Solving the set cover problem and the problem of exact cover by 3-sets in the Adleman-Lipton model

Weng Long Chang1, Minyi Guo

  • 1Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, 701 ROC, Tainan, Taiwan. changwl@csie.ncku.edu.tw

Bio Systems
|December 4, 2003
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