ALENEX: Algorithm Engineering and Experiments

Workshop Program

All events will take place in the Radisson Miyako Hotel.

Friday, January 4, 2002 (Kyoto Room)
8:00-8:50 Continental breakfast
8:50-9:00 Opening remarks
Session 1
9:00-10:30
9:00-9:25
On the Implementation of MST-based Heuristics for the Steiner Problem in Graphs
Marcus Poggi de Aragao and Renato F. Werneck
9:30-9:55
A Time-Sensitive System for Black-Box Combinatorial Optimization
Vinhthuy Phan, Pavel Sumazin, and Steven Skiena
10:00-10:25
A Compressed Breadth-First Search for Satisfiability
DoRon B. Motter and Igor L. Markov
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Invited talk: Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories
Tools for Rapid Development of Integer-Programming Applications
12:00-2:00 Lunch break
Session 2
2:00-3:30
2:00-2:25
Using Multi-Level Graphs for Timetable Information in Railway Systems
Frank Schulz, Dorothea Wagner, and Christos Zaroliagis
2:30-2:55
Evaluating the Local Ratio Algorithm for Dynamic Storage
Kirk Pruhs and Eric Wiewiora
3:00-3:25
An Experimental Study of Prefetching and Caching Algorithms for the World Wide Web
Massimiliano Curcio, Stefano Leonardi, and Andrea Vitaletti
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
Session 3
4:00-5:30
4:00-4:25
The Treewidth of Java Programs
Jens Gustedt, Ole A Maehle, and Jan Arne Telle
4:30-4:55
Partitioning Planar Graphs with Costs and Weights
Lyudmil Aleksandrov, Hristo Djidjev, Hua Guo and Anil Maheshwari
5:00-5:25
Maintaining Dynamic Minimum Spanning Trees: An Experimental Study
G. Cattaneo, P. Faruolo, U. Ferraro Petrillo, and G. F. Italiano
6:00-7:00 Business meeting (Kyoto Room)
 
Saturday, January 5, 2002 (Osaka Room)
8:00-9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00-10:00 Invited talk: Martin Farach-Colton, Google
Algorithmic Challenges in Search Engines
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
Session 4
10:30-12:00
10:30-10:55
Experimental Evaluation of a New Shortest Path Algorithm
Seth Pettie, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Srinath Sridhar
11:00-11:25
Getting More From Out-of-Core Columnsort
Geeta Chaudhry and Thomas H. Cormen
11:30-11:55
An Improvement on Tree Selection Sort (Talk Cancelled)
Jingchao Chen
12:00-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:00 Invited talk: Michael Kass, Pixar
Algorithmic Challenges at Pixar
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
Session 5
3:30-5:00
3:30-3:55
Topological Sweep in Degenerate Cases
Eynat Rafalin, Diane Souvaine, and Ileana Streinu
4:00-4:25
Acceleration of K-means and Related Clustering Algorithms
Steven Phillips
4:30-4:55
STAR-Tree: An Efficient Self-Adjusting Index for Moving Objects
Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Pankaj K. Agarwal and Sariel Har-Peled
5:00 Workshop adjourns