LATIN 2008

List of accepted papers

The Online Transportation Problem: On the Exponential Boost of One Extra Server
Christine Chung and Kirk Pruhs and Patchrawat Uthaisombut
Affiliations: University of Pittsburgh

Simpler constant-seed condensers
Domingos Dellamonica Jr.
Affiliations: Emory University

Fully-Compressed Suffix Trees
Luís M. S. Russo and Gonzalo Navarro and Arlindo L. Oliveira
Affiliations: INESC-ID and University of Chile

Average Rate Speed Scaling
Nikhil Bansal and David Bunde and Ho-Leung Chan and Kirk Pruhs
Affiliations: IBM and Knox College and University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh

Improved Dynamic Rank-Select Entropy-Bound Structures
Rodrigo González and Gonzalo Navarro
Affiliations: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chile.

Approximate polynomial gcd: small degree and small height perturbations
Joachim von zur Gathen and Igor E. Shparlinski
Affiliations: University of Bonn and Macquarie University

Competitive Investment with Economies of Scale
Martin Hoefer
Affiliations: Universität Konstanz

On the Facets of Mixed Integer Programs with Two Integer Variables and Two Constraints
Gerard Cornuejols and Francois Margot
Affiliations: Carnegie Mellon University

Emergency connectivity in ad-hoc networks with selfish nodes
George Karakostas and Euripides Markou
Affiliations: Department of Computing & Software and School of Computational Engineering & Science, McMaster University

Approximating Steiner Networks with Node Weights
Zeev Nutov
Affiliations: The Open University of Israel

Approximating Minimum-Power Degree and Connectivity Problems
Guy Kortsarz and Vahab S. Mirrokni and Zeev Nutov and Elena Tsanko
Affiliations: The Open University of Israel

Minimum Cost Homomorphisms to Reflexive Digraphs
Arvind Gupta , Pavol Hell, Mehdi Karimi, Arash Rafiey
Affiliations: School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

New Upper Bound on Vertex Folkman Numbers
Andrzej Dudek and Vojtech Rodl
Affiliations: Emory University

Pseudorandom Graphs from Elliptic Curves
Igor E. Shparlinski
Affiliations: Macquarie University

On the Complexity of Reconstructing H-free Graphs from their Star Systems
Fedor V. Fomin and Jan Kratochv and Daniel Lokshtanov and Federico Mancini and Jan Arne Telle
Affiliations: Univeristy of Bergen and Charles University

Computing the growth of the number of overlap-free words with spectra of matrices
Raphaël M. Jungers and Vladimir Protasov and Vincent D. Blondel
Affiliations: Université catholique de Louvain, Moscow State University,Université catholique de Louvain

An efficient quantum algorithm for the hidden subgroup problem in nil-2 groups
Gabor Ivanyos and Luc Sanselme and Miklos Santha
Affiliations: LRI and Sztaki

Optimal Higher Order Delaunay Triangulations of Polygons
Rodrigo I. Silveira and Marc van Kreveld
Affiliations: Utrecht University

The Generalized Median Stable Matchings: finding them is not that easy
Christine T. Cheng
Affiliations: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Origami embedding of piecewise-linear two-manifolds
Marshall Bern and Barry Hayes
Affiliations: Palo Alto Research Center and Google, Inc.

Sorting and Selection with Random Costs
Stanislav Angelov and Keshav Kunal and Andrew McGregor
Affiliations: UPenn and UPenn and UCSD

Local Algorithms for Dominating and Connected Dominating Sets of Unit Disk Graphs with Location Aware Nodes
J. Czyzowicz and S. Dobrev and T. Fevens and H. González-Aguilar and E. Kranakis and J. Opatrny and J. Urrutia
Affiliations: Université du Québec en Outaouais; University of Ottawa; Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, Guanajuato; Concordia University; Carleton University; Instituto de Matemáticas, México

Optimization and recognition for $K_5$-minor free graphs in linear time
Bruce Reed and Zhentao Li
Affiliations: CNRS and McGill University, McGill Universiy

Stateless Near Optimal Flow Control with Poly-logarithmic Convergence
Baruch Awerbuch and Rohit Khandekar
Affiliations: Johns Hopkins University and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

The least-unpopularity-factor and least-unpopularity-margin criteria for matching problems with one-sided preferences
Richard Matthew McCutchen
Affiliations: University of Maryland

On Stateless Multihead Automata: Hierarchies and the Emptiness Problem
Oscar H. Ibarra and Juhani Karhumaki and Alexander Okhotin
Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Unviversity of California - Santa Barbara; Department of Mathematics, University of Turku

Bandwidth of bipartite permutation graphs in polynomial time
Pinar Heggernes and Dieter Kratsch and Daniel Meister
Affiliations: University of Bergen, Norway (first and last author), University of Metz, France (middle author)

Random 2-XORSAT at the satisfiability threshold
Vlady Ravelomanana and Herve Daudé
Affiliations: LIPN-UMR7030, Université de Paris Nord and LATP-UMR6632, Université de Provence

On Injective Colourings of Chordal Graphs
Pavol Hell and Andre Raspaud and Juraj Stacho
Affiliations: Simon Fraser University; LaBRI Universite Bordeaux I

Spanners of Complete k-Partite Geometric Graphs
Prosenjit Bose and Paz Carmi and Mathieu Couture and Anil Maheshwari and Pat Morin and Michiel Smid
Affiliations: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Energy Efficient Monitoring in Sensor Networks
Amol Deshpande and Samir Khuller and Azarakhsh Malekian and Mohammed Toossi
Affiliations: University of Maryland

Spanning Trees with Many Leaves in Graphs without Diamonds and Blossoms
Paul Bonsma and Florian Zickfeld
Affiliations: Technische Universitaet Berlin

A New Algorithm for Nearest Neighbor Search using Kd-trees
Rina Panigrahy
Affiliations: Microsoft Research

Parallel Repetition of the Odd Cycle Game
Kooshiar Azimian and Mario Szegedy
Affiliations: Rutgers University

Sparse Solutions to Semidefinite Programs
Elad Hazan
Affiliations: IBM Research

Ptolemaic Graphs and Interval Graphs are Leaf Powers
Andreas Brandstadt and Christian Hundt
Affiliations: University of Rostock, Computer Science Department

Maximizing the minimum load for selfish agents
Leah Epstein and Rob van Stee
Affiliations: University of Haifa, Israel and Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.

On 2-Subcolourings of Chordal Graphs
Juraj Stacho
Affiliations: Simon Fraser University

Collective Tree Spanners of Homogeneously Orderable Graphs
Feodor F. Dragan and Chenyu Yan and Yang Xiang
Affiliations: Kent State University

Coloring Geometric Range Spaces
Greg Aloupis and Jean Cardinal and Sebastien Collette and Stefan Langerman and Shakhar Smorodinsky
Affiliations: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Hebrew University, Israel

Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Cluster Vertex Deletion
Falk Hueffner and Christian Komusiewicz and Hannes Moser and Rolf Niedermeier
Affiliations: Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany

Paths and Trails in Edge-Colored Graphs
A. Abouelaoualim and K. Ch. Das and L. Faria and Y. Manoussakis and C. Martinhon and R. Saad
Affiliations: Université Paris-Sud, Estadual University of Rio de Janeiro and Fluminense Federal University

Randomized Rendezvous with Limited Memory
Evangelos Kranakis and Danny Krizanc and Pat Morin
Affiliations: Carleton University and Wesleyan University

Simplifying 3D Polygonal Chains Under the Discrete Frechet DIstance
Sergey Bereg and Minghui Jiang and Wencheng Wang and Boting Yang and Binhai Zhu
Affiliations: Montana State University, University of Regina, University of Texas and Utah University

Finding heavy hitters over the sliding window of a weighted data stream
Regant Y.S. Hung and H.F. Ting
Affiliations: The University of Hong Kong

Geometric Aspects of Online Packet Buffering: An Optimal Randomized Algorithm for Two Buffers
Marcin Bienkowski and Aleksander Mądry
Affiliations: Institute of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw and CSAIL, MIT

Weighted Rectilinear Approximation of Points in the Plane
Mario A. Lopez and Yan Mayster
Affiliations: University of Denver, Department of Computer Science

How to Complete a Doubling Metric
Anupam Gupta and Kunal Talwar
Affiliations: Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research SVC

Approximating Crossing Minimization in Radial Layouts
Seok-Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi
Affiliations: University of Sydney and Kyoto University

On dissemination thresholds in regular and irregular graph classes
Ivan Rapaport and Karol Suchan and Ioan Todinca and Jacques Verstraete
Affiliations: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (I.R., K.S.), University of Orleans, Orleans, France (I.T.), University of California, San Diego, USA (J.V.)

Guided Search and a Faster Deterministic Algorithm for 3-SAT
Dominik Scheder
Affiliations: ETH Zurich

Efficient approximation algorithms for shortest cycles in undirected graphs
Andrzej Lingas and Eva-Marta Lundell
Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Comparing and Aggregating Partially Resolved Trees
Mukul S. Bansal and Jianrong Dong and David Fernández-Baca
Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

Quantum Property Testing of Group Solvability
Yoshifumi Inui and Francois Le Gall
Affiliations: Univ. Tokyo / ERATO-SORST QCI project, JST

A Representation Theorem for union-difference Families and Application
B.-M. Bui Xuan and M. Habib
Affiliations: CNRS - LIRMM - Université Montpellier II France and CNRS - LIAFA - Université Paris Diderot France

Domination in Geometric Intersection Graphs
Thomas Erlebach and Erik Jan van Leeuwen
Affiliations: University of Leicester and CWI Amsterdam

Myhill-Nerode Theorem for Recognizable Tree Series Revisited
Andreas Maletti
Affiliations: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA

List Update with Locality of Reference
Spyros Angelopoulos and Reza Dorrigiv and Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz
Affiliations: University of Waterloo

The View Selection Problem for Regular Path Queries
Sergey Afonin
Affiliations: Moscow State University

Algorithms to locate errors using covering arrays
Conrado Martinez and Lucia Moura and Daniel Panario and Brett Stevens
Affiliations: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Carleton University

Paths with no small angles
Imre Barany and Attila Por and Pavel Valtr
Affiliations: Rényi Institut and Charles University

A polyhedral investigation of the LCS problem and a repetition-free variant
Cristina G. Fernandes and Carlos E. Ferreira and Christian Tjandraatmadja and Yoshiko Wakabayashi
Affiliations: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Solving NP-Complete Problems with Quantum Search
Martin Fürer
Affiliations: Pennsylvania State University

I/O-Efficient Point Location in a Set of Rectangles
Yakov Nekrich
Affiliations: University of Bonn

Speeding-up Lattice Reduction with Random Projections
A. Akhavi and D. Stehlé
Affiliations: Université de Caen and Université Paris 7, CNRS and École Normale Supérieure de Lyon,

Approximation Algorithms for k-Hurdle Problems
Brian C. Dean and Adam Griffis and Adam A. Whitley
Affiliations: Clemson University