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  1. Robinson Crusoe, Social Engineer: How the Discovery of Robinson Crusoe Solves the Labor Problem and Opens the Path to Industrial Peace [ 1922 ] by Henry Ezekiel Jackson, 2009-08-10
  2. Formal Language Theory: Perspectives and Open Problems
  3. Multidimensional Systems Theory: Progress, Directions and Open Problems in Multidimensional Systems (Mathematics and Its Applications)
  4. Information Theory. New Trends and Open Problems (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)
  5. Positivity in Lie Theory: Open Problems (De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics)
  6. Stop Crying at Your Own Movies: How to Solve Personal Problems and Open Your Life to Its Full Potential Using the Vector Method by George Burtt, 1975-06
  7. Problem Solving in Open Worlds: A Case Study in Design by Thomas R. Hinrichs, 1992-07-01
  8. Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biology: Current Trends and Open Problems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
  9. Computability Theory and Its Applications: Current Trends and Open Problems : Proceedings of a 1999 Ams-Ims-Siam, Joint Summer Research Conference, Computability ... June (Contemporary Mathematics)
  10. Robinson Crusoe, social engineer; how the discovery of Robinson Crusoe solves the labor problem and opens the path to industrial peace by Henry E. 1869-1939 Jackson, 2010-08-06
  11. Variational Problems: Recent Progress And Open Problems : Variational Methods--open Problems, Recent Progress, And Numerical Algorithms, June 5-8, 2002, Northern Arizona (Contemporary Mathematics)
  12. Philosophy, Problems of: Philosophy in the Open Set Book (Course A303)
  13. Nonlinearity: Open Problems Reprint Collection by J.P., And Neishtadt, A.I., Editors Keating, 2008-01-01
  14. Algebraic Geometry--Open Problems (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

21. My Favorite Open Problems
open problems in Discrete Math. Prizes. More online collections of open problemsin discrete math Dan Archdeacon's problems in topological graph theory;
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~matdevos/open/open.html
Open Problems in Discrete Math
Prizes
Flows on Graphs
Cycle Covers
Choosability for Ax=y
Edge Coloring
Vertex Coloring
Directed Graphs
Topological Graph Theory
Matroid Theory
Additive Number Theory
Miscellaneous Problems

please feel free to email me if you know of unmentioned progress (possibly a solution) to any of these problems.

22. Open Problems In Combinatorics
Part of the Combinatorics Net.Category Science Math Combinatorics open problems......open problems in Combinatorics. open problems of Paul Erdös, by Fan RK Chung; OpenProblems from the SIAM Activity Group Newsletter in Discrete Mathematics;
http://www.combinatorics.net/problems/
Open Problems in Combinatorics

23. The Open Problems Project
The open problems Project. This is the beginning of a project 1 to record open problemsof interest to researchers in computational geometry and related fields.
http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/TOPP/Welcome.html
Next: Numerical List of All
The Open Problems Project
edited by Erik D. Demaine Joseph S. B. Mitchell Joseph O'Rourke
Introduction
This is the beginning of a project to record open problems of interest to researchers in computational geometry and related fields. It commenced with the publication of thirty problems in Computational Geometry Column 42 [ ] (see Problems 1-30 ), but has grown much beyond that. We encourage correspondence to improve the entries; please send email to TOPP@cs.smith.edu . If you would like to submit a new problem, please fill out this template Each problem is assigned a unique number for citation purposes. Problem numbers also indicate the order in which the problems were entered. Each problem is classified as belonging to one or more categories. The problems are also available as a single Postscript or PDF file. To begin navigating through the open problems, you may select from a category of interest below, or view a list of all problems sorted numerically

Categorized List of All Problems
Below, each category lists the problems that are classified under that category. Note that each problem may be classified under several categories.

