Omschrijving
This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2007 and the 11th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2007, held in Princeton, NJ, USA, in August 2007.
The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. Topics of interest covered by the papers are design and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, small space and data streaming algorithms, sub-linear time algorithms, embeddings and metric space methods, mathematical programming methods, coloring and partitioning, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, game theory and applications, network design and routing, packing and covering, scheduling, design and analysis of randomized algorithms, randomized complexity theory, pseudorandomness and derandomization, random combinatorial structures, random walks/Markov chains, expander graphs and randomness extractors, probabilistic proof systems, random projections and embeddings, error-correcting codes, average-case analysis, property testing, computational learning theory, and other applications of approximation and randomness. This volume presents the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems and the 11th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation. The papers cover design and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, small space and data streaming algorithms, sub-linear time algorithms, embeddings and metric space methods, and much more. Contributed Talks of APPROX
Approximation Algorithms and Hardness for Domination with Propagation
1
Ashkan Aazami and Michael D. Stilp
A Knapsack Secretary Problem with Applications
16
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, David Kempe, and Robert Kleinberg
An Optimal Bifactor Approximation Algorithm for the Metric Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem
29
Jaroslaw Byrka
Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Spanning Star Forest Problem
44
Ning Chen, Roee Engelberg, C. Thach Nguyen, Prasad Raghavendra, Atri Rudra, and Gyanit Singh
Packing and Covering ?-Hyperbolic Spaces by Balls
59
Victor Chepoi and Bertrand Estelion
Small Approximate Pareto Sets for Bi-objective Shortest Paths and Other Problems
74
Ilias Diakonikolas and Mihalis Yannakakis
Two Randomized Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions
89
Shahar Dobzinski
Improved Approximation Ratios for Traveling Salespemon Tours and Paths in Directed Graphs
104
Uriel Feige and Mohit Singh
Approximation Algorithms for the Traveling Repairman and Speeding Deliveryman Problems with Unit-Time Windows
119
Greg N. Frederickson and Barry Wittman
Stochastic Steiner Tree with Non-uniform Inflation
134
Anuparn Gupta, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, and Amit Kumar
On the Approximation Resistance of a Random Predicate
149
Johan H ad
Integrality Gaps of Semidefinite Programs for Vertex Cover and Relations to 1 Embeddability of Negative Type Metrics
164
Harried Hatami, Avner Mogen, and Evangelos Markakis
Optimal Resource Augmentations for Online Knapsack
180
Kazuo Iwama and Guochuan Zhang
Soft Edge Coloring
189
Chadi Kari, Yoo-Ah Kim, Seungjoon Lee, Alexander Russell, and Minho Shin
Approximation Algorithms for the Max-Min Allocation Problem
204
Subhash Khot and Ashok Kumar Ponnuswami
Hardness of Embedding Metric Spaces of Equal Size
218
Subhash Khot and Rishi Saket
Coarse Differentiation and Multi-flows in Planar Graphs
228
James R. Lee and Prasad Raghavendra
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
242
Manor Mendel and Assaf Naor
Poly-logarithmic Approximation Algorithms for Directed Vehicle Routing Problems
257
Viswanath Nagarajan and R. Ravi
Encouraging Cooperation in Sharing Supermodular Costs
2711
Andreas S. Schulz and Nelson A. Uhan
Almost Exact Matchirtgs
286
Raphael Yuster
Contributed Talks of RANDOM
On Approximating the A verage Distance Between Points
296
Kfir Barham, Oded Goldreich, and Adi Shraibman
On Locally Decodable Codes, Self-correctable Codes, and f-Private PIR
311
Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai, and Enav Weinreb
A Sequential Algorithm for Generating Random Graphs
326
Mohscre Bayati, Jeong Han Kim, and Amin Saberi
Local Limit Theorems for the Giant Component of Random Hypergraphs
341
Michael Behrisch, Amin Coja-Oghlan, and Aliligun Kang
Derandomization of Euclidean Random Walks
353
Ilia Binder and Mark Braverman
High Entropy Random Selection Protocols
366
Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Michal Kouck , Zvi Lotker, Boaz Patt-Shamir, and Nikolai Vereshchagin
Testing st-Connectivity
380
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Oded Lachish, Arie Matsliah, and Ilan Newman
Properly 2-Colouring Linear Hypergraphs
395
Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Bruce A. Reed
Random Subsets of the Interval and P2P Protocols
409
Jacek Cichon, Marek Klonowski, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Bartlomiej R zanski, and Pawel Zielinski
The Cover Time of Random Digraphs
422
Colin Cooper and Alan Frieze
Eigenvectors of Random Graphs: Nodal Domains
436
Yael Dekel, James R. Lee, and Nathan Linial
Lower Bounds for Swapping Arthur and Merlin
449
Scott Diehl
Lower Bounds for Testing Forbidden Induced Substructures in Bipartite-Graph-Like Combinatorial Objects
464
Eldar Fischer and Eyal Rozenberg
On Estimating Frequency Moments of Data Streams
479
Sumit Ganguly and Graham Cormode
Distribution-Free Testing Lower Bounds for Basic Boolean Functions
494
Dana Glasner and Rocco A. Servedio
On the Randomness Complexity of Property Testing
509
Oded Goldreich and Or Sheffet
On the Benefits of Adaptivity in Property Testing of Dense Graphs
525
Mira Gonen and Dana Ron
Slow Mixing of Markov Chains Using Fault Lines and Fat Contours
540
Sam Greenberg and Dana Randall
Better Binary List-Decodable Codes Via Multilevel Concatenation
554
Venkatesan Guruswami and Atri Rudra
Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions Revisited
569
Dan Gutfreund and Amnon Ta-Shma
On Finding Frequent Elements in a Data Stream
584
Ravi Kumar and Rina Panigrahy
Implementing Huge Sparse Random Graphs
596
Moni Naor and Asaf Nussboim
Sublinear Algorithms for Approximating String Compressibility
609
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dana Ron, Ronitt Rubinfeld, and Adam Smith
Author Index
625