
Prof. Shmuel Zaks
Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science
- Contact information
- Homepage:
- http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~zaks/
- Email:
- zaks
cs.technion.ac.il
- Office:
- 724
- Phone:
- (972)-4-829-4329
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday, 10:30-11:30
- Research interests
- Theory of Distributed Computing; ATM and Optical Networks; Combinatorial and Graph Algorithms; Combinatorics and Graph Theory; Discrete Mathematics.
- Selected publications
BIRAN, O., MORAN, S., and ZAKS, S., �A combinatorial characterization of the distributed tasks which are solvable in the presence of one faulty processor�, Journal of Algorithms, Vol. 11, pp. 420-440, 1990, an extension of PODC�88 paper.
KOZEN, D., and ZAKS, S., "Optimal bounds for the change-making problem", Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 123, pp. 377-388, 1994.
GERSTEL, O., and ZAKS, S., �A new characterization of tree medians with applications to distributed algorithms�, Networks, Vol. 24, No 1, pp. 23-29, January 1994, an extension of WG�92 paper.
GERSTEL, O., WOOL, A., and ZAKS, S., �Optimal layouts on a chain ATM network�, to appear in �Discrete Applied Mathematics�, special issue on Network Communications, an extension of ESA�95 paper.
EILAM, T., MORAN, S., and ZAKS, S., �A lower bound for linear interval routing�, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms (WDAG), pp. 191-205, 1996.
DINITZ, Y., FEIGHELSTEIN, M., and ZAKS, S., �On optimal graphs embedded into paths and rings, with analysis using l1-spheres�, Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG), 1997.
CIDON, I., GERSTEL, O., and ZAKS, S., �Optimal virtual path layout in ATM networks with shared routing table switches�, The Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 3, 1996, an extension of PODC�94 paper.
van LEEUWEN, J., SANTORO, N., URRUTIA, J., and ZAKS, S., �Guessing games and distributed computations in synchronous networks�, Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 267, pp. 347-356, 1987.
EILAM, T., FLAMMINI, M., and ZAKS, S., �A complete characterization of the path layout construction problem for ATM Networks with given hop count and load�, to appear in Parallel Processing Letters, an extension of ICALP�97 paper.
ZAKS, S., "Path layout in ATM networks" (Invited talk), 24th SOFSEM conference (Theory and Practice of Informatics), November 22-29, 1997, Milovy, The Czech Republic, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1338, pp. 144-160.
ZAKS, S., "Duality in ATM layout problems" (Invited talk), Proceedings of the 4th Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC)}, Rome, 2000.
ZAKS, S., "On the use of duality and geometry in layouts for ATM Networks (Invited talk), 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science (MFCS), Bratislava, Slovakia, 2000.