transmissions. In this paper, we focus on finding sparse solutions to the Index Coding problem. In a sparse solution each transmitted packet is a linear combination of at most two original packets. We focus both on scalar and vector versions of the problem. For the scalar case, we present a polynomial time algorithm that achieves an approximation ratio of 2 - 1/root n. For the vector case, we present a polynomial time algorithm that identifies an optimal solution to the problem. Our simulation studies demonstrate that our algorithms achieve good performance in practical scenarios.
For a fixed digraph H, the minimum cost homomorphism problem, MinHOM(H), asks whether an input digraph G, with given costs c(i)(u), u is an element of V(G), i is an element of V(H), and an integer k, admits a homomorp...
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(纸本)9783540787723
For a fixed digraph H, the minimum cost homomorphism problem, MinHOM(H), asks whether an input digraph G, with given costs c(i)(u), u is an element of V(G), i is an element of V(H), and an integer k, admits a homomorphism to H of total cost not exceeding k. Minimum cost homomorphism problems encompass many well studied optimization problems such as list homomorphism problems, retraction and precolouring extension problems, chromatic partition optimization, and applied problems in repair analysis. For undirected graphs the complexity of the problem, as a function of the parameter H, is well understood;for digraphs, the situation appears to be more complex, and only partial results are known. We focus on the minimum cost homomorphism problem for reflexive digraphs H. It is known that MinHOM(H) is polynomial if H has a Min-Max ordering. We prove that for any other reflexive digraph H, the problem MinHOM(H) is NP-complete. (This was earlier conjectured by Gutin and Kim.) Apart from undirected graphs, this is the first general class of digraphs for which such a dichotomy has been proved. Our proof involves a forbidden induced subgraph characterization of reflexive digraphs with a Min-Max ordering, and implies a polynomial test for the existence of a Min-Max ordering in a reflexive digraph H.
polynomially bounded solution methods are presented to solve a class of precedence constrained scheduling problems in which each job requires a certain amount of nonrenewable resource that is being consumed during its...
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Milanic, MartinUP FAMNIT
University of Primorska Glagoljaska 8 6000 Koper Slovenia UP PINT
University of Primorska Muzejski trg 2 6000 Koper Slovenia
The isolated toughness i tau(G) of a noncomplete graph G is defined as: i tau(G)=min{|Y|i(G-Y):Y is an element of C(G),i(G-Y)>1}, where C(G) is the collection of all vertex cutsets of G and i(G - Y) stands for the ...
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The isolated toughness i tau(G) of a noncomplete graph G is defined as: i tau(G)=min{|Y|i(G-Y):Y is an element of C(G),i(G-Y)>1}, where C(G) is the collection of all vertex cutsets of G and i(G - Y) stands for the number of isolated vertices in G - Y. If G is a complete graph, we set i tau(G)=infinity. This isolated toughness parameter is closely related to the existence of factors and fractional factors in graphs. These factors and fractional factors are well-studied within graph theory, and have various applications in several fields related to computer science. In this article, we pay our attention to the computational complexity of computing the isolated toughness. We present polynomialalgorithms for computing the exact value of i tau(G) for interval graphs and for split graphs, two well-studied special graph classes.
In this paper, we discuss the computational complexity of reconstructing the state of a linear system from sensor measurements that have been corrupted by an adversary. The first result establishes that the problem is...
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In this paper, we discuss the computational complexity of reconstructing the state of a linear system from sensor measurements that have been corrupted by an adversary. The first result establishes that the problem is, in general, NP-hard. We then introduce the notion of eigenvalue observability and show that the state can be reconstructed in polynomialtime when each eigenvalue is observable by at least 2s + 1 sensors and at most s sensors are corrupted by an adversary. However, there is a gap between eigenvalue observability and the possibility of reconstructing the state despite attacks - this gap has been characterized in the literature by the notion of sparse observability. To better understand this, we show that when the A matrix of the linear system has unitary geometric multiplicity, the gap disappears, i.e., eigenvalue observability coincides with sparse observability, and there exists a polynomial time algorithm to reconstruct the state provided the state can be reconstructed. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper investigates bilevel optimization models for demand response management, and highlights the often overlooked consequences of a common modeling assumption in the field. That is, the overwhelming majority of ...
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This paper investigates bilevel optimization models for demand response management, and highlights the often overlooked consequences of a common modeling assumption in the field. That is, the overwhelming majority of existing research deals with the so-called optimistic variant of the problem where, in case of multiple optimal consumption schedules for a consumer (follower), the consumer chooses an optimal schedule that is the most favorable for the electricity retailer (leader). However, this assumption is usually illegitimate in practice;as a result, consumers may easily deviate from their expected behavior during realization, and the retailer suffers significant losses. One way out is to solve the pessimistic variant instead, where the retailer prepares for the least favorable optimal responses from the consumers. The main contribution of the paper is an exact procedure for solving the pessimistic variant of the problem. First, key properties of optimal solutions are formally proven and efficiently solvable special cases are identified. Then, a detailed investigation of the optimistic and pessimistic variants of the problem is presented. It is demonstrated that the set of optimal consumption schedules typically contains various responses that are equal for the follower, but bring radically different profits for the leader. The main procedure for solving the pessimistic variant reduces the problem to solving the optimistic variant with slightly perturbed problem data. A numerical case study shows that the optimistic solution may perform poorly in practice, while the pessimistic solution gives very close to the highest profit that can be achieved theoretically. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is the first to propose an exact solution approach for the pessimistic variant of the problem.
Because of the increasing energy consumption of data centers and their CO2 emissions, the ANR DATAZERO2 project aims to design autonomous data centers running solely on local renewable energy coupled with storage devi...
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Because of the increasing energy consumption of data centers and their CO2 emissions, the ANR DATAZERO2 project aims to design autonomous data centers running solely on local renewable energy coupled with storage devices to overcome the intermittency issue. In order to optimize the use of renewable energy and storage devices, a MILP solver is usually in charge of assigning the power to be supplied to the data center. However, in order to reduce the computation time and make the approach scalable, it would be more appropriate to use a polynomial time algorithm. This paper aims at showing and proving that it is possible to provide an optimal power profile via a deterministic algorithm using a binary search approach. Considering the main constraints of the initial problem, numerous experimental results show similar results to those given by the MILP. These promising results encourage us to continue in this direction for proposing an efficient management of the data center power supply that takes uncertainty into account.
This paper considers the problem of projecting a vector on the intersection of a closed half-space and a variable box. We present a polynomial time algorithm that is based on a parametric approach for finding the expl...
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This paper considers the problem of projecting a vector on the intersection of a closed half-space and a variable box. We present a polynomial time algorithm that is based on a parametric approach for finding the explicit formulas for the metric projection. As an application, the proposed algorithm is applied to compute the metric projection over the epigraph of the Ky Fan k-norm functions. Computational results on large-scale random test problems are also reported in order to evaluate the algorithm and its complexity time. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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