24. Open Problems In Visib. + Illumn.
open problems in the Combinatorics of Visibility and Illumination. I willpost notices of solutions to the open problems listed in the paper.
http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/Open.html
Open Problems in the Combinatorics of Visibility and Illumination
Last update to this page: I will post notices of solutions to the open problems listed in the paper. Please keep me apprised of progress! orourke@cs.smith.edu
  • Illuminating Rectangles. I quoted a lower bound of n-1 and an upper bound of ~(4/3)n in the paper. Jorge Urrutia shows in his chapter, "Art gallery and illumination problems" (to appear in the North-Holland Handbook of Computational Geometry ) that the Hoffman-Kaufman-Kriegel [n/4] result on orthogonal art galleries with holes establishes immediately that n+1 lights suffice. So the lower and upper bounds are nearly identical now: [n-1,n+1].
  • Stage Illumination. Proven NP-complete, even with these restrictions: the floodlights are all affixed to just two points, and those points have the same x coordinate, or the same y coordinate. See: H. Ito, H. Uehara, M. Yokayama, "NP-completeness of stage illumination problem", Proc. Japan Conf. Discrete Comput. Geom. '98 , Tokyo, 1998, pp. 88-92. ito@tutics.tut.ac.jp
  • 25. Open Problems
    Originally from the Katsiveli 2000 open problems Session, now maintained by Sergiy Kolyada. PDF/PS.Category Science Math Differential Equations Dynamical Systems......open problems in Dynamical Systems Ergodic Theory. Welcome! 9, Polygonal billiardssome open problems Submitted by Pascal Hubert and Serge Troubetzkoy.
    http://www.math.iupui.edu/~mmisiure/open/
    Other sites with this page
    O pen P roblems in D ynamical S ystems E rgodic T heory
    Welcome! Katsiveli - 2000
    Open Problems Session. New problems are being added to it. If you would like to submit some open problems to this page, please send them to Sergiy Kolyada If you have any remarks about this page, please write to Sergiy Kolyada or Michal Misiurewicz
    Geometric models of Pisot substitutions and non-commutative arithmetic Submitted by Pierre Arnoux (corrections - November 29, 2001)
    Ergodic Ramsey Theory - an update Submitted by Vitaly Bergelson (see also here
    Dense periodic points in cellular automata Submitted by Francois Blanchard
    Non-discrete locally compact second countable groups Submitted by Sergey Gefter
    Martingale convergence and ergodic theorems Submitted by Alexander Kachurovskii The problem is closed (October 21, 2002)
    Entropy, periodic points and transitivity of maps Submitted by Sergiy Kolyada and Lubomir Snoha (corrections - October 26, 2002)
    Natural spectral isomorphisms Submitted by Jan Kwiatkowski
    Density of periodic orbit measures for piecewise monotonic interval maps Submitted by Peter Raith Polygonal billiards: some open problems Submitted by Pascal Hubert and Serge Troubetzkoy Is any kind of mixing possible in "ToP" N-actions?

    26. Survey Of Venn Diagrams Open Problems
    In the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.Category Science Math Combinatorics open problems......Venn Diagram References combinatorial facts, beautiful figures, n=3and beyond, some open problems. Venn Diagram Survey open problems.
    http://sue.csc.uvic.ca/~cos/venn/VennOpenEJC.html

