Algorithms and Computation

Solving NP-hard combinatorial problems in the practical sense Invited presentation.- Airline crew-scheduling problem with many irregular flights.- Practical approach to a facility location problem for large-scale logistics.- Hard instance generation for SAT.- Playing tetris on meshes and multi-dimensional Shearsort.- Formulation of the addition-shift-sequence problem and its complexity.- Weighted and unweighted selection algorithms for k sorted sequences.- An adaptive distributed fault-tolerant routing algorithm for the star graph.- Multi-color routing in the undirected hypercube.- Competitive source routing on tori and meshes.- Algorithms for enumerating all perfect, maximum and maximal matchings in bipartite graphs.- Augmenting edge and vertex connectivities simultaneously.- Two-face horn extensions.- Decremental maintenance of reachability in hypergraphs and minimum models of horn formulae.- Algorithmic analysis of multithreaded algorithms.- A characterization of planar graphs by pseudo-line arrangements.- Optimal fault-tolerant broadcasting in trees.- A theoretical framework of hybrid approaches to MAX SAT.- Exponential lower bounds on the size of OBDDs representing integer division.- On-line versus off-line in money-making strategies with brokerage.- Decision-making by hierarchies of discordant agents.- A new efficient off-line anonymous cash scheme.- Approximating unweighted connectivity problems in parallel.- A randomized linear work EREW PRAM algorithm to find a minimum spanning forest.- Efficient parallel algorithms for planar st-graphs.- Peg-solitaire, string rewriting systems and finite automata.- On the size of probabilistic formulae.- Homophonic coding with logarithmic memory size.- Complexity and modeling aspects of mesh refinement into quadrilaterals.- Topology oriented vs. exact arithmetic — Experience in implementing the three-dimensional convex hull algorithm.- The complexity of learning branches and strategies from queries.- Singularities make spatial join scheduling hard.- A faster one-dimensional topological compaction algorithm.- Algorithms for finding optimal disjoint paths around a rectangle.- An algorithm for finding a region with the minimum total L 1 from prescribed terminals.- On defect sets in bipartite graphs (extended abstract).- Dynamic programming on distance-hereditary graphs.- On the equivalence in complexity among basic problems on bipartite and parity graphs.- All-cavity maximum matchings.- Fast algorithms for computing ?-Skeletons and their relatives.- A branch-and-cut approach for minimum weight triangulation.- An efficient approximation scheme for the subset-sum problem.- Competitive call control in mobile networks.- Generalized swap-with-parent schemes for self-organizing sequential linear lists.