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