Proofs of the Parisi and Coppersmith-Sorkin conjectures for the finite random assignment problem

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 168-178

  Nair, C ^a   Prabhakar, B ^a   Sharma, M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character generation; Chromium; Computer science; Costs; Linear programming; Random variables; Upper bound

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COSTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; RANDOM VARIABLES;

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; AVERAGE VALUES; AVERAGE-CASE ANALYSIS; CHARACTER GENERATION; MINIMUM COST; PROBABILISTIC ARGUMENTS; RANDOM ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; UPPER BOUND;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84943419844     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SFCS.2003.1238191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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