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The hypercube queueing model was initially developed to address spatial queueing problems and has found wide applications in emergency services, such as ambulance and police systems. While the model was originally designed for homogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Cheng Hua , Jun Luo , Arthur J. Swersey , Yixing Wen

The theoretical computation of isotopic distribution of compounds is crucial in many important applications of mass spectrometry, especially as machine precision grows. A considerable amount of good tools have been created in the last…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Patrick Kreitzberg , Jake Pennington , Kyle Lucke , Oliver Serang

A two-step model for generating random polytopes is considered. For parameters $d$, $m$, and $p$, the first step is to generate a simple polytope $P$ whose facets are given by $m$ uniform random hyperplanes tangent to the unit sphere in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Andrew Newman

We address here the problem of generating random graphs uniformly from the set of simple connected graphs having a prescribed degree sequence. Our goal is to provide an algorithm designed for practical use both because of its ability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fabien Viger , Matthieu Latapy

We describe a maximum entropy approach for computing volumes and counting integer points in polyhedra. To estimate the number of points from a particular set X in R^n in a polyhedron P in R^n, by solving a certain entropy maximization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-15 Alexander Barvinok , John Hartigan

The von Neumann algorithm is a simple coordinate-descent algorithm to determine whether the origin belongs to a polytope generated by a finite set of points. When the origin is in the of the polytope, the algorithm generates a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Javier Pena , Daniel Rodriguez , Negar Soheili

We present efficient algorithms to build data structures and the lists needed for fast multipole methods. The algorithms are capable of being efficiently implemented on both serial, data parallel GPU and on distributed architectures. With…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Qi Hu , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

We give an algorithm for testing uniformity of distributions supported on hypergrids $[m_1] \times \cdots \times [m_n]$, which makes $\smash{\widetilde{O}(\text{poly}(m)\sqrt{n}/\epsilon^2)}$ many queries to a subcube conditional sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Xi Chen , Cassandra Marcussen

We give an algorithm that generates a uniformly random contingency table with specified marginals, i.e. a matrix with non-negative integer values and specified row and column sums. Such algorithms are useful in statistics and combinatorics.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Andrii Arman , Pu Gao , Nicholas Wormald

We consider a setup in which Alice selects a pdf $f$ from a set of prescribed pdfs $\mathscr{P}$ and sends a prefix-free codeword $W$ to Bob in order to allow him to generate a single instance of the random variable $X\sim f$. We describe a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Cheuk Ting Li , Abbas El Gamal

We propose a simple algorithm generating labelled posets of given size according to the almost uniform distribution. By "almost uniform" we understand that the distribution of generated posets converges in total variation to the uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Patryk Kozieł , Małgorzata Sulkowska

From a theoretical point of view, finding the solution set of a system of inequalities in only two variables is easy. However, if we want to get rigorous bounds on this set with floating point arithmetic, in all possible cases, then things…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Walter F. Mascarenhas

Data extraction algorithms on data hypercubes, or datacubes, are traditionally only capable of cutting boxes of data along the datacube axes. For many use cases however, this is not a sufficient approach and returns more data than users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mathilde Leuridan , James Hawkes , Simon Smart , Emanuele Danovaro , Tiago Quintino

The proof of the theorem, which states that the Euclidean metric on the set of random points in an $n$-dimensional Euclidean space with the distribution of a special class, converges in probability in the limit $n\rightarrow\infty$ to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Alexander P. Zubarev

We present an algorithm for producing discrete distributions with a prescribed nearest-neighbor distance function. Our approach is a combination of quasi-Monte Carlo (Q-MC) methods and weighted Riesz energy minimization: the initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-13 O. Vlasiuk , T. Michaels , N. Flyer , B. Fornberg

We describe a provably complete algorithm for the generation of a tight, possibly exact superset of all combinatorially distinct simple n-facet polytopes in R^d, along with their graphs, f-vectors, and face lattices. The technique applies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-13 Sandeep Koranne , Anand Kulkarni

An algorithm to generate the locus of a circle using the intersection points of straight lines is proposed. The pixels on the circle are plotted independent of one another and the operations involved in finding the locus of the circle from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2008-11-26 Sankar K , Sarad AV

New algorithms are devised for finding the maxima of multidimensional point samples, one of the very first problems studied in computational geometry. The algorithms are very simple and easily coded and modified for practical needs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Wei-Mei Chen , Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Tsung-Hsi Tsai

We introduce an algorithm for the uniform generation of infinite runs in concurrent systems under a partial order probabilistic semantics. We work with trace monoids as concurrency models. The algorithm outputs on-the-fly approximations of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Samy Abbes , Vincent Jugé

How to distribute a set of points uniformly on a spherical surface is a very old problem that still lacks a definite answer. In this work, we introduce a physical measure of uniformity based on the distribution of distances between points,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-09 Luca Maria Del Bono , Flavio Nicoletti , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi