We consider cost sharing for a class of facility location games, where the strategy spaceof each player consists of the bases of a player-specific matroid defined on the set of re-sources. We assume that resources have nondecreasing load-dependent costs and player-specific delays. Our model includes the important special case of capacitated facility loca-tion problems, where...

This article is a theoretical basis for the software implementation of the Physical space Statistical Analysis System PSAS that is used for atmospheric data analysis at the NASA Data Assimilation O ce DAO The PSAS implements a statistical algo rithm that combines irregularly spaced observations with a gridded forecast to produce an optimal estimate of the state of the atmosphere Starting frommo...

The bin packing optimization problem packs a set of objects into a set of bins so that the amount of wasted space is minimized The bin packing problem has many important applications These include multiprocessor scheduling resource allocation and real world planning packing routing and scheduling optimization problems The bin packing problem is NP complete Since there is therefore little hope i...

Title ofprogram: SUUNFA theories, QED and QCD models, non-perturbative effects, phase transitions, confining and deconfining phases, quark theory, Catalogue number: AAOT statistical mechanical analogies, action per plaquette, Metropolis algorithm, Monte Carlo techniques Program available from: CPC Program Library, Queen’s University of Belfast, N. Ireland (see application form in this issue) Na...

The Naive Bayesian (NB) network classifier, a probabilistic model with a strong assumption of conditional independence among features, shows a surprisingly competitive prediction performance even when compared with some state-of-the-art classifiers. With a looser assumption of conditional independence, the Semi-Naive Beyesian (SNB) network classifier is superior to NB classifiers when features ...

We saw the definition of base, circuit, rank, span and flat of matroids last lecture. We begin this lecture by studying some more basic properties of a matroid. Exercise 1 Show that a set I ⊆ S is independent in a matroid M iff ∀y ∈ I, there exists a flat F such that I − y ⊆ F and y ∈ F. Exercise 3 Verify that (S, I *) is indeed a matroid. Remark 4 Having an independence or rank oracle for M im...

The problem of cross country movement planning is to find the least cost path between a source and a destination given a polygonal partitioning of the plane. This paper presents the comparison between a vector-based algo­ rithm and several raster-based algorithms for solving the cross country move­ ment planning problem. Besides three known raster methods (standard, more­ connected, and quadtre...

A new second-order finite-difference algorithm for the numerical where nW is the vector of unit outward normal to the boundsolution of diffusion problems in strongly heterogeneous and nonary ­V, and a and c are functions given on ­V. The algoisotropic media is constructed. On problems with rough coefficients or highly nonuniform grids, the new algorithm is superior to all rithm is constructed u...

Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules byRandy Alan Bartels Co-Chairs: Henry C. Kapteyn & Margaret M. Murnane Whenever scienti c tools are signi cantly advanced, new discoveries soon follow.My thesis work relies on advances in ultrafast laser technology that allow precisecontrol over the shape of sub 20-fs laser pulses. This laser system enabled many newexperiments that yielded...

Blind source separation (BSS) addresses the problem of separating multi­ channel signals observed by generally spatially separated sensors into their constituent underlying sources. The passage of these sources through an un­ known mixing medium results in these observed multichannel signals. This study focuses on BSS, with special emphasis on its application to the tem­ poromandibular joint di...