    27. L-functions And Random Matrix Theory
    Conjectures and open problems concerning Lfunctions, focussing on the areas in which there has been recent progress using results from Random Matrix Theory. Maintained at AIM.
    http://www.aimath.org/WWN/lrmt/
    L-functions and Random Matrix Theory
    This web page highlights some of the conjectures and open problems concerning L-functions, focussing on the areas in which there has been recent progress using results from Random Matrix Theory. Click on the subject to see a short article on that topic. If you would like to print a hard copy of the entire web page, you can download a postscript or pdf version.
  • Distribution of zeros of L-functions The GUE hypothesis Correlations of zeros Neighbor spacing ... GOE and Graphs
  • 28. Mesh Generation: Open Problems
    ICS Theory Group ICS 280G, Spring 1997 Mesh Generation for Graphicsand Scientific Computation. open problems. We proved (4/3/97) the
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/280g/open.html
    ICS 280G, Spring 1997:
    Mesh Generation for Graphics and Scientific Computation
    Open Problems
  • We proved ( ) the existence of triangulations of any polygon or straight line graph, and of convex quadrilateralizations of any orthogonal polygon. What about curved objects? Do spline-polygons have spline-triangulations? An example formed by connecting four quarter-ellipses shows Steiner points may be needed, even for quadratic splines, but maybe they only need to be added in the interior of the splinegon.
  • On we went over dynamic programming techniques for optimal triangulation (e.g. minimum total edge length) of simple polygons, in O(n ) time or O(E ) if the visibility graph has E edges. So the slowest case is seemingly the most simple, when the polygon is convex. Can we find the minimum length triangulation of convex polygons in o(n ) time? Steve S. suggested Frances Yao's generalization of Knuth's speedup to optimal binary search tree construction (which has the same general dynamic programming form) but it doesn't seem to work.
  • The same dynamic programming methods also work for optimal quadrilateralization, in time O(n
  • 29. Home Page For Constructive Approximation Open Problem Section
    Research problems section of the journal, edited by Peter Borwein, Albert Cohen, Ingrid Daubechies and Vilmos Totik. Includes problem statement (PostScript) and discussion.
    http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/personal/pborwein/CA_MOSAIC/CA_problems.html
    Research Problems Section
    Edited by: Peter Borwein, Albert Cohen, Ingrid Daubechies and Vilmos Totik
    About the open problems section
    Problems available online
    Return to the Constructive Approximation Homepage
    The Brachistochrone Challenge
    "I, Johann Bernoulli, greet the most clever mathematicians in the world. Nothing is more attractive to intelligent people than an honest, challenging problem whose possible solution will bestow fame and remain as a lasting monument. Following the example set by Pascal, Fermat, etc., I hope to earn the gratitude of the entire scientific community by placing before the finest mathematicians of our time a problem which will test their methods and the strength of their intellect. If someone communicates to me the solution of the proposed problem, I shall then publicly declare him worthy of praise."
    Groningen, 1 January 1697
    http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/personal/pborwein/CA_MOSAIC/CA_problems.html
    Modified: 06/13/1995 by pborwein@cecm.sfu.ca (Peter Borwein).

    30. Open Problems In Graph Theory Involving Steiner Distance
    open problems involving Steiner distance.
    http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~ooellerm/open_problems/index.html
    Some Open Problems in Graph Theory
  • It has been shown by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian, and Zou that, for a tree T: diam n n
    This inequality does not hold for graphs in general as was shown by Henning, Oellermann, and Swart . It was shown in the same paper that for a graph G and n=3 and 4: diam n n G. It was shown by Oellermann and Tian that for a tree T: C n-1 (T) is contained in C n It remains an open problem to determine whether this containment holds for general graphs. In other words, it is not known if the Steiner (n-1)-center of a graph is contained in its Steiner n-center. It was shown by Beineke, Oellermann and Pippert that if T is a tree, then M n-1 (T) is contained in M n It remains an open problem to determine whether this containment holds for general graphs. In other words, it is not known if the Steiner (n-1)-median of a graph is contained in its Steiner n-median. Oellermann and Tian ). It is known that every graph is the 2-median of some graph (see Holbert ,and Hendry ). Steiner n-medians of trees have been completely characterized by
  • 31. Problems In Analysis Of Algorithms
    A list of open problems with updates and solutions.
    http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/AofA/Problems/
    PROBLEMS in ANALYSIS of ALGORITHMS PAGES
    Home Page Research Problems Bulletin board ... Resources Return to Analysis of Algorithms Home Page This page contains a list of interesting problems that we are aware of. You are encouraged to submit new ones by posting directly on the Bulletin Board . Typically 5 to 10 lines of TeX should be best for further editing. A digest of the main problems will be compiled here periodically by the Problem Editor
    Summer 97
    • Problem 1. Problem Solution ] By Conrado Martinez , 11-Jul-97. The depth of the j-th element in a random binary search tree of size n.
    • Problem 2. Problem ] By Conrado Martinez , 11-Jul-97. Quicksort with median-of-three partitioning and halting on small subfiles.
    • Problem 3. Problem Comments ] By Hsien-Kuei Hwang , 23-Jul-97. A limit distribution and zeros of a polynomial.
    • Problem 4. Problem ] By Wojtek Szpankowski , 25-Jul-97. What is the distribution of node levels and height in digital search trees built on Bernoulli sources?
    • Problem 5. Problem ] By Ed Coffman , 01-Aug-97. Analyse the waste in First-Fit bin-packing.

