Endre Boros                                                             Full C.V.

 

Director of RUTCOR

Rutgers University Center for Operations Research

640 Bartholomew Road                                                                                                                                

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8003

Room 123

Tel:       (732) 445-3041                    

Fax:      (732) 445-5472                               

e-mail:  Endre.Boros at rutcor.rutgers.edu

Education

MS. in Mathematics, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 1978;

Thesis title: On Sperner Spaces; advisor: Ferenc Karteszi

Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Mathematics, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 1985;

Thesis title: Surrogate Constraints in 0-1 Programming; advisor: Andras Prekopa

Editorial Activities

Editor-in-Chief of Discrete Applied Mathematics (2007- ) and of Annals of Operations Research (2007-  ).

Associate Editor of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (1999- ).

Member of the Editorial Boards of Computational Management Science (2003- ), Discrete Optimization (2003-), and Constraints (1995- ).

Guest Editor (with Yves Crama, Pierre Hansen, Frederic Maffray, Bruno Simeone and Dominique de Werra)

of the special volume of the Annals of Operations Research dedicated to the memory of Peter L. Hammer

(1936-2006).

Guest Editor (with Vladimir Gurvich) of the special issue of DAM dedicated to the memory  of Leonid Khachiyan (1952-2005).

 

Courses Taught

01:711:453  Theory of Linear Optimization
01:711:465  Integer Programming
16:711:513  Discrete Optimization
16:711:517  Computational Methods of Operations Research
16:711:553  Boolean Functions
16:711:611  Pseudo-Boolean Functions

 

Research Areas

Discrete Optimization, Integer Programming, Unconstrained Binary Optimization, and their applications

in VLSI design, etc.

Theory of Boolean Functions, Satisfiability, Dualization, and Horn functions.

Theory of Partially Defined Boolean Functions, and Machine Learning

Enumeration Methods, and their Applications in Data Mining, Reliability Theory, etc.

Graph Theory, Game Theory and Combinatorics

Publications    

Some Recent Publications in Refereed Journals:  

 Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: On Nash equilibria and improvement cycles in     pure positional strategies for Chess-like and Backgammon-like  -person games.  Discrete Mathematics 312 (4),         2012, 772-788
E. Boros, Y. Crama, D. de Werra, P. Hansen, F. Maffray, Editors. The Mathematics of Peter L. Hammer                     (1936-2006): Graphs, Optimization, and Boolean Models, volume 188 of Annals of Operations Research,                 Springer, New York, NY, 2011, 427 pages.

E. Boros, K. Elbassioni, V. Gurvich, H.R.Tiwary: The negative cycles polyhedron and hardness of checking some            polyhedral properties.  Annals of Operations Research 188, 63-76, 2011 (Special Volume in honor of P.L.                 Hammer).

Endre Boros, Yves Crama, Peter L. Hammer, Toshihide Ibaraki, Alexander Kogan, and Kazuhisa Makino:
    Logical Analysis of Data: Classification with Justification.  Annals of Operations Research 188, 2011, 33-62.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino, Wei Shao: Nash-solvability of symmetric cycle game forms.              Discrete Applied Mathematics 159 (15), 1461-1487, 2011.

E. Boros, K. Elbassioni, M. Fouz, V. Gurvich, K. Makino, and B. Manthey: Stochastic mean payoff games:                 Smoothed analysis and approximation schemes. In ICALP 2011, Part I, LNCS 6755, p. 147-158, 2011 (L. Aceto,     M. Henzinger and J. Sgall, eds.), 2011. 

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: Every stochastic game with perfect information     admits a canonical form.  GAMENETS 2011, Shanghai, China, April 2011.

E. Boros: Horn Functions, In: Boolean Functions: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (Y. Crama and P.L.                 Hammer, eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Noam Goldberg, Jonathan Word, Endre Boros, Paul Kantor: Optimal sequential inspection policies.  Annals of             Operations Research  DOI 10.1007/s1079-010-0799-6.

