Algorithms and Data Structures: 6th International Workshop, WADS’99 Vancouver, Canada, August 11–14, 1999 Proceedings [1 ed.] 3540662790, 9783540662792

Table of contents :
Optimization over k-set Polytopes and Efficient k-set Enumeration....Pages 1-12
Line Simplification with Restricted Orientations....Pages 13-24
The T -join Problem in Sparse Graphs: Applications to Phase Assignment Problem in VLSI Mask Layout....Pages 25-36
Resizable Arrays in Optimal Time and Space....Pages 37-48
Hash and Displace: Efficient Evaluation of Minimal Perfect Hash Functions....Pages 49-54
Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors....Pages 55-55
On the Complexity of Orthogonal Compaction....Pages 56-61
Optimizing Constrained Offset and Scaled Polygonal Annuli....Pages 62-73
The Accomodating Function — A Generalization of the Competitive Ratio....Pages 74-79
Performance Guarantees for the TSP with a Parameterized Triangle Inequality....Pages 80-85
Robot Map Verification of a Graph World....Pages 86-97
Searching Rectilinear Streets Completely....Pages 98-109
General Multiprocessor Task Scheduling: Approximate Solutions in Linear Time....Pages 110-121
The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem....Pages 122-133
Generating 3D Virtual Populations from Pictures of a Few Individuals....Pages 134-144
Testing the Quality of Manufactured Balls....Pages 145-156
On an Optimal Split Tree Problem....Pages 157-168
Representing Trees of Higher Degree....Pages 169-180
Indexing and Dictionary Matching with One Error (Extended Abstract)....Pages 181-192
New Results on Fault Tolerant Geometric Spanners....Pages 193-204
Tiered Vectors: Efficient Dynamic Arrays for Rank-Based Sequences....Pages 205-216
Go-With-The-Winners Heuristic....Pages 217-218
2-Point Site Voronoi Diagrams....Pages 219-230
A Parallel Algorithm for Finding the Constrained Voronoi Diagram of Line Segments in the Plane....Pages 231-241
Position-Independent Street Searching....Pages 241-252
Approximation Algorithms for 3-D Common Substructure Identification in Drug and Protein Molecules....Pages 253-264
A Tight Bound for β-Skeleton of Minimum Weight Triangulations....Pages 265-276
Rectilinear Static and Dynamic Discrete 2-center Problems....Pages 276-287
Gene Trees and Species Trees: The Gene-Duplication Problem is Fixed-Parameter Tractable....Pages 288-293
Efficient Web Searching Using Temporal Factors....Pages 294-305
Elastic Labels Around the Perimeter of a Map....Pages 306-317
Optimal Facility Location under Various Distance Functions....Pages 318-329
Thresholds for Sports Elimination Numbers: Algorithms and Complexity....Pages 330-341
Dynamic Representations of Sparse Graphs....Pages 342-351
Online Data Structures in External Memory....Pages 352-366