IWOCA 2016

27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms

Helsinki, Finland, August 17–19, 2016

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Preliminary program

August 17 (Wednesday)

8:30-8:55
Registration
8:55-9:00
Welcome
09:00-09:50
Invited talk: Leslie Ann Goldberg
Approximately counting list H-colourings

(Chair: Simon Puglisi)
9:50-10:40
Session 1: Computational complexity
(Chair: Leslie Ann Goldberg)
Guillaume Ducoffe, Sylvain Legay and Nicolas Nisse. On the complexity of computing the tree-breadth
Martin Böhm and Pavel Veselý. Online Chromatic Number is PSPACE-Complete

10:40-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:40
Session 2: Computational geometry
(Chair: Lene Monrad Favrholdt)
Radoslav Fulek. Bounded embeddings of graphs in the plane
Stefan Funke, Filip Krumpe and Sabine Storandt. Crushing Disks Efficiently
Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Alina Shaikhet and Michiel Smid. Essential Constraints of Edge-Constrained Proximity Graphs
Ahmad Biniaz, Prosenjit Bose, Anil Maheshwari and Michiel Smid. Plane Bichromatic Trees of Low Degree

12:40-14:20
Lunch break

14:20-16:00
Session 3: Networks
(Chair: Alexandru Tomescu)
Alessio Conte, Roberto Grossi, Andrea Marino, Romeo Rizzi and Luca Versari. Directing Road Networks by Listing Strong Orientations
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele Rescigno and Ugo Vaccaro. Evangelism in Social Networks
Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, Mattia D'Emidio and Daniele Frigioni. Distance Queries in Large-Scale Fully Dynamic Complex Networks
Yuya Higashikawa, Siu-Wing Cheng, Tsunehiko Kameda, Naoki Katoh and Shun Saburi. Minimax Regret 1-Median Problem in Dynamic Path Networks

16:00-16:20
Coffee break

16:20-17:35
Session 4: Enumeration
(Chair: Peter Damaschke)
Tiziana Calamoneri, Mattia Gastaldello, Arnaud Mary, Marie-France Sagot and Blerina Sinaimeri. On Maximal Chain Subgraphs and Covers of Bipartite Graphs
Max Alekseyev. Weighted de Bruijn Graphs for the Menage Problem and Its Generalizations
Haruka Mizuta, Takehiro Ito and Xiao Zhou. Reconfiguration of Steiner Trees in an Unweighted Graph


August 18 (Thursday)

09:00-10:40
Session 1: Online algorithms
(Chair: Golnaz Badkobeh)
Joan Boyar, Lene M. Favrholdt, Christian Kudahl and Jesper W. Mikkelsen. Weighted Online Problems with Advice
Yuta Fujishige, Michitaro Nakamura, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai and Masayuki Takeda. Finding gapped palindromes online
Jhoirene Clemente, Christian Kudahl, Dennis Komm and Juraj Hromkovič. Advice Complexity of the Online Search Problem
Takuya Takagi, Shunsuke Inenaga, Kunihiko Sadakane and Hiroki Arimura. Packed Compact Tries: A Fast and Efficient Data Structure for Online String Processing

10:40-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:40
Session 2: Algorithmic graph theory
(Chair: Martin Fürer)
Hassan Aboueisha, Shahid Hussain, Vadim Lozin, Jerome Monnot, Bernard Ries and Viktor Zamaraev. A boundary property for upper domination
Cristina Bazgan, Ljiljana Brankovic, Katrin Casel, Henning Fernau, Klaus Jansen, Kim-Manuel Klein, Michael Lampis, Mathieu Liedloff, Jerome Monnot and Vangelis Paschos. Upper Domination: Complexity and Approximation
Konrad Kazimierz Dabrowski, Vadim Lozin and Daniel Paulusma. Well-quasi-ordering versus clique-width: new results on bigenic classes
Xujin Chen, Zhuo Diao, Xiaodong Hu and Zhongzheng Tang. Sufficient Conditions for Tuza's Conjecture on Packing and Covering Triangles

12:40-14:20
Lunch break

14:20-15:10
Invited talk: Giuseppe F. Italiano
2-Connectivity Problems in Directed Graphs

(Chair: Esko Ukkonen)
15:10-16:00
Session 3: Dynamic programming
(Chair: Shunsuke Inenaga)
Aravind N. R., Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram and Anjeneya Swami Kare. Linear Time Algorithms for Happy Vertex Coloring Problems for Trees
Pawel Gawrychowski and Łukasz Zatorski. Speeding up dynamic programming in the line-constrained k-median

16:00-16:20
Coffee break

16:20-17:10
Open problems session

18:00
Meet at excursion
20:00
Dinner at Walhalla on Suomenlinna
23:00
Transportation back to the city

August 19 (Friday)

09:00-10:40
Session 1: Combinatorial algorithms
(Chair: Jukka Suomela)
Guillaume Blin, Marie Gasparoux, Sebastian Ordyniak and Alexandru Popa. SOBRA - Shielding Optimization for BRAchytherapy
Piotr Wojciechowski and K. Subramani. A bit-scaling algorithm for integer feasibility in UTVPI constraints
Markus Chimani, Ivo Hedtke and Tilo Wiedera. Limits of Greedy Approximation Algorithms for the Maximum Planar Subgraph Problem
Robert Benkoczi, Ram Dahal and Daya Gaur. Exact Algorithms For Weighted Coloring In Special Classes of Tree and Cactus Graphs

10:40-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:40
Session 2: Graph algorithms
(Chair: Luisa Gargano)
Petr Golovach, Dieter Kratsch, Daniel Paulusma and Anthony Stewart. Finding Cactus Roots in Polynomial Time
Peter Damaschke. Computing Giant Graph Diameters
Martin Fürer. Faster Computation of Path-Width
Peter Damaschke. The Solution Space of Sorting with Recurring Comparison Faults

12:40-14:20
Lunch break

14:20-15:10
Invited talk: Petteri Kaski
Polynomial representations in algorithm design

(Chair: Veli Mäkinen)
15:10-16:00
Session 3: Combinatorics
(Chair: Petteri Kaski)
Adrian Dumitrescu, Ritankar Mandal and Csaba Toth. Monotone paths in geometric triangulations
Andreas Baertschi, Barbara Geissmann, Daniel Graf, Tomas Hruz, Paolo Penna and Thomas Tschager. On computing the total displacement number via weighted Motzkin paths

16:00-16:20
Coffee break

16:20-17:10
Session 4: Probabilistics
(Chair: Juha Karkkainen)
Kaushik Sarkar, Charles J. Colbourn, Annalisa De Bonis and Ugo Vaccaro. Partial Covering Arrays: Algorithms and Asymptotics
Moritz von Looz and Henning Meyerhenke. Querying Probabilistic Neighborhoods in Spatial Data Sets Efficiently

17:10-17:15
Closing remarks