Solitaire Clobber is a one-player variant of the 2-player board game Clobber introduced by Albert et al. in 2002. According to simple rules, the objective of Solitaire Clobber is to capture the maximum number of stones from a given graph. Two versions of Solitaire Clobber were recently investigated: a partisan and an impartial one. In this survey, we give an overview of the major results about ...

In 2011, Beeler and Hoilman generalised the game of peg solitaire to arbitrary connected graphs. Since then, related games have been considered on many graph classes. this paper, we introduce a variant solitaire, called path-stick which is played with sticks in edges instead pegs vertices. We prove several analogues results for that game, mainly regarding different Furthermore, characterise, ve...

Stream ciphers are often used in applications where high speed and low delay are a requirement. The Solitaire stream cipher was developed by B. Schneier as a paper-and-pencil cipher. Solitaire gets its security from the inherent randomness in a shuffled deck of cards. In this paper we investigate semigroups and groups properties of the Solitaire stream cipher and its regular modiÞcations.

The ability to automatically locate and track objects from videos has always been very important in traditional applications such as surveillance, robotics, and object recognition. With the proliferation of digital videos and online multimedia data and the need of content-based multimedia encoding and retrieval, locating and tracking objects in digital videos become ever more important. This th...

Aim. Study aimed to determine effects of flowable composites as liner on marginal and internal voids in MOD composite restorations with dif ferent gingival levels. Methods. 45 molars were prepared for MOD cavities. Finish line was prepared 1 mm apical to mesial, and 1 mm coronal to the cemento-enamel junction on distal. Teeth were restored with: Solitaire; Solitaire + Revolution; Surefil; Suref...

images divided into independent tiles in the pixel domain is important. However, tiling introduces artifacts when transform coefficients are quantized. This paper presents a " detiling " solution applicable to wavelet transform coefficients. The solution, called Projection Onto Scaling Functions, eliminates the blocking artifacts by computing approximations that match the smoothness of the comp...

The Solitaire illusion occurs when the spatial arrangement of items influences the subjective estimation of their quantity. Unlike other illusory phenomena frequently reported in humans and often also in non-human animals, evidence of the Solitaire illusion in species other than humans remains weak. However, before concluding that this perceptual bias affects quantity judgments differently in h...

Artificial DNA and RNA structures have been used as scaffolds for a variety of nanoscale devices. In comparison to DNA structures, RNA structures have been limited in size, but they also have advantages: RNA can fold during transcription and thus can be genetically encoded and expressed in cells. We introduce an architecture for designing artificial RNA structures that fold from a single strand...

Despite its long history, the classical game of peg solitaire continues to attract the attention of the scientific community. In this paper, we consider two problems with an algorithmic flavour which are related with this game, namely Solitaire-Reachability and Solitaire-Army. In the first one, we show that deciding whether there is a sequence of jumps which allows a given initial configuration...