    32. Open Problems On Perfect Graphs
    Unsolved problems on perfect graphs.Category Science Math Combinatorics Graph Theory open problems...... In February of that year, Bruce and I prepared a list of open problems,which was then sent to all the invited participants. The
    http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~chvatal/perfect/problems.html
    PERFECT PROBLEMS
    Created on 22 August, 2000
    Last updated on 11 February, 2003
    The Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture
    has become
    the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem
    Details are here.
    As a part of the 1992 1993 Special Year on Combinatorial Optimization at DIMACS ftp://dimacs.rutgers.edu/pub/perfect/problems.tex
    If you have
    • information on progress towards solving these problems or
    • complaints in case I did not give credit where credit was due or
    • suggestions for problems to add,
    please, send them to me
    Related pages: This collection is written for people with at least a basic knowledge of perfect graphs. Uninformed neophytes may look up the missing definitions on the web in Alexander Schrijver's lecture notes or in Jerry Spinrad's draft of a book on efficient graph representations etc. or in Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics . Books on perfect graphs include
    • M. C. Golumbic

    33. Steiner Trees: Open Problems
    open problems with Steiner Trees, maintained by Joe Ganley.Category Science Math Geometry open problems......ganley.org The Steiner Tree Page - open problems. open problems.Of course, there are probably about a zillion open problems related
    http://ganley.org/steiner/open.html
    ganley.org The Steiner Tree Page
    Open Problems
    Of course, there are probably about a zillion open problems related to Steiner trees, but here are a few I've thought about. Please email me others if you like, and I'll include them here.
    • Full trees Hwang's theorem allows us to construct an optimal rectilinear Steiner tree of a full set in linear time. I know of no other metric or type of graph in which computing the optimal Steiner tree of a full set is polynomial-time solvable but computing a general Steiner tree is NP-hard. Note that there isn't even a sufficiently strong analogue of Hwang's theorem for rectilinear Steiner trees in three dimensions.
    • Multidimensional rectilinear Steiner ratio . What is the rectilinear Steiner ratio in arbitrary dimension d ? It is at least 2-1/ d , as the d -dimensional analogue of the "cross" has this ratio. It is obviously at most 2. It is generally believed that the lower bound is correct, but this hasn't been proven. Even an upper bound lower than 2 would be interesting.
    • Rectilinear Steiner arborescence . These are Steiner-like trees on points in the (first quadrant of the) plane, in which every segment in the tree is directed left to right or bottom to top. It is unknown whether computing an RSA is NP-complete. (A good reference to start with is

    34. Unsolved Problems
    Including the list of 50 problems of Bondy and Murty with current status. Compiled by Stephen C. Locke.Category Science Math Combinatorics Graph Theory open problems...... A good paper on open and solved cageproblems is PK Wong, Cages-A Survey,, JGT,Vol.6 (1982) 1-22 Newer results can be found on Gordon Royle's www-Page http
    http://www.math.fau.edu/locke/unsolved.htm
    Unsolved Problems
    You can contact Stephen C. Locke at LockeS@fau.edu Several people have asked me about unsolved problems. I will take the easy way out: see the list of 50 problems in Bondy and Murty . I hope it will not annoy the authors of that text if I will reproduce that list here, and perhaps (eventually) add to it. Problems number above 50 are from other sources. Some of these problems have been solved (and thus the title is slightly incorrect) and I won't claim to be familiar with all current results. If you find that one of them has been solved (or even that some reasonable progress has been made), please e-mail me . Also, I'm not giving you all of the references in Bondy and Murty . You should get yourself a copy of that book.
    Problems 26-56
    Problems 57-61 The reconstruction conjecture . (S.M. Ulam, 1960) 2. A graph G is embeddable in a graph H if G is isomorphic to a subgraph of H . Characterise the graphs embeddable in the k -cube. (V.V. Firsov, 1965) 3. Prove: Every 4-regular simple graph contains a 3-regular subgraph. (N. Sauer, 1973)
    Conjecture 3 was proved in 1985 by L. Zhang: Every 4-regular simple graph contains a 3-regular subgraph, J. of Changsha Railway Institute 1 (1985), 130-154.

