Program for the
3rd Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments
ALENEX 01
January 5-6, 2001, Washington, DC
Summary
Friday, January 5
8:00-8:50 Continental breakfast
8:50-9:00 Opening remarks
9:00-10:30 Contributed talks
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Invited talk
12:00-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Contributed talks
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Contributed talks
6:00- Business meeting
Saturday, January 6
8:15-9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00-10:00 Invited talk
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Contributed talks
12:00-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:00 Invited talk
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Contributed talks
5:00 Workshop adjourns
Friday, January 5
OPENING REMARKS, 8:50-9:00
Session 1, 9:00-10:30
Chair: Matt Stallmann
9:00-9:30 Solving a ``Hard'' Problem to Approximate an ``Easy'' One:
Heuristics for Maximum Matchings and Maximum Traveling
Salesman Problems
Sandor P. Fekete, Henk Meijer, Andre Rohe, and Walter Tietze
9:30-10:00 CNOP - A Package for Constrained Network Optimization
Kurt Mehlhorn and Mark Ziegelmann
10:00-10:30 The Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem:
Algorithms, Instance Generators, and Tests
J. Cirasella, D. S. Johnson, L. A. McGeoch, and W. Zhang
Session 2, Invited talk, 11:00-12:00
Chair: Adam Buchsbaum
Network tomography through end-to-end measurements
Prof. Donald Towsley, U. Mass., Amherst
Session 3, 2:00-3:30
Chair: Lyle McGeoch
2:00-2:30 Experimental results on statistical approaches to page
replacement policies
Vitus Leung and Sandy Irani
2:30-3:00 Estimating Resemblance of MIDI documents
Michael Mitzenmacher and Sean Owen
3:00-3:30 Experiments on Adaptive Set Intersections for Text
Retrieval Systems
Erik D. Demaine, Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, and J. Ian Munro
Session 4, 4:00-5:30
Chair: Jack Snoeyink
4:00-4:30 PVD: A Stable Implementation for Computing Voronoi
Diagrams of Polygonal Pockets
Saurabh Sethia, Martin Held, and Joseph S. B. Mitchell
4:30-5:00 Hierarchical Clustering of Trees: Algorithms and Experiments
I. Finocchi and R. Petreschi
5:00-5:30 Travel Planning With Non-Cartographic Maps
Ulrik Brandes, Frank Schulz, Dorothea Wagner, and Thomas Willhalm
BUSINESS MEETING, 6:00-
Refreshments will be served
Saturday, January 6
Session 5, Invited talk, 9:00-10:00
Chair: S. Muthukrishnan
New algorithmic challenges arising in measurement-driven networking research
Dr. Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs--Research
Session 6, 10:30-12:00
Chair: Lyle McGeoch
10:30-11:00 A Probabilistic Spell for the Curse of Dimensionality
Edgar Chavez and Gonzalo Navarro
11:00-11:30 Experimental Evaluation of the Height of a Random Set
of Points in a d-Dimensional Cube
E. Breimer, M. Goldberg, B. Kolstad, and M. Magdon-Ismail
11:30-12:00 An Empirical Study of a New Approach to Nearest
Neighbor Searching
S. Maneewongvatana and D. M. Mount
Session 7, Invited talk, 2:00-3:00
Chair: Jack Snoeyink
Spectral analysis for data mining
Prof. Anna Karlin, U. Washington
Session 8, 3:30-5:00
Chair: Adam Buchsbaum
3:30-4:00 Trade off Between Compression and Search Times in
Compact Suffix Array
Veli Mäkinen
4:00-4:30 Implementation of a PTAS for Scheduling with Release Dates
Clint Hepner and Cliff Stein
4:30-5:00 Biased skip lists for highly skewed access patterns
Funda Ergun, S. Cenk Sahinalp, Jon Sharp, and Rakesh K. Sinha