Randomization and approximation techniques in computer science : international workshop RANDOM '97, Bologna, Italy, July 11-12, 1997 : proceedings / José Rolim, (ed.).

Author/creator International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science
Other author Rolim, José D. P.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Springer, ©1997.
Descriptionviii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLecture notes in computer science ; 1269
Lecture notes in computer science 1269. ^A466336
Contents Polynomial time approximation schemes for some dense instances of NP-hard optimization problems / Marek Karpinski -- Average-case complexity of shortest-paths problems in the vertex-potential model / Colin Cooper ... [et al.] -- Approximation algorithms for covering polygons with squares and similar problems / Christos Levcopoulos and Joachim Gudmundsson -- Greedily approximating the r-independent set and k-center problems on random instances / Bernd Kreuter and Till Nierhoff -- Nearly linear time approximation schemes for Euclidean TSP and other geometric problems / Sanjeev Arora --Random sampling of Euler tours / Prasad Tetali and Santosh Vempala -- A combinatorial consistency lemma with application to proving the PCP theorem / Oded Goldreich and Shmuel Safra -- Super-bits, demi-bits, and NP̃/qpoly-natural proofs / Steven Rudich -- Sample spaces with small bias on neighborhoods and error-correcting communication protocols / Michael Saks and Shiyu Zhou -- Approximation on the Web : a compendium of NP optimization problems / Pierluigi Crescenzi and Viggo Kann -- Random-based scheduling : new approximations and LP lower bounds / Andreas S. Schulz and Martin Skutella --'Go with the winners' generators with applications to molecular modeling / Marcus Peinado and Thomas Lengauer -- Probabilistic approximation of some NP optimization problems by finite-state machines / Dawei Hong and Jean-Camille Birget -- Using hard problems to derandomize algorithms : an incomplete survey / Russell Impagliazzo -- Weak and strong recognition by 2-way randomized automata / Andris Ambainis, Rūsiņs̆ Freivalds and Marek Karpinski -- Tally languages accepted by Monte Carlo pushdown automata / Jānis Kaņeps, Dainis Geidmanis and Rūsiņs Freivalds -- Resources-bounded randomness and compressibility with respect to nonuniform measures / Steven M. Kautz -- Randomness, stochasticity, and approximations / Yongge Wang.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97027556
ISBN3540632484 (softcover : alk. paper)

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