Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Acm-Siam Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL ACM-SIAM SYMPOSIUM ON DISCRETE ALGORITHMS......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 4
PREFACE......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
In Memoriam......Page 17
Session 1A Optimal Parallel Selection......Page 18
Session 1B Algorithms for Power Savings......Page 54
Session 1C Sublogarithmic Approximation for Telephone Multicast:Path out of Jungle......Page 93
Session 2  INVITED PLENARY ABSTRACT......Page 116
Session 3A Binary Space Partitions for 3D Subdivisions......Page 117
Session 3B Improved Bounds on the Average Length of Longest Common Subsequences*......Page 147
Session 3C Certifying Algorithms for Recognizing Interval Graphs and Permutation Graphs......Page 175
Session 4A Optimizing misdirection......Page 209
Session 4B Pass Efficient Algorithms for Approximating Large Matrices......Page 240
Session 4C Certifying and Repairing Solutions to Large LPs......Page 272
Session 5A The Flow Complex: A Data Structure for Geometric Modeling\"......Page 302
Session 5B Random Walks on the Vertices of Transportation Polytopes with Constant Number of Sources......Page 347
Session 5C Space-Efficient Finger Search on Degree-Balanced Search Trees\"......Page 391
Session 6  INVITED PLENARY ABSTRACT......Page 430
Session 7A Sparse Distance Preservers and Additive Spanners......Page 431
Session 7B Improved Results for Dkected Multicut......Page 471
Session 7C A note on the set systems used for broadcast encryption......Page 487
Session 8A Simultaneous Optimization for Concave Costs: Single SinkAggregation or Single Source Buy-at-Bulk......Page 516
Session 8B Lower Bounds for Embedding Edit Distance into Normed Spaces......Page 540
Session 8C Better Algorithms for High-dimensional Proximity Problems via Asymmetric Embeddings......Page 556
Session 9A On the Rectilinear Crossing Number of Complete Graphs......Page 600
Session 9B Edge Disjoint Paths Revisited......Page 645
Session 9C Implicit Dictionaries Supporting Searches and Amortized Updates in O(log n log log n) Time......Page 687
Session 10 INVITED PLENARY ABSTRACT......Page 725
Session 11A Between O(nm) and O(na) *......Page 726
Session 11B Efficient Sequences of Trials......Page 754
Session 11C Competitive Queueing Policies for QoS Switches......Page 778
Session 12A Smaller Core-Sets for Balls......Page 818
Session 12B Inferring Tree Topologies Using Flow Tests......Page 845
Session 12C High-Order Entropy-Compressed Text Indexes......Page 858
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 890