Algorithms - ESA 2002: 10th Annual European Symposium, Rome, Italy, September 17-21, 2002, Proceedings

This volume contains the 74 contributed papers and abstracts of 4 of the 5 invited talks presented at the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2002), held at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, 17-21 September, 2002. For the ?rst time, ESA had two tracks, with separate program committees, which dealt respectively with: – the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms (the “Design and An- ysis” track); – real-world applications, engineering and experimental analysis of algorithms (the “Engineering and Applications” track). Previous ESAs were held in Bad Honnef, Germany (1993); Utrecht, The Neth- lands (1994); Corfu, Greece (1995); Barcelona, Spain (1996); Graz, Austria (1997); Venice, Italy (1998); Prague, Czech Republic (1999); Saarbruc ¨ ken, Ger- ? many (2000), and Arhus, Denmark (2001). The predecessor to the Engineering and Applications track of ESA was the Annual Workshop on Algorithm En- neering (WAE). Previous WAEs were held in Venice, Italy (1997), Saarbruc ¨ ken, ? Germany (1998), London, UK (1999), Saarbru ¨cken, Germany (2000), and Arhus, Denmark (2001). The proceedings of the previous ESAs were published as Springer LNCS volumes 726, 855, 979, 1284, 1461, 1643, 1879, and 2161. The proceedings of WAEs from 1999 onwards were published as Springer LNCS volumes 1668, 1982, and 2161.

Invited Lectures.- Solving Traveling Salesman Problems.- Computing Shapes from Point Cloud Data.- Mechanism Design for Fun and Profit.- On Distance Oracles and Routing in Graphs.- Contributed Papers.- Kinetic Medians and kd-Trees.- Range Searching in Categorical Data: Colored Range Searching on Grid.- Near-Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Curve Simplification.- Translating a Planar Object to Maximize Point Containment.- Approximation Algorithms for k-Line Center.- New Heuristics and Lower Bounds for the Min-Max k-Chinese Postman Problem.- SCIL — Symbolic Constraints in Integer Linear Programming.- Implementing I/O-efficient Data Structures Using TPIE.- On the k-Splittable Flow Problem.- Partial Alphabetic Trees.- Classical and Contemporary Shortest Path Problems in Road Networks: Implementation and Experimental Analysis of the TRANSIMS Router.- Scanning and Traversing: Maintaining Data for Traversals in a Memory Hierarchy.- Two Simplified Algorithms for Maintaining Order in a List.- Efficient Tree Layout in a Multilevel Memory Hierarchy.- A Computational Basis for Conic Arcs and Boolean Operations on Conic Polygons.- TSP with Neighborhoods of Varying Size.- 1.375-Approximation Algorithm for Sorting by Reversals.- Radio Labeling with Pre-assigned Frequencies.- Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for the Test Cover Problem.- Constructing Plane Spanners of Bounded Degree and Low Weight.- Eager st-Ordering.- Three-Dimensional Layers of Maxima.- Optimal Terrain Construction Problems and Applications in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy.- Geometric Algorithms for Density-Based Data Clustering.- Balanced-Replication Algorithms for Distribution Trees.- Butterflies and Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Estimating Rarity and Similarity over Data Stream Windows.- Efficient Constructions of Generalized Superimposed Codes with Applications to Group Testing and Conflict Resolution in Multiple Access Channels.- Frequency Estimation of Internet Packet Streams with Limited Space.- Truthful and Competitive Double Auctions.- Optimal Graph Exploration without Good Maps.- Approximating the Medial Axis from the Voronoi Diagram with a Convergence Guarantee.- Non-independent Randomized Rounding and an Application to Digital Halftoning.- Computing Homotopic Shortest Paths Efficiently.- An Algorithm for Dualization in Products of Lattices and Its Applications.- Determining Similarity of Conformational Polymorphs.- Minimizing the Maximum Starting Time On-line.- Vector Assignment Problems: A General Framework.- Speeding Up the Incremental Construction of the Union of Geometric Objects in Practice.- Simple and Fast: Improving a Branch-And-Bound Algorithm for Maximum Clique.- Online Companion Caching.- Deterministic Communication in Radio Networks with Large Labels.- A Primal Approach to the Stable Set Problem.- Wide-Sense Nonblocking WDM Cross-Connects.- Efficient Implementation of a Minimal Triangulation Algorithm.- Scheduling Malleable Parallel Tasks: An Asymptotic Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme.- The Probabilistic Analysis of a Greedy Satisfiability Algorithm.- Dynamic Additively Weighted Voronoi Diagrams in 2D.- Time-Expanded Graphs for Flow-Dependent Transit Times.- Partially-Ordered Knapsack and Applications to Scheduling.- A Software Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- Real-Time Dispatching of Guided and Unguided Automobile Service Units with Soft Time Windows.- Randomized Approximation Algorithms for Query Optimization Problems on Two Processors.- Covering Things with Things.- On-Line Dial-a-Ride Problems under a Restricted Information Model.- Approximation Algorithm for the Maximum Leaf Spanning Tree Problem for Cubic Graphs.- Engineering a Lightweight Suffix Array Construction Algorithm.- Complexity of Compatible Decompositions of Eulerian Graphs and Their Transformations.- External-Memory Breadth-First Search with Sublinear I/O.- Frequency Channel Assignment on Planar Networks.- Design and Implementation of Efficient Data Types for Static Graphs.- An Exact Algorithm for the Uniformly-Oriented Steiner Tree Problem.- A Fast, Accurate and Simple Method for Pricing European-Asian and Saving-Asian Options.- Sorting 13 Elements Requires 34 Comparisons.- Extending Reduction Techniques for the Steiner Tree Problem.- A Comparison of Multicast Pull Models.- Online Scheduling for Sorting Buffers.- Finding the Sink Takes Some Time.- Lagrangian Cardinality Cuts and Variable Fixing for Capacitated Network Design.- Minimizing Makespan and Preemption Costs on a System of Uniform Machines.- Minimizing the Total Completion Time On-line on a Single Machine, Using Restarts.- High-Level Filtering for Arrangements of Conic Arcs.- An Approximation Scheme for Cake Division with a Linear Number of Cuts.- A Simple Linear Time Algorithm for Finding Even Triangulations of 2-Connected Bipartite Plane Graphs.