Variants of the Consecutive-Ones Property motivated by the reconstruction of ancestral species

The polynomial-time decidable Consecutive-Ones Property (C1P) of binary matrices, formally introduced in 1965 by Fulkerson and Gross, has since found applications in many areas. In this thesis, we propose and study several variants of this property that are motivated by the reconstruction of ancest...

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Main Author: Patterson, Murray
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40128