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Journal Articles

A tight bound on the length of odd cycles in the incompatibility graph of a non-C1P matrix (Mehrnoush Malekesmaeili, Cedric Chauve and Tamon Stephen), submitted. pdf

Embedding a Pair of Graphs in a Surface, and the Width of 4-dimensional Prismatoids (with Francisco Santos and Hugh Thomas).
Discrete and Computational Geometry, to appear. pdf¹

More Colourful Simplices (with Antoine Deza and Feng Xie).
Discrete and Computational Geometry, 45 (2011) no.2, 272-278. ps pdf¹

Minimal Conflicting Sets for the Consecutive Ones Property in Ancestral Genome Reconstruction (with Cedric Chauve, Utz-Uwe Haus and Vivija You).
Journal of Computational Biology, 17 (2010) no.9, 1167-1181. link

A Quadratic Lower Bound for Colourful Simplicial Depth (with Hugh Thomas).
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 16 (2008) no.4, 324-327. ps pdf¹

Computing Knock out Strategies in Metabolic Networks (with Utz-Uwe Haus and Steffen Klamt).
Journal of Computational Biology, 15 (2008) no.3, 259-268. link

The Colourful Feasibility Problem (with Antoine Deza, Sui Huang and Tamás Terlaky).
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 156 (2008) no.11, 2166-2177. ps pdf²

A Majorization Bound for the Eigenvalues of some Graph Laplacians.
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 21 (2007) no.2, 303-312. pdf³

Colourful Simplicial Depth (with Antoine Deza, Sui Huang and Tamás Terlaky).
Discrete and Computational Geometry, 35 (2006) no.4, 597-615. ps pdf¹

The Distribution of Values in the Quadratic Assignment Problem (with Alexander Barvinok).
Mathematics of Operations Research, 28 (2003) no.1, 64-91. ps pdf

On a Representation of the Matching Polytope via Semidefinite Liftings (with Levent Tunçel).
Mathematics of Operations Research, 24 (1999) no.1, 1-7. ps pdf

Chapters in books

On The Distribution of Values in the Quadratic Assignment Problem (with Alexander Barvinok).
In: P.M. Pardalos and H. Wolkowicz, editors, Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization, Fields Institute Communications 37, pp. 1-16, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2003.

Conference Proceedings

Expected Crossing Numbers (with Bojan Mohar).
In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications 2011, to appear. pdf

Small Octahedral Systems (with Grant Custard, Antoine Deza and Feng Xie).
In: Proceedings of the 23rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG2011), Toronto, 2011. ps pdf

Minimal Conflicting Sets for the Consecutive Ones Property in Ancestral Genome Reconstruction (with Cedric Chauve, Utz-Uwe Haus and Vivija You).
In: Ciccarelli, F. D. and Miklós, I. editors, Proceedings of the International Workshop RECOMB-CG 2009, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5817, pp. 48-58, Berlin, 2009. ps pdf¹. Note: Some experimental results were mistranscribed, please refer instead to the journal version.

On the Grone-Merris Conjecture.
In: S. Felsner editor, Proceedings of the European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications 2005, Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science AE (2005) 187-192. link

The Distribution of Values in the Quadratic Assignment Problem (with Alexander Barvinok).
In: W.J. Cook and A.S. Schulz, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Cambridge, MA, USA, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2337, pp. 367-383, Berlin, 2002.

Ph.D. Thesis

The Distribution of Values in Combinatorial Optimization Problems, University of Michigan, 2002. ps pdf

Footnotes:
  ¹ The final publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com/. See DHST06, ST08, CHSY09, DSX11 and SST11,
  ² This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Discrete Applied Mathematics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Discrete Applied Mathematics, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2008.01.016.
  ³ The copyright for this article is held by SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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