Endre Boros, Vladimir A. Gurvich and Igor E. Zverovich: Friendship two-graphs. Graphs and Combinatorics 26, 2010.

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: A pumping algorithm for ergodic stochastic mean payoff games with perfect information. In Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, IPCO 2010 (F. Eisenbrand and F.B. Shepherd, Eds) Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2010, LNCS 6080, 341-354, 2010.

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Kazuhisa Makino: Left-to-right multiplication for monotone Boolean dualization.         SIAM Journal on Computing 39 (7), 3424-3439, 2010.

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: On effectivity functions of game forms .         Games and Economic Behavior 68, 512-531, 2010.

Paul Kantor and Endre Boros: Deceptive Detection Methods for Effective Security with Inadequate Budgets: The Testing Power. Risk Analysis 30 (4), 663-673, 2010.

Diogo V. Andrage, Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich: Not complementary connected and not CIS d-graphs form weakly monotone families. Discrete Mathematics 310 (5), 1089-1096, 2010.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino and David Papp: Acyclic, or totally tight, two-person game forms; characterization and main properties. Discrete Mathematics 310 (6-7), 1135-1151, 2010.

Endre Boros, Ondrej Cepek, Alexander Kogan, Petr Kucera: Exclusive and essential sets of implicates of Boolean functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics 158 (2), 81-96, 2010.

Endre Boros, Ondrej Cepek, Alexander Kogan, Petr Kucera: A subclass of Horn CNFs optimally compressible in polynomial time. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 57 (3-4), 249-291, 2009.

E. Boros and K. Makino: A fast and simple parallel algorithm for the monotone duality problem. In ICALP '09: Proceedings of the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, languages and Programming, LNCS 5555 (2009).

Endre Boros, L. Fedzhora, P.B. Kantor, K. Saeger, P. Stroud: Large scale LP model for finding optimal container inspection strategies. Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 56 (5), 404-420, 2009.

E. Boros, V. Gurvich, and K. Makino: Minimal and locally minimal games and game forms. Discrete Mathematics 309 (13), 4456-4468, 2009.

Endre Boros and Vladimir Gurvich: Vertex- and edge-minimal and locally minimal graphs. Discrete Mathematics 309 (12), 3853-3865, 2009.

T. Unluyurt and E. Boros: A note on optimal resource allocation for security in reliability systems. European Journal of Operational Research 199, 601-603, 2009.

E. Boros, V. Gurvich and I.Zverovich: On split and almost CIS-graphs. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 43, 163-180, 2009.

E. Boros, R. Brualdi, Y. Crama, and A.J. Hoffman:  Gersgorin variations III: On a theme of Brualdi and Varga. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 428, 14-19, 2008.

Leonid Khachiyan, Endre Boros, Konrad Borys, Khaled Elbassioni, and Vladimir Gurvich: Generating all vertices of a polyhedron is hard. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 174-190, 2008.

Endre Boros, Peter L. Hammer, R. Sun and Gabriel Tavares: A max-flow approach to improved lower bounds for quqadratic 0-1 minimization.  Discrete Optimization 5 (2), 501-529, 2008.

Leonid Khachiyan, Endre Boros, Konrad Borys, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Gabor Rudolf and Jihui Zhao: On short paths interdiction problems: Total and node-wise limited interdiction.  Theory of Computing Systems 43 (2), 204-233, 2008.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich and Igor Zverovich: Neighborhood hypergraphs of bipartite graphs.  Journal of Graph Theory, 69-95, 2008.

Boros, E., Elbassioni, K., Gurvich, V. & Khachiyan, L.: On Enumerating Minimal Dicuts and Strongly Connected Subgraphs.  Algorithmica  50, 159-172, 2008.

K. Haraguchi, M. Yagiura, E. Boros and T. Ibaraki: A Randomness Based Analysis on the Data Size Needed for Removing Deceptive Patterns.  IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E91-D (2008) 781-788.

L. Khachiyan, E. Boros, K. Elbassioni and V. Gurvich: Generating all minimal integral solutions to AND-OR systems of monotone inequalities: Conjunctions are simpler than disjunctions. Discrete Applied Mathematics 156 (11), 2020-2034, 2008.

E. Boros, L. Khachiyan, K. Borys, K. Elbassioni, V. Gurvich and K. Makino: Enumerating cut conjunctions in graphs and related problems. Algorithmica 51 (3), 239-263, 2008.

E. Boros, L. Lei, Y. Zhao and H. Zhong: Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives. Annals of Operations Research 161, 149-170, 2008.

E. Boros, P.L. Hammer and G. Tavares:  Local search heuristics for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO).  J. Heuristics 13, 2007, pp. 99-132.

RUTCOR Research Reports (RRR):

   Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, and Vladimir Oudalov: A Polynomial Algorithm for a Two Parameter Extension of the Wythoff NIM Based on the Perron-Frobenius Theory, 19-2011.

   E. Boros, A. Scozzari, F. Tardella, and P. Veneziani: Polynomially Computable Bounds for the Probability of the Union of Events, 13-2011.

   Endre Boros, Ondřej Čepek, and Vladimir Gurvich: Total Tightness Implies Nash-solvability for Three-person Game Forms. RRR 11-2011.

   Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: A Lower Bound for Discounting Algorithms Solving Two-person Zero-sum Limit Average Payoff Stochastic Games. RRR 22-2010.

   Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, and Kazuhisa Makino:  On Nash Equilibria and Improvement Cycles in Pure Positional Strategies for Chess-like and Backgammon-like n-person Games. RRR 14-2010.

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: A potential reduction algorithm for ergodic mean payoff stochastic games with perfect information. RRR 5-2010.

Endre Boros, Ondrej Cepek, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino, Igor E. Zverovich: Separable discrete functions. RRR 26-2009.

Endre Boros, Robert Rand: Terminal games with 3 terminals have proper Nash equilibria in pure positional strategies. RRR 22-2009.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich: Why chess and backgammon can be solved in pure positional uniformly optimal stretegies. RRR 21-2009.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino, Wei Shao: Nash solvable bidirected cyclic two-person game forms. RRR 20-2009.

Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, Kazuhisa Makino: A pumping algorithm for ergodic stochastic mean payoff games with perfect information. RRR 19-2009.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, Khaled Elbassioni, and Kazuhisa Makino: Every Stochastic Game with Perfect Information Admits a Canonical Form. RRR 9-2009.

Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich, and Matthew Oster: More Extremal Properties of de Bruijn Sequences. RRR 8-2009.

Endre Boros, Yves Crama, Peter L. Hammer, Toshihide Ibaraki, Alexander Kogan, Kazuhisa Makino: Logical Analysis of Data: Classification with Justification. RRR 5-2009.

Endre Boros, Vladimir A. Gurvich, Igor E. Zverovich, and Wei Shao: Assignability of 3-dimensional totally tight matrices. RRR 2-2009.

E. Boros, K. Elbassioni, V. Gurvich, K. Makino, and V. Oudalov: Computer-generated theorems on Nash solvability of bimatrix games based on excluding certain $2 \times 2$  subgames.  RRR 31-2007. 

E. Boros, V. Gurvich, and  I. Zverovich:  On split graphs and graphs whose maximal cliques and stable sets intersect, except a unique pair.  RRR 29-2007.

Endre Boros and Vladimir Gurvich: On complexity of algorithms for modeling disease transmission and optimal vaccination strategy. RRR 16-2007.

Diogo V. Andrade, Endre Boros and Vladimir Gurvich: On graphs whose maximal cliques and stable sets intersect. RRR 17-2006.

Endre Boros, Peter L. Hammer and Gabriel Tavares: Preprocessing of Unconstrained Quadratic Binary Optimization.  RRR 10-2006.

E. Boros and L. Everett: Linear Programming Approach for Optimal Protein Encoding. RRR 14-2005.

Diogo Andrade, Endre Boros and Vladimir Gurvich: Even-hole-free and Balanced Circulants. RRR 8-2005.

 


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