The 18^th EURO Summer/Winter Institute (ESWI XVIII) took place during the spring 2000 in Switzerland. The topic of ESWI XVIII, "Meta-heuristics in ...

Generalized logical analysis aims at modelling complex biological systems, especially the so-called regulatory systems like genetic networks. The main feat...

A multivariate location model for cluster correlated observations is presented. An affine-invariant multivariate sign test for testing location is proposed...

The one-sided one sample problem with bivariate data is considered. A conditionally distribution-free sign test is proposed for that problem. This test is ...

Arc routing problems (ARPs) arise naturally in several applications where streets require maintenance, or customers located along road must be serviced. The ...

Finding augmenting chains is in the heart of the maximum matching problem, which is equivalent to the maximum stable set problem in the class of line graphs...

In this paper, nonparametric tests are presented for the hypothesis of no direct treatment effects, as well as for the hypothesis of no carryover effects, f...

A survey is made of computer systems which help to obtain and sometimes provide automatically proofs, conjectures and refutations in graph theory.

The complexity status of the maximum stable set problem in the class of <i>P</i>₅-free graphs is unknown. In this paper, we first propose a chara...

The maximum stable set problem is NP-hard, even when restricted to <i>banner</i>-free graphs. In this paper, we use the augmenting graph approach to attack ...

Exploiting an overlooked observation of Blum, Kiefer & Rosenblatt (1961), Dugué (1975) and Deheuvels (1981a) described a decomposition of empirical distribu...

This paper introduces new rank-based statistics for testing against serial dependence in a univariate time series context. These Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Cram...

We study various uniform <i>k</i>-partition problems which consist in partitioning <i>m</i> sets, each of cardinality <i>k</i>, into <i>k</i> sets of cardin...

We survey computers systems which help to obtain and sometimes provide automatically conjectures and refutations in algebraic graph theory.

A generalization of the Roy-Gallai theorem on the chromatic number of a graph is derived which is also an extension of several other results of Berge and of...

We give characterizations of integral graphs in the family of complete split graphs and a few related families of graphs.

Variable neighborhood search (VNS) is a recent metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global optimization problems whose basic idea is systematic chang...

Proposed just a few years ago, Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a new metaheuristic for combinatorial and global optimization, based upon systematic ch...

This article reports on some recent algorithmic development for the <i>Rural Postman Problem</i> (CPP) and for the <i>Capacitated Arc Routing Problem</i> (C...

On the basis of a variable-neighbourhood search with the AutoGraphiX software, it is conjectured that for even numbers of atoms the fully conjugated acycli...