2008 Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)

Each link below is to a PDF of the paper as it was submitted. Papers are listed in program order. PDF file names represent the Proceedings (ALX and year 08), followed by order in printed version (e.g. 001) and first author's first initial and last name.

3 Compressed Inverted Indexes for In-Memory Search Engines
Frederik Transier and Peter Sanders

13 SHARC: Fast and Robust Unidirectional Routing
Reinhard Bauer and Daniel Delling

27 Obtaining Optimal k-Cardinality Trees Fast
Markus Chimani, Maria Kandyba, Ivana Ljubić, and Petra Mutzel

37 Implementing Partial Persistence in Object-Oriented Languages
Frédéric Pluquet, Stefan Langerman, Antoine Marot, and Roel Wuyts

49 Comparing Online Learning Algorithms to Stochastic Approaches for the Multi-Period Newsvendor Problem
Shawn O’Neil and Amitabh Chaudhary

64 Routing in Graphs with Applications to Material Flow Problems
Rolf H. Möhring

65 How much Geometry it takes to Reconstruct a 2-Manifold in R3
Daniel Dumitriu, Stefan Funke, Martin Kutz, and Nikola Milosavljevic

75 Geometric Algorithms for Optimal Airspace Design and Air Traffic Controller Workload Balancing
Amitabh Basu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, and Girishkumar Sabhnani

90 Better Approximation of Betweenness Centrality
Robert Geisberger, Peter Sanders, and Dominik Schultes

101 Decoupling the CGAL 3D Triangulations from the Underlying Space
Manuel Caroli, Nico Kruithof, and Monique Teillaud

109 Consensus Clustering Algorithms: Comparison and Refinement
Andrey Goder and Vladimir Filkov

118 Shortest Path Feasibility Algorithms: An Experimental Evaluation
Boris V. Cherkassky, Loukas Georgiadis, Andrew V. Goldberg, Robert E. Tarjan, and Renato F. Werneck

133 Ranking Tournaments: Local Search and a New Algorithm
Tom Coleman and Anthony Wirth

142 An Experimental Study of Recent Hotlink Assignment Algorithms
Tobias Jacobs

152 Empirical Study on Branchwidth and Branch Decomposition of Planar Graphs
Zhengbing Bian, Qian-Ping Gu, Marjan Marzban, Hisao Tamaki, and Yumi Yoshitake