Table of contents : Recent progress in string algorithms....Pages 1-1 Selection networks....Pages 2-11 Computing edge-connectivity in multiple and capacitated graphs....Pages 12-20 Efficient sequential and parallel algorithms for planar minimum cost flow....Pages 21-30 Structural analyses on the complexity of inverting functions....Pages 31-38 Oracles versus proof techniques that do not relativize....Pages 39-52 20-Relative neighborhood graphs are Hamiltonian....Pages 53-65 The K-Gabriel graphs and their applications....Pages 66-75 Parallel algorithms for generating subsets and set partitions....Pages 76-85 Parallel algorithms for linked list and beyond....Pages 86-100 Local tournaments and proper circular arc graphs....Pages 101-108 Fast algorithms for the dominating set problem on permutation graphs....Pages 109-117 Two probabilistic results on merging....Pages 118-127 Randomized broadcast in networks....Pages 128-137 On the construction of abstract voronoi diagrams, II....Pages 138-154 Searching in higher dimension....Pages 155-155 Finding extrema with unary predicates....Pages 156-164 Implicitly searching convolutions and computing depth of collision....Pages 165-180 Characterization for a family of infinitely many irreducible Equally Spaced Polynomials....Pages 181-190 Distributed algorithms for deciphering....Pages 191-200 An efficient algorithm for optimal loop parallelization (extended abstract)....Pages 201-210 Another view on the SSS* algorithm....Pages 211-220 Algorithms from complexity theory: Polynomial-time operations for complex sets....Pages 221-231 Complexity cores and hard problem instances....Pages 232-240 Spatial point location and its applications....Pages 241-250 Sublinear merging and natural merge sort....Pages 251-260 Constructing strongly convex approximate hulls with inaccurate primitives....Pages 261-270 Computing puiseux-series solutions to determinatal equations via combinatorial relaxation....Pages 271-280 A tight lower bound on the size of planar permutation networks....Pages 281-287 Simultaneous solution of families of problems....Pages 288-299 Algorithms for projecting points to give the most uniform distribution with applications to hashing....Pages 300-309 Topological sweeping in three dimensions....Pages 310-317 Finding least-weight subsequences with fewer processors....Pages 318-327 Derandomization by exploiting redundancy and mutual independence....Pages 328-337 Planar separators and the Euclidean norm....Pages 338-347 On the complexity of isometric embedding in the hypercube....Pages 348-357 Distributed function evaluation in the presence of transmission faults....Pages 358-367 Optimal linear broadcast....Pages 368-377 Graph augmentation problems for a specified set of vertices....Pages 378-387 A heuristic algorithm for the k -center problem with vertex weight....Pages 388-396 Parallel convexity algorithms for digitized images on a linear array of processors....Pages 397-406 Parallel algorithms for labeling image components....Pages 407-418 A hyperplane Incidence problem with applications to counting distances....Pages 419-428 Splitting a configuration in a simplex....Pages 429-438 Weaving patterns of lines and line segments in space....Pages 439-446 Efficient parallel algorithms for path problems in planar directed graphs....Pages 447-457 Parallel algorithms for finding Steiner forests in planar graphs....Pages 458-467 Optimally managing the history of an evolving forest....Pages 468-478