ISAAC 2011: Program

The 22nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2011) will be held in Yokohama, Japan, December 5-8, 2011.


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Program: ISAAC 2011

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December 5, 2011
12:00- Registration for GCOE Final Symposium and ISAAC
13:00- (>> CompView Final Symposium)
18:15- Reception Duck (Oshidori)/Peacock (Kujaku) 2nd floor
December 6, 2011
8:30- Registration
9:00-9:10 Opening
Osamu Watanabe Opening Address
9:10-10:10 Invited Talk 1
Chair: Shin-ichi Nakano
Dorothea Wagner Algorithm Engineering for Route Planning: An Update
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:50 Session 1 (4 talks)
Session 1A: Approximation Algorithms I
Chair: Kazuo Iwama 
Adrian Bock, Elyot Grant, Jochen Könemann and Laura Sanità The School Bus Problem on Trees
M. Reza Khani and Mohammad R. Salavatipour Improved Approximations for Buy-at-bulk and Shallow-Light k-Steiner Trees and (k,2)-Subgraph
Wei Yu and Guochuan Zhang Improved Approximation Algorithms for Routing Shop Scheduling
Markus Chimani and Matthias Woste Contraction-Based Steiner Tree Approximations in Practice
Session 1B: Computational Geometry I
Chair: Takeshi Tokuyama 
Hee-Kap Ahn, Sang-Sub Kim, Christian Knauer, Lena Schlipf, Chan-Su Shin and Antoine Vigneron Covering and Piercing Disks with Two Centers
Hee-Kap Ahn, Sang Won Bae, Christian Knauer, Mira Lee, Chan-Su Shin and Antoine Vigneron Generating Realistic Roofs over a Rectilinear Polygon
Luis Barba, Matias Korman, Stefan Langerman and Rodrigo I. Silveira Computing the Visibility Polygon Using Few Variables
Matias Korman Minimizing Interference in Ad-Hoc Networks with Bounded Communication Radius
11:50-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Invited Talk 2
Chair: Osamu Watanabe
Sanjeev Arora Semidefinite Programming and Approximation Algorithms: A Survey
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-17:00 Session 2 (5 talks)
Session 2A: Graph Algorithms
Chair: Ryuhei Uehara 
Jakub Radoszewski and Wojciech Rytter Hamiltonian Paths in the Square of a Tree
Andreas Brandstädt and Raffaele Mosca Dominating Induced Matchings for P7-free Graphs in Linear Time
Rémy Belmonte, Petr A. Golovach, Pinar Heggernes, Pim van 't Hof, Marcin Kamiński and Daniël Paulusma Finding Contractions and Induced Minors in Chordal Graphs via Disjoint Paths
Van Bang Le and Ragnar Nevries Recognizing Polar Planar Graphs Using New Results for Monopolarity
Naoyuki Kamiyama Robustness of Minimum Cost Arborescences
Session 2B: Data Structures I
Chair: Nodari Sitchinava 
Meng He, J. Ian Munro and Gelin Zhou Path Queries in Weighted Trees
Amr Elmasry, Meng He, J. Ian Munro and Patrick K. Nicholson Dynamic Range Majority Data Structures
Meng He, J. Ian Munro and Patrick K. Nicholson Dynamic Range Selection in Linear Space
Yakov Nekrich A Dynamic Stabbing-Max Data Structure with Sub-Logarithmic Query Time
Mordecai Golin, John Iacono, Danny Krizanc, Rajeev Raman and Srinivasa Rao Satti Encoding 2D Range Maximum Queries
December 7, 2011
8:30- Registration
9:00-10:00 Session 3 (3 talks)
Session 3A: Distributed Systems
Chair: Shuji Kijima 
Tobias Friedrich, Thomas Sauerwald and Alexandre Stauffer Diameter and Broadcast Time of Random Geometric Graphs in Arbitrary Dimensions
Cheng-Hsiao Tsou, Gen-Huey Chen and Ching-Chi Lin Broadcasting in Heterogeneous Tree Networks with Uncertainty
Kai-Simon Goetzmann, Tobias Harks, Max Klimm and Konstantin Miller Optimal File Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Session 3B: Computational Geometry II
