Stable networks and product graphs:
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Beteilige Person: Feder, Tomás (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. 1991
Schriftenreihe:Stanford University / Computer Science Department: Report STAN-CS 1362
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Abstract:Abstract: "A network is a collection of gates, each with many inputs and many outputs, where links join individual outputs to individual inputs of gates; the unlinked inputs and outputs of gates are viewed as inputs and outputs of the network. A stable configuration assigns values to inputs, outputs, and links in a network, so as to ensure that the gate equations are satisfied. The problem of finding stable configurations in a network is computationally hard, even when all values are boolean and all input values are specified in advance; in general, the difficulty of a stability problem seems to depend on the kinds of gates present in the network. The study can be restricted to gates that satisfy a nonexpansiveness condition requiring small perturbations at the inputs of a gate to have only a small effect at the outputs of the gate
The stability question on the class of networks satisfying this local nonexpansiveness condition contains stable matching as a main example, and defines the boundary between tractable and intractable versions of network stability. The structural and algorithmic study of stability in nonexpansive networks is based on a representation of the possible assignments of boolean values for a network as vertices in a boolean hypercube under the associated Hamming metric. This global view takes advantage of the median properties of the hypercube, and extends to metric networks, where individual values are now chosen from finite metric spaces and combined by means of an additive product operation
The relationship between products of metric spaces and products of graphs then establishes a connection between isometric representations in graphs and nonexpansiveness in metric networks.
Beschreibung:Stanford, Univ., Diss.
Umfang:VIII, 211 S.