Algorithm Theory — SWAT 2002 [electronic resource] : 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory Turku, Finland, July 3–5, 2002 Proceedings / edited by Martti Penttonen, Erik Meineche Schmidt.

Invited Speakers -- An Efficient Quasidictionary -- Combining Pattern Discovery and Probabilistic Modeling in Data Mining -- Scheduling -- Time and Space Efficient Multi-method Dispatching -- Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Vehicle Scheduling -- Minimizing Makespan for the Lazy Bureaucrat Problem -- A PTAS for the Single Machine Scheduling Problem with Controllable Processing Times -- Computational Geometry -- Optimum Inapproximability Results for Finding Minimum Hidden Guard Sets in Polygons and Terrains -- Simplex Range Searching and k Nearest Neighbors of a Line Segment in 2D -- Adaptive Algorithms for Constructing Convex Hulls and Triangulations of Polygonal Chains -- Exact Algorithms and Approximation Schemes for Base Station Placement Problems -- A Factor-2 Approximation for Labeling Points with Maximum Sliding Labels -- Optimal Algorithm for a Special Point-Labeling Problem -- Random Arc Allocation and Applications -- On Neighbors in Geometric Permutations -- Graph Algorithms -- Powers of Geometric Intersection Graphs and Dispersion Algorithms -- Efficient Data Reduction for Dominating Set: A Linear Problem Kernel for the Planar Case -- Planar Graph Coloring with Forbidden Subgraphs: Why Trees and Paths Are Dangerous -- Approximation Hardness of the Steiner Tree Problem on Graphs -- The Dominating Set Problem Is Fixed Parameter Tractable for Graphs of Bounded Genus -- The Dynamic Vertex Minimum Problem and Its Application to Clustering-Type Approximation Algorithms -- A Polynomial Time Algorithm to Find the Minimum Cycle Basis of a Regular Matroid -- Approximation Algorithms for Edge-Dilation k-Center Problems -- Forewarned Is Fore-Armed: Dynamic Digraph Connectivity with Lookahead Speeds Up a Static Clustering Algorithm -- Improved Algorithms for the Random Cluster Graph Model -- ?-List Vertex Coloring in Linear Time -- Robotics -- Robot Localization without Depth Perception -- Online Parallel Heuristics and Robot Searching under the Competitive Framework -- Analysis of Heuristics for the Freeze-Tag Problem -- Approximation Algorithms -- Approximations for Maximum Transportation Problem with Permutable Supply Vector and Other Capacitated Star Packing Problems -- All-Norm Approximation Algorithms -- Approximability of Dense Instances of Nearest Codeword Problem -- Data Communication -- Call Control with k Rejections -- On Network Design Problems: Fixed Cost Flows and the Covering Steiner Problem -- Packet Bundling -- Algorithms for the Multi-constrained Routing Problem -- Computational Biology -- Computing the Threshold for q-Gram Filters -- On the Generality of Phylogenies from Incomplete Directed Characters -- Data Storage and Manipulation -- Sorting with a Forklift -- Tree Decompositions with Small Cost -- Computing the Treewidth and the Minimum Fill-in with the Modular Decomposition -- Performance Tuning an Algorithm for Compressing Relational Tables -- A Randomized In-Place Algorithm for Positioning the kth Element in a Multiset -- Paging on a RAM with Limited Resources -- An Optimal Algorithm for Finding NCA on Pure Pointer Machines -- Amortized Complexity of Bulk Updates in AVL-Trees.