Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

8th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Compinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2005 and 9th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2005, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 22-24, 2005, Proceedings

512 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Contributed Talks of APPROX.- The Network as a Storage Device: Dynamic Routing with Bounded Buffers.- Rounding Two and Three Dimensional Solutions of the SDP Relaxation of MAX CUT.- What Would Edmonds Do? Augmenting Paths and Witnesses for Degree-Bounded MSTs.- A Rounding Algorithm for Approximating Minimum Manhattan Networks.- Packing Element-Disjoint Steiner Trees.- Approximating the Bandwidth of Caterpillars.- Where's the Winner? Max-Finding and Sorting with Metric Costs.- What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization.- The Complexity of Making Unique Choices: Approximating 1-in-k SAT.- Approximating the Distortion.- Approximating the Best-Fit Tree Under L p Norms.- Beating a Random Assignment.- Scheduling on Unrelated Machines Under Tree-Like Precedence Constraints.- Approximation Algorithms for Network Design and Facility Location with Service Capacities.- Finding Graph Matchings in Data Streams.- A Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithm for Partial Vertex Cover: Making Educated Guesses.- Efficient Approximation of Convex Recolorings.- Approximation Algorithms for Requirement Cut on Graphs.- Approximation Schemes for Node-Weighted Geometric Steiner Tree Problems.- Towards Optimal Integrality Gaps for Hypergraph Vertex Cover in the Lovász-Schrijver Hierarchy.- Contributed Talks of RANDOM.- Bounds for Error Reduction with Few Quantum Queries.- Sampling Bounds for Stochastic Optimization.- An Improved Analysis of Mergers.- Finding a Maximum Independent Set in a Sparse Random Graph.- On the Error Parameter of Dispersers.- Tolerant Locally Testable Codes.- A Lower Bound on List Size for List Decoding.- A Lower Bound for Distribution-Free Monotonicity Testing.- On Learning Random DNF Formulas Under the Uniform Distribution.-Derandomized Constructions of k-Wise (Almost) Independent Permutations.- Testing Periodicity.- The Parity Problem in the Presence of Noise, Decoding Random Linear Codes, and the Subset Sum Problem.- The Online Clique Avoidance Game on Random Graphs.- A Generating Function Method for the Average-Case Analysis of DPLL.- A Continuous-Discontinuous Second-Order Transition in the Satisfiability of Random Horn-SAT Formulas.- Mixing Points on a Circle.- Derandomized Squaring of Graphs.- Tight Bounds for String Reconstruction Using Substring Queries.- Reconstructive Dispersers and Hitting Set Generators.- The Tensor Product of Two Codes Is Not Necessarily Robustly Testable.- Fractional Decompositions of Dense Hypergraphs.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Informatik Theoretische Informatik Mathematik für Informatiker
• ISBN: 9783540282396
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2005
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Klaus Jansen, José D. P. Rolim, Chandra Chekuri, Luca Trevisan