Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
Sponsored by ACM Sigact and SIAM Activity Group on DM

January 25-27, 1998
Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel,
San Francisco, California

List of Accepted Papers to be Presented at the Symposium

A Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Weighted Planar Graph TSP
Sanjeev Arora and Michelangelo Grigni and David Karger and Philip Klein and Andrzej Woloszyn
Kinetic BSPs for Intersecting Segments and Disjoint Triangles
Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jeff Erickson and Leonidas K. Guibas
A polylogarithmic approximation algorithm for the group Steiner problem
Naveen Garg and Goran Konjevod and R. Ravi
Computing Univariate GCDs over Number Fields
Michael Monagan and Roger Margot
Minimizing Service and Operation Costs of Periodic Scheduling
Amotz Bar-Noy and Randeep Bhatia and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Baruch Schieber
Analysis of a Local Search Heuristic for Facility Location Problems
Madhukar R. Korupolu and C. Greg Plaxton and Rajmohan Rajaraman
On Local Register Allocation
Martin Farach and Vincenzo Liberatore
Error Correcting Codes, Perfect Hashing Circuits, and Deterministic Dynamic Dictionaries
Peter Bro Miltersen
Average-Case Analyses of First Fit and Random Fit Bin Packing
Susanne Albers and Michael Mitzenmacher
Faster Algorithms for the Quickest Transshipment Problem
Lisa Fleischer
Finding a large hidden clique in a random graph
Noga Alon and Michael Krivelevich and Benny Sudakov
Breaking the $2\Delta$ Bound for Approximately Counting Colourings: A Computer-Assisted Proof of Rapid Mixing
Russ Bubley and Martin Dyer and Catherine Greenhill
Faster deterministic sorting and priority queues in linear space
Mikkel Thorup
Planar Point Location Close to the Information-theoretic Lower Bound
Udo Adamy and Raimund Seidel
Extended Hilbert Irreducibility and its Applications
Ming-Deh Huang and Yiu-Chung Wong
A 3/2-Approximation Algorithm for Sorting by Reversals
David A. Christie
Collision Detection in Aspect and Scale Bounded Polyhedra
Subhash Suri and Philip M. Hubbard and John F. Hughes
The Dynamic Servers Problem
Moses Charikar and Dan Halperin and Rajeev Motwani
Multi-Item Inventory Staggering Problems: Heuristics and Bounds
Chung-Piaw Teo, Jihong Ou, and Kok-Choon Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A Polynomial-time Approximation Scheme for Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Trees
B. Y. Wu, G. Lancia, V. Bafna, K. M. Chao, R. Ravi and C. Y. Tang.
Mutual Search
Harry Buhrman, Matthew Franklin, Juan A. Garay, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, John Tromp, Paul Vitanyi
A New Approximation Algorithm for the Planar Augmentation Problem
Sergej Fialko and Petra Mutzel
New Approximation Techniques for Some Ordering Problems
Satish Rao and Andrea W. Richa
Bounding the Diffuse Adversary
Neal E. Young
Flow and Stretch Metrics for Scheduling Continuous Job Streams
Michael Bender and Soumen Chakravarti and S. Muthukrishnan
Computation of Approximate Polynomial Gcds and an Extension
Victor Y. Pan, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx
Edge-Connectivity Augmentation with Partition Constraints
Jorgen Bang-Jensen, Odense University, Denmark; Harold N. Gabow, University of Colorado, Boulder; Tibor Jordan, Odense University, Denmark; and Zoltan Szigeti, Universite Paris VI, France
An Experimental Study of Linear Programming-Based Scheduling Heuristics
Martin W.P.Savelsbergh and R.N.Uma and Joel Wein
An Efficient Algorithm for the Three-Dimensional Diameter Problem
Sergei N. Bespamyatnikh
Analysis of Random Processes via And-Or Tree Evaluation
Micahel G. Luby and Michael Mitzenmacher and M. Amin Shokrollahi
Theory and Practice of I/O-Efficient Algorithms for Multidimensional Batched Searching Problems
Lars Arge and Octavian Procopiuc and Sridhar Ramaswamy and Torsten Suel and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Learning Deterministic Finite Automata from Smallest Counterexamples
Andreas Birkendorf and Andreas Boeker and Hans Ulrich Simon
Optimal Augmentation of a Biconnected Graph to a k-Edge-Connected and Triconnected Graph
ISHII Toshimasa and NAGAMOCHI Hiroshi and IBARAKI Toshihide
Algorithms for the Maximum Subarray Problem Based on Matrix Multiplication
Hisao Tamaki and Takeshi Tokuyama
