Combinatorial Optimization and Applications

Termination of Multipartite Graph Series Arising from Complex Network Modelling.- Simple Cuts Are Fast and Good: Optimum Right-Angled Cuts in Solid Grids.- Evacuation of Rectilinear Polygons.- A Fast Algorithm for Powerful Alliances in Trees.- NP-Completeness of Spreading Colored Points.- Construction of Mixed Covering Arrays of Variable Strength Using a Tabu Search Approach.- Feasibility-Based Bounds Tightening via Fixed Points.- A Characterisation of Stable Sets in Games with Transitive Preference.- Linear Coherent Bi-cluster Discovery via Beam Detection and Sample Set Clustering.- An Iterative Algorithm of Computing the Transitive Closure of a Union of Parameterized Affine Integer Tuple Relations.- Bases of Primitive Nonpowerful Sign Patterns.- Extended Dynamic Subgraph Statistics Using h-Index Parameterized Data Structures.- Discrete Optimization with Polynomially Detectable Boundaries and Restricted Level Sets.- Finding Strong Bridges and Strong Articulation Points in LinearTime.- Robust Optimization of Graph Partitioning and Critical Node Detection in Analyzing Networks.- An Efficient Algorithm for Chinese Postman Walk on Bi-directed de Bruijn Graphs.- On the Hardness and Inapproximability of Optimization Problems on Power Law Graphs.- Cyclic Vertex Connectivity of Star Graphs.- The Number of Shortest Paths in the (n, k)-Star Graphs.- Complexity of Determining the Most Vital Elements for the 1-median and 1-center Location Problems.- PTAS for Minimum Connected Dominating Set with Routing Cost Constraint in Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Prize-Collecting TSP.- Computing Toolpaths for 5-Axis NC Machines.- A Trichotomy Theorem for the Approximate Counting of Complex-Weighted Bounded-Degree Boolean CSPs.- A Randomized Algorithm for Weighted Approximation of Points by a Step Function.- Approximating Multilinear Monomial Coefficients and Maximum Multilinear Monomials in Multivariate Polynomials.- The Union of