Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2006

Invited Papers.- Top-Down Analysis of Path Compression: Deriving the Inverse-Ackermann Bound Naturally (and Easily).- Results and Problems on Self-adjusting Search Trees and Related Data Structures.- Classic and Quantum Network Coding.- Contributed Papers.- Multiplexing Packets with Arbitrary Deadlines in Bounded Buffers.- Scheduling Jobs on Grid Processors.- Variable Sized Online Interval Coloring with Bandwidth.- A Simpler Linear-Time Recognition of Circular-Arc Graphs.- An Algorithm for Online Topological Ordering.- Dynamic Matching Markets and Voting Paths.- Sorting by Merging or Merging by Sorting?.- Finding the Position of the k-Mismatch and Approximate Tandem Repeats.- Unbiased Matrix Rounding.- Online, Non-preemptive Scheduling of Equal-Length Jobs on Two Identical Machines.- Paging with Request Sets.- Decentralization and Mechanism Design for Online Machine Scheduling.- Exponential Time Algorithms for the Minimum Dominating Set Problem on Some Graph Classes.- Exact Computation of Maximum Induced Forest.- Fast Subexponential Algorithm for Non-local Problems on Graphs of Bounded Genus.- On the Approximation Hardness of Some Generalizations of TSP.- Reoptimization of Minimum and Maximum Traveling Salesman’s Tours.- The Node-Weighted Steiner Problem in Graphs of Restricted Node Weights.- On Guarding Rectilinear Domains.- Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Convex Partition Problem.- Approximation of Octilinear Steiner Trees Constrained by Hard and Soft Obstacles.- Simultaneous Embedding with Two Bends per Edge in Polynomial Area.- Acyclic Orientation of Drawings.- Improved Algorithms for Quantum Identification of Boolean Oracles.- Approximability of Minimum AND-Circuits.- Triangles, 4-Cycles and Parameterized (In-)Tractability.- Better ApproximationSchemes for Disk Graphs.- An Approximation Algorithm for the Wireless Gathering Problem.- Minimum Membership Set Covering and the Consecutive Ones Property.- Approximating Rational Objectives Is as Easy as Approximating Linear Ones.- In-Place Algorithms for Computing (Layers of) Maxima.- Largest and Smallest Tours and Convex Hulls for Imprecise Points.- On Spanners of Geometric Graphs.- The Weighted Maximum-Mean Subtree and Other Bicriterion Subtree Problems.- Linear-Time Algorithms for Tree Root Problems.- Generalized Powers of Graphs and Their Algorithmic Use.