Sparse 0-1-Matrices and Forbidden Hypergraphs
Claudia Bertram-Kretzberg and Thomas Hofmeister and Hanno Lefmann
The Ultimate Interval Graph Recognition Algorithm?
Derek G. Corneil and Stephan Olariu and Lorna Stewart
Fast Backtracking Principles Applied to Find New Cages
Brendan McKay and Wendy Myrvold and Jacqueline Nadon
Matroid Decomposition Methods for the Set Maxima Problem
Vincenzo Liberatore
Output-sensitive generation of random events
Paul B. Callahan
Finger Search Trees with Constant Insertion Time
Gerth S. Brodal
Improved Routing on Trees
Stephen Alstrup and Jacob Holm and Kristian de Lichtenberg and Mikkel Thorup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment
Jon M. Kleinberg
Computation in Noisy Radio Networks
Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour
The Analysis of Hybrid Trie Structures
Julien Clement and Philippe Flajolet and Brigitte Vallee
On-Line File Caching
Neal E. Young
Identification of Gene Regulatory Networks by Strategic Gene Disruptions and Gene Amplifications
Tatsuya Akutsu and Satoru Kuhara and Osamu Maruyama and Satoru Miyano
Linear-Time Register Allocation for a Fixed Number of Registers
Hans Bodlaender, Jens Gustedt and Jan Arne Telle
Approximation Algorithms for Directed Steiner Problems
Charikar and Chekuri and Cheung and Dai and Goel and Guha and Li
Hiding Cliques for Cryptographic Security
Ari Juels and Marcus Peinado
Reconstructing Randomly Sampled Multivariate Polynomials from Highly Noisy Data
Hal Wasserman
On-line Randomized Call Control Revisited
Stefano Leonardi and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Alessio Presciutti and Adi Ros\'{e}n
Analysis of First-Come-First-Serve Parallel Job Scheduling
Uwe Schwiegelshohn and Ramin Yahyapour
The Power of Migration in Multi-Processor Scheduling of Real-Time Systems
Gilad Koren and Amihood Amir and Emanuel Dar
The Maximum Subforest Problem: Approximation and Exact Algorithms
Ron Shamir and Dekel Tsur
Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Clustering
Pankaj K. Agarwal and Cecilia M. Procopiuc
Ring Routing and Wavelength Translation
Gordon Wilfong and Peter Winkler
Approximate String Matching: A Faster Simpler Algorithm
R. Cole and R. Hariharan
Two New Upper Bounds for SAT
Edward A. Hirsch
Greedy Strikes Back: Improved Facility Location Algorithms
Sudipto Guha and Samir Khuller
Spatial Codes and the Hardness of String Folding Problems
Ashwin Nayak and Alistair Sinclair and Uri Zwick
Approximation Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems Involving at Most Three Variables Per Constraint
Uri Zwick
Fast Distributed Algorithms for Brooks-Vizing Colourings
David A. Grable and Alessandro Panconesi
Faster Random Generation of Linear Extensions
Russ Bubley and Martin Dyer
Exploring Unknown Undirected Graphs
Petrisor Panaite and Andrzej Pelc
A Probabilistic Algorithm for Updating Files over a Communication Link
Alexandre V. Evfimievski
LRU is Better than FIFO
Marek Chrobak and John Noga
A Faster Algorithm for Minimum Cost Submodular Flows
Satoru Iwata and S. Thomas McCormick and Maiko Shigeno
Optimal Edge Ranking of Trees in Linear Time
Tak Wah Lam and Fung Ling Yue
Go with the Winners for Graph Bisection
Tassos Dimitriou and Russell Impagliazzo
Competitive algorithms for multilevel caching and relaxed list update
Marek Chrobak and John Noga
Quadratic-time Algorithms for Edge-Connectivity Augmentation and Splitting Off
Andras Benczur and David Karger
Better Sampling Algorithms for Maximum Flows in Undirected Graphs
David Karger
Ancient and New Algorithms for Load Balancing in the L_p Norm
Adi Avidor and Yossi Azar and Jiri Sgall
On the distributed complexity of computing maximal matchings
Michal Hanckoviak and Michal Karonski and Alessandro Panconesi
I/O-efficient algorithms for contour-line extraction and planar graph blocking
Pankaj K. Agarwal and Lars Arge and T. M. Murali and Kasturi R. Varadarajan and Jeffrey S. Vitter
Fast Hierarchical Clustering and Other Applications of Dynamic Closest Pairs
David Eppstein
On Approximating Rectangle Tiling and Packing
Sanjeev Khanna and S. Muthukrishnan and Mike Paterson
Online Throughput-Competitive Algorithm for Multicast Routing and Admission Control
Ashish Goel and Monika Henzinger and Serge Plotkin
Exact Arithmetic at Low Cost - A Case Study in Linear Programming
Bernd Gaertner
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