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We introduce a computational origami problem which we call the segment folding problem: given a set of $n$ line-segments in the plane the aim is to make creases along all segments in the minimum number of folding steps. Note that a folding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Takashi Horiyama , Fabian Klute , Matias Korman , Irene Parada , Ryuhei Uehara , Katsuhisa Yamanaka

We study the combinatorial FIFO stack-up problem. In delivery industry, bins have to be stacked-up from conveyor belts onto pallets with respect to customer orders. Given k sequences q_1, ..., q_k of labeled bins and a positive integer p,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Frank Gurski , Jochen Rethmann , Egon Wanke

Cutting and packing problems arise in a large variety of industrial applications, where there is a need to cut pieces from a large object, or placing them inside a containers, without overlap. When the pieces or the containers have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Pedro Rocha

We study the perfect matching reconfiguration problem: Given two perfect matchings of a graph, is there a sequence of flip operations that transforms one into the other? Here, a flip operation exchanges the edges in an alternating cycle of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Marc Heinrich , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Arnaud Mary , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Kunihiro Wasa

Inspired by a common technique for shuffling a deck of cards on a table without riffling, we formalize the pile shuffle and investigate its capabilities as a sorting device. Our study is novel in that we consider pile shuffle in three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Kyle B. Treleaven

We consider a setting in which a single divisible good ("cake") needs to be divided between n players, each with a possibly different valuation function over pieces of the cake. For this setting, we address the problem of finding divisions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Yonatan Aumann , Yair Dombb , Avinatan Hassidim

The Number Rotation Puzzle (NRP) is a combination puzzle in which the goal is to rearrange a scrambled rectangular grid of numbers back into order via moves that consist of rotating square blocks of numbers of fixed size. Over all possible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Thomas Lam

How can a stack of identical blocks be arranged to extend beyond the edge of a table as far as possible? We consider a generalization of this classic puzzle to blocks that differ in width and mass. Despite the seemingly simple premise, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Simon Gmeiner , Andreas S. Schulz

We consider the product knapsack problem, which is the variant of the classical 0-1 knapsack problem where the objective consists of maximizing the product of the profits of the selected items. These profits are allowed to be positive or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer , Clemens Thielen

NP complete problem is one of the most challenging issues. The question of whether all problems in NP are also in P is generally considered one of the most important open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science as it has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Wenhong Tian , GuoZhong Li , Xinyang Wang , Qin Xiong , Yaqiu Jiang

The number partition problem is a well-known problem, which is one of 21 Karp's NP-complete problems \cite{karp}. The partition function is a boolean function that is equivalent to the number partition problem with number range restricted.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-25 Chuyu Xiong

An unceasing problem of our prevailing society is the fair division of goods. The problem of proportional cake cutting focuses on dividing a heterogeneous and divisible resource, the cake, among $n$ players who value pieces according to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Ágnes Cseh , Tamás Fleiner

In the permutation inversion problem, the task is to find the preimage of some challenge value, given oracle access to the permutation. This is a fundamental problem in query complexity, and appears in many contexts, particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Gorjan Alagic , Chen Bai , Alexander Poremba , Kaiyan Shi

Caching (also known as paging) is a classical problem concerning page replacement policies in two-level memory systems. General caching is the variant with pages of different sizes and fault costs. We give the first NP-hardness result for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Lukáš Folwarczný , Jiří Sgall

We study the computational complexity of finding a solution for the straight-cut and square-cut pizza sharing problems. We show that computing an $\varepsilon$-approximate solution is PPA-complete for both problems, while finding an exact…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Argyrios Deligkas , John Fearnley , Themistoklis Melissourgos

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the propagation of information in a network. Initially, we have an undirected graph of unburned vertices. At each time step, an unburned vertex is chosen to burn; additionally, unburned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dhanyamol Antony , L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Shirish Gosavi , Dalu Jacob , Shashanka Kulamarva

Rearranging densely packed tabletop objects is challenging when parallel-gripper picks are infeasible without sufficient clearance around an object. This work studies the problem characteristics for practically motivated settings with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Lu , Rahul Shome

We study a new reconfiguration problem inspired by classic mechanical puzzles: a colored token is placed on each vertex of a given graph; we are also given a set of distinguished cycles on the graph. We are tasked with rearranging the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Kwon Kham Sai , Ryuhei Uehara , Giovanni Viglietta

The Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem is a special case of Multiple knapsack problem in which the items sizes are divisible. A characterization of the optimal solutions of the problem and a description of the convex hull of all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Paolo Detti

Inspired by a common technique for shuffling a deck of cards on a table without riffling, we continue the study of a prequel paper on the pile shuffle and its capabilities as a sorting device. We study two sort feasibility problems of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kyle B. Treleaven