We study the generalization of split and intersection cuts from Mixed Integer Linear Programming to the realm of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming. Constructing such cuts requires calculating the convex hull of the difference of two convex sets with specific geometric structures. We introduce two techniques to give precise characterizations of such convex hulls and use them to construct split...

Goodey and Weil have recently introduced the notions of translation mixtures of convex bodies and of mixed convex bodies. By a new approach, a simpler proof for the existence of the mixed polytopes is given, and explicit formulae for their vertices and edges are obtained. Moreover, the theory of mixed bodies is extended to more than two convex bodies. The paper concludes with the proof of an in...

A generalization of the formula of Fine and Rao for the ranks of the intersection homology groups of a complex algebraic variety is given. The proof uses geometric properties of intersection homology and mixed Hodge theory. The middle-perversity intersection homology with integral coefficients of a compact complex n-dimensional algebraic variety X with isolated singularities is well known to be...

‎for a set of non-negative integers~$l$‎, ‎the $l$-intersection number of a graph is the smallest number~$l$ for which there is an assignment of subsets $a_v subseteq {1,dots‎, ‎l}$ to vertices $v$‎, ‎such that every two vertices $u,v$ are adjacent if and only if $|a_u cap a_v|in l$‎. ‎the bipartite $l$-intersection number is defined similarly when the conditions are considered only for the ver...

The new voting system of the Council of the European Union cannot be represented as the intersection of six or fewer weighted games, i.e., its dimension is at least 7. This sets a new record for real-world voting bodies. A heuristic combination of different discrete optimization methods yields a representation as the intersection of 13 368 weighted games. Determination of the exact dimension is...

Gavril [GA4] defined two new families of intersection graphs: the interval-filament graphs and the subtree-filament graphs. The complements of intervalfilament graphs are the cointerval mixed graphs and the complements of subtree-filament graphs are the cochordal mixed graphs. The family of interval-filament graphs contains the families of cocomparability, polygon-circle, circle and chordal gra...

We present a novel FPGA-accelerated architecture for fast collision detection among rigid bodies. This paper describes the design of the hardware architecture for several primitive intersection testing components implemented on a multi-FPGA Xilinx Virtex-II prototyping system. We focus on the acceleration of ray-triangle intersection operation which is the one of the most important operations i...