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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

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Contributed Talks of APPROX

    1. The Network as a Storage Device: Dynamic Routing with Bounded Buffers

      • Stanislav Angelov, Sanjeev Khanna, Keshav Kunal
      Pages 1-13
    2. What Would Edmonds Do? Augmenting Paths and Witnesses for Degree-Bounded MSTs

      • Kamalika Chaudhuri, Satish Rao, Samantha Riesenfeld, Kunal Talwar
      Pages 26-39
    3. A Rounding Algorithm for Approximating Minimum Manhattan Networks

      • Victor Chepoi, Karim Nouioua, Yann Vaxès
      Pages 40-51
    4. Packing Element-Disjoint Steiner Trees

      • Joseph Cheriyan, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
      Pages 52-61
    5. Approximating the Bandwidth of Caterpillars

      • Uriel Feige, Kunal Talwar
      Pages 62-73
    6. What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization

      • Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, Ramamoorthi Ravi, Amitabh Sinha
      Pages 86-98
    7. The Complexity of Making Unique Choices: Approximating 1-in-k SAT

      • Venkatesan Guruswami, Luca Trevisan
      Pages 99-110
    8. Approximating the Distortion

      • Alexander Hall, Christos Papadimitriou
      Pages 111-122
    9. Approximating the Best-Fit Tree Under L p Norms

      • Boulos Harb, Sampath Kannan, Andrew McGregor
      Pages 123-133
    10. Beating a Random Assignment

      • Gustav Hast
      Pages 134-145
    11. Scheduling on Unrelated Machines Under Tree-Like Precedence Constraints

      • V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marathe, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Aravind Srinivasan
      Pages 146-157
    12. Finding Graph Matchings in Data Streams

      • Andrew McGregor
      Pages 170-181
    13. Efficient Approximation of Convex Recolorings

      • Shlomo Moran, Sagi Snir
      Pages 192-208
    14. Approximation Algorithms for Requirement Cut on Graphs

      • Viswanath Nagarajan, Ramamoorthi Ravi
      Pages 209-220

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana

    Chandra Chekuri

  • Institute for Computer Science, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Klaus Jansen

  • Battelle Bâtiment A, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland

    José D. P. Rolim

  • UC Berkeley,  

    Luca Trevisan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

  • Book Subtitle: 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

  • Editors: Chandra Chekuri, Klaus Jansen, José D. P. Rolim, Luca Trevisan

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11538462

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28239-6Published: 08 August 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31874-3Published: 25 August 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 495

  • Topics: Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Numeric Computing, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Algorithms

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