Download or read book Randomized Algorithms Approximation Generation and Counting written by Russ Bubley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randomized Algorithms discusses two problems of fine pedigree: counting and generation, both of which are of fundamental importance to discrete mathematics and probability. When asking questions like "How many are there?" and "What does it look like on average?" of families of combinatorial structures, answers are often difficult to find -- we can be blocked by seemingly intractable algorithms. Randomized Algorithms shows how to get around the problem of intractability with the Markov chain Monte Carlo method, as well as highlighting the method's natural limits. It uses the technique of coupling before introducing "path coupling" a new technique which radically simplifies and improves upon previous methods in the area.
Download or read book Algorithms for Random Generation and Counting A Markov Chain Approach written by A. Sinclair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis [86], com pleted in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edin burgh in June 1988, with an additional chapter summarising more recent developments. Some of the material has appeared in the form of papers [50,88]. The underlying theme of the monograph is the study of two classical problems: counting the elements of a finite set of combinatorial structures, and generating them uniformly at random. In their exact form, these prob lems appear to be intractable for many important structures, so interest has focused on finding efficient randomised algorithms that solve them ap proxim~ly, with a small probability of error. For most natural structures the two problems are intimately connected at this level of approximation, so it is natural to study them together. At the heart of the monograph is a single algorithmic paradigm: sim ulate a Markov chain whose states are combinatorial structures and which converges to a known probability distribution over them. This technique has applications not only in combinatorial counting and generation, but also in several other areas such as statistical physics and combinatorial optimi sation. The efficiency of the technique in any application depends crucially on the rate of convergence of the Markov chain.
Download or read book Algorithms for Random Generation and Counting A Markov Chain Approach written by A. Sinclair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis [86], com pleted in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edin burgh in June 1988, with an additional chapter summarising more recent developments. Some of the material has appeared in the form of papers [50,88]. The underlying theme of the monograph is the study of two classical problems: counting the elements of a finite set of combinatorial structures, and generating them uniformly at random. In their exact form, these prob lems appear to be intractable for many important structures, so interest has focused on finding efficient randomised algorithms that solve them ap proxim~ly, with a small probability of error. For most natural structures the two problems are intimately connected at this level of approximation, so it is natural to study them together. At the heart of the monograph is a single algorithmic paradigm: sim ulate a Markov chain whose states are combinatorial structures and which converges to a known probability distribution over them. This technique has applications not only in combinatorial counting and generation, but also in several other areas such as statistical physics and combinatorial optimi sation. The efficiency of the technique in any application depends crucially on the rate of convergence of the Markov chain.
Download or read book Mathematics and Computer Science III written by Michael Drmota and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics and Computer Science III contains invited and contributed papers on combinatorics, random graphs and networks, algorithms analysis and trees, branching processes, constituting the Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science, held in Vienna in September 2004. It addresses a large public in applied mathematics, discrete mathematics and computer science, including researchers, teachers, graduate students and engineers.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Computation Theory written by Maciej Liskiewicz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2005, held in Lübeck, Germany in August 2005. The 46 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on circuits, automata, complexity, approximability, computational and structural complexity, graphs and complexity, computational game theory, visual cryptography and computational geometry, query complexity, distributed systems, automata and formal languages, semantics, approximation algorithms, average case complexity, algorithms, graph algorithms, and pattern matching.
Download or read book Surveys in Combinatorics 1999 written by John Douglas Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date resource on combinatorics for graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking written by Pawel Pralat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking, CAAN 2007, held in Halifax, Canada, in August 2007, co-located with the 10th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS 2007. The main focus is on strategies for searching in networks, and for cleaning networks of unwanted intruders, on different routing strategies, and on scheduling and load balancing.
Download or read book Pattern Recognition written by Karina Mariela Figueroa Mora and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2020, which was due to be held in Morelia, Mexico, in June 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: pattern recognition techniques; image processing and analysis; computer vision; industrial and medical applications of pattern recognition; natural language processing and recognition; artificial intelligence techniques and recognition.
Download or read book Randomized Algorithms written by Rajeev Motwani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many applications a randomized algorithm is either the simplest algorithm available, or the fastest, or both. This tutorial presents the basic concepts in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms. The first part of the book presents tools from probability theory and probabilistic analysis that are recurrent in algorithmic applications. Algorithmic examples are given to illustrate the use of each tool in a concrete setting. In the second part of the book, each of the seven chapters focuses on one important area of application of randomized algorithms: data structures; geometric algorithms; graph algorithms; number theory; enumeration; parallel algorithms; and on-line algorithms. A comprehensive and representative selection of the algorithms in these areas is also given. This book should prove invaluable as a reference for researchers and professional programmers, as well as for students.
Download or read book Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing written by Grigori Sidorov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume set LNAI 9413 + LNAI 9414 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, held in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, in October 2015. The total of 98 papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: natural language processing; logic and multi-agent systems; bioinspired algorithms; neural networks; evolutionary algorithms; fuzzy logic; machine learning and data mining; natural language processing applications; educational applications; biomedical applications; image processing and computer vision; search and optimization; forecasting; and intelligent applications.
Download or read book Combinatorial Algorithms written by Veli Mäkinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, IWOCA 2016, held in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2016. The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They were organized in topical sessions named: computational complexity; computational geometry; networks; enumeration; online algorithms; algorithmic graph theory; dynamic programming; combinatorial algorithms; graph algorithms; combinatorics; and probabilistics.
Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2015 written by Giuseppe F. Italiano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume set LNCS 9234 and 9235 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in August 2015. The 82 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully selected from 201 submissions. The papers feature high-quality research in all branches of theoretical computer science. They have been organized in the following topical main sections: logic, semantics, automata, and theory of programming (volume 1) and algorithms, complexity, and games (volume 2).
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Download or read book Advances in Pattern Recognition written by José Francisco Martínez-Trinidad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2010, held in Puebly, Mexico, in September 2010. The 39 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions and are organized in topical sections on computer vision and robotics, image processing, neural networks and signal processing, pattern recognition, data mining, natural language and document processing.
Download or read book Algorithms and Computation written by Toshihide Ibaraki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-03 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2003, held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2003. The 73 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational geometry, graph and combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity, quantum computing, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, computational biology, distributed and parallel algorithms, data structures, combinatorial and network optimization, computational complexity and cryptography, game theory and randomized algorithms, and algebraic and arithmetic computation.
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Download or read book The Grammar of Technology Development written by Hiroe Tsubaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the keynote lecture and fourteen selected papers that - scribe a general guideline and supporting concepts and tools for conceiving technology development as a grammar. Recent advances in scienti?c and - gineering ?elds call for new disciplines, tools, and concepts. For example, advances in computer simulation require new approaches to statistical te- niques to utilize computer simulation e?ciently for technology development. Thepaperscollectedinthisbookfocusonsuchnewapproachesbasedonthese practicalrequirements.Theeditorsarecon?dentthiscollectionwillcontribute to the acceleration of technology development through the application of the grammar of technology presented here. The title of this book is in?uenced by Karl Pearson’s book The Grammar of Science, published in 1892, which brought him recognition as a giant and pioneer of statistics. His book introduced a grammar of science with a - scription of the roles of statistical treatments. While science at times has been misunderstood as not being amenable to a standardized approach, one of the contributions of Pearson’s book was that it o?ered a standardized - proach to science. As his book demonstrated, behind the great innovations of science, there exists a universal approach.
