Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science [electronic resource] : 6th International Workshop, RANDOM 2002 Cambridge, MA, USA, September 13–15, 2002 Proceedings / edited by José D. P. Rolim, Salil Vadhan.

Counting Distinct Elements in a Data Stream -- On Testing Convexity and Submodularity -- ?-Regular Languages Are Testable with a Constant Number of Queries -- Optimal Lower Bounds for 2-Query Locally Decodable Linear Codes -- Counting and Sampling H-Colourings -- Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains for Dismantleable Constraint Graphs -- On the 2-Colorability of Random Hypergraphs -- Percolation on Finite Cayley Graphs -- Computing Graph Properties by Randomized Subcube Partitions -- Bisection of Random Cubic Graphs -- Small k-Dominating Sets of Regular Graphs -- Finding Sparse Induced Subgraphs of Semirandom Graphs -- Mixing in Time and Space for Lattice Spin Systems: A Combinatorial View -- Quantum Walks on the Hypercube -- Randomness-Optimal Characterization of Two NP Proof Systems -- A Probabilistic-Time Hierarchy Theorem for “Slightly Non-uniform” Algorithms -- Derandomization That Is Rarely Wrong from Short Advice That Is Typically Good -- Is Constraint Satisfaction Over Two Variables Always Easy? -- Dimensionality Reductions That Preserve Volumes and Distance to Affine Spaces, and Their Algorithmic Applications -- On the Eigenvalue Power Law -- Classifying Special Interest Groups in Web Graphs.