8. SWAT 2002: Turku, Finland
Martti Penttonen, Erik Meineche Schmidt (Eds.): Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2002, 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, Turku, Finland, July 3-5, 2002 Proceedings. Springer 2002 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-43866-1
Invited Speakers

Heikki Mannila: Combining Pattern Discovery and Probabilistic Modeling in Data Mining. 19
Scheduling
Stephen Alstrup, Gerth Stølting Brodal, Inge Li Gørtz, Theis Rauhe: Time and Space Efficient Multi-method Dispatching. 20-29
John E. Augustine, Steven S. Seiden: Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Vehicle Scheduling. 30-39
Monaldo Mastrolilli: A PTAS for the Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Controllable Processing Times. 51-59
Computational Geometry
Stephan Eidenbenz: Optimum Inapproximability Results for Finding Minimum Hidden Guard Sets in Polygons and Terrains. 60-68
Partha P. Goswami, Sandip Das, Subhas C. Nandy: Simplex Range Searching and k Nearest Neighbors of a Line Segment in 2D. 69-79
Christos Levcopoulos, Andrzej Lingas, Joseph S. B. Mitchell: Adaptive Algorithms for Constructing Convex Hulls and Triangulations of Polygonal Chains. 80-89
Nissan Lev-Tov, David Peleg: Exact Algorithms and Approximation Schemes for Base Station Placement Problems. 90-99
Zhongping Qin, Binhai Zhu: A Factor-2 Approximation for Labeling Points with Maximum Sliding Labels. 100-109
Sasanka Roy, Partha P. Goswami, Sandip Das, Subhas C. Nandy: Optimal Algorithm for a Special Point-Labeling Problem. 110-120

Graph Algorithms
Geir Agnarsson, Peter Damaschke, Magnús M. Halldórsson: Powers of Geometric Intersection Graphs and Dispersion Algorithms. 140-149
Jochen Alber, Michael R. Fellows, Rolf Niedermeier: Efficient Data Reduction for DOMINATING SET: A Linear Problem Kernel for the Planar Case. 150-159
Hajo Broersma, Fedor V. Fomin, Jan Kratochvíl, Gerhard J. Woeginger: Planar Graph Coloring with Forbidden Subgraphs: Why Trees and Paths Are Dangerous. 160-169
Miroslav Chlebík, Janka Chlebíková: Approximation Hardness of the Steiner Tree Problem on Graphs. 170-179
John A. Ellis, Hongbing Fan, Michael R. Fellows: The Dominating Set Problem Is Fixed Parameter Tractable for Graphs of Bounded Genus. 180-189
Harold N. Gabow, Seth Pettie: The Dynamic Vertex Minimum Problem and Its Application to Clustering-Type Approximation Algorithms. 190-199
Alexander Golynski, Joseph Douglas Horton: A Polynomial Time Algorithm to Find the Minimum Cycle Basis of a Regular Matroid. 200-209
Jochen Könemann, Yanjun Li, Ojas Parekh, Amitabh Sinha: Approximation Algorithms for Edge-Dilation k-Center Problems. 210-219
Sarnath Ramnath: Forewarned Is Fore-Armed: Dynamic Digraph Connectivity with Lookahead Speeds Up a Static Clustering Algorithm. 220-229
San Skulrattanakulchai: Delta-List Vertex Coloring in Linear Time. 240-248
Robotics
Erik D. Demaine, Alejandro López-Ortiz, J. Ian Munro: Robot Localization without Depth Perception. 249-259
Alejandro López-Ortiz, Sven Schuierer: Online Parallel Heuristics and Robot Searching under the Competitive Framework. 260-269
Marcelo O. Sztainberg, Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Joseph S. B. Mitchell: Analysis of Heuristics for the Freeze-Tag Problem. 270-279
Approximation Algorithms
Esther M. Arkin, Refael Hassin, Shlomi Rubinstein, Maxim Sviridenko: Approximations for Maximum Transportation Problem with Permutable Supply Vector and Other Capacitated Star Packing Problems. 280-287
Yossi Azar, Leah Epstein, Yossi Richter, Gerhard J. Woeginger: All-Norm Approximation Algorithms. 288-297
Cristina Bazgan, Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega, Marek Karpinski: Approximability of Dense Instances of NEAREST CODEWORD Problem. 298-307
Data Communication
R. Sai Anand, Thomas Erlebach, Alexander Hall, Stamatis Stefanakos: Call Control with k Rejections. 308-317
Guy Even, Guy Kortsarz, Wolfgang Slany: On Network Design Problems: Fixed Cost Flows and the Covering Steiner Problem. 318-327

Computational Biology
Juha Kärkkäinen: Computing the Threshold for q-Gram Filters. 348-357
Itsik Pe'er, Ron Shamir, Roded Sharan: On the Generality of Phylogenies from Incomplete Directed Characters. 358-367
Data Storage and Manipulation


Hans L. Bodlaender, Udi Rotics: Computing the Treewidth and the Minimum Fill-in with the Modular Decomposition. 388-397
Jyrki Katajainen, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen: Performance Tuning an Algorithm for Compressing Relational Tables. 398-407
Jyrki Katajainen, Tomi Pasanen: A Randomized In-Place Algorithm for Positioning the kth Element in a Multiset. 408-417
Tony W. Lai: Paging on a RAM with Limited Resources. 418-427
Alessandro Dal Palù, Enrico Pontelli, Desh Ranjan: An Optimal Algorithm for Finding NCA on Pure Pointer Machines. 428-438



