Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science

Second International Workshop, RANDOM'98, Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998 Proceedings

396 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Invited Paper.- Disjoint Paths in Expander Graphs via Random Walks: a Short Survey.- Regular Papers.- A Derandomization Using Min-Wise Independent Permutations.- An Algorithmic Embedding of Graphs via Perfect Matchings.- Deterministic Hypergraph Coloring and Its Applications.- On the Derandomization of Space-Bounded Computations.- Talagrand's Inequality and Locality in Distributed Computing.- On-line Bin-Stretching.- Combinatorial Linear Programming: Geometry Can Help.- A Note on Bounding the Mixing Time by Linear Programming.- Robotic Exploration, Brownian Motion and Electrical Resistance.- Fringe analysis of synchronized parallel algorithms on 2-3 trees.- On Balls and Bins with Deletions.- "Balls into Bins" - A Simple and Tight Analysis.- Invited Paper.- Tornado Codes: Practical Erasure Codes Based on Random Irregular Graphs.- Regular Papers.- Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation.- Complexity of Sequential Pattern Matching Algorithms.- A Random Server Model for Private Information Retrieval.- Almost Optimal (on the average) Combinatorial Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Product Witnesses, Computing the Diameter (Extended Abstract).- Randomized Lower Bounds for Online Path Coloring.- Parallel Random Search and Tabu Search for the Minimal Consistent Subset Selection Problem.- On Various Cooling Schedules for Simulated Annealing Applied to the Job Shop Problem.- A High Performance Approximate Algorithm for the Steiner Problem in Graphs.- Invited Paper.- Random Geometric Problems on [0, 1]2.- Regular Papers.- A Role of Constraint in Self-Organization.- Constructive Bounds and Exact Expectations for the Random Assignment Problem.- The "Burnside Process" Converges Slowly.- Quicksort Again Revisited.- Sampling Methods Applied to DenseInstances of Non-Boolean Optimization Problems.- Second-Order Methods for Distributed Approximate Single- and Multicommodity Flow.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Mathematik Optimierung
• ISBN: 9783540651420
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.1998
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Michael Luby, Maria Serna, Jose Rolim