Large-volume contents distributed by a content delivery network (CDN) on the Internet increase load of content delivery servers and networks, which may degrade the quality of service. As a method to keep high quality ...
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(纸本)9780769549873
Large-volume contents distributed by a content delivery network (CDN) on the Internet increase load of content delivery servers and networks, which may degrade the quality of service. As a method to keep high quality service for CDN, some mirror servers providing the same content are located on a network and a request is navigated to one of the mirror servers. The network must offer connectivity between a user and servers with small distance even during link failures. In this paper, we address a network design method by protection of critical links whose failures significantly degrade the performance. The objective is to find the smallest number of the links to be protected so that a user can access servers with small increase of distance even if non-protected links fail. First, we formulate this problem and prove that it is NP-hard. Second, we present a polynomial-time algorithm to solve this problem when the number of simultaneously failed links is restricted to one. Furthermore, we evaluate the number of protected links of actual ISP network topologies by the algorithm and show the relationship between the number of protected links and the values of the parameters.
The Eulerian closed walk problem in a digraph is a well-known polynomial-time solvable problem. In this paper, we show that if we impose the feasible solutions to fulfill some precedence constraints specified by paths...
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We present the first polynomial-time algorithm to solve the Maximum "Weight Independent Set problem for apple-free graphs, which is a, common generalization of several important classes where the problem can be s...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783540921813
We present the first polynomial-time algorithm to solve the Maximum "Weight Independent Set problem for apple-free graphs, which is a, common generalization of several important classes where the problem can be solved efficiently, suet) as claw-free graphs, chordal graphs and cographs. Our solution is based on a combination of two algorithmic techniques (modular decomposition and decomposition by clique separators) and a deep combinatorial analysis of the structure of apple-free graphs. Our algorithm is robust in the sense that it does not require the input graph G to be apple-free;the algorithm either finds an independent set of maximum weight in G or reports that G is not apple-free.
A graph G is a B-0-VPG graph if it is the vertex intersection graph of horizontal and vertical paths on a grid. A graph G is a contact B-0-VPG graph if the vertices can be represented by interiorly disjoint horizontal...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319961514
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319961514;9783319961507
A graph G is a B-0-VPG graph if it is the vertex intersection graph of horizontal and vertical paths on a grid. A graph G is a contact B-0-VPG graph if the vertices can be represented by interiorly disjoint horizontal or vertical paths on a grid and two vertices are adjacent if and only if the corresponding paths touch. In this paper, we present a minimal forbidden induced subgraph characterisation of contact B-0-VPG graphs within the class of chordal graphs and provide a polynomial-time algorithm for recognising these graphs.
The weighted T-free 2-matching problem is the following problem: given an undirected graph G, a weight function on its edge set, and a set T of triangles in G, find a maximum weight 2-matching containing no triangle i...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030457716;9783030457709
The weighted T-free 2-matching problem is the following problem: given an undirected graph G, a weight function on its edge set, and a set T of triangles in G, find a maximum weight 2-matching containing no triangle in T. When T is the set of all triangles in G, this problem is known as the weighted triangle-free 2-matching problem, which is a long-standing open problem. A main contribution of this paper is to give a first polynomial-time algorithm for the weighted T-free 2-matching problem under the assumption that T is a set of edge-disjoint triangles. In our algorithm, a key ingredient is to give an extended formulation representing the solution set, that is, we introduce new variables and represent the convex hull of the feasible solutions as a projection of another polytope in a higher dimensional space. Although our extended formulation has exponentially many inequalities, we show that the separation problem can be solved in polynomialtime, which leads to a polynomialtimealgorithm for the weighted T-free 2-matching problem.
The seminal paper by Mazumdar and Saha (2017a) introduced an extensive line of work on clustering with noisy queries. Yet, despite significant progress on the problem, the proposed methods depend crucially on knowing ...
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The seminal paper by Mazumdar and Saha (2017a) introduced an extensive line of work on clustering with noisy queries. Yet, despite significant progress on the problem, the proposed methods depend crucially on knowing the exact probabilities of errors of the underlying fully-random oracle. In this work, we develop robust learning methods that tolerate general semi-random noise obtaining qualitatively the same guarantees as the best possible methods in the fully-random model. More specifically, given a set of n points with an unknown underlying partition, we are allowed to query pairs of points u;v to check if they are in the same cluster, but with probability p, the answer may be adversarially chosen. We show that information theoretically O(nk log n/(1 -2 p)(2) queries suffice to learn any cluster of sufficiently large size. Our main result is a computationally efficient algorithm that can identify large clusters with O(nk log n/((1 - 2p)(2)) + poly (log n, k, 1/1 -2(p)) queries, matching the guarantees of the best known algorithms in the fully-random model. As a corollary of our approach, we develop the first parameter-free algorithm for the fully-random model, answering an open question in Mazumdar and Saha (2017a).
We consider probabilistic independence and unary variants of marginal identity and marginal distribution equivalence over finite probability distributions. Two variables x and y satisfy a unary marginal identity when ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783031569395;9783031569401
We consider probabilistic independence and unary variants of marginal identity and marginal distribution equivalence over finite probability distributions. Two variables x and y satisfy a unary marginal identity when they are identically distributed. If the multisets of the marginal probabilities of all possible values for variables x and y are equal, the variables satisfy a unary marginal distribution equivalence. This paper offers a sound and complete finite axiomatization and a polynomial-time algorithm for the implication problem for probabilistic independence, unary marginal identity, and unary marginal distribution equivalence.
The complexity of linear programming is discussed in the "integer" and "real number" models of computation. Even though the integer model is widely used in theoretical computer science, the real nu...
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Let G be a finite undirected graph. A vertex dominates itself and its neighbors in G. A vertex set D is an efficient dominating set (e.d. for short) of G if every vertex of G is dominated by exactly one vertex of D. T...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783642403132;9783642403125
Let G be a finite undirected graph. A vertex dominates itself and its neighbors in G. A vertex set D is an efficient dominating set (e.d. for short) of G if every vertex of G is dominated by exactly one vertex of D. The Efficient Domination (ED) problem, which asks for the existence of an e.d. in G, is known to be NP-complete even for very restricted graph classes. In particular, the ED problem remains NP-complete for 2P(3)-free graphs and thus for P-7-free graphs. We show that the weighted version of the problem (abbreviated WED) is solvable in polynomialtime on various subclasses of P-7-free graphs, including (P-2 + P-4)-free graphs, P-5-free graphs and other classes. Furthermore, we show that a minimum weight e.d. consisting only of vertices of degree at most 2 (if one exists) can be found in polynomialtime. This contrasts with our NP-completeness result for the ED problem on planar bipartite graphs with maximum degree 3.
The question of characterizing graphs H such that the VERTEX COVER problem is solvable in polynomialtime in the class of H-free graphs is notoriously difficult and still widely open. We completely solve the correspon...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030799878;9783030799861
The question of characterizing graphs H such that the VERTEX COVER problem is solvable in polynomialtime in the class of H-free graphs is notoriously difficult and still widely open. We completely solve the corresponding question for a distance-based generalization of vertex cover called distance-k vertex cover, for any positive integer k. In this problem the task is to determine, given a graph G and an integer l, whether G contains a set of at most l vertices such that each edge of G is at distance at most k from a vertex in the set. We show that for all k >= 1 and all graphs H, the distance-k vertex cover problem is solvable in polynomialtime in the class of H-free graphs if H is an induced subgraph of P2k+2 + sP(max{k,2}) for some s >= 0, and NP-complete otherwise.
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