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    • Strawn, Nathaniel Kirk (2009-05-15)
      Finite frames are special collections of vectors utilized in Harmonic Analysis and Digital Signal Processing. In this thesis, geometric aspects and construction techniques are considered for the family of k-vector frames ...
    • Kostic, Dimitrije Nenad (2009-05-15)
      Parking functions have been a focus of mathematical research since the mid-1970s. Various generalizations have been introduced since the mid-1990s and deep relationships between these and other areas of mathematics have ...
    • Balasundaram, Balabhaskar (2009-05-15)
      This dissertation considers graph theoretic generalizations of the maximum clique problem. Models that were originally proposed in social network analysis literature, are investigated from a mathematical programming ...
    • Chen, William Y. C.; Wang, Andrew Y. Z.; Yan, Catherine H.; Zhao, Alina F. Y. (SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2010)
    • Xia, Ge (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      Many problems of practical significance are known to be NP-hard, and hence, are unlikely to be solved by polynomial-time algorithms. There are several ways to cope with the NP-hardness of a certain problem. The most popular ...