Consider a graph G = (V, E) and an initial random coloring where each vertex v ∈ V is blue with probability Pb and red otherwise, independently from all other vertices. In each round, all vertices simultaneously switch their color to the most frequent color in their neighborhood and in case of a tie, a vertex keeps its current color. The main goal of the present paper is to analyze the behavior...

To each game form g an effectivity function (EFF) Eg can be naturally assigned. An EFF E will be called formal (respectively, formal-minor) if E = Eg (respectively, E ≤ Eg) for a game form g. (i) An EFF is formal if and only if is superadditive and monotone. (ii) An EFF is formal-minor if and only if it is weakly superadditive. Theorem (ii) looks more sophisticated, yet, it is simpler and instr...

We investigate the statistics of flat-top solitary wave parameters in the presence of weak multiplicative dissipative disorder. We consider first propagation of solitary waves of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (CQNLSE) in the presence of disorder in the cubic nonlinear gain. We show by a perturbative analytic calculation and by Monte Carlo simulations that the probability-dens...

The problem of gathering multiple mobile robots to a single location, is one of the fundamental problems in distributed coordination between autonomous robots. The problem has been studied and solved even for robots that are anonymous, disoriented, memoryless and operate in the semi-synchronous (ATOM) model. However all known solutions require the robots to be faulty-free except for the results...

InterMed is a collaboration among research groups from Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia universities. InterMed’s primary goal has been to develop a sharable language that could serve as a standard for modeling computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs). This language, called GuideLine Interchange Format (GLIF), has been developed in a collaborative manner, and in an open process that has welcomed ...

One third of the artichoke production is used in industrial processes, where up to 70% 85% of the initial raw material is transformed into solid wastes. For an adequate management of these wastes, it is necessary to know their water sorption properties, because physical, chemical and biological changes which occur during their storage depend on water-solid interactions. The objectives of this w...

We study finite-dimensional extra symmetries of generic 2D dilaton gravity models. Using a non-linear sigma model formulation we show that the unique theories admitting an extra (conformal) symmetry are the models with an exponential potential V ∝ e (S = 1 2π ∫ d2x √−g[Rφ + 4λ2eβφ]), which include the model of Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger (CGHS) as a particular though limiting (β = 0...

A distance labeling scheme is a distributed graph representation that assigns labels to the vertices and enables answering distance queries between any pair (x, y) of vertices by using only the labels of x and y. This paper presents an optimal distance labeling scheme with labels of O(logn) bits for the n-vertex interval graphs family. It improves by log n factor the best known upper bound of [...

Abstract Olive leaf is a residue in olive oil and fruits production, which considered with bioactive potential due to the high antioxidant activity attributed mainly phenolic compounds. The research aimed investigate Brazilian drying, also study its influence on of leaf. desorption isotherms leaves were determined experimental curves fitted GAB, BET Peleg models. Convective drying fixed bed dry...

The study of Dense-3-Subhypergraph problem was initiated in Chlamtác et al. [7]. The input is a universe U and collection S of subsets of U , each of size 3, and a number k. The goal is to choose a set W of k elements from the universe, and maximize the number of sets, S ∈ S so that S ⊆W . The members in U are called vertices and the sets of S are called the hyperedges. This is the simplest ext...