Monthly Archives: April 2016

The network reliability problem and star semirings

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Brent

In a previous post I defined the network reliability problem. Briefly, we are given a directed graph whose edges are labelled with probabilities, which we can think of as giving the likelihood of a message successfully traversing a link in … Continue reading →

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CCSC-Midsouth conference and programming contest

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Brent

I’m in Memphis (again!) this weekend attending the 2016 CCSC Midsouth Regional Conference, which also has a student programming contest attached. I’m very proud of the two teams from Hendrix, who placed first and fifth out of 17 teams. This … Continue reading →

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