Chair: Bettina Speckmann 
Adrian Dumitrescu and Evan Hilscher Animal Testing
Adrian Dumitrescu and Masud Hasan Cutting Out Polygons with a Circular Saw
Mark de Berg, Atlas F. Cook IV and Joachim Gudmundsson Fast Fréchet Queries
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:40 Session 4 (4 talks)
Session 4A: Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
Chair: Seok-Hee Hong 
Kevin Buchin, Bettina Speckmann and Kevin Verbeek Angle-Restricted Steiner Arborescences for Flow Map Layout
Mark de Berg, Bettina Speckmann and Vincent van der Weele Treemaps with Bounded Aspect Ratio
Patrizio Angelini, Giuseppe Di Battista and Fabrizio Frati Simultaneous Embedding of Embedded Planar Graphs
Muhammad Jawaherul Alam, Therese Biedl, Stefan Felsner, Andreas Gerasch, Michael Kaufmann and Stephen G. Kobourov Linear-Time Algorithms for Hole-Free Rectilinear Proportional Contact Graph Representations
Session 4B: Data Structures II
Chair: Rajeev Raman 
Michael T. Goodrich and Joseph A. Simons Fully Retroactive Approximate Range and Nearest Neighbor Searching
Arash Farzan and Johannes Fischer Compact Representation of Posets
Luca Castelli Aleardi and Olivier Devillers Explicit Array-Based Compact Data Structures for Triangulations
Gonzalo Navarro and Luis M. S. Russo Space-Efficient Data-Analysis Queries on Grids
11:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Session 5 (4 talks)
Session 5A: Parameterized Algorithms I
Chair: Dorothea Wagner 
Pranabendu Misra, Venkatesh Raman, M. S. Ramanujan and Saket Saurabh A Polynomial Kernel for Feedback Arc Set on Bipartite Tournaments
Sheng-Ying Hsiao Fixed-Parameter Complexity of Feedback Vertex Set in Bipartite Tournaments
Sylvain Guillemot Parameterized Algorithms for Inclusion of Linear Matchings
Chunhao Wang and Qian-Ping Gu Computational Study on Bidimensionality Theory Based Algorithm for Longest Path Problem
Session 5B: Parallel and External Memory Algorithms
Chair: Kunsoo Park 
Michael T. Goodrich, Nodari Sitchinava and Qin Zhang Sorting, Searching, and Simulation in the MapReduce Framework
Elaine Angelino, Michael T. Goodrich, Michael Mitzenmacher and Justin Thaler External Memory Multimaps
Yakov Nekrich External Memory Orthogonal Range Reporting with Fast Updates
Jörg Lässig and Dirk Sudholt Analysis of Speedups in Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:40 Session 6 (3 talks)
Session 6A: Game Theory and Internet Algorithms
Chair: Joachim Gudmundsson 
David Avis, Kazuo Iwama and Daichi Paku Verifying Nash Equilibria in PageRank Games on Undirected Web Graphs
Aviv Nisgav and Boaz Patt-Shamir Improved Collaborative Filtering
Fabien de Montgolfier, Mauricio Soto and Laurent Viennot Asymptotic Modularity of Some Graph Classes
Session 6B: Computational Complexity
Chair: Martin Fürer 
Ho-Lin Chen, David Doty and Shinnosuke Seki Program Size and Temperature in Self-assembly
Tomoyuki Yamakami Optimization, Randomized Approximability, and Boolean Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Dmitry Itsykson and Dmitry Sokolov Lower Bounds for Myopic DPLL Algorithms with a Cut Heuristic
18:15- Banquet
December 8, 2011
8:30- Registration
9:00-10:00 Session 7 (3 talks)
Session 7A: Approximation Algorithms II
Chair: Siu-Wing Cheng 
Ryuta Ando and Tomomi Matsui Algorithm for Single Allocation Problem on Hub-and-Spoke Networks in 2-Dimensional Plane
Martin Fürer and Huiwen Yu Packing-Based Approximation Algorithm for the k-Set Cover Problem
Mong-Jen Kao and D.T. Lee Capacitated Domination: Constant Factor Approximations for Planar Graphs
Session 7B: Randomized Algorithms
Chair:Dirk Sudholt
