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The aim of this research is twofold: Firstly, to model and solve a complex nurse scheduling problem with an integer programming formulation and evolutionary algorithms. Secondly, to detail a novel statistical method of comparing and hence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin , Paul White

The analyses of many algorithms and data structures (such as digital search trees) for searching and sorting are based on the representation of the keys involved as bit strings and so count the number of bit comparisons. On the other hand,…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-14 James Allen Fill , Svante Janson

Repeat finding in strings has important applications in subfields such as computational biology. The challenge of finding the longest repeats covering particular string positions was recently proposed and solved by \.{I}leri et al., using a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Yun Tian , Bojian Xu

In the age of big data, sorting is an indispensable operation for DBMSes and similar systems. Having data sorted can help produce query plans with significantly lower run times. It also can provide other benefits like having non-blocking…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Michael Polyntsov , Valentin Grigorev , Kirill Smirnov , George Chernishev

Consistent hashing is used in distributed systems and networking applications to spread data evenly and efficiently across a cluster of nodes. In this paper, we present MementoHash, a novel consistent hashing algorithm that eliminates known…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Massimo Coluzzi , Amos Brocco , Alessandro Antonucci , Tiziano Leidi

Algebraic matrix multiplication algorithms are designed by bounding the rank of matrix multiplication tensors, and then using a recursive method. However, designing algorithms in this way quickly leads to large constant factors: if one…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Josh Alman , Hantao Yu

Sorting is one of the most fundamental algorithms in computer science. Recently, Learned Sorts, which use machine learning to improve sorting speed, have attracted attention. While existing studies show that Learned Sort is empirically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Atsuki Sato , Yusuke Matsui

In scientific computing, it is common that a mathematical expression can be computed by many different algorithms (sometimes over hundreds), each identifying a specific sequence of library calls. Although mathematically equivalent, those…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Aravind Sankaran , Paolo Bientinesi

Sorting is one of the most used and well investigated algorithmic problem [1]. Traditional postulation supposes the sorting data archived, and the elementary operation as comparisons of two numbers. In a view of appearance of new processors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Hakob Aslanyan

Sorting algorithms are the deciding factor for the performance of common operations such as removal of duplicates or database sort-merge joins. This work focuses on 32-bit integer keys, optionally paired with a 32-bit value. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Jan Wassenberg , Peter Sanders

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

In this work, we present a constant-round algorithm for the $2$-ruling set problem in the Congested Clique model. As a direct consequence, we obtain a constant round algorithm in the MPC model with linear space-per-machine and optimal total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Mélanie Cambus , Fabian Kuhn , Shreyas Pai , Jara Uitto

This paper deals with simultaneously fast and in-place algorithms for formulae where the result has to be linearly accumulated: some output variables are also input variables, linked by a linear dependency. Fundamental examples include the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Bruno Grenet

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

Our research deals with the optimization version of the set partition problem, where the objective is to minimize the absolute difference between the sums of the two disjoint partitions. Although this problem is known to be NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

Randomized parallel algorithms for many fundamental problems achieve optimal linear work in expectation, but upgrading this guarantee to hold with high probability (whp) remains a recurring theoretical challenge. In this paper, we address…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod

We give a 3/2-approximation algorithm for stable matchings that runs in $O(m)$ time. The previously best known algorithm by McDermid has the same approximation ratio but runs in $O(n^{3/2}m)$ time, where $n$ denotes the number of people and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Katarzyna Paluch

Conventional sorting algorithms make use of such data structures as array, file and list which define access methods of the items to be sorted. Such traditional methods as exchange sort, divide and conquer sort, selection sort and insertion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-17 Samuel King Opoku

Classic cache-oblivious parallel matrix multiplication algorithms achieve optimality either in time or space, but not both, which promotes lots of research on the best possible balance or tradeoff of such algorithms. We study modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Yuan Tang