Publications

R. Solis-Oba, P. Bonsma, and S. Lowski. A 2-approximation algorithm for finding a spanning tree with maximum number of leaves. In Algorithmica, 77(2), 2017, pp. 374-388.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Packing squares with profits. In SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 26(1), 2012, pp. 263-279.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Packing squares with profits. In SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 26(1), 2012, pp. 263-279.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. A simple OP T + 1 algorithm for cutting stock under the modified integer round-up property assumption. In Information Processing Letters, 111, 2011, 479–482
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Approximation schemes for scheduling jobs with chain precedence constraints. In International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 21 (1), 2010, 27–49.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Approximation schemes for scheduling jobs with chain precedence constraints. In International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 21 (1), 2010, 27–49.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Rectangle packing with one-dimensional resource augmentation. In Discrete Optimization, 6, 2009, 310–323.
A. Fishkin, O. Gerber, K. Jansen, and R. Solis-Oba. On packing rectangles with resource augmentation: maximizing the profit. In Algorithmic Operations Research, 3 (1), 2008, 1–12.
K. Jansen, M. Mastrolilli, and R. Solis-Oba. Job shop scheduling problems with controllable processing times. In European Journal of Operational Research, 167 (2), 2005, 297–319.
K. Jansen, M. Mastrolilli, and R. Solis-Oba. Approximation algorithms for flexible job shop problems. In In
L. Ilie, B. Haider, M. Molnar, and R. Solis-Oba. SAGE: String overlap assembly of genomes. In BMC Bioinformatics, 15, 2014, 302–310.
G. Frederickson and R. Solis-Oba. Efficient algorithms for robustness in resource allocation. In Theoretical Computer Science, 352, 2006, 250–265.
M. Maack, D. Page, and R. Solis-Oba. Makespan minimization on unrelated parallel ma- chines with simple job-intersection structure and bounded job assignments. In Theoretical Computer Science,
D. Page and R. Solis-Oba. Makespan minimization on unrelated parallel machines with few bags. In Theoretical Computer Science
N. Samei and R. Solis-Oba. Analysis of a local search algorithm for the k-facility location problem. In RAIRO-Theoretical Informatics and Applications, 49 (4), 2015, 285–306.
D.R. Page and R. Solis-Oba. A 3/2-approximation algorithm for the graph balancing problem with two weights. In Algorithms, 9 (38), 11 pages, doi:10.3390/a9020038.
D.R. Page and R. Solis-Oba. Approximation Algorithms for the Graph Balancing Problem with Two Speeds and Two Job Lengths. In Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 37(3), 2019, 1045–1070.
R. Solis-Oba, Igor Averbakh and Z. Shao. L(2,1)-Labeling of Kneser graphs and coloring squares of Kneser graphs. In Discrete Applied Mathematics, 221, 2017, 106–114.
R. Solis-Oba and Z. Shao. A new characterization of disk graphs and its application. In Ars Combinatoria, 127, 2016, 421–434.
R. Solis-Oba and Z. Shao. On some results on the L(2, 1)-labeling of Cartesian sum graphs. In Ars Combinatoria, 124, 2016, 365-377.
R. Solis-Oba and Z. Shao. Labeling Total graphs with a condition at distance two. In Ars Combinatoria, 140, 2018, 97-111.
R. Solis-Oba and Z. Shao. Labeling Mycielski graphs with a condition at distance two. In Ars Combinatoria, 140, 2018, 337-349.
R. Solis-Oba and Z. Shao. L(2,1)-Labelings on the modular product of two graphs. In Theo- retical Computer Science, 487, 2013, Pages 74–81.
R. Solis-Oba and S. Zhao. L(2,1)-labelings on the compositions of n graphs. In Theoretical Computer Science, 411, 2010, 3287–3292.
K. Jansen, M. Maack, and R. Solis-Oba. Structural Parameters for Scheduling with As- signment Restrictions. In International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2017): Algorithms and Complexity, 2017, 357–368.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. An OPT+1 algorithm for the cutting stock problem with constant number of object lengths. In The 14th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO), 2010, 438–449.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. A polynomial time approximation scheme for the square packing problem. In The 13th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO), 2008, LNCS 5035, pp. 184-198.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. New approximability results for 2-dimensional packing problems. In 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, 2007, LNCS 4708, pp. 103-114.
A.F. Fishkin, O. Gerber, K. Jansen, and R. Solis-Oba. Packing weighted rectangles into a square. In Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, 2005, LNCS 3618, pp. 352-363.
L. Ilie, R. Solis-Oba, and S. Yu. Reducing the size of NFAs by using equivalences and pre- orders. In Sixteenth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, 2005, LNCS 3537, pp. 310–321.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. A (2 + ǫ)-asymptotic approximation algorithm for 3D-strip packing. In ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2006, pp. 143–152.
A.F. Fishkin, O. Gerber, K. Jansen, and R. Solis-Oba. On packing squares with resource augmentation: maximizing the profit. In Computing: The Australasian Theory Sym- posium, 2005, Volume 41, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, pp. 61–67.
