38. STOC 2006: Seattle, WA, USA
Jon M. Kleinberg (Ed.): Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Seattle, WA, USA, May 21-23, 2006. ACM 2006 ISBN 1-59593-134-1
Session 1A
Session 1B

Uriel Feige: On maximizing welfare when utility functions are subadditive. 41-50
Jonathan A. Kelner, Daniel A. Spielman: A randomized polynomial-time simplex algorithm for linear programming. 51-60
Session 2A

Constantinos Daskalakis, Paul W. Goldberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou: The complexity of computing a Nash equilibrium. 71-78

Session 2B
Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Yehuda Lindell, Erez Petrank: Black-box constructions for secure computation. 99-108
Eyal Kushilevitz, Yehuda Lindell, Tal Rabin: Information-theoretically secure protocols and security under composition. 109-118
Amos Beimel, Paz Carmi, Kobbi Nissim, Enav Weinreb: Private approximation of search problems. 119-128
Session 3
Prabhakar Raghavan: The changing face of web search: algorithms, auctions and advertising. 129
Session 4A
Dimitris Achlioptas, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi: On the solution-space geometry of random constraint satisfaction problems. 130-139
Dror Weitz: Counting independent sets up to the tree threshold. 140-149
Mario Szegedy: The DLT priority sampling is essentially optimal. 150-158
Constantinos Daskalakis, Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch: Optimal phylogenetic reconstruction. 159-168
Session 4B
Panagiota Fatourou, Faith Ellen Fich, Eric Ruppert: Time-space tradeoffs for implementations of snapshots. 169-178
Michael Ben-Or, Elan Pavlov, Vinod Vaikuntanathan: Byzantine agreement in the full-information model in O(log n) rounds. 179-186
Spyridon Antonakopoulos: Fast leader-election protocols with bounded cheaters' edge. 187-196
Sung-woo Cho, Ashish Goel: Pricing for fairness: distributed resource allocation for multiple objectives. 197-204
Session 5A
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev: Near-optimal algorithms for unique games. 205-214
Session 5B
Virginia Vassilevska, Ryan Williams: Finding a maximum weight triangle in n3-Delta time, with applications. 225-231
Session 6
Irit Dinur: The PCP theorem by gap amplification. 241-250
Session 7A
Noga Alon, Eldar Fischer, Ilan Newman, Asaf Shapira: A combinatorial characterization of the testable graph properties: it's all about regularity. 251-260
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, László Lovász, Vera T. Sós, Balázs Szegedy, Katalin Vesztergombi: Graph limits and parameter testing. 261-270
Session 7B

John Watrous: Zero-knowledge against quantum attacks. 296-305
Session 8A
Jan Remy, Angelika Steger: A quasi-polynomial time approximation scheme for minimum weight triangulation. 316-325
Kenneth L. Clarkson: Building triangulations using epsilon-nets. 326-335
Session 8B

Michael R. Fellows, Frances A. Rosamond, Udi Rotics, Stefan Szeider: Clique-width minimization is NP-hard. 354-362
Vitaly Feldman: Hardness of approximate two-level logic minimization and PAC learning with membership queries. 363-372
Session 9
Russell Impagliazzo: Can every randomized algorithm be derandomized? 373-374
Session 10A

Rohit Khandekar, Satish Rao, Umesh V. Vazirani: Graph partitioning using single commodity flows. 385-390
Jaroslav Nesetril, Patrice Ossona de Mendez: Linear time low tree-width partitions and algorithmic consequences. 391-400
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Bojan Mohar: Approximating the list-chromatic number and the chromatic number in minor-closed and odd-minor-closed classes of graphs. 401-416
Session 10B
Leonid Gurvits: Hyperbolic polynomials approach to Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like conjectures: sharper bounds, simpler proofs and algorithmic applications. 417-426
Dorit Aharonov, Vaughan Jones, Zeph Landau: A polynomial quantum algorithm for approximating the Jones polynomial. 427-436
Irit Dinur, Ehud Friedgut, Guy Kindler, Ryan O'Donnell: On the fourier tails of bounded functions over the discrete cube. 437-446
Session 11A
Omer Reingold, Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan: Pseudorandom walks on regular digraphs and the RL vs. L problem. 457-466
Wojciech Plandowski: An efficient algorithm for solving word equations. 467-476
Session 11B
Peter DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer, Yishay Mansour: Online trading algorithms and robust option pricing. 477-486
Session 12
Anup Rao: Extractors for a constant number of polynomially small min-entropy independent sources. 497-506
Jakob Nordström: Narrow proofs may be spacious: separating space and width in resolution. 507-516
Session 13A
Matthew Andrews, Lisa Zhang: Logarithmic hardness of the directed congestion minimization problem. 517-526
Nikhil R. Devanur, Subhash Khot, Rishi Saket, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi: Integrality gaps for sparsest cut and minimum linear arrangement problems. 537-546
Howard J. Karloff, Subhash Khot, Aranyak Mehta, Yuval Rabani: On earthmover distance, metric labeling, and 0-extension. 547-556
Session 13B
Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle: Approximate nearest neighbors and the fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform. 557-563
Richard Cole, Lee-Ad Gottlieb: Searching dynamic point sets in spaces with bounded doubling dimension. 574-583
Session 14A
Dmitry Gavinsky, Julia Kempe, Oded Regev, Ronald de Wolf: Bounded-error quantum state identification and exponential separations in communication complexity. 594-603
Sean Hallgren, Cristopher Moore, Martin Rötteler, Alexander Russell, Pranab Sen: Limitations of quantum coset states for graph isomorphism. 604-617
Andris Ambainis, Robert Spalek, Ronald de Wolf: A new quantum lower bound method, : with applications to direct product theorems and time-space tradeoffs. 618-633
Shengyu Zhang: New upper and lower bounds for randomized and quantum local search. 634-643
Session 14B
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan, Michael Schapira: Truthful randomized mechanisms for combinatorial auctions. 644-652
Simon Fischer, Harald Räcke, Berthold Vöcking: Fast convergence to Wardrop equilibria by adaptive sampling methods. 653-662
Lisa Fleischer, Jochen Könemann, Stefano Leonardi, Guido Schäfer: Simple cost sharing schemes for multicommodity rent-or-buy and stochastic Steiner tree. 663-670
Session 15A
Boaz Barak, Anup Rao, Ronen Shaltiel, Avi Wigderson: 2-source dispersers for sub-polynomial entropy and Ramsey graphs beating the Frankl-Wilson construction. 671-680
David Zuckerman: Linear degree extractors and the inapproximability of max clique and chromatic number. 681-690
Jesse Kamp, Anup Rao, Salil P. Vadhan, David Zuckerman: Deterministic extractors for small-space sources. 691-700
Adi Akavia, Oded Goldreich, Shafi Goldwasser, Dana Moshkovitz: On basing one-way functions on NP-hardness. 701-710
Session 15B
Nikhil Bansal, Amit Chakrabarti, Amir Epstein, Baruch Schieber: A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs. 721-729
Retsef Levi, Robin Roundy, David B. Shmoys: Provably near-optimal sampling-based algorithms for Stochastic inventory control models. 739-748
Philip N. Klein: A subset spanner for Planar graphs, : with application to subset TSP. 749-756
Chandra Chekuri, Sanjeev Khanna, F. Bruce Shepherd: Edge-disjoint paths in Planar graphs with constant congestion. 757-766



