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Code and Data	ALENEX 02

The 3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX 01), was held in Washington, DC, on January 5-6, 2001. The workshop was held in the Wyndham City Center Hotel, the same hotel in which SODA 01 took place the following 3 days, January 7-9, 2001.

The aim of the annual ALENEX workshops is to provide a forum for the presentation of original research in the implementation and experimental evaluation of algorithms and data structures.

Papers presented original research in all aspects of algorithm engineering and experimentation including:

• Implementation, experimental testing, and fine-tuning of discrete algorithms.
• Development of software repositories and platforms which allow use of, and experimentation with, efficient discrete algorithms.
• Methodological issues including standards in the context of empirical research on algorithms and data structures.
• Methodological issues regarding the process of converting user requirements into efficient algorithmic solutions and implementations.

We will maintain a page of links to code and data made available by authors of ALENEX'01 papers.

  RELATED SITES:

• SODA 01, the 12th Annual ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  
• ALEX 98, the Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments held in Trento in February, 1998
  
• ALENEX 99, the 1st Worskhop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments held in Baltimore in January, 1999
  
• ALENEX 00, the 2nd Worskhop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments held in San Francisco in January, 2000
  
• WAE'97, the 1st Workshop on Algorithm Engineering held in Venice in September, 1997
  
• WAE'98, the 2nd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering held in Saarbrücken in August, 1998
  
• WAE'99, the 3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering held in London in July, 1999
  
• WAE'00, the 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering to be held in Saarbrücken in September, 2000
  
• WAE'01, the 5th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering to be held in Aarhus in August, 2001
  
• a Dagstuhl seminar on experimental algorithmics, to be held in September, 2000 following WAE 00
• CATS (Combinatorial Algorithms Test Sets), the ACM/EATCS platform for experiments in combinatorial computing
  
• JEA, the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
• How to Present a Paper on Experimental Work with Algorithms, by C.C. McGeoch and B.M.E. Moret (in SIGACT News 30, 4 (Dec., 1999), 85-90).
• Draft Methodology Papers from the Fifth DIMACS Challenge, C.C. McGeoch and D.S. Johnson, eds., to appear in the DIMACS Monographs series.