Combinatorial Optimization and Applications

Routing among Convex Polygonal Obstacles in the Plane.- Target Coverage with Minimized Number of Camera Sensors.- Two-Stage Submodular Maximization under Curvature.- An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Capacitated Correlation Clustering Problem.- The Selection of COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Programs Based on Group Decision Making.- Which Option is a Better Way to Improve Transfer Learning Performance ?.- On Maximizing the Difference between an Approximately Submodular Function and a Linear Function Subject to a Matroid Constraint.- On Various Open-End Bin Packing Game.- A Linear-Time Streaming Algorithm for Cardinality-Constrained Maximizing Monotone Non-submodular Set Functions.- Approximation Algorithms for Two Parallel Dedicated Machine Scheduling with Conflict Constraints.- Computing the One-Visibility Cop-Win Strategies for Trees.- Complexity and Approximation Results on the Shared Transportation Problem.- The complexity of finding optimal subgraphs to represent spatial correlation.- New Approximation Algorithms for the Rooted Budgeted Cycle Cover Problem.- Evolutionary Equilibrium Analysis for Decision on Block Size in Blockchain Systems.- Efficient Algorithms for Scheduling Parallel Jobs with Interval Constraints in Clouds.- Two-Stage Stochastic Max-Weight Independent Set Problems.- Routing and Scheduling Problems with Two Agents on a Line-Shaped Network.- The Price of Anarchy of Generic Valid Utility Systems.- Single Machine Scheduling with Rejection and Generalized Parameters.- Approximation Algorithm and Hardness Results for Defensive Domination in Graphs.- An Improved Physical ZKP for Nonogram.- Finding All Leftmost Separators of Size $leq k$.- Maximize the Probability of Union-Influenced in Social Networks.- A Novel Algorithm for Max Sat Calling MOCE to Order.- The Smallest Number of Vertices in a 2-Arc-Strong Digraph without Pair of Arc-Disjoint in- and out-Branchings.- Generalized Self-Profit Maximization in Attribute Networks.- Parameterized Complexity Classes Defined by Threshold Circuits: Using Sorting Networks to Show Collapses with W-Hierarchy Classes.- Maximization of Monotone Non-Submodular Functions with a Knapsack Constraint over the Integer Lattice.- Sublinear-time Reductions for Big Data Computing.- Capacitated Partial Inverse Maximum Spanning Tree under the Weighted $l_{infty}$-Norm.- Approximation Algorithms for Some Min-Max and Minimum Stacker Crane Cover Problems.- Succinct Data Structures for SP, Block-Cactus and 3-Leaf Power Graphs.- Streaming Submodular Maximization under Differential Privacy Noise.- Online Bottleneck Semi-Matching.- Optimal Due Date Assignment without Restriction and Convex Resource Allocation in Group Technology Scheduling.- Constrained Stable Marriage with Free edges or Few Blocking Pairs.- Backgammon is Hard.- Two-Facility Location Games with a Minimum Distance Requirement on a Circle.- Open Shop Scheduling Problem with a Non-Resumable Flexible Maintenance Period.- Parallel Algorithm For Minimum Partial Dominating Set In Unit Disk Graph.- An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Squared Metric k-Facility Location.- Parameterized Algorithms for Linear Layouts of Graphs with Respect to the Vertex Cover Number.- The Fractional k-Truncated Metric Dimension of Graphs.- On Structural Parameterizations of the Offensive  Alliance Problem.- On the k-colored  Rainbow Sets in Fixed Dimensions.- Cycle-Connected Mixed Graphs and Related Problems.- Directed width parameters on semicomplete digraphs.- Improved Parameterized Approximation for Balanced k-Median.- A LP-Based Approximation Algorithm for Generalized Traveling Salesperson Path Problem.- Hardness Results of Connected Power Domination for Bipartite Graphs and Chordal Graphs.- Approximation Algorithm for Min-Max Correlation Clustering Problem with Outliers.- Delay-Constrained Minimum Shortest Path Trees and Related Problems.- On the Feedback Number of 3-Uniform Linear Extremal Hypergraph.- A Multi-Pass S