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Computing an Evolutionary Ordering is Hard

Computational Complexity 2014-10-27 v1

Abstract

We prove that computing an evolutionary ordering of a family of sets, i.e. an ordering where each set intersects with --but is not included in-- the union earlier sets, is NP-hard.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.6663,
  title  = {Computing an Evolutionary Ordering is Hard},
  author = {Laurent Bulteau and Gustavo Sacomoto and Blerina Sinaimeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6663},
  year   = {2014}
}
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