Frank Ruskey is a combinatorialist and

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, and professor at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

. His research involves algorithms for exhaustively listing discrete structures, combinatorial

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and

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, and

enumerative combinatorics Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type of problem are counting combinations and counting permutations. More generally, given an infin ...

. Frank Ruskey is the author of the Combinatorial Object Server (COS), a website for information on and generation of combinatorial objects.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Frank Ruskey's homepage

Combinatorial Object Server
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