Contains 130 papers, which were selected based on originality, technical contribution, and relevance. Although the papers were not formally refereed, every attempt was made to verify the main claims. It is expected that most will appear in more complete form in scientific journals. The proceedings also includes the paper presented by invited plenary speaker Ronald Graham, as well as a portion of the papers presented by invited plenary speakers Udi Manber and Christos Papadimitriou.
From the January 2003 symposium come just over 100 papers addressing a range of topics related to discrete algorithms. Examples of topics covered include packing Steiner trees, counting inversions in lists, directed scale-free graphs, quantum property testing, and improved results for directed multicut. The papers were not formally refereed, but attempts were made to verify major results. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Symposium held in Miami, Florida, January 22–24, 2006.This symposium is jointly sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics.Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Session 1A: Confronting Hardness Using a Hybrid Approach, Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams, and Shan Leung Maverick Woo; A New Approach to Proving Upper Bounds for MAX-2-SAT, Arist Kojevnikov and Alexander S. Kulikov, Measure and Conquer: A Simple O(20.288n) Independent Set Algorithm, Fedor V. Fomin, Fabrizio Grandoni, and Dieter Kratsch; A Polynomial Algorithm to Find an Independent Set of Maximum Weight in a Fork-Free Graph, Vadim V. Lozin and Martin Milanic; The Knuth-Yao Quadrangle-Inequality Speedup is a Consequence of Total-Monotonicity, Wolfgang W. Bein, Mordecai J. Golin, Larry L. Larmore, and Yan Zhang; Session 1B: Local Versus Global Properties of Metric Spaces, Sanjeev Arora, László Lovász, Ilan Newman, Yuval Rabani, Yuri Rabinovich, and Santosh Vempala; Directed Metrics and Directed Graph Partitioning Problems, Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, and Yury Makarychev; Improved Embeddings of Graph Metrics into Random Trees, Kedar Dhamdhere, Anupam Gupta, and Harald Räcke; Small Hop-diameter Sparse Spanners for Doubling Metrics, T-H. Hubert Chan and Anupam Gupta; Metric Cotype, Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor; Session 1C: On Nash Equilibria for a Network Creation Game, Susanne Albers, Stefan Eilts, Eyal Even-Dar, Yishay Mansour, and Liam Roditty; Approximating Unique Games, Anupam Gupta and Kunal Talwar; Computing Sequential Equilibria for Two-Player Games, Peter Bro Miltersen and Troels Bjerre Sørensen; A Deterministic Subexponential Algorithm for Solving Parity Games, Marcin Jurdzinski, Mike Paterson, and Uri Zwick; Finding Nucleolus of Flow Game, Xiaotie Deng, Qizhi Fang, and Xiaoxun Sun, Session 2: Invited Plenary Abstract: Predicting the “Unpredictable”, Rakesh V. Vohra, Northwestern University; Session 3A: A Near-Tight Approximation Lower Bound and Algorithm for the Kidnapped Robot Problem, Sven Koenig, Apurva Mudgal, and Craig Tovey; An Asymptotic Approximation Algorithm for 3D-Strip Packing, Klaus Jansen and Roberto Solis-Oba; Facility Location with Hierarchical Facility Costs, Zoya Svitkina and Éva Tardos; Combination Can Be Hard: Approximability of the Unique Coverage Problem, Erik D. Demaine, Uriel Feige, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, and Mohammad R. Salavatipour; Computing Steiner Minimum Trees in Hamming Metric, Ernst Althaus and Rouven Naujoks; Session 3B: Robust Shape Fitting via Peeling and Grating Coresets, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Sariel Har-Peled, and Hai Yu; Tightening Non-Simple Paths and Cycles on Surfaces, Éric Colin de Verdière and Jeff Erickson; Anisotropic Surface Meshing, Siu-Wing Cheng, Tamal K. Dey, Edgar A. Ramos, and Rephael Wenger; Simultaneous Diagonal Flips in Plane Triangulations, Prosenjit Bose, Jurek Czyzowicz, Zhicheng Gao, Pat Morin, and David R. Wood; Morphing Orthogonal Planar Graph Drawings, Anna Lubiw, Mark Petrick, and Michael Spriggs; Session 3C: Overhang, Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick; On the Capacity of Information Networks, Micah Adler, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Kamal Jain, Robert Kleinberg, and April Rasala Lehman; Lower Bounds for Asymmetric Communication Channels and Distributed Source Coding, Micah Adler, Erik D. Demaine, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, and Mihai Patrascu; Self-Improving