A note on boundingk-terminal reliability

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 303-307 - 1992
Charles J. Colbourn1
1Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Tóm tắt

A generalization of a theorem of Lomonosov and Polesskii is proved, which provides a novel method for determining upper bounds on the probability that a graph contains a Steiner tree (k-terminal reliability).

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