K. Jansen and R. Solis-Oba. Approximation algorithms for scheduling jobs with chain prece- dence constraints. In Fifth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM), 2004, LNCS 3019, pp. 105-112.
R. Solis-Oba. A framework for designing approximation schemes for scheduling problems. In Second International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms (WEA), 2003, LNCS 2647, pp. 253-260.
E.R.M. Debenham and R. Solis-Oba. New Algorithms for Computing Field of Vision over 2D Grids . In 6th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering And Applications (CSEA 2020), 2020, AIRCC Publishing Corporation, Volume 10, number 18, 1–18.
D.R. Page, Roberto Solis-Oba and Marten Maack. Makespan minimization on unrelated parallel machines with simple job-intersection structure and machine capacities. In The 12th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA), 2018, LNCS 11346, 341–356.
D.R. Page and R.Solis-Oba. Makespan minimization on unrelated parallel machines with a few bags. In The Twelfth International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM), 2018, LNCS 11343, 24–35.
G. Mei and R. Solis-Oba. Subject-driven community mining in online social networks. In The 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP), 2011, 84–89.
G. Mei and R. Solis-Oba. Improvements on Existing Search Engines Through Categorization. In The 2010 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP), 2010, 71–76.
Q. Liu and R. Solis-Oba. Improving the performance of online mapping applications with prefetching. In The 2009 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP), 2009, pp. 180-186.
Q. Liu and R. Solis-Oba. Web Prefetching with Machine Learning Algorithms. In The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP2008), 2008, pp. 142-148.
Q. Liu and R. Solis-Oba. Web prefetching with high accuracy and low memory cost. In Applied Computing Conference (ACC), 2008, pp. 114-119.
R. Solis-Oba and A. Alhenshiri. Improving web search results for short queries using preserved query knowledge. In First International Conference on Digital Communications and Computer Applications, 2007, electronic proceedings.
R. Solis-Oba. Local Search. In Handbook on Approximation Algorithms and Meta- heuristics, T. Gonzalez editor. Book chapter, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Florida, 2007.
R. Solis-Oba. Approximation algorithms for the k-median problem. In Approximation Algorithms in Combinatorial Optimization, K. Jansen, E. Bampis, and C. Kenyon, editors. Book chapter, LNCS 3484, 292-320, 2006.
N. Samei and R. Solis-Oba. Local Search. In Handbook on Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition, T. Gonzalez editor. Chapter 16, pages 277-298. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2018.
Scheduling jobs with chain precedence constraints , Klaus Jansen and Roberto Solis-Oba, Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2003, LNCS 3019, 105-112.
An asymptotic fully polynomial time approximation scheme for bin covering, Klaus Jansen and Roberto Solis-Oba, 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2002), 2002, LNCS 2518, pp. 175-186.
Job shop scheduling problems with controllable processing times, Klaus Jansen, Monaldo Mastrolilli, and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2001), 2001, LNCS 2202, pp. 107--122.
How helpers hasten $h$-relations , Peter Sanders and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the 8th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), Saarbrucken, Germany, 2000, LNCS 1879, pp. 392-402. Journal of Algorithms, 41, 2001, pp. 86-98.
Approximation algorithms for flexible job shop problems , Klaus Jansen, Monaldo Mastrolilli, and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of Latin American Theoretical Informatics (LATIN), 2000, LNCS 1776, pp. 68-77.
Linear time approximation schemes for shop scheduling problems. Klaus Jansen, Maxim Sviridenko, and Roberto Solis-Oba, in Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization, Panos Pardalos (Editor), 1999, pp. 338-346.
A linear time approximation scheme for the job shop scheduling problem, Klaus Jansen, Maxim Sviridenko, and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms (APPROX), Berkeley, 1999, LNCS 1671, pp. 177-188.
Makespan minimization in job shops: a polynomial time approximation scheme, Klaus Jansen, Maxim Sviridenko, and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pp. 394-399. 1999
Approximation algorithms for bounded facility location, , Piotr Krysta and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON), 1999, LNCS 1627, pp. 241-250. Also in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 5, 2001, pp. 2-16.
2-Approximation algorithm for finding a spanning tree with maximum number of leaves, Proceedings of the 6th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 1998, LNCS 1461, pp. 441-452.
Rooted spanning trees with small weight and average length , Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Theoretical Computer Science (P. Degano, U. Vaccaro, and G. Pirillo, editors), World Scientific, Singapore, 1998, pp. 114-125.
Increasing the weight of minimum spanning trees, Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Journal of Algorithms 33 (1999) pp. 394-399. A preliminary version of the paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 1996, pp. 539-546.
Algorithms for measuring perturbability in matroid optimization, Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Combinatorica, 18(4), 1998, 503-518.
Robustness analysis in combinatorial optimization, Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Technical Report MPI-I-98-1-011, Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany.
Efficient algorithms for robustness in matroid optimization, Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Proceedings of the Eight Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 1997, pp. 659-668.
Efficient algorithms for robustness in resource allocation and scheduling problems, Greg Frederickson and Roberto Solis-Oba, Full version submitted to Algorithmica A preliminary version of the paper appeared in the Proceedings of the Eight Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 1997, pp. 659-668.