Algorithms, Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle, Seshadhri Comandur, and Ding Liu; Cake Cutting Really is Not a Piece of Cake, Jeff Edmonds and Kirk Pruhs; Session 4A: Testing Triangle-Freeness in General Graphs, Noga Alon, Tali Kaufman, Michael Krivelevich, and Dana Ron; Constraint Solving via Fractional Edge Covers, Martin Grohe and Dániel Marx; Testing Graph Isomorphism, Eldar Fischer and Arie Matsliah; Efficient Construction of Unit Circular-Arc Models, Min Chih Lin and Jayme L. Szwarcfiter, On The Chromatic Number of Some Geometric Hypergraphs, Shakhar Smorodinsky; Session 4B: A Robust Maximum Completion Time Measure for Scheduling, Moses Charikar and Samir Khuller; Extra Unit-Speed Machines are Almost as Powerful as Speedy Machines for Competitive Flow Time Scheduling, Ho-Leung Chan, Tak-Wah Lam, and Kin-Shing Liu; Improved Approximation Algorithms for Broadcast Scheduling, Nikhil Bansal, Don Coppersmith, and Maxim Sviridenko; Distributed Selfish Load Balancing, Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul Goldberg, Zengjian Hu, and Russell Martin; Scheduling Unit Tasks to Minimize the Number of Idle Periods: A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Offline Dynamic Power Management, Philippe Baptiste; Session 4C: Rank/Select Operations on Large Alphabets: A Tool for Text Indexing, Alexander Golynski, J. Ian Munro, and S. Srinivasa Rao; O(log log n)-Competitive Dynamic Binary Search Trees, Chengwen Chris Wang, Jonathan Derryberry, and Daniel Dominic Sleator; The Rainbow Skip Graph: A Fault-Tolerant Constant-Degree Distributed Data Structure, Michael T. Goodrich, Michael J. Nelson, and Jonathan Z. Sun; Design of Data Structures for Mergeable Trees, Loukas Georgiadis, Robert E. Tarjan, and Renato F. Werneck; Implicit Dictionaries with O(1) Modifications per Update and Fast Search, Gianni Franceschini and J. Ian Munro; Session 5A: Sampling Binary Contingency Tables with a Greedy Start, Ivona Bezáková, Nayantara Bhatnagar, and Eric Vigoda; Asymmetric Balanced Allocation with Simple Hash Functions, Philipp Woelfel; Balanced Allocation on Graphs, Krishnaram Kenthapadi and Rina Panigrahy; Superiority and Complexity of the Spaced Seeds, Ming Li, Bin Ma, and Louxin Zhang; Solving Random Satisfiable 3CNF Formulas in Expected Polynomial Time, Michael Krivelevich and Dan Vilenchik; Session 5B: Analysis of Incomplete Data and an Intrinsic-Dimension Helly Theorem, Jie Gao, Michael Langberg, and Leonard J. Schulman; Finding Large Sticks and Potatoes in Polygons, Olaf Hall-Holt, Matthew J. Katz, Piyush Kumar, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Arik Sityon; Randomized Incremental Construction of Three-Dimensional Convex Hulls and Planar Voronoi Diagrams, and Approximate Range Counting, Haim Kaplan and Micha Sharir; Vertical Ray Shooting and Computing Depth Orders for Fat Objects, Mark de Berg and Chris Gray; On the Number of Plane Graphs, Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Birgit Vogtenhuber, Clemens Huemer, Ferran Hurtado, and Hannes Krasser; Session 5C: All-Pairs Shortest Paths for Unweighted Undirected Graphs in o(mn) Time, Timothy M. Chan; An O(n log n) Algorithm for Maximum st-Flow in a Directed Planar Graph, Glencora Borradaile and Philip Klein; A Simple GAP-Canceling Algorithm for the Generalized Maximum Flow Problem, Mateo Restrepo and David P. Williamson; Four Point Conditions and Exponential Neighborhoods for Symmetric TSP, Vladimir Deineko, Bettina Klinz, and Gerhard J. Woeginger; Upper Degree-Constrained Partial Orientations, Harold N. Gabow; Session 7A: On the Tandem Duplication-Random Loss Model of Genome Rearrangement, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Kevin Chen, Radu Mihaescu, and Satish Rao; Reducing Tile Complexity for Self-Assembly Through Temperature Programming, Ming-Yang Kao and Robert Schweller; Cache-Oblivious String Dictionaries, Gerth Stølting Brodal and Rolf Fagerberg; Cache-Oblivious Dynamic Programming, Rezaul Alam Chowdhury and Vijaya Ramachandran; A Computational Study of External-Memory BFS Algorithms, Deepak Ajwani, Roman Dementiev, and Ulrich Meyer; Session 7B: Tight Approximation Algorithms for Maximum General Assignment Problems, Lisa Fleischer, Michel X. Goemans, Vahab S. Mirrokni, and Maxim Sviridenko; Approximating the k-Multicut Problem, Daniel Golovin, Viswanath Nagarajan, and Mohit Singh; The Prize-Collecting Generalized Steiner Tree Problem Via A New Approach Of Primal-Dual Schema, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi and Kamal Jain; 