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Record Nr.

UNISA996466108203316

Titolo

Randomization and approximation techniques in computer science : second international workshop RANDOM '98, Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998 : proceedings / / Michael Luby, José Rolim, Maria Serna (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

3-540-49543-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 385 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1518

Disciplina

004.015114

Soggetti

Computer science - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Paper -- Disjoint Paths in Expander Graphs via Random Walks: a Short Survey -- Regular Papers -- A Derandomization Using Min-Wise Independent Permutations -- An Algorithmic Embedding of Graphs via Perfect Matchings -- Deterministic Hypergraph Coloring and Its Applications -- On the Derandomization of Space-Bounded Computations -- Talagrand’s Inequality and Locality in Distributed Computing -- On-line Bin-Stretching -- Combinatorial Linear Programming: Geometry Can Help -- A Note on Bounding the Mixing Time by Linear Programming -- Robotic Exploration, Brownian Motion and Electrical Resistance -- Fringe analysis of synchronized parallel algorithms on 2–3 trees -- On Balls and Bins with Deletions -- “Balls into Bins” — A Simple and Tight Analysis -- Invited Paper -- Tornado Codes: Practical Erasure Codes Based on Random Irregular Graphs -- Regular Papers -- Using Approximation Hardness to Achieve Dependable Computation -- Complexity of Sequential Pattern Matching Algorithms -- A Random Server Model for Private Information Retrieval -- Almost Optimal (on the average) Combinatorial Algorithms for Boolean Matrix Product Witnesses, Computing the Diameter (Extended Abstract) -- Randomized Lower Bounds for Online Path Coloring -- Parallel Random Search and Tabu Search for the Minimal Consistent Subset Selection Problem -- On Various Cooling Schedules for



Simulated Annealing Applied to the Job Shop Problem -- A High Performance Approximate Algorithm for the Steiner Problem in Graphs -- Invited Paper -- Random Geometric Problems on [0, 1]2 -- Regular Papers -- A Role of Constraint in Self-Organization -- Constructive Bounds and Exact Expectations for the Random Assignment Problem -- The “Burnside Process” Converges Slowly -- Quicksort Again Revisited -- Sampling Methods Applied to Dense Instances of Non-Boolean Optimization Problems -- Second-Order Methods for Distributed Approximate Single- and Multicommodity Flow.