Algorithm Theory - Swat 2002: 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, Finland, July 3-5, 2002 Proceedings (Paperback, 2002)

Invited Speakers.- An Efficient Quasidictionary.- Combining Pattern Discovery and Probabilistic Modeling in Data Mining.- Scheduling.- Time and Space Efficient Multi-method Dispatching.- Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Vehicle Scheduling.- Minimizing Makespan for the Lazy Bureaucrat Problem.- A PTAS for the Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Controllable Processing Times.- Computational Geometry.- Optimum Inapproximability Results for Finding Minimum Hidden Guard Sets in Polygons and Terrains.- Simplex Range Searching and k Nearest Neighbors of a Line Segment in 2D.- Adaptive Algorithms for Constructing Convex Hulls and Triangulations of Polygonal Chains.- Exact Algorithms and Approximation Schemes for Base Station Placement Problems.- A Factor-2 Approximation for Labeling Points with Maximum Sliding Labels.- Optimal Algorithm for a Special Point-Labeling Problem.- Random Arc Allocation and Applications.- On Neighbors in Geometric Permutations.- Graph Algorithms.- Powers of Geometric Intersection Graphs and Dispersion Algorithms.- Efficient Data Reduction for Dominating Set: A Linear Problem Kernel for the Planar Case.- Planar Graph Coloring with Forbidden Subgraphs: Why Trees and Paths Are Dangerous.- Approximation Hardness of the Steiner Tree Problem on Graphs.- The Dominating Set Problem Is Fixed Parameter Tractable for Graphs of Bounded Genus.- The Dynamic Vertex Minimum Problem and Its Application to Clustering-Type Approximation Algorithms.- A Polynomial Time Algorithm to Find the Minimum Cycle Basis of a Regular Matroid.- Approximation Algorithms for Edge-Dilation k-Center Problems.- Forewarned Is Fore-Armed: Dynamic Digraph Connectivity with Lookahead Speeds Up a Static Clustering Algorithm.- Improved Algorithms for the Random Cluster Graph Model.- ?-List Vertex Coloring in Linear Time.- Robotics.- Robot Localization without Depth Perception.- Online Parallel Heuristics and Robot Searching under the Competitive Framework.- Analysis of Heuristics for the Freeze-Tag Problem.- Approximation Algorithms.- Approximations for Maximum Transportation Problem with Permutable Supply Vector and Other Capacitated Star Packing Problems.- All-Norm Approximation Algorithms.- Approximability of Dense Instances of Nearest Codeword Problem.- Data Communication.- Call Control with k Rejections.- On Network Design Problems: Fixed Cost Flows and the Covering Steiner Problem.- Packet Bundling.- Algorithms for the Multi-constrained Routing Problem.- Computational Biology.- Computing the Threshold for q-Gram Filters.- On the Generality of Phylogenies from Incomplete Directed Characters.- Data Storage and Manipulation.- Sorting with a Forklift.- Tree Decompositions with Small Cost.- Computing the Treewidth and the Minimum Fill-in with the Modular Decomposition.- Performance Tuning an Algorithm for Compressing Relational Tables.- A Randomized In-Place Algorithm for Positioning the kth Element in a Multiset.- Paging on a RAM with Limited Resources.- An Optimal Algorithm for Finding NCA on Pure Pointer Machines.- Amortized Complexity of Bulk Updates in AVL-Trees.