Browsing by Author "Yan, Catherine"

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    • On Discrete Hyperbox Packing 
      Li, Xiafeng (2010-01-14)
      Bin packing is a very important and popular research area in the computer science field. Past work showed many good and real-world packing algorithms. How- ever, due to the complexity of the problem in multiple-dimensional ...
    • On the Fundamental Limits and Symmetric Designs for Distributed Information Systems 
      Salimi, Amir (2016-12-12)
      Many multi-terminal communication networks, content delivery networks, cache networks, and distributed storage systems can be modeled as a broadcast network. An explicit characterization of the capacity region of the general ...
    • On the separation of preferences among marked point process wager alternatives 
      Park, Jee Hyuk (2009-05-15)
      A wager is a one time bet, staking money on one among a collection of alternatives having uncertain reward. Wagers represent a common class of engineering decision, where “bets” are placed on the design, deployment, and/or ...
    • Parameterized complexity and polynomial-time approximation schemes 
      Huang, Xiuzhen (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)
      According to the theory of NPcompleteness, many problems that have important realworld applications are NPhard. This excludes the possibility of solving them in polynomial time unless P=NP. A number of approaches have been ...
    • Parking Functions And Generalized Catalan Numbers 
      Schumacher, Paul R. (2010-01-14)
      Since their introduction by Konheim and Weiss, parking functions have evolved into objects of surprising combinatorial complexity for their simple definitions. First, we introduce these structures, give a brief history of ...
    • Parking Functions on Trees and Directed Graphs 
      King, Harold Westin (2019-07-12)
      A parking function can be thought of as a sequence of n drivers, each with a preferred parking space, wanting to park along a one-way street with n parking spaces. Each driver checks her preferred parking space and, if it ...
    • Private Information Retrieval with Side Information 
      Garcia, Brenden Mark (2018-05-08)
      The objective of the classical Private Information Retrieval (PIR) problem is to enable a user to download a message from a database that is replicated across a collection of non-colluding servers without revealing the ...
    • Probabilistic Approaches in Comparative Analysis of Biological Networks and Sequences 
      Sahraeian, Sayed 1983- (2013-01-07)
      Comparative analysis of genomic data investigates the relationship of genome structure and function across different biological species to shed light on their similarities and differences. In this dissertation, we study ...
    • Products of representations of the symmetric group and non-commutative versions 
      Moreira Rodriguez, Rivera Walter (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)
      We construct a new operation among representations of the symmetric group that interpolates between the classical internal and external products, which are defined in terms of tensor product and induction of representations. ...
    • Research on Combinatorial Statistics: Crossings and Nestings in Discrete Structures 
      Poznanovikj, Svetlana (2011-10-21)
      We study the distribution of combinatorial statistics that exhibit a structure of crossings and nesting in various discrete structures, in particular, in set partitions, matchings, and fillings of moon polyominoes with ...
    • Stability of Heisenberg Coefficients 
      Ying, Li (2019-07-23)
      The Heisenberg product is an associative product defined on symmetric functions which interpolates between the ordinary product and the Kronecker product. Heisenberg coefficients are Schur structure constants of the ...
    • SUPER-MODULAR CATEGORIES 
      Zhang, Qing (2019-12-02)
      A super-modular category is a unitary pre-modular category with Müger center equivalent to the symmetric unitary category of super-vector spaces. Physically, super-modular categories describe universal properties of fermionic ...
    • Supply chain contract design in supplier- versus buyer-driven channels 
      Liu, Xingchu (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)
      In the context of supply contract design, the more powerful party has the lib- erty of withholding private information which also improves its bargaining power. Traditionally, the supplier (e.g., manufacturer) has been ...