Approximation and Online Algorithms

Invited Contribution.- The Primal-Dual Approach for Online Algorithms.- Session 1: Graphs and Networks.- Independent Set with Advice: The Impact of Graph Knowledge.- Online Multi-Commodity Flow with High Demands.- Approximating Spanning Trees with Few Branches .- On the Complexity of the Regenerator Location Problem – Treewidth and Other Parameters.- Session 2: Geometric Problems.- Online Exploration of Polygons with Holes.- Probabilistic k-Median Clustering in Data Streams.- Linear Time Approximation for Dominating Sets and Independent Dominating Sets in Unit Disk Graphs.- On Minimum-and Maximum-Weight Minimum Spanning Trees with Neighborhoods.- Session 3: Online Algorithms.- Asymptotically Optimal Online Page Migration on Three Points.- R–LINE: A Better Randomized 2-Server Algorithm on the Line.- Black and White Bin Packing.- Minimizing Cache Usage in Paging.- Session 4: Scheduling.Competitive-Ratio Approximation Schemes for Makespan Scheduling Problems.- Online Primal-Dual for Non-linear Optimization with Applications to Speed Scaling.- Approximating the Throughput by Coolest First Scheduling.- Algorithms for Cost-Aware Scheduling.- Session 5: Algorithmic Game Theory.- A Unifying Tool for Bounding the Quality of Non-cooperative