Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

Contributed Talks of APPROX.- Correlation Clustering with Partial Information.- Improved Linear Time Approximation Algorithms for Weighted Matchings.- Covering Graphs Using Trees and Stars.- An Improved Decomposition Theorem for Graphs Excluding a Fixed Minor.- Approximation Algorithms for Channel Allocation Problems in Broadcast Networks.- Asymmetry in k-Center Variants.- An FPTAS for Quickest Multicommodity Flows with Inflow-Dependent Transit Times.- On the Complexity of Approximating k-Dimensional Matching.- Approximating Market Equilibria.- Approximating the Degree-Bounded Minimum Diameter Spanning Tree Problem.- On the Hardness of Approximate Multivariate Integration.- A 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Soft-Capacitated Facility Location Problem.- Approximating Rooted Connectivity Augmentation Problems.- Effective Routing and Scheduling in Adversarial Queueing Networks.- Approximation Schemes for Generalized 2-Dimensional Vector Packing with Application to Data Placement.- An Improved Algorithm for Approximating the Radii of Point Sets.- Contributed Talks of RANDOM.- Testing Low-Degree Polynomials over GF(2).- Computational Analogues of Entropy.- Bounds on 2-Query Codeword Testing.- The Lovász Number of Random Graphs.- Perfectly Balanced Allocation.- On Extracting Private Randomness over a Public Channel.- High Degree Vertices and Eigenvalues in the Preferential Attachment Graph.- The Satisfiability Threshold for Randomly Generated Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Continuous-Time Quantum Walks on the Symmetric Group.- Distribution-Free Property Testing.- On the Graph-Density of Random 0/1-Polytopes.- A Gambling Game Arising in the Analysis of Adaptive Randomized Rounding.- Tight Bounds for Testing Bipartiteness in General Graphs.- Discrete Quantum WalksHit Exponentially Faster.- Approximate Testing of Visual Properties.- Faster Algorithms for MAX CUT and MAX CSP, with Polynomial Expected Time for Sparse Instances.- A Nearly Linear Size 4-Min-Wise Independent Permutation Family by Finite Geometries.