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  10th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT)
  July 6-8, 2006
Riga, Latvia
http://www.lumii.lv/swat
swat2006@lumii.lv
  Wednesday 5 July, 18.00-21.00
Registration
Welcome reception
  Thursday 6 July
Registration 8:00-9:00
8:30-9:30 Session 1
Multiplexing Packets with Arbitrary Deadlines in Bounded Buffers
Y. Azar and N. Levy

Scheduling Jobs on Grid Processors
Joan Boyar and Lene M. Favrholdt

Variable sized online interval coloring with bandwidth
Leah Epstein, Thomas Erlebach and Asaf Levin

9:30-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-11:00 Session 2
A Simpler Linear-Time Recognition of Circular-Arc Graphs
Haim Kaplan and Yahav Nussbaum

An O(n^{2.75}) algorithm for online topological ordering
Deepak Ajwani, Tobias Friedrich and Ulrich Meyer

Dynamic Matching Markets and Voting Paths
David J. Abraham and Kavitha Telikepalli

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:15 Invited talk
Top-Down Analysis of Path Compression: Deriving the
Inverse-Ackermann Bound Naturally (and Easily)
Raimund Seidel

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 3
Sorting by Merging or Merging by Sorting?
Gianni Franceschini

Finding the position of the k-mismatch and approximate
tandem repeats
Haim Kaplan, Ely Porat and Nira Shafrir

Unbiased Matrix Rounding
Benjamin Doerr, Tobias Friedrich, Christian Klein and Ralf Osbild

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:00 Session 4
Online, Non-preemptive Scheduling of Equal-Length Jobs on Two
Identical Machines
Michael H. Goldwasser and Mark Pedigo

Paging with Request Sets
Leah Epstein, Rob van Stee and Tami Tamir

Decentralization and Mechanism Design for Online Machine Scheduling
Birgit Heydenreich, Rudolf Müller and Marc Uetz

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15-17.15 Session 5
Exponential time algorithms for the minimum dominating set problem
on some graph classes
Serge Gaspers, Dieter Kratsch and Mathieu Liedloff

Exact computation of maximum induced forest
Igor Razgon

Fast subexponential algorithm for non-local problems on graphs of
bounded genus
Frederic Dorn, Fedor V. Fomin and Dimitrios M. Thilikos

17:30-18:30 Business meeting

  Friday 7 July
8:30-9:30 Session 6
On the Approximation Hardness of Some Generalizations of TSP
Hans-Joachim Bockenhauer, Juraj Hromkovic, Joachim Kneis and
Joachim Kupke

Reoptimization of minimum and maximum traveling salesman's tours
Giorgio Ausiello, Bruno Escoffier, Jerome Monnot and
Vangelis Th. Paschos

The Node-weighted Steiner Problem in Graphs of Restricted
Node Weights
Spyros Angelopoulos

9:30-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-11:00 Session 7
On Guarding Rectilinear Domains
Matthew J. Katz and Gabriel S. Roisman

Approximation Algorithms for the Minimum Convex Partition Problem
Christian Knauer and Andreas Spillner

Approximation of Octilinear Steiner Trees Constrained by Hard and
Soft Obstacles
Matthias Mueller-Hannemann and Anna Schulze

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:15 Invited talk
Results and Problems on Self-Adjusting Search Trees
and Related Data Structures
Robert E. Tarjan

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 8
Simultaneous Embedding with Two Bends per Edge in Polynomial Area
Frank Kammer

Acyclic Orientation of Drawings
Eyal Ackerman, Kevin Buchin, Christian Knauer and Günter Rote

Improved Algorithms for Quantum Identification of Boolean Oracles
Andris Ambainis, Kazuo Iwama, Akinori Kawachi, Rudy Raymond and
Shigeru Yamashita

14:30-20:00
Excursion to Rundale Palace

20:00- 22.00
Conference dinner

Saturday 8 July
8:30-9:30 Session 9
Approximability of Minimum AND-Circuits
Jan Arpe and Bodo Manthey

Triangles, 4-cycles and Parameterized (In-) Tractability
Venkatesh Raman and Saket Saurab

Better Approximation Schemes for Disk Graphs
Erik Jan van Leeuwen

9:30-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-11:00 Session 10
An approximation algorithm for the Wireless Gathering Problem
Vincenzo Bonifaci, Peter Korteweg, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Leen Stougie

Minimum Membership Set Covering and the Consecutive Ones Property
Michael Dom, Jiong Guo, Rolf Niedermeier and Sebastian Wernicke

Approximating Rational Objectives is as Easy as Approximating
Linear Ones
Jose R. Correa, Cristina G. Fernandes and Yoshiko Wakabayashi

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:15 Invited talk
Classic and Quantum Network Coding
Kazuo Iwama

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 11
In-Place Algorithms for Computing (Layers of) Maxima
Henrik Blunck and Jan Vahrenhold

Largest and Smallest Tours and Convex Hulls for Imprecise Points
Maarten Löffler and Marc van Kreveld

On spanners of geometric graphs
Joachim Gudmundsson and Michiel Smid

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:00 Session 12
The Weighted Maximum-Mean Subtree and Other Bicriterion
Subtree Problems
Josiah Carlson and David Eppstein

Linear-Time Algorithms for Tree Root Problems
Maw-Shang Chang, Ming-Tat Ko and Hsueh-I Lu

Generalized Powers of Graphs and Their Algorithmic Use
Andreas Brandstaedt, Feodor F. Dragan, Yang Xiang and Chenyu Yan