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Li, Bo

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Short Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.52
Impacts of Catchments Derived from Fine-Grained Mobility Data on Spatial Accessibility (Short Paper)

Authors: Alexander Michels, Jinwoo Park, Bo Li, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)

Abstract
Spatial accessibility is a powerful tool for understanding how access to important services and resources varies across space. While spatial accessibility methods traditionally rely on origin-destination matrices between centroids of administrative zones, recent work has examined creating polygonal catchments - areas within a travel-time threshold - from point-based fine-grained mobility data. In this paper, we investigate the difference between the convex hull and alpha shape algorithms for determining catchment areas and how this affects the results of spatial accessibility analyses. Our analysis shows that the choice of how we define a catchment produces differences in the measured accessibility which correlate with social vulnerability. These findings highlight the importance of evaluating and communicating minor methodological choices in spatial accessibility analyses.
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Alexander Michels, Jinwoo Park, Bo Li, Jeon-Young Kang, and Shaowen Wang. Impacts of Catchments Derived from Fine-Grained Mobility Data on Spatial Accessibility (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 52:1-52:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{michels_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.52,
  author =	{Michels, Alexander and Park, Jinwoo and Li, Bo and Kang, Jeon-Young and Wang, Shaowen},
  title =	{{Impacts of Catchments Derived from Fine-Grained Mobility Data on Spatial Accessibility}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189470},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Spatial accessibility, alpha shape, convex hull, cyberGIS, social vulnerability}
}
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Brief Announcement
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.108
Brief Announcement: Bayesian Auctions with Efficient Queries

Authors: Jing Chen, Bo Li, Yingkai Li, and Pinyan Lu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 107, 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)

Abstract
Generating good revenue is one of the most important problems in Bayesian auction design, and many (approximately) optimal dominant-strategy incentive compatible (DSIC) Bayesian mechanisms have been constructed for various auction settings. However, most existing studies do not consider the complexity for the seller to carry out the mechanism. It is assumed that the seller knows "each single bit" of the distributions and is able to optimize perfectly based on the entire distributions. Unfortunately this is a strong assumption and may not hold in reality: for example, when the value distributions have exponentially large supports or do not have succinct representations. In this work we consider, for the first time, the query complexity of Bayesian mechanisms. We only allow the seller to have limited oracle accesses to the players' value distributions, via quantile queries and value queries. For a large class of auction settings, we prove logarithmic lower-bounds for the query complexity for any DSIC Bayesian mechanism to be of any constant approximation to the optimal revenue. For single-item auctions and multi-item auctions with unit-demand or additive valuation functions, we prove tight upper-bounds via efficient query schemes, without requiring the distributions to be regular or have monotone hazard rate. Thus, in those auction settings the seller needs to access much less than the full distributions in order to achieve approximately optimal revenue.
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Jing Chen, Bo Li, Yingkai Li, and Pinyan Lu. Brief Announcement: Bayesian Auctions with Efficient Queries. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 108:1-108:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.108,
  author =	{Chen, Jing and Li, Bo and Li, Yingkai and Lu, Pinyan},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Bayesian Auctions with Efficient Queries}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{108:1--108:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.108},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-91124},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.108},
  annote =	{Keywords: The complexity of Bayesian mechanisms, quantile queries, value queries}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.11
Efficient Approximations for the Online Dispersion Problem

Authors: Jing Chen, Bo Li, and Yingkai Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 80, 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)

Abstract
The dispersion problem has been widely studied in computational geometry and facility location, and is closely related to the packing problem. The goal is to locate n points (e.g., facilities or persons) in a k-dimensional polytope, so that they are far away from each other and from the boundary of the polytope. In many real-world scenarios however, the points arrive and depart at different times, and decisions must be made without knowing future events. Therefore we study, for the first time in the literature, the online dispersion problem in Euclidean space. There are two natural objectives when time is involved: the all-time worst-case (ATWC) problem tries to maximize the minimum distance that ever appears at any time; and the cumulative distance (CD) problem tries to maximize the integral of the minimum distance throughout the whole time interval. Interestingly, the online problems are highly non-trivial even on a segment. For cumulative distance, this remains the case even when the problem is time-dependent but offline, with all the arriving and departure times given in advance. For the online ATWC problem on a segment, we construct a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm which is (2ln2+epsilon)-competitive, where epsilon>0 can be arbitrarily small and the algorithm's running time is polynomial in 1/epsilon. We show this algorithm is actually optimal. For the same problem in a square, we provide a 1.591-competitive algorithm and a 1.183 lower-bound. Furthermore, for arbitrary k-dimensional polytopes with k>=2, we provide a 2/(1-epsilon)-competitive algorithm and a 7/6 lower-bound. All our lower-bounds come from the structure of the online problems and hold even when computational complexity is not a concern. Interestingly, for the offline CD problem in arbitrary k-dimensional polytopes, we provide a polynomial-time black-box reduction to the online ATWC problem, and the resulting competitive ratio increases by a factor of at most 2. Our techniques also apply to online dispersion problems with different boundary conditions.
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Jing Chen, Bo Li, and Yingkai Li. Efficient Approximations for the Online Dispersion Problem. In 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 80, pp. 11:1-11:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.11,
  author =	{Chen, Jing and Li, Bo and Li, Yingkai},
  title =	{{Efficient Approximations for the Online Dispersion Problem}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-041-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{80},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Indyk, Piotr and Kuhn, Fabian and Muscholl, Anca},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-74002},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: dispersion, online algorithms, geometric optimization, packing, competitive algorithms}
}

