Algorithms and Computation

Invited Presentations.- Voronoi-Based Systems of Coordinates and Surface Reconstruction.- Essentially Every Unimodular Matrix Defines an Expander.- Algorithms and Data Structures (I).- Strategies for Hotlink Assignments.- A New Competitive Analysis of Randomized Caching.- Online Routing in Convex Subdivisions.- Combinatorial Optimization.- A Simple Linear-Time Approximation Algorithm for Multi-processor Job Scheduling on Four Processors.- Classification of Various Neighborhood Operations for the Nurse Scheduling Problem.- Optimal Bid Sequences for Multiple-Object Auctions with Unequal Budgets.- Algorithms and Data Structures (II).- Coping with Delays and Time-Outs in Binary Search Procedures.- Some Formal Analysis of Rocchio's Similarity-Based Relevance Feedback Algorithm.- Reasoning with Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams.- Approximation and Randomized Algorithms (I).- On Approximating Minimum Vertex Cover for Graphs with Perfect Matching.- A 2-Approximation Algorithm for Path Coloring on Trees of Rings.- An Approximate Algorithm for the Weighted Hamiltonian Path Completion Problem on a Tree.- Algorithms and Data Structures (III).- Finding Independent Spanning Trees in Partial k-Trees.- On Efficient Fixed Parameter Algorithms for Weighted Vertex Cover.- Constructive Linear Time Algorithms for Small Cutwidth and Carving-Width.- Approximation and Randomized Algorithms (II).- Approximation Algorithms for the Maximum Power Consumption Problem on Combinatorial Circuits.- A Simple and Quick Approximation Algorithm for Traveling Salesman Problem in the Plane.- Simple Algorithms for a Weighted Interval Selection Problem.- Graph Drawing and Algorithms.- Efficient Minus and Signed Domination in Graphs.- Convex Grid Drawings of Four-Connected Plane Graphs.- An Algorithm forFinding Three Dimensional Symmetry in Series Parallel Digraphs.- Automata, Cryptography, and Complexity Theory.- Undecidability Results for Monoids with Linear-Time Decidable Word Problems.- Secret Key Exchange Using Random Deals of Cards on Hierarchical Structures.- Derandomizing Arthur-Merlin Games under Uniform Assumptions.- Algorithms and Data Structures (IV).- A Near Optimal Algorithm for Vertex Connectivity Augmentation.- Simultaneous Augmentation of Two Graphs to an ?Edge-Connected Graph and a Biconnected Graph.- Location Problems Based on Node-Connectivity and Edge-Connectivity between Nodes and Node-Subsets.- Parallel and Distributed Algorithms.- An Intuitive and Effective New Representation for Interconnection Network Structures.- Randomized Leader Election Protocols in Radio Networks with no Collision Detection.- Deterministic Broadcasting Time with Partial Knowledge of the Network.- Algorithms and Data Structures (V).- Minimizing Makespan in Batch Machine Scheduling.- Preemptive Parallel Task Scheduling in O(n) + Poly(m) Time.- Compressed Text Databases with Efficient Query Algorithms Based on the Compressed Suffix Array.- Computational Geometry (I).- A Better Lower Bound for Two-Circle Point Labeling.- Voronoi Diagram of a Circle Set Constructed from Voronoi Diagram of a Point Set.- An Improved Algorithm for Subdivision Traversal without Extra Storage.- Algorithms and Data Structures (VI).- Generalized H-Coloring of Graphs.- Finding a Two-Core of a Tree in Linear Time.- Unbalanced and Hierarchical Bipartite Matchings with Applications to Labeled Tree Comparison.- Computational Geometry (II).- Optimal Beam Penetrations in Two and Three Dimensions.- Searching a Simple Polygon by a k-Searcher.- Characterization of Rooms Searchable by Two Guards.-Computational Biology.- Improved Phylogeny Comparisons: Non-shared Edges, Nearest Neighbor Interchanges, and Subtree Transfers.- Phylogenetic k-Root and Steiner k-Root.- Computational Geometry (III).- Maintenance of a Piercing Set for Intervals with Applications.- Optimal Polygon Cover Problems and Applications.