@incollection{Frieze/98, AUTHOR = {Frieze, Alan M.}, TITLE = {Disjoint paths in expander graphs via random walks: A short survey}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {1-14}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Broder-Charikar-Mitzenmacher/98, AUTHOR = {Broder, Andrei Z. and Charikar, Moses and Mitzenmacher, Michael}, TITLE = {A derandomization using min-wise independent permutations}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {15-24}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Rodl-Rucinski-Wagner/98, AUTHOR = {R{\"o}dl, Vojtech and Ruci{\'n}ski, Andrzej and Wagner, Michelle}, TITLE = {An algorithmic embedding of graphs via perfect matchings}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {25-34}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Lu/98b, AUTHOR = {Lu, Chi-Jen}, TITLE = {Deterministic hypergraph coloring and its applications}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {35-46}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Armoni/98, AUTHOR = {Armoni, Roy}, TITLE = {On the derandomization of space-bounded computations}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {47-59}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Dubhashi/98, AUTHOR = {Dubhashi, Devdatt P.}, TITLE = {Talagrand's inequality and locality in distributed computing}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {60-70}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Azar-Regev/98, AUTHOR = {Azar, Yossi and Regev, Oded}, TITLE = {On-line bin-stretching}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {71-81}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Gartner/98, AUTHOR = {G{\"a}rtner, Bernd}, TITLE = {Combinatorial linear programming: Geometry can help}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {82-96}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Sharell/98, AUTHOR = {Sharell, Abraham}, TITLE = {A note on bounding the mixing time by linear programming}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {97-115}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Wagner-Lindenbaum-Bruckstein/98, AUTHOR = {Wagner, Israel A. and Lindenbaum, Michael and Bruckstein, Alfred M.}, TITLE = {Robotic exploration, Brownian motion and electrical resistance}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {116-130}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Baeza-Yates-Gabarro-Messeguer/98, AUTHOR = {Baeza-Yates, Ricardo and Gabarr{\'{o}}, Joaquim and Messeguer, Xavier}, TITLE = {Fringe analysis of synchronized parallel algorithms on 2-3 trees}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {131-144}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Cole-Frieze-Maggs-Mitzenmacher-Richa-Sitaraman-Upfal/98, AUTHOR = {Cole, Richard and Frieze, Alan and Maggs, Bruce M. and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Richa, Andr{\'{e}}a W. and Sitaraman, Ramesh and Upfal, Eli}, TITLE = {On balls and bins with deletions}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {145-158}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Raab-Steger/98, AUTHOR = {Raab, Martin and Steger, Angelika}, TITLE = {``Balls into bins'' --- A simple and tight analysis}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {159-170}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Luby/98, AUTHOR = {Luby, Michael}, TITLE = {Tornado codes: Practical erasure codes based on random irregular graphs}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {171-171}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Burmester-Desmedt-Wang/98, AUTHOR = {Burmester, Mike and Desmedt, Yvo and Wang, Yongge}, TITLE = {Using approximation hardness to achieve dependable computation}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {172-186}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Regnier-Szpankowski/98a, AUTHOR = {R{\'{e}}gnier, Mireille and Szpankowski, Wojciech}, TITLE = {Complexity of sequential pattern matching algorithms}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {187-199}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Gertner-Goldwasser-Malkin/98, AUTHOR = {Gertner, Yael and Goldwasser, Shafi and Malkin, Tal}, TITLE = {A random server model for private information retrieval}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {200-217}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Schnorr-Subramanian/98, AUTHOR = {Schnorr, C.P. and Subramanian, C.R.}, TITLE = {Almost optimal (on the average) combinatorial algorithms for Boolean matrix product witnesses, computing the diameter}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {218-231}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Leonardi-Vitaletti/98, AUTHOR = {Leonardi, Stefano and Vitaletti, Andrea}, TITLE = {Randomized lower bounds for online path coloring}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {232-247}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Cerveron-Fuertes/98, AUTHOR = {Cerver{\'{o}}n, Vicente and Fuertes, Ariadna}, TITLE = {Parallel random search and tabu search for the minimal consistent subset selection problem}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {248-259}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Steinhofel-Albrecht-Wong/98, AUTHOR = {Steinh{\"o}fel, K. and Albrecht, A. and Wong, C.K.}, TITLE = {On various cooling schedules for simulated annealing applied to the job shop problem}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {260-279}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Guitart-Basart/98, AUTHOR = {Guitart, Pere and Basart, Josep M.}, TITLE = {A high performance approximate algorithm for the Steiner problem in graphs}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {280-293}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Diaz-Petit-Serna/98, AUTHOR = {D{\'{i}}az, Josep and Petit, Jordi and Serna, Maria}, TITLE = {Random geometric problems on $[0,1]^2$}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {294-306}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Domingo-Watanabe-Yamazaki/98, AUTHOR = {Domingo, Carlos and Watanabe, Osamu and Yamazaki, Tadashi}, TITLE = {A role of constraint in self-organization}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {307-318}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Coppersmith-Sorkin/98, AUTHOR = {Coppersmith, Don and Sorkin, Gregory B.}, TITLE = {Constructive bounds and exact expectations for the random assignment problem}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {319-330}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Goldberg-Jerrum/98, AUTHOR = {Goldberg, Leslie Ann and Jerrum, Mark}, TITLE = {The ``Burnside process'' converges slowly}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {331-345}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Knessl-Szpankowski/98, AUTHOR = {Knessl, Charles and Szpankowski, Wojciech}, TITLE = {Quicksort again revisited}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {346-356}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Andersson-Engebretsen/98a, AUTHOR = {Andersson, Gunnar and Engebretsen, Lars}, TITLE = {Sampling methods applied to dense instances of non-Boolean optimization problems}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {357-368}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, } @incollection{Muthukrishnan-Suel/98, AUTHOR = {Muthukrishnan, S. and Suel, Torsten}, TITLE = {Second-order methods for distributed approximate single- and multicommodity flow}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science, RANDOM'98 (Barcelona, Spain, October 8-10, 1998)}, SERIES = {LNCS}, VOLUME = {1518}, PAGES = {367-383}, YEAR = {1998}, EDITOR = {Luby, Michael and Rolim, Jos{\'{e}} and Serna, Maria}, PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag}, ADDRESS = {Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Barcelona-Budapest-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo}, }