    35. Open Problems Columns - Douglas B. West
    open problems Columns Douglas B. West. Thispage has moved. Please update your bookmark.
    http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~west/pcolink.html
    Open Problems Columns - Douglas B. West
    This page has moved.
    Please update your bookmark.

    36. Interval Computations
    Presents a guide to Interval Arithmetic research featuring open problems, applications, generalizations, bibliography, researchers' sites, ftp site, mailing list, etc.
    http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/

    37. Ideas, Concepts, And Definitions
    open problems. open problems are not a source of frustration, they are asource of delight. open problems are the lifeblood of mathematics.
    http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/math/openpr.html
    Open Problems
    In a community of mathematicians, an open problem is a question that no one has found the answer to. Open problems are not a source of frustration, they are a source of delight. Open problems are the lifeblood of mathematics. For you, as an individual mathematician, your own open problems are the questions you raise that you cannot answer. Anyone who does mathematics for very long soon discovers that open problems are abundant, and even more of them are generated as mathematicians think about something and ask themselves questions in an effort to understand it. One of a mathematician's hardest choices is deciding which open problems to give focused attention to and try to solve. When you raise a question for yoursef, and you cannot answer it, it becomes an open problem for you. It is a good idea to share this problem with other mathematicians friends, classmates, teachers, etc. to see if they know of a solution or have ideas about solving it. Share your open problems with MegaMath! Don't abandon your open problems just because they remain unsolved for a long time. Set them aside and think about them gently . A solution might surprise you and arrive when you least expect it. You might even dream it!

    38. Open Problems In Graph Theory Involving Steiner Distance
    open problems involving Steiner distance.Category Science Math Combinatorics Graph Theory open problems......Some open problems in Graph Theory. It has been shown by Chartrand,Oellermann, Tian, and Zou that, for a tree T diam n T = n/(n
    http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~ooellerm/open_problems/
    Some Open Problems in Graph Theory
  • It has been shown by Chartrand, Oellermann, Tian, and Zou that, for a tree T: diam n n
    This inequality does not hold for graphs in general as was shown by Henning, Oellermann, and Swart . It was shown in the same paper that for a graph G and n=3 and 4: diam n n G. It was shown by Oellermann and Tian that for a tree T: C n-1 (T) is contained in C n It remains an open problem to determine whether this containment holds for general graphs. In other words, it is not known if the Steiner (n-1)-center of a graph is contained in its Steiner n-center. It was shown by Beineke, Oellermann and Pippert that if T is a tree, then M n-1 (T) is contained in M n It remains an open problem to determine whether this containment holds for general graphs. In other words, it is not known if the Steiner (n-1)-median of a graph is contained in its Steiner n-median. Oellermann and Tian ). It is known that every graph is the 2-median of some graph (see Holbert ,and Hendry ). Steiner n-medians of trees have been completely characterized by
  • 39. Open Problems On Graph Minors
    By Nathaniel Dean.
    http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~nate/publics/open.ps

    40. The RTA List Of Open Problems
    The RTA list of open problems. The RTA 98. We are currently workingto transform the list of open problems into a WWW service. This
    http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~treinen/rtaloop/
    The RTA list of open problems
    The RTA list of open problems summarizes open problems in the field of the International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). For the RTA 2002 conference, the topics of RTA were given as
    • Applications: case studies; rule-based programming; symbolic and algebraic computation; theorem proving; functional and logic programming; proof checking.
    • Foundations: matching and unification; completion techniques; strategies; constraint solving; explicit substitutions.
    • Frameworks: string, term, and graph rewriting; lambda-calculus and higher-order rewriting; conditional rewriting; proof nets; constrained rewriting and deduction; categorical and infinitary rewriting.
    • Implementation: compilation techniques; parallel execution; rewriting tools.
    • Semantics: equational logic; rewriting logic.
    The RTA list of open problems was created in 1991 by Nachum Dershowitz Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Jan Willem Klop on occasion of the RTA'91 conference. Updated lists have since been published at RTA'93, RTA'95 and RTA'98.
    We are currently working to transform the list of open problems into a WWW service. This effort is, at the moment, led by

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