Ioannis Atsonios, Olivier Beaumont, Nicolas Hanusse and Yusik Kim On Power-Law Distributed Balls in Bins and its Applications to View Size Estimation
Masatora Ogata, Yukiko Yamauchi, Shuji Kijima and Masafumi Yamashita A Randomized Algorithm for Finding Frequent Elements in Streams Using O(log log N) Space
Jeremy Hurwitz A Nearly-Quadratic Gap Between Adaptive and Non-adaptive Property Testers
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-11:40 Session 8 (4 talks)
Session 8A: Online and Streaming Algorithms
Chair:Tetsuo Shibuya
Shota Yasutake, Kohei Hatano, Shuji Kijima, Eiji Takimoto and Masayuki Takeda Online Linear Optimization over Permutations
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Takuma Kitano and Toshihiro Fujito On the Best Possible Competitive Ratio for Multislope Ski Rental
Kuan-Chieh Robert Tseng and David Kirkpatrick Input-Thrifty Extrema Testing
Ho-Leung Chan, Tak-Wah Lam, Lap-Kei Lee, Jiangwei Pan, Hing-Fung Ting and Qin Zhang Edit Distance to Monotonicity in Sliding Windows
Session 8B: Computational Geometry III
Chair: Sang Won Bae 
Zachary Abel, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Sarah Eisenstat, Jayson Lynch, Tao B. Schardl and Isaac Shapiro-Ellowitz Folding Equilateral Plane Graphs
Danny Z. Chen and Haitao Wang Efficient Algorithms for the Weighted k-Center Problem on a Real Line
Danny Z. Chen and Haitao Wang Outlier Respecting Points Approximation
Danny Z. Chen and Haitao Wang An Improved Algorithm for Reconstructing a Simple Polygon from the Visibility Angles
11:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Session 9 (4 talks)
Session 9A: Parameterized Algorithms II
Chair:Sylvain Guillemot
Jiong Guo, Sepp Hartung, Rolf Niedermeier and Ondřej Suchý The Parameterized Complexity of Local Search for TSP, More Refined
Martin Dörnfelder, Jiong Guo, Christian Komusiewicz and Mathias Weller On the Parameterized Complexity of Consensus Clustering
Victor Campos, Sulamita Klein, Rudini Sampaio and Ana Silva Two Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for the Cocoloring Problem
Cristina Bazgan, Morgan Chopin and Michael Fellows Parameterized Complexity of the Firefighter Problem
Session 9B: String Algorithms
Chair: Kunihiko Sadakane 
Travis Gagie, Pawel Gawrychowski and Simon J. Puglisi Faster Approximate Pattern Matching in Compressed Repetitive Texts
Yoshifumi Sakai A New Algorithm for the Characteristic String Problem under Loose Similarity Criteria
Wing-Kai Hon, Chen-Hua Lu, Rahul Shah and Sharma V. Thankachan Succinct Indexes for Circular Patterns
Amihood Amir, Alberto Apostolico, Gad M. Landau, Avivit Levy, Moshe Lewenstein and Ely Porat Range LCP
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-17:00 Session 10 (4 talks)
Session 10A: Optimization
Chair: Takehiro Ito 
Naonori Kakimura, Kazuhisa Makino and Kento Seimi Computing Knapsack Solutions with Cardinality Robustness
Lisa Hellerstein, Özgür Özkan and Linda Sellie Max-Throughput for (Conservative) k-of-n Testing
Amihood Amir, Estrella Eisenberg, Avivit Levy and Noa Lewenstein Closest Periodic Vectors in Lp Spaces
Matt Gibson, Dongfeng Han, Milan Sonka and Xiaodong Wu Maximum Weight Digital Regions Decomposable into Digital Star-Shaped Regions
Session 10B: Computational Biology
Chair: Kun-Mao Chao 
Hung-I Yu, Tien-Ching Lin and D. T. Lee Finding Maximum Sum Segments in Sequences with Uncertainty
Yun Cui, Jesper Jansson and Wing-Kin Sung Algorithms for Building Consensus MUL-trees
Francis Y.L. Chin, Henry C.M. Leung and S.M. Yiu Adaptive Phenotype Testing for AND/OR Items
Taku Onodera and Tetsuo Shibuya An Index Structure for Spaced Seed Search