Li, Boyang

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2021.2
More Communication Lower Bounds for Information-Theoretic MPC

Authors: Ivan Bjerre Damgård, Boyang Li, and Nikolaj Ignatieff Schwartzbach

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 199, 2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021)

Abstract
We prove two classes of lower bounds on the communication complexity of information-theoretically secure multiparty computation. The first lower bound applies to perfect passive secure multiparty computation in the standard model with n = 2t+1 parties of which t are corrupted. We show a lower bound that applies to secure evaluation of any function, assuming that each party can choose to learn or not learn the output. Specifically, we show that there is a function H^* such that for any protocol that evaluates y_i = b_i ⋅ f(x₁,...,x_n) with perfect passive security (where b_i is a private boolean input), the total communication must be at least 1/2 ∑_{i = 1}ⁿ H_f^*(x_i) bits of information. The second lower bound applies to the perfect maliciously secure setting with n = 3t+1 parties. We show that for any n and all large enough S, there exists a reactive functionality F_S taking an S-bit string as input (and with short output) such that any protocol implementing F_S with perfect malicious security must communicate Ω(nS) bits. Since the functionalities we study can be implemented with linear size circuits, the result can equivalently be stated as follows: for any n and all large enough g ∈ ℕ there exists a reactive functionality F_C doing computation specified by a Boolean circuit C with g gates, where any perfectly secure protocol implementing F_C must communicate Ω(n g) bits. The results easily extends to constructing similar functionalities defined over any fixed finite field. Using known techniques, we also show an upper bound that matches the lower bound up to a constant factor (existing upper bounds are a factor lg n off for Boolean circuits). Both results also extend to the case where the threshold t is suboptimal. Namely if n = kt+s the bound is weakened by a factor O(s), which corresponds to known optimizations via packed secret-sharing.
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Ivan Bjerre Damgård, Boyang Li, and Nikolaj Ignatieff Schwartzbach. More Communication Lower Bounds for Information-Theoretic MPC. In 2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 199, pp. 2:1-2:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{damgard_et_al:LIPIcs.ITC.2021.2,
  author =	{Damg\r{a}rd, Ivan Bjerre and Li, Boyang and Schwartzbach, Nikolaj Ignatieff},
  title =	{{More Communication Lower Bounds for Information-Theoretic MPC}},
  booktitle =	{2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-197-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{199},
  editor =	{Tessaro, Stefano},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2021.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143211},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2021.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multiparty Computation, Lower bounds}
}

Li, Hongbo

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2022.32
A Portfolio-Based Approach to Select Efficient Variable Ordering Heuristics for Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Authors: Hongbo Li, Yaling Wu, Minghao Yin, and Zhanshan Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 235, 28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2022)

Abstract
Variable ordering heuristics (VOH) play a central role in solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). The performance of different VOHs may vary greatly in solving the same CSP instance. In this paper, we propose an approach to select efficient VOHs for solving different CSP instances. The approach contains two phases. The first phase is a probing procedure that runs a simple portfolio strategy containing several different VOHs. The portfolio tries to use each of the candidate VOHs to guide backtracking search to solve the CSP instance within a limited number of failures. If the CSP is not solved by the portfolio, one of the candidates is selected for it by analysing the information attached in the search trees generated by the candidates. The second phase uses the selected VOH to guide backtracking search to solve the CSP. The experiments are run with the MiniZinc benchmark suite and four different VOHs which are considered as the state of the art are involved. The results show that the proposed approach finds the best VOH for more than 67% instances and it solves more instances than all the candidate VOHs and an adaptive VOH based on Multi-Armed Bandit. It could be an effective adaptive search strategy for black-box CSP solvers.
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Hongbo Li, Yaling Wu, Minghao Yin, and Zhanshan Li. A Portfolio-Based Approach to Select Efficient Variable Ordering Heuristics for Constraint Satisfaction Problems. In 28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 235, pp. 32:1-32:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2022.32,
  author =	{Li, Hongbo and Wu, Yaling and Yin, Minghao and Li, Zhanshan},
  title =	{{A Portfolio-Based Approach to Select Efficient Variable Ordering Heuristics for Constraint Satisfaction Problems}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2022)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-240-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{235},
  editor =	{Solnon, Christine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2022.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-166616},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2022.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Variable Ordering Heuristic, Adaptive Search Heuristic, Portfolio}
}
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Short Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.9
Failure Based Variable Ordering Heuristics for Solving CSPs (Short Paper)

