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General duality in vector optimization
1993
Vector minimization of a relation F valued in an ordered vector space under a constraint A consists in finding x 0 ∊ A w,0 ∊ Fx$0 such that w,0 is minimal in FA. To a family of vector minimization problemsminimize , one associates a Lagrange relation where ξ belongs to an arbitrary class Ξ of mappings, the main purpose being to recover solutions of the original problem from the vector minimization of the Lagrange relation for an appropriate ξ. This ξ turns out to be a solution of a dual vector maximization problem. Characterizations of exact and approximate duality in terms of vector (generalized with respect to Ξ) convexity and subdifferentiability are given. They extend the theory existin…
Unary Languages Recognized by Two-Way One-Counter Automata
2014
A two-way deterministic finite state automaton with one counter (2D1CA) is a fundamental computational model that has been examined in many different aspects since sixties, but we know little about its power in the case of unary languages. Up to our knowledge, the only known unary nonregular languages recognized by 2D1CAs are those formed by strings having exponential length, where the exponents form some trivial unary regular language. In this paper, we present some non-trivial subsets of these languages. By using the input head as a second counter, we present simulations of two-way deterministic finite automata with linearly bounded counters and linear–space Turing machines. We also show …
Polyhedral results for a vehicle routing problem
1991
Abstract The Vehicle Routing Problem is a well known, and hard, combinatorial problem, whose polyhedral structure has deserved little attention. In this paper we consider the particular case in which all the demands are equal (since in the general case the associated polytope may be empty). From a known formulation of the problem we obtain the dimension of the corresponding polytope and we study the facetial properties of every inequality in it.
On extremal cases of Hopcroft’s algorithm
2010
AbstractIn this paper we consider the problem of minimization of deterministic finite automata (DFA) with reference to Hopcroft’s algorithm. Hopcroft’s algorithm has several degrees of freedom, so there can exist different executions that can lead to different sequences of refinements of the set of the states up to the final partition. We find an infinite family of binary automata for which such a process is unique, whatever strategy is chosen. Some recent papers (cf. Berstel and Carton (2004) [3], Castiglione et al. (2008) [6] and Berstel et al. (2009) [1]) have been devoted to find families of automata for which Hopcroft’s algorithm has its worst execution time. They are unary automata as…
Affine Automata Verifiers
2021
We initiate the study of the verification power of Affine finite automata (AfA) as a part of Arthur-Merlin (AM) proof systems. We show that every unary language is verified by a real-valued AfA verifier. Then, we focus on the verifiers restricted to have only integer-valued or rational-valued transitions. We observe that rational-valued verifiers can be simulated by integer-valued verifiers, and their protocols can be simulated in nondeterministic polynomial time. We show that this upper bound is tight by presenting an AfA verifier for NP-complete problem SUBSETSUM. We also show that AfAs can verify certain non-affine and non-stochastic unary languages.
Fuzzy functions: a fuzzy extension of the category SET and some related categories
2000
<p>In research Works where fuzzy sets are used, mostly certain usual functions are taken as morphisms. On the other hand, the aim of this paper is to fuzzify the concept of a function itself. Namely, a certain class of L-relations F : X x Y -&gt; L is distinguished which could be considered as fuzzy functions from an L-valued set (X,Ex) to an L-valued set (Y,Ey). We study basic properties of these functions, consider some properties of the corresponding category of L-valued sets and fuzzy functions as well as briefly describe some categories related to algebra and topology with fuzzy functions in the role of morphisms.</p>
Algebraic Structures of Rough Sets in Representative Approximation Spaces
2003
Abstract In this paper a generalized notion of an approximation space is considered. By an approximation space we mean an ordered pair (U, C ), where U is a finite nonempty set and C is a covering of U. According to connections between rough sets and concepts we define two types of approximation operations. Hence we obtain two families of rough sets. We show that these families form lattices in special types of representative approximation spaces. The operations on rough sets defined in the above lattices are analogous to classical operations on sets.
Branch and bound for the cutwidth minimization problem
2013
The cutwidth minimization problem consists of finding a linear arrangement of the vertices of a graph where the maximum number of cuts between the edges of the graph and a line separating consecutive vertices is minimized. We first review previous approaches for special classes of graphs, followed by lower bounds and then a linear integer formulation for the general problem. We then propose a branch-and-bound algorithm based on different lower bounds on the cutwidth of partial solutions. Additionally, we introduce a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) heuristic to obtain good initial solutions. The combination of the branch-and-bound and GRASP methods results in optimal solu…
Optimization procedures for the bipartite unconstrained 0-1 quadratic programming problem
2014
The bipartite unconstrained 0-1 quadratic programming problem (BQP) is a difficult combinatorial problem defined on a complete graph that consists of selecting a subgraph that maximizes the sum of the weights associated with the chosen vertices and the edges that connect them. The problem has appeared under several different names in the literature, including maximum weight induced subgraph, maximum weight biclique, matrix factorization and maximum cut on bipartite graphs. There are only two unpublished works (technical reports) where heuristic approaches are tested on BQP instances. Our goal is to combine straightforward search elements to balance diversification and intensification in bot…
Machine-Independent Characterizations and Complete Problems for Deterministic Linear Time
2002
This article presents two algebraic characterizations and two related complete problems for the complexity class DLIN that was introduced in [E. Grandjean, Ann. Math. Artif. Intell., 16 (1996), pp. 183--236]. DLIN is essentially the class of all functions that can be computed in linear time on a Random Access Machine which uses only numbers of linear value during its computations. The algebraic characterizations are in terms of recursion schemes that define unary functions. One of these schemes defines several functions simultaneously, while the other one defines only one function. From the algebraic characterizations, we derive two complete problems for DLIN under new, very strict, and mac…