The official handicapping system of the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) is very similar to the handicapping system of the United States Golf Association (USGA). Although these handicapping systems are complex and have been carefully studied, the systems do not take statistical theory into account. In 2000, the Handicap Research Committee of the RCGA was formed and challenged with the tas...

An equitable coloring of a graph is a proper vertex coloring such that the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most 1. A d-degenerate graph is a graph G in which every subgraph has a vertex with degree at most d. A star Sm with m rays is an example of a 1-degenerate graph with maximum degree m that needs at least 1 + m/2 colors for an equitable coloring. Our main result is that every n-...

Location problems can be considered as multiple criteria models where for each client (spatial unit) there is de®ned an individual objective function, which measures the e€ect of a location pattern with respect to the client satisfaction (e.g., it expresses the distance or travel time between the client and the assigned facility). This results in a multiple criteria model taking into account th...

One way to choose a basis of a matroid at random is to choose an ordering of the ground set uniformly at random and then use the greedy algorithm to find a basis. We investigate the class of matroids having the property that this procedure yields a basis uniformly at random. We show how this class is related to some other naturally-defined families of matroids and consider how it behaves under ...

The randomized k-paging algorithm Equitable given by Achlioptas et al. is Hk-competitive and uses O(k 2 log k) memory. This competitive ratio is best possible. The randomized algorithm RMark given by Fiat et al. is (2Hk − 1)-competitive, but only uses O(k) memory. Borodin and El Yaniv [6] list as an open question whether there exists an Hk-competitive randomized algorithm which requires O(k) me...

In the paper we consider the problems of equitable and semi-equitable coloring of vertices of cubic graphs. We show that in contrast to the equitable coloring, which is easy, the problem of semi-equitable coloring is NPcomplete within a broad spectrum of graph parameters. This affects the complexity of batch scheduling of unit-length jobs with cubic incompatibility graph on three uniform proces...

In this work we study the polytope associated with a 0/1 integer programming formulation for the Equitable Coloring Problem. We find several families of valid inequalities and derive sufficient conditions in order to be facet-defining inequalities. We also present computational evidence of the effectiveness of including these inequalities as cuts in a Branch & Cut algorithm.