This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2005, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in October 2005 as part of the ALGO 2005 event.
The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshop are algorithmic game theory, approximation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, inapproximability results, mechanism design, network design, packing and covering, paradigms, randomization techniques, real-world applications, and scheduling problems.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany 3879 Thomas Erlebach Giuseppe Persiano (Eds.) Approximation and Online Algorithms Third International Workshop, WAOA 2005 Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 6-7, 2005 Revised Papers 13 Volume Editors Thomas Erlebach University of Leicester Department of Computer Science University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail:
[email protected] Giuseppe Persiano Università degli Studi di Salerno Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni Via S. Allende 2, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy E-mail:
[email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 200692553 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.2.2, G.2.1-2, G.1.2, G.1.6, I.3.5, E.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0302-9743 3-540-32207-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-32207-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11671411 06/3142 543210 Preface The third Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2005) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and compu