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Algorithms and Data Structures

5th International Workshop, WADS '97, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 6-8, 1997. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1272)

Conference series link(s): WADS: Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Dynamic motion planning in low obstacle density environments

    • Robert-Paul Berretty, Mark Overmars, A. Frank van der Stappen
    Pages 3-16
  3. Visibility-based pursuit-evasion in a polygonal environment

    • Leonidas J. Guibas, Jean-Claude Latombe, Steven M. Lavalle, David Lin, Rajeev Motwani
    Pages 17-30
  4. Maintaining the extent of a moving point set

    • Pankaj K. Agarwal, Leonidas J. Guibas, John Hershberger, Eric Veach
    Pages 31-44
  5. Finding cores of limited length

    • Stephen Alstrup, Peter W. Lauridsen, Peer Sommerlund, Mikkel Thorup
    Pages 45-54
  6. On bipartite crossings, largest biplanar subgraphs, and the linear arrangement problem

    • Farhad Shahrokhi, Ondrej Sýkora, László A. Székely, Imrich Vrt'o
    Pages 55-68
  7. Approximation algorithms for a genetic diagnostics problem

    • S. Rao Kosaraju, Alejandro A. Schäffer, Leslie G. Biesecker
    Pages 69-92
  8. Constrained TSP and low-power computing

    • Moses Charikar, Rajeev Motwani, Prabhakar Raghavan, Craig Silverstein
    Pages 104-115
  9. On-line load balancing for related machines

    • Piotr Berman, Moses Charikar, Marek Karpinski
    Pages 116-125
  10. A linear-time algorithm for the 1-mismatch problem

    • Nikola Stojanovic, Piotr Berman, Deborah Gumucio, Ross Hardison, Webb Miller
    Pages 126-135
  11. On some geometric optimization problems in layered manufacturing

    • Jayanth Majhi, Ravi Janardan, Michiel Smid, Prosenjit Gupta
    Pages 136-149
  12. New TSP construction heuristics and their relationships to the 2-opt

    • Hiroyuki Okano, Shinji Misono, Kazuo Iwano
    Pages 150-159
  13. Pattern matching in hypertext

    • Amihood Amir, Moshe Lewenstein, Noa Lewenstein
    Pages 160-173
  14. Multiple approximate string matching

    • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Gonzalo Navarro
    Pages 174-184
  15. Applied computational geometry — Abstract

    • David P. Dobkin
    Pages 185-185
  16. Checking the convexity of polytopes and the planarity of subdivisions (extended abstract)

    • O. Devillers, G. Liotta, F. P. Preparata, R. Tamassia
    Pages 186-199
  17. Voronoi diagrams for polygon-offset distance functions

    • Gill Barequet, Matthew T. Dickerson, Michael T. Goodrich
    Pages 200-209

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, WADS'97, held in Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, in August 1997.
The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 81 submissions. Also included are four abstracts and one full contribution corresponding to the invited talks. Among the topics covered are data structures and algorithmic aspects in a variety of areas like computational geometry, graph theory, networking, load balancing, optimization, approximation, sorting, pattern matching, etc.

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