This paper features two main contributions. On the one hand, it gives an impressive survey on the progress on the diameter problem, including the breakthrough of the author with his disproof of the Hirsch conjecture among many other recent results. On the other hand, it features new results...

The problem of group ranking, also known as rank aggregation, has been studied in contexts varying from sports, to multicriteria decision making, to machine learning, to ranking Web pages, and to behavioral issues. The dynamics of the group aggregation of individual decisions has been a subject...

We consider multiprocessor scheduling to minimize makespan. Each job has a given processing time and in addition, a subset of machines associated with it, also called its processing set. Each job has to be assigned to one machine in its set, thus contributing to the load of this machine. We...