Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Esa A. Seuranen Name of the doctoral dissertation Computational Methods in Codes and Games Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Communications and Networking Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 119/2011 Field of research Information Theory Manuscript submitted 30 May 2011 ...

This paper proposes a new replica placement algorithm that expands the exhaustive search limit with reasonable calculation time. It combines a new type of parallel data-flow processor with an architecture tuned for fast calculation. The replica placement problem is to find a replica-server set satisfying service constraints in a content delivery network (CDN). It is derived from the set cover p...

The min-con ict heuristic (Minton et al. 1992) has been introduced into backtracking algorithms and iterative improvement algorithms as a powerful heuristic for solving constraint satisfaction problems. Backtracking algorithms become ine cient when a bad partial solution is constructed, since an exhaustive search is required for revising the bad decision. On the other hand, iterative improvemen...

Exceptional model mining has been proposed as a variant of subgroup discovery especially focusing on complex target concepts. Currently, efficient mining algorithms are limited to heuristic (non exhaustive) methods. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for fast exhaustive exceptional model mining: We introduce the concept of valuation bases as an intermediate condensed data representation...

We prove the assertion in the title by conducting an exhaustive computational search for subgroups isomorphic to PSL2(13) and containing elements in class 13B.

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In construction projects, a significant part of work is done by subcontractors (SCs). Therefore, their management main contractors (MCs) becomes an important issue as the density SCs created at sites. recent years, more focus on SC evaluation and selection in bidding process has been agenda whereas subject performance appraisal on-site during project execution phase untended literature. Thus, t...

The min-conflict heuristic (Minton et al. 1992) has been introduced into backtracking algorithms and iterative improvement algorithms as a powerful heuristic for solving constraint satisfaction problems. Backtracking algorithms become inefficient when a bad partial solution is constructed, since an exhaustive search is required for revising the bad decision. On the other hand, iterative improve...