Authors: Hongbo Li, Minghao Yin, and Zhanshan Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 210, 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)

Abstract
Variable ordering heuristics play a central role in solving constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper, we propose failure based variable ordering heuristics. Following the fail first principle, the new heuristics use two aspects of failure information collected during search. The failure rate heuristics consider the failure proportion after the propagations of assignments of variables and the failure length heuristics consider the length of failures, which is the number of fixed variables composing a failure. We performed a vast experiments in 41 problems with 1876 MiniZinc instances. The results show that the failure based heuristics outperform the existing ones including activity-based search, conflict history search, the refined weighted degree and correlation-based search. They can be new candidates of general purpose variable ordering heuristics for black-box CSP solvers.
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Hongbo Li, Minghao Yin, and Zhanshan Li. Failure Based Variable Ordering Heuristics for Solving CSPs (Short Paper). In 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 210, pp. 9:1-9:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2021.9,
  author =	{Li, Hongbo and Yin, Minghao and Li, Zhanshan},
  title =	{{Failure Based Variable Ordering Heuristics for Solving CSPs}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-211-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{210},
  editor =	{Michel, Laurent D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-153002},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint Satisfaction Problem, Variable Ordering Heuristic, Failure Rate, Failure Length}
}

Li, Bohan

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.39
Improving Local Search for Minimum Weighted Connected Dominating Set Problem by Inner-Layer Local Search

Authors: Bohan Li, Kai Wang, Yiyuan Wang, and Shaowei Cai

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 210, 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)

Abstract
The minimum weighted connected dominating set (MWCDS) problem is an important variant of connected dominating set problems with wide applications, especially in heterogenous networks and gene regulatory networks. In the paper, we develop a nested local search algorithm called NestedLS for solving MWCDS on classic benchmarks and massive graphs. In this local search framework, we propose two novel ideas to make it effective by utilizing previous search information. First, we design the restart based smoothing mechanism as a diversification method to escape from local optimal. Second, we propose a novel inner-layer local search method to enlarge the candidate removal set, which can be modelled as an optimized version of spanning tree problem. Moreover, inner-layer local search method is a general method for maintaining the connectivity constraint when dealing with massive graphs. Experimental results show that NestedLS outperforms state-of-the-art meta-heuristic algorithms on most instances.
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Bohan Li, Kai Wang, Yiyuan Wang, and Shaowei Cai. Improving Local Search for Minimum Weighted Connected Dominating Set Problem by Inner-Layer Local Search. In 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 210, pp. 39:1-39:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2021.39,
  author =	{Li, Bohan and Wang, Kai and Wang, Yiyuan and Cai, Shaowei},
  title =	{{Improving Local Search for Minimum Weighted Connected Dominating Set Problem by Inner-Layer Local Search}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2021)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-211-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{210},
  editor =	{Michel, Laurent D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-153304},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2021.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: Operations Research, NP-hard Problem, Local Search, Weighted Connected Dominating Set Problem}
}

Li, Shibo

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.33
Impatient PPSZ - A Faster Algorithm for CSP

Authors: Shibo Li and Dominik Scheder

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 212, 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)

Abstract
PPSZ is the fastest known algorithm for (d,k)-CSP problems, for most values of d and k. It goes through the variables in random order and sets each variable randomly to one of the d colors, excluding those colors that can be ruled out by looking at few constraints at a time. We propose and analyze a modification of PPSZ: whenever all but 2 colors can be ruled out for some variable, immediately set that variable randomly to one of the remaining colors. We show that our new "impatient PPSZ" outperforms PPSZ exponentially for all k and all d ≥ 3 on formulas with a unique satisfying assignment.
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Shibo Li and Dominik Scheder. Impatient PPSZ - A Faster Algorithm for CSP. In 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 212, pp. 33:1-33:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{li_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.33,
  author =	{Li, Shibo and Scheder, Dominik},
  title =	{{Impatient PPSZ - A Faster Algorithm for CSP}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-214-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{212},
  editor =	{Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154662},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: Randomized algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, exponential-time algorithms}
}
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