Utilitas Algorithmica (UA)
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Utilitas Algorithmica (UA) is a premier, open-access international journal dedicated to advancing algorithmic research and its applications. Launched to drive innovation in computer science, UA publishes high-impact theoretical and experimental papers addressing real-world computational challenges. The journal underscores the vital role of efficient algorithm design in navigating the growing complexity of modern applications. Spanning domains such as parallel computing, computational geometry, artificial intelligence, and data structures, UA is a leading venue for groundbreaking algorithmic studies.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 019
- Pages: 55-63
- Published: 31/10/1995
Permutation graphs, a well-known class of perfect graphs, has attracted the attention of numerous researchers. There are two noteworthy representations of permutation graphs. Permutation diagrams have been widely employed in theoretical and application research. The \(2\)-dimensional Euclidean representation suggested by Ore is relatively unknown and unexplored. In this paper, we demonstrate the utility of the latter representation in the investigation of the Hamiltonian Path problem in permutation graphs.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 019
- Pages: 48-54
- Published: 31/10/1995
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the profiles of Hadamard matrices and the weights of the doubly even self-orthogonal/dual \([n, m, d]\) codes from Hadamard matrices of order \(n = 8t\) with \(t \geq 1\). We show that such codes have \(m \leq \frac{n}{2}\), and give some computational results of doubly even self-orthogonal/dual \([n,m,d]\) codes from Hadamard matrices of order \(n = 8t\), with \(1 \leq t \leq 9\).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 019
- Pages: 33-47
- Published: 31/10/1995
Let \(G\) be a finite strongly connected mixed graph (i.e., a graph with both undirected and directed edges, in which each vertex can be reached from every other vertex if directed edges can only be traversed in their direction of orientation). We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for it to be possible to transform some undirected edges of \(G\) into directed edges so that each vertex becomes the head of a prescribed number of newly directed edges and \(G\) remains strongly connected. A special case of this result yields a new proof (not requiring matroid techniques) of a necessary and sufficient condition for it to be possible to split each vertex of a finite connected graph into a prescribed number of vertices whilst preserving connectedness.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 019
- Pages: 3-31
- Published: 31/10/1995
The Balanced Network Search (BNS) is an algorithm which finds a maximum balanced flow in a balanced network \({N}\). This algorithm is a way of using network flows to solve a number of standard problems, including maximum matchings, the factor problem, maximum capacitated \(b\)-matchings, etc., in general graphs. The value of a maximum balanced flow equals the capacity of a minimum balanced edge-cut. Flow-carrying balanced networks contain structures called generalized blossoms. They are not based on odd cycles. Rather they are the connected components of a residual sub-network of \({N}\). An algorithm is given for finding a maximum balanced flow, by constructing complementary pairs of valid augmenting paths.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 041
- Pages: 3-24
- Published: 31/12/1995
We consider a linear model for the comparison \(V \geq 2\) treatments (or one treatment at \(V\) levels) in a completely randomized statistical setup, making \(r\) (the replication number) observations per treatment level in the presence of \(K\) continuous covariates with values on the \(K\)-cube. The main interest is restricted to cyclic designs characterized by the property that the allocation matrix of each treatment level is obtained through cyclic permutation of the columns of the allocation matrix of the first treatment level. The \(D\)-optimality criterion is used for estimating all the parameters of this model.
By studying the nonperiodic autocorrelation function of circulant matrices, we develop an exhaustive algorithm for constructing \(D\)-optimal cyclic designs with even replication number. We apply this algorithm for \(r = 4, 16 \leq V \leq 24, N=rV \equiv 0 \mod 4\), for \(r=6, 12\leq V \leq 24, N =rV \equiv 0 \mod 4\), for \(r =6, V =m.n, m\) is a prime, \(N =rV \equiv 2 \mod 4\) and the corresponding cyclic designs are given.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 040
- Pages: 279-286
- Published: 31/08/1995
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 040
- Pages: 270-278
- Published: 31/08/1995
New sufficient conditions for equality of edge-connectivity and minimum degree of graphs are presented, including those of Chartrand, Lesniak, Plesnik, Plesník, and Ždmán, and Volkmann.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 040
- Pages: 261-269
- Published: 31/08/1995
We show that \((81, 16, 3)\)-block designs have no involutionary automorphisms that fix just \(13\) points. Since the nonexistence of \((81, 16, 3)\)-designs with involutionary automorphism fixing \(17\) points has already been proved, it follows that any involution that an \((81, 16, 3)\)-design may have must fix just \(9\) points.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 040
- Pages: 247-260
- Published: 31/08/1995
In this paper we construct a latin \((n \times n \times (n-d))\)-parallelepiped that cannot be extended to a latin cube of order \(n\) for any pair of integers \(d, n\) where \(d \geq 3\) and \(n \geq 2d+1\). For \(d = 2\), it is similar to the construction already known.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 040
- Pages: 235-246
- Published: 31/08/1995
In this note the numbers of common triples in two simple balanced ternary designs with block size \(3\), index \(3\) and \(p_2 = 3\) are determined.




