Final Programme for ISAAC'97



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                   PROGRAMME for ISAAC-97
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         16th DECEMBER 1997 (TUE)

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  6:00pm    Early Registration (Rosewood)

  8:00pm    Welcome Cocktail (Poolside)
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 DAY 1:  17th DECEMBER 1997 (WED)

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  8:15am    REGISTRATION
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  Symposium Opening (Ballroom B)

  Session Chair: Chua Tat Seng

  9:00am    OPENING REMARKS by
            Guest of Honour: Prof. Chong Chi Tat, DVC, NUS

  9:30am    KEYNOTE TALK : Prof. T. Ibaraki
            Solving NP-hard combinatorial problems in the practical sense

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 10:30am    BREAK 
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 11:00am    SESSION 1: (Ballroom B)
            Transportation and Logistics  (3 Papers)

  Session Chair: Leong Hon Wai

     Airline crew scheduling problem with many irregular flights
          Akira Tajima and Shinji Misono

     Practical approach to a facility location problem
     for Large-Scale Logistics
          Kazuyoshi Hidaka and Hiroyuki Okano

     Hard instance generation for SAT
          Satoshi Horie and Osamu Watanabe

            
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 12:30pm    LUNCH
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  2:00pm    SESSION 2A: (Ballroom B)               
            Combinatorial Alg. 1 (3 papers) 
  
  Session Chair: Lucas Hui

     Playing tetris on meshes and multi-dimensional SHEARSORT
          Miroslaw Kutylowski and Rolf Wanka

     Formulation of the addition-shift-sequence problem and its complexity	
          Akihiro Matsuura and Akira Nagoya

     Weighted and unweighted selection algorithms for k sorted sequences
          Tatsuya Hayashi, Koji Nakano and Stephan Olariu

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  2:00pm    SESSION 2B: (Ballroom A)
            Protocols (3 papers) **
  (** Note: This session is Session 4B in the symposium proceedings.)

  Session Chair: Lam Kwok Yan

     A new efficient off-line anonymous cash scheme
          Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Vijay Varadharajan and Yi Mu

     On-line versus off-line in money-making strategies with brokerage
          Eisuke Dannoura Kouichi Sakurai

     Decision-making by hierarchies of discordant agents
          XiaoTie Deng and Christos Papadimitriou

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  3:30pm    BREAK 
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  4:00pm    SESSION 3A: (Ballroom B)
            Graph Algorithms (2 papers) 

  Session Chair: Alan Gibbons

     Algorithms for enumerating all perfect, maximum and
     maximal matchings in bipartite graphs
          Takeaki Uno

     Augmenting edge and vertex connectivities simultaneously
          Toshimasa Ishii, Hiroshi Nagamochi and Toshihide Ibaraki


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  4:00pm    SESSION 3B: (Ballroom A)
            Logic: Horn Extension (2 papers) 

  Session Chair: T. Ibaraki

     Two-face Horn extensions
          Thomas Eiter, Toshihide Ibaraki and Kazuhisa Makino

     Decremental maintenance of reachability in hypergraphs
     and minimum models of Horn formulae
         Giorgio Ausiello, Paolo Giulio Franciosa, Daniele Frigioni and 
         Roberto Giaccio

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  5:00pm    END OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS (DAY 1)


 

 DAY 2:  18th DECEMBER 1997 (THU)

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  Day 2 Opening (Ballroom B)

  Session Chair: Hiroshi Imai

  9:00am    KEYNOTE TALK 2: Prof. C. E. Leiserson, MIT
            Analysis of multithreaded algorithms

 10:00am    BEST PAPER PRESENTATION   
            A characterization of planar graphs by pseudo-line arrangements
            Hisao Tamaki and Takeshi Tokuyama

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 10:30am    BREAK 
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 11:00am    SESSION 4A: (Ballroom B)
            Combinatorial Alg 2 (3 papers)  

  Session Chair: Tan Tiow Seng

     Optimal fault-tolerant broadcasting in trees
          Petrisor Panaite and Andrzej Pelc

     A theoretical framework of hybrid approaches to MAX SAT
          Takao Asano, Kuniaki Hori, Takao Ono and Tomio Hirata

     Exponential lower bounds on the size of OBDDs representing
     integer division
          Takashi Horiyama and Shuzo Yajima


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 11:00am    SESSION 4B: (Ballroom A)
            Network Routing Algorithms (3 papers)  **
  (** Note: This session is Session 2B in the symposium proceedings.)

  Session Chair: Charles Leiserson

     An adaptive distributed fault-tolerant routing algorithm
     for the star graph
          Leqiang Bai, H. Ebara, Hideo Nakano and Hajime Maeda

     Multi-color routing in the undirected hypercube
          Qian-Ping Gu and Hisao Tamaki

     Competitive source routing on tori and meshes
          Tzuoo-Hawn Yeh, Cheng-Ming Kuo, Chin-Luang Lei and Hsu-Chun Yen

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 12:30pm    LUNCH
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  2:00pm    SESSION 5A: (Ballroom B)               
            Parallel Graph Alg. (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: Pandu Rangan

     Approximating unweighted connectivity problems in parallel
          Zhi-Zhong Chen

     A randomized linear work EREW PRAM algorithm to find
     a minimum spanning forest 
          Chung Keung Poon and Vijaya Ramachandran

     Efficient parallel algorithms for planar st-graphs
          Mikhail J. Atallah, Danny Z. Chen and Ovidiu Daescu

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  2:00pm    SESSION 5B: (Ballroom A)
            Computational Learning (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: Sanjay Jain

     Peg-solitaire, string rewriting systems and finite automata
          B. Ravikumar

     On the size of probabilistic formulae
          Hartmut Klauck

     Homophonic coding with logarithmic memory size
          Boris Ryabko and Andrey Fionov

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  3:30pm    BREAK 
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  4:00pm    SESSION 6A: (Ballroom B)
            Computational Geometry (2 papers) 

  Session Chair: D. T. Lee

     Complexity and modeling aspects of mesh refinement into quadrilaterals
          Rolf H. Mohring and Matthias Muller-Hannemann

     Topology oriented vs exact arithmetic -- experience in implementing
     the three-dimensional convex hull algorithm
          Tsuyoshi Minakawa and Kokichi Sugihara

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  4:00pm    SESSION 6B: (Ballroom A)
            Database Query Processing  

  Session Chair: Francis Chin

     The complexity of learning branches and strategies from queries
          Matthias Ott and Frank Stephan

     Singularities make spatial join scheduling hard
          Gabriele Neyer and Peter Widmayer

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  5:00pm    END OF TECHNICAL SESSIONS (DAY 2)

  5:15pm    Bus leave for banquet venue: Tang Dynasty Village

  7:30pm    CONFERENCE BANQUET
 


DAY 3:  19th DECEMBER 1997 (FRI)

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  9:00am    SESSION 7A: (Ballroom B)
            VLSI Algorithms (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: Takao Nishizeki

     A faster one-dimensional topological compaction algorithm
          Hsiao-Feng Steven Chen and D. T. Lee

     Algorithms for finding optimal disjoint paths around a rectangle
          Wun-Tat Chan and Francis Y.L. Chin

     An algorithm for finding a region with the minimum total
     L_1 distance from prescibed terminals
          Yoshiyuki Kusakari and Takao Nishizeki


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  9:00am    SESSION 7B: (Ballroom A)
            Problems in Graph (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: K. Y. Chwa

     On defect sets in bipartite graphs
          P.E.Haxell and M.Loebl

     Dynamic programming on distance-hereditary graphs
          Maw-Shang Chang, Sun-Yuan Hsieh and Gen-Huey Chen

     On the equivalence in complexity among basic problems on bipartite
     and parity graphs
          Serafino Cicerone and Gabriele Di Stefano


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 10:30am    BREAK 
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 11:00am    SESSION 8A: (Ballroom B)
            Computational Geometry 2 (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: Herbert Edelsbrunner

     All-cavity maximum matchings
          Ming-Yang Kao, Tak Wah Lam, Wing Kin Sung and Hing Fung Ting

     Fast algorithms for computing \beta-skeletons and their relatives
          S. V. Rao and Asish Mukhopadhyay

     A branch-and-cut approach for minimum weight triangulation
          Yoshiaki Kyoda, Keiko Imai, Fumihiko Takeuchi and Akira Tajima 

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 11:00am    SESSION 8B: (Ballroom A)
            Approximation Alg (3 papers) 

  Session Chair: Peter Eades

     An efficient approximation scheme for the subset-sum problem
          Hans Kellerer, Ulrich Pferschy and Maria Grazia Speranza

     Competitive call control in mobile networks
          Grammati E. Pantziou, George Pentaris and Paul Spirakis

     Generalized swap-with-parent schemes for self-organizing sequential linear
     lists
          John Oommen and Juan Dong


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 12:30pm    LUNCH
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  2:00pm    Optional Tours to Research Institutions

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  5:00pm    END OF SYMPOSIUM
 


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