Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Rainbow Sort: Sorting at the Speed of Light
Natural Computing: an international journal
Solving the Hamiltonian path problem with a light-based computer
Natural Computing: an international journal
Using light to implement parallel Boolean algebra
DLT'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Developments in language theory
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A procedure is given for finding the independent sets in an undirected graph by xeroxing onto transparent plastic sheets. Let an undirected graph having n vertices and m edges be given. A list of all the independent subsets of the set of vertices of the graph is constructed by using a xerox machine in a manner that requires the formation of only n + m + 1 successive transparencies. An accompanying list of the counts of the elements in each independent set is then constructed using only O(n 2) additional transparencies. The list with counts provides a list of all maximum independent sets. This gives an O(n 2) step solution for the classical problem of finding the cardinality of a maximal independent set in a graph. The applicability of these procedures is limited, of course, by the increase in the information density on the transparencies when n is large. Our ultimate purpose here is to give hand tested `ultra parallel' algorithmic procedures that may prove suitable for realization using future optical technologies.