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David Avis
David Avis in 1987Born March 20, 1951 Nationality Canadian Fields Mathematics Institutions McGill University Alma mater Stanford University Doctoral advisor Václav Chvátal Doctoral students David Rappaport
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Rephael WengerDavid Michael Avis (born March 20, 1951) is a Canadian and British computer scientist known for his contributions to geometric computations. Avis is a professor in computational geometry and applied mathematics in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, in Montreal.
Avis received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Stanford University.[1] He has published more than 70 journal papers and articles. Having written an article with Paul Erdős, Avis has one as his Erdős number. Writing with Komei Fukuda, Avis proposed a criss-cross algorithm for the vertex enumeration problem; their algorithm counts all of the vertices of a convex polytope.[2][3]
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References
- Avis, David; Fukuda, Komei (December 1992). "A pivoting algorithm for convex hulls and vertex enumeration of arrangements and polyhedra". Discrete and Computational Geometry 8 (ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (North Conway, NH, 1991)): 295–313. doi:10.1007/BF02293050. MR1174359. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m7440v7p3440757u/.
- Fukuda, Komei; Terlaky, Tamás (1997). Liebling, Thomas M.; de Werra, Dominique. eds. "Criss-cross methods: A fresh view on pivot algorithms". Mathematical Programming: Series B (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.) 79 (Papers from the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming held in Lausanne, 1997): 369–395. doi:10.1016/S0025-5610(97)00062-2. MR1464775. Postscript preprint.
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