Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques: 7th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2004 and 8th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA August 22-24, 2004 , Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 3122

Contributed Talks of APPROX.- Designing Networks with Existing Traffic to Support Fast Restoration.- Simultaneous Source Location.- Computationally-Feasible Truthful Auctions for Convex Bundles.- Randomized Approximation Algorithms for Set Multicover Problems with Applications to Reverse Engineering of Protein and Gene Networks.- On the Crossing Spanning Tree Problem.- A 3/4-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum ATSP with Weights Zero and One.- Maximum Coverage Problem with Group Budget Constraints and Applications.- The Greedy Algorithm for the Minimum Common String Partition Problem.- Approximating Additive Distortion of Embeddings into Line Metrics.- Polylogarithmic Inapproximability of the Radio Broadcast Problem.- On Systems of Linear Equations with Two Variables per Equation.- An Auction-Based Market Equilibrium Algorithm for the Separable Gross Substitutability Case.- Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design.- Approximating Max k CSP Using Random Restrictions.- Approximation Schemes for Broadcasting in Heterogenous Networks.- Centralized Deterministic Broadcasting in Undirected Multi-hop Radio Networks.- Convergence Issues in Competitive Games.- Cuts and Orderings: On Semidefinite Relaxations for the Linear Ordering Problem.- Min-Max Multiway Cut.- Contributed Talks of RANDOM.- The Chromatic Number of Random Regular Graphs.- Estimating the Distance to a Monotone Function.- Edge Coloring with Delays.- Small Pseudo-random Families of Matrices: Derandomizing Approximate Quantum Encryption.- The Sketching Complexity of Pattern Matching.- Non-Abelian Homomorphism Testing, and Distributions Close to Their Self-convolutions.- Robust Locally Testable Codes and Products of Codes.- A Stateful Implementation of a Random Function Supporting Parity Queries over Hypercubes.-Strong Refutation Heuristics for Random k-SAT.- Counting Connected Graphs and Hypergraphs via the Probabilistic Method.- Improved Randomness Extraction from Two Independent Sources.- The Diameter of Randomly Perturbed Digraphs and Some Applications.- Maximum Weight Independent Sets and Matchings in Sparse Random Graphs.- Estimating Frequency Moments of Data Streams Using Random Linear Combinations.- Fooling Parity Tests with Parity Gates.- Distribution-Free Connectivity Testing.- Testing the Independence Number of Hypergraphs.- A Note on Approximate Counting for k-DNF.