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In this paper, we give a combinatorial characterization of the special graphs of fat Hoffman graphs containing K1,2 with smallest eigenvalue greater than −3, where K1,2 is the Hoffman graph having one slim vertex and two fat vertices.

We report on a model-based approach to system-software coengineering which is tailored to the specific characteristics of critical onboard systems for the aerospace domain. The approach is supported by a System-Level Integrated Modeling (SLIM) Language by which engineers are provided with convenient ways to describe nominal hardware and software operation, (probabilistic) faults and their propa...

We show that any rational convex polytope is polynomial-time representable as a three-way linesum transportation polytope of “slim” (r, c, 3) format. This universality theorem has important consequences for linear and integer programming and for confidential statistical data disclosure. We provide a polynomial-time embedding of arbitrary linear programs and integer programs in such slim transpo...

Multiway tables with specified marginals arise in a variety of applications in statistics and operations research. We provide a comprehensive complexity classification of three fundamental computational problems on tables: existence, counting, and entry-security. One outcome of our work is that each of the following problems is intractable already for “slim” 3tables, with constant number 3 of r...

With the exponential increase in the number of sequenced organisms, automated annotation of proteins is becoming increasingly important. Intrinsically disordered regions are known to play a significant role in protein function. Despite their abundance, especially in eukaryotes, they are rarely used to inform function prediction systems. In this study, we extracted seven sequence features in int...