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Group Testing for Efficiently Sampling Hypergraphs When Tests Have Variable Costs
Laurence A. Clarfeld, Margaret J. Eppstein
In the group-testing literature, efficient algorithms have been developed to minimize the number of tests required to identify all minimal "defective" sub-groups embedded within a…
A General Model of Conversational Dynamics and an Example Application in Serious Illness Communication
Laurence A. Clarfeld, Robert Gramling, Donna M. Rizzo +1
Conversation has been a primary means for the exchange of information since ancient times. Understanding patterns of information flow in conversations is a critical step in assessi…
Group-Testing on Hypergraphs with Variable-Cost Tests: A Power Systems Case Study
Laurence A. Clarfeld, Margaret J. Eppstein
Assessing risk of cascading failure in an electrical grid requires identifying many small "defective" subsets of the N elements in a power system, such that the simultaneous failur…
Risk of Cascading Blackouts Given Correlated Component Outages
Laurence A. Clarfeld, Paul D. H. Hines, Eric M. Hernandez +1
Cascading blackouts typically occur when nearly simultaneous outages occur in k out of N components in a power system, triggering subsequent failures that propagate through the net…
Tunably Rugged Landscapes with Known Maximum and Minimum
Narine Manukyan, Margaret J. Eppstein, Jeffrey S. Buzas
We propose NM landscapes as a new class of tunably rugged benchmark problems. NM landscapes are well-defined on alphabets of any arity, including both discrete and real-valued alph…
Evolving Modular Genetic Regulatory Networks with a Recursive, Top-Down Approach
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Margaret J. Eppstein
Being able to design genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) to achieve a desired cellular function is one of the main goals of synthetic biology. However, determining minimal GRNs that…
Estimating Cascading Failure Risk with Random Chemistry
Pooya Rezaei, Paul D. H. Hines, Margaret J. Eppstein
The potential for cascading failure in power systems adds substantially to overall reliability risk. Monte Carlo sampling can be used with a power system model to estimate this imp…