Algorithms For Random Generation And Counting

Author : A. Sinclair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 156 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461203230

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Algorithms for Random Generation and Counting: A Markov Chain Approach by A. Sinclair Pdf

This monograph is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis [86], com pleted in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edin burgh in June 1988, with an additional chapter summarising more recent developments. Some of the material has appeared in the form of papers [50,88]. The underlying theme of the monograph is the study of two classical problems: counting the elements of a finite set of combinatorial structures, and generating them uniformly at random. In their exact form, these prob lems appear to be intractable for many important structures, so interest has focused on finding efficient randomised algorithms that solve them ap proxim~ly, with a small probability of error. For most natural structures the two problems are intimately connected at this level of approximation, so it is natural to study them together. At the heart of the monograph is a single algorithmic paradigm: sim ulate a Markov chain whose states are combinatorial structures and which converges to a known probability distribution over them. This technique has applications not only in combinatorial counting and generation, but also in several other areas such as statistical physics and combinatorial optimi sation. The efficiency of the technique in any application depends crucially on the rate of convergence of the Markov chain.

Author : Alistair Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Algorithms
ISBN : 3764336587

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Algorithms for Random Generation and Counting by Alistair Sinclair Pdf

Author : Russ Bubley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447106951

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Randomized Algorithms: Approximation, Generation, and Counting by Russ Bubley Pdf

Randomized Algorithms discusses two problems of fine pedigree: counting and generation, both of which are of fundamental importance to discrete mathematics and probability. When asking questions like "How many are there?" and "What does it look like on average?" of families of combinatorial structures, answers are often difficult to find -- we can be blocked by seemingly intractable algorithms. Randomized Algorithms shows how to get around the problem of intractability with the Markov chain Monte Carlo method, as well as highlighting the method's natural limits. It uses the technique of coupling before introducing "path coupling" a new technique which radically simplifies and improves upon previous methods in the area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0898713498

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Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms by Anonim Pdf

The proceedings of the January 1995 symposium, sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics, comprise 70 papers. Among the topics: on-line approximate list indexing with applications; finding subsets maximizing minimum structures; register allocation in structured programs; and splay trees for data compression. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jeffrey Xu Yu,Myoung Ho Kim,Rainer Unland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 604 pages
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Release : 2011-04-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642201493

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications by Jeffrey Xu Yu,Myoung Ho Kim,Rainer Unland Pdf

This two volume set LNCS 6587 and LNCS 6588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in April 2010. The 53 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 4 industrial papers, 8 demo papers, and the abstract of 1 panel discussion, were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 225 submissions. The topics covered are social network, social network and privacy, data mining, probability and uncertainty, stream processing, graph, XML, XML and graph, similarity, searching and digital preservation, spatial queries, query processing, as well as indexing and high performance.

Author : Mark Jerrum
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034880053

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Counting, Sampling and Integrating: Algorithms and Complexity by Mark Jerrum Pdf

The subject of these notes is counting and related topics, viewed from a computational perspective. A major theme of the book is the idea of accumulating information about a set of combinatorial structures by performing a random walk on those structures. These notes will be of value not only to teachers of postgraduate courses on these topics, but also to established researchers. For the first time this body of knowledge has been brought together in a single volume.

Author : Leizhen Cai,Siu-Wing Cheng,Tak-Wah Lam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 761 pages
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Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642450303

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Algorithms and Computation by Leizhen Cai,Siu-Wing Cheng,Tak-Wah Lam Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2013, held in Hong Kong, China in December 2013. The 67 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions for inclusion in the book. The focus of the volume in on the following topics: computation geometry, pattern matching, computational complexity, internet and social network algorithms, graph theory and algorithms, scheduling algorithms, fixed-parameter tractable algorithms, algorithms and data structures, algorithmic game theory, approximation algorithms and network algorithms.

Author : Horst Reichel,Sophie Tison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540465416

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STACS 2000 by Horst Reichel,Sophie Tison Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2000, held in Lille, France in February 2000. The 51 revised full papers presented together with the three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 146 submissions on the basis of some 700 reviewers' reports. The papers address fundamental issues from all current areas of theoretical computer science including algorithms, data structures, automata, formal languages, complexity, verification, logic, cryptography, graph theory, optimization, etc.

Author : Sanjeev Arora
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540407706

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Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques by Sanjeev Arora Pdf

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Optimization Problems, APPROX 2003 and of the 7th International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM 2003, held in Princeton, NY, USA in August 2003. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. Among the issues addressed are design and analysis of randomized and approximation algorithms, online algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial structures, error-correcting codes, pseudorandomness, derandomization, network algorithms, random walks, Markov chains, probabilistic proof systems, computational learning, randomness in cryptography, and various applications.

Author : Martin Farach-Colton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540212584

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LATIN 2004: Theoretical Informatics by Martin Farach-Colton Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the Latin American Theoretical Inf- matics (LATIN) conference that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 5–8, 2004. The LATIN series of symposia was launched in 1992 to foster interactions between the Latin American community and computer scientists around the world. This was the sixth event in the series, following S ̃ ao Paulo, Brazil (1992), Valparaiso, Chile (1995), Campinas, Brazil (1998), Punta del Este, Uruguay (2000), and Cancun, Mexico (2002). The proceedings of these conferences were also published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series: Volumes 583, 911, 1380, 1776, and 2286, respectively. Also, as before, we published a selection of the papers in a special issue of a prestigious journal. We received 178 submissions. Each paper was assigned to four program c- mittee members, and 59 papers were selected. This was 80% more than the previous record for the number of submissions. We feel lucky to have been able to build on the solid foundation provided by the increasingly successful previous LATINs. And we are very grateful for the tireless work of Pablo Mart ́ ?nez L ́ opez, the Local Arrangements Chair. Finally, we thank Springer-Verlag for publishing these proceedings in its LNCS series.

Author : Claudio L. Lucchesi,Arnaldo V. Moura
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540642757

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LATIN'98: Theoretical Informatics by Claudio L. Lucchesi,Arnaldo V. Moura Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN'98, held in Campinas, Brazil, in April 1998. The 28 revised full papers presented together with five invited surveys were carefully selected from a total of 53 submissions based on 160 referees' reports. The papers are organized in sections on algorithms and complexity; automata, transition systems and combinatorics on words; computational geometry and graph drawing; cryptography; graph theory and algorithms on graphs; packet routing; parallel algorithms; and pattern matching and browsing.

Author : Zhipeng Cai,Alexander Zelikovsky,Anu Bourgeois
Publisher : Springer
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319087832

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Computing and Combinatorics by Zhipeng Cai,Alexander Zelikovsky,Anu Bourgeois Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2014, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in August 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. There was a co-organized workshop on computational social networks (CSoNet 2014) where 8 papers were accepted. The papers cover the following topics: sampling and randomized methods; logic, algebra and automata; database and data structures; parameterized complexity and algorithms; computational complexity; computational biology and computational geometry; approximation algorithm; graph theory and algorithms; game theory and cryptography; scheduling algorithms and circuit complexity and CSoNet.

Author : Ludek Kucera,Antonín Kucera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540744566

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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2007 by Ludek Kucera,Antonín Kucera Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2007, held in Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic, August 2007. The 61 revised full papers presented together with the full papers or abstracts of five invited talks address all current aspects in theoretical computer science and its mathematical foundations.

Author : Wen-Lian Hsu,Ming-Yang Kao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540685357

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Computing and Combinatorics by Wen-Lian Hsu,Ming-Yang Kao Pdf

The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Fourth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON’98), held on August 12–14, 1998, in Taipei. The topics cover most aspects of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing. Submissions to the conference this year was only conducted electronically. Thanks to the excellent software developed by the system team of the Institute of Information Science, we were able to make virtually all communications through the World Wide Web. A total of 69 papers was submitted in time to be considered, of which 36 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. In addition to these contributed papers, the conference also included four invited presentations by Christo Papadimitriou, Michael Fishcher, Fan Chung Graham and Rao Kosaraju. It is expected that most of the accepted papers will appear in a more complete form in scienti?c journals. Moreover, selected papers will appear in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science. We thank all program committee members, their support sta? and referees for excellent work within demanding time constraints. We thank all authors who submitted papers for consideration. We are especially grateful to our colleagues who worked hard and o?ered widely di?ering talents to make the conference both possible and enjoyable. August 1998 Wen-Lian Hsu and Ming-Yang Kao Program Co-chairs COCOON’98 Organization COCOON’98 is organized by the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC and in cooperation with Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (IICM), Taiwan, ROC.

Author : Symeon Bozapalidis,George Rahonis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540754145

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Algebraic Informatics by Symeon Bozapalidis,George Rahonis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, CAI 2007, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May 2007. The papers cover topics such as algebraic semantics on graphs and trees, formal power series, syntactic objects, algebraic picture processing, infinite computation, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays, etc., and decision problems.