8/7-Approximation Algorithm for (1,2)-TSP, Piotr Berman and Marek Karpinski; Improved Lower and Upper Bounds for Universal TSP in Planar Metrics, Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Robert Kleinberg, and Tom Leighton; Session 7C: Leontief Economies Encode NonZero Sum Two-Player Games, B. Codenotti, A. Saberi, K. Varadarajan, and Y. Ye; Bottleneck Links, Variable Demand, and the Tragedy of the Commons, Richard Cole, Yevgeniy Dodis, and Tim Roughgarden; The Complexity of Quantitative Concurrent Parity Games, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, and Thomas A. Henzinger; Equilibria for Economies with Production: Constant-Returns Technologies and Production Planning Constraints, Kamal Jain and Kasturi Varadarajan; Session 8A: Approximation Algorithms for Wavelet Transform Coding of Data Streams, Sudipto Guha and Boulos Harb; Simpler Algorithm for Estimating Frequency Moments of Data Streams, Lakshimath Bhuvanagiri, Sumit Ganguly, Deepanjan Kesh, and Chandan Saha; Trading Off Space for Passes in Graph Streaming Problems, Camil Demetrescu, Irene Finocchi, and Andrea Ribichini; Maintaining Significant Stream Statistics over Sliding Windows, L.K. Lee and H.F. Ting; Streaming and Sublinear Approximation of Entropy and Information Distances, Sudipto Guha, Andrew McGregor, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian; Session 8B: FPTAS for Mixed-Integer Polynomial Optimization with a Fixed Number of Variables, J. A. De Loera, R. Hemmecke, M. Köppe, and R. Weismantel; Linear Programming and Unique Sink Orientations, Bernd Gärtner and Ingo Schurr; Generating All Vertices of a Polyhedron is Hard, Leonid Khachiyan, Endre Boros, Konrad Borys, Khaled Elbassioni, and Vladimir Gurvich; A Semidefinite Programming Approach to Tensegrity Theory and Realizability of Graphs, Anthony Man-Cho So and Yinyu Ye; Ordering by Weighted Number of Wins Gives a Good Ranking for Weighted Tournaments, Don Coppersmith, Lisa Fleischer, and Atri Rudra; Session 8C: Weighted Isotonic Regression under L1 Norm, Stanislav Angelov, Boulos Harb, Sampath Kannan, and Li-San Wang; Oblivious String Embeddings and Edit Distance Approximations, Tugkan Batu, Funda Ergun, and Cenk Sahinalp0898716012\\This comprehensive book not only introduces the C and C++ programming languages but also shows how to use them in the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). 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Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition reflects the tremendous growth in the field, over the past two decades. Through contributions from leading experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory and methodologies, as well as the various applications of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics. Volume 1 of this two-volume set deals primarily with methodologies and traditional applications. It includes restriction, relaxation, local ratio, approximation schemes, randomization, tabu search, evolutionary computation, local search, neural networks, and other metaheuristics. It also explores multi-objective optimization, reoptimization, sensitivity analysis, and stability. Traditional applications covered include: bin packing, multi-dimensional packing, Steiner trees, traveling salesperson, scheduling, and related problems. Volume 2 focuses on the contemporary and emerging applications of methodologies to problems in combinatorial optimization, computational geometry and graphs problems, as well as in large-scale and emerging application areas. It includes approximation algorithms and heuristics for clustering, networks (sensor and wireless), communication, bioinformatics search, streams, virtual communities, and more. About the Editor Teofilo F. Gonzalez is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Oklahoma, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Texas at Dallas, before joining the UCSB computer science faculty in 1984. He spent sabbatical leaves at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and Utrecht University. He is known for his highly cited pioneering research in the hardness of approximation; for his sublinear and best possible approximation algorithm for k-tMM clustering; for introducing the open-shop scheduling problem as well as algorithms for its solution that have found applications in numerous research areas; as well as for his research on problems in the areas of job scheduling, graph algorithms, computational geometry, message communication, wire routing, etc.
The 9th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2005) was held in the Commonwealth of Dominica from February 28 to March 3, 2005. This conference, organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA), continues to be the premier international forum for research, exploration, and debate regarding security in the context of finance and commerce. The conference title and scope was expanded this year to cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems. The goal is to build an interdisciplinary meeting, bringing together cryptographers, data-security specialists, business and economy researchers, as well as economists, IT professionals, implementers, and policy makers. We think that this goal was met this year. The conference received 90 submissions and 24 papers were accepted, 22 in the Research track and 2 in the Systems and Applications track. In addition, the conference featured two distinguished invited speakers, Bezalel Gavish and Lynne Coventry, and two interesting panel sessions, one on phishing and the other on economics and information security. Also, for the first time, some of the papers that were judged to be very strong but did not make the final program were selected for special invitation to our Works in Progress (Rump) Session that took place on Wednesday evening. Three papers were highlighted in this forum this year, and short versions of the papers are included here. As always, other conference attendees were also invited to make presentations during the rump session, and the evening lived up to its colorful reputation.
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This Festschrift volume, published in honour of J. Ian Munro, contains contributions written by some of his colleagues, former students, and friends. In celebration of his 66th birthday the colloquium "Conference on Space Efficient Data Structures, Streams and Algorithms" was held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, during August 15-16, 2013. The articles presented herein cover some of the main topics of Ian's research interests. Together they give a good overall perspective of the last 40 years of research in algorithms and data structures.
The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the 15th International Meshing Roundtable, held September 17–20, 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.. The conference was started by Sandia National Laboratories in 1992 as a small meeting of organizations striving to establish a common focus for research and development in the field of mesh generation. Now after 15 consecutive years, the International Meshing Roundtable has become recognized as an international focal point annually attended by researchers and developers from dozens of countries around the world. The 15th International Meshing Roundtable consists of technical presentations from contributed papers, keynote and invited talks, short course presentations, and a poster session and competition. The Program Committee would like to express its appreciation to all who participate to make the IMR a successful and enriching experience. The papers in these proceedings were selected from among 42 submissions by the Program Committee. Based on input from peer reviews, the committee selected these papers for their perceived quality, originality, and appropriateness to the theme of the International Meshing Roundtable. The Program Committee would like to thank all who submitted papers. We would also like to thank the colleagues who provided reviews of the submitted papers. The names of the reviewers are acknowledged in the following pages. As Program Chair, I would like to extend special thanks to the Program Committee and to the Conference Coordinators for their time and effort to make the 15th IMR another outstanding conference.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2006, held in Patras, Greece in December 2006. It contains 32 papers that contain foundational and mathematical work for solving problems in internet technologies, grid computing, network communication protocols, as well as social economic issues in virtual communities enabled through the World Wide Web.
This book features high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Technology (CICT 2019) organized by ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, and held from February 22 to 23, 2019. It includes the latest advances and research findings in fields of computational science and communication such as communication & networking, web & informatics, hardware and software designs, distributed & parallel processing, advanced software engineering, advanced database management systems and bioinformatics. As such, it is of interest to research scholars, students, and engineers around the globe.
