Invited Talks -- External Memory Data Structures -- Some Algorithmic Problems in Large Networks -- Exact and Approximate Distances in Graphs — A Survey -- Caching and Prefetching -- Strongly Competitive Algorithms for Caching with Pipelined Prefetching -- Duality between Prefetching and Queued Writing with Parallel Disks -- Online Algorithms -- Online Bin Coloring -- A General Decomposition Theorem for the k-Server Problem -- Buying a Constant Competitive Ratio for Paging -- Data Structures I -- Simple Minimal Perfect Hashing in Less Space -- Cuckoo Hashing -- Optimization and Approximation -- Coupling Variable Fixing Algorithms for the Automatic Recording Problem -- Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Malleable Tasks under Precedence Constraints -- On the Approximability of the Minimum Test Collection Problem -- Sequences -- Finding Approximate Repetitions under Hamming Distance -- SNPs Problems, Complexity, and Algorithms -- Scheduling -- A FPTAS for Approximating the Unrelated Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with Costs -- Grouping Techniques for Scheduling Problems: Simpler and Faster -- A 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Multi-vehicle Scheduling Problem on a Path with Release and Handling Times -- Shortest Paths -- A Simple Shortest Path Algorithm with Linear Average Time -- A Heuristic for Dijkstra’s Algorithm with Many Targets and Its Use in Weighted Matching Algorithms -- Geometry I -- A Separation Bound for Real Algebraic Expressions -- Property Testing with Geometric Queries -- Smallest Color-Spanning Objects -- Data Structures II -- Explicit Deterministic Constructions for Membership in the Bitprobe Model -- Lossy Dictionaries -- Geometry II -- Splitting a Delaunay Triangulation in Linear Time -- A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Detour of a Polygonal Chain -- An Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Convex Cover with Logarithmic Performance Guarantee -- Distributed Algorithms -- Distributed O(? log n)-Edge-Coloring Algorithm -- Modeling Replica Placement in a Distributed File System: Narrowing the Gap between Analysis and Simulation -- Graph Algorithms -- Computing Cycle Covers without Short Cycles -- A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Cutwidth of Bounded Degree Graphs with Small Treewidth -- Lower Bounds and Exact Algorithms for the Graph Partitioning Problem Using Multicommodity Flows -- Pricing -- Fast Pricing of European Asian Options with Provable Accuracy: Single-Stock and Basket Options -- Competitive Auctions for Multiple Digital Goods -- Broadcasting and Multicasting -- Algorithms for Efficient Filtering in Content-Based Multicast -- Approximation Algorithms for Minimum-Time Broadcast under the Vertex-Disjoint Paths Mode -- Round Robin Is Optimal for Fault-Tolerant Broadcasting on Wireless Networks -- Graph Labeling and Graph Drawing -- Online and Offline Distance Constrained Labeling of Disk Graphs -- Approximate Distance Labeling Schemes -- On the Parameterized Complexity of Layered Graph Drawing -- Graphs -- A General Model of Undirected Web Graphs -- Packing Cycles and Cuts in Undirected Graphs -- Greedy Algorithms for Minimisation Problems in Random Regular Graphs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2001, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2001. The 41 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on caching and prefetching, online algorithms, data structures, optimization and approximation, sequences, scheduling, shortest paths, geometry, distributed algorithms, graph algorithms, pricing, broadcasting and multicasting, graph labeling and graph drawing, and graphs.