Block sorting is hard

International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-437

  Bein, Wolfgang W ^a   Larmore, Lawrence L ^a   Latifi, Shahram ^a   Sudborough, I Hal ^b  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

mathcal NP completeness; block sorting; optical character recognition; Optimal sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844516676     PISSN: 01290541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129054103001820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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