[...]... it takes θ(n) time to produce a string Handbook of Applied Algorithms: Solving Scientific, Engineering and Practical Problems Edited by Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovi´ Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Inc c 1 2 GENERATING ALL AND RANDOM INSTANCES OF A COMBINATORIAL OBJECT Let P be the number of all instances of a combinatorial object, and N be the average size of an instance The delay when generating... simulation and system level performance analysis He has been an Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University since 1994 He had been the Book Review and Canadian Editor of VLSI Design from 1996 till 2002 He is in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and the Associate Editor of International Journal of Computing and. .. stands out as the predominant concept of rationality in noncooperative settings Thus, game theory and its notions of equilibria provide a rich framework for modeling the behavior of PREFACE xi selfish agents in these kinds of distributed and networked environments and offering mechanisms to achieve efficient and desirable global outcomes in spite of the selfish behavior In Chapter 10, we review some of. .. the journal Communications of ACM (between 1960 and 1975) and later in ACM Transactions of Mathematical Software and Collected Algorithms from ACM, in addition to hundreds of other journal publications The generation of ranking and unranking combinatorial objects has been surveyed in several books [6,14,21,25,30,35,40] 1.2 LISTING SUBSETS AND INTEGER COMPOSITIONS Without loss of generality, the combinatorial... topology of the network and contributes to maintaining high bandwidth utilization Our bandwidth allocation scheme is specifically tailored to meet the QoS needs of multimedia connections The performance of RADAR is compared to that of three recent schemes proposed in the literature Simulation results show that our scheme offers low call dropping probability, providing for reliable handoff of on-going... Science and Combinatorics and Optimization from University of Waterloo in 1981, and Ph.D in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University in 1991 He has over 17 years of industrial experience, working at CMC Electronics (formerly known as Canadian Marconi Company), Defence Research Establishment Ottawa (DREO), EER Systems and Nortel Networks, in software engineering, avionics, and navigation... quality of this handbook The assistance of reviewers for all chapters is also greatly appreciated The University of Ottawa (with the help of NSERC) provided an ideal working environment for the preparation of this handbook This includes computer facilities for efficient Internet search, communication by electronic mail, and writing our own contributions The editors are thankful to Paul Petralia and Whitney... States, Canada, France, and Mexico He is currently a Chair Professor in Applied Computing at EECE, the University of Birmingham, UK He published over 200 different papers, and edited three books on wireless, ad hoc, and sensor networks with Wiley/IEEE He is currently editor of over ten journals, and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals Stojmenovic was cited >3400 times and is in the top 0.56%... 1 Generating All and Random Instances of a Combinatorial Object IVAN STOJMENOVIC 1.1 LISTING ALL INSTANCES OF A COMBINATORIAL OBJECT The design of algorithms to generate combinatorial objects has long fascinated mathematicians and computer scientists Some of the earliest papers on the interplay between mathematics and computer science are devoted to combinatorial algorithms Because of its many applications... BACKTRACKING AND ISOMORPH-FREE GENERATION OF POLYHEXES General combinatorial algorithms and their application to enumerating molecules in chemistry are presented and classical and new algorithms for the generation of complete lists of combinatorial objects that contain only inequivalent objects (isomorphfree exhaustive generation) are discussed We introduce polygonal systems, and how polyhexes and hexagonal . y0 w0 h0" alt="" HANDBOOK OF APPLIED ALGORITHMS HANDBOOK OF APPLIED ALGORITHMS SOLVING SCIENTIFIC, ENGINEERING AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS Edited by Amiya Nayak SITE, University of Ottawa Ottawa,. Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Handbook of applied algorithms: solving scientific, engineering, and practical problem / edited by Amiya Nayak & Ivan Stojmenovic. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-470-04492-6 1. Computer algorithms. . interested in some applied and complementary aspects of their activity, and people that want to approach and get a general view of this area. Applied algorithms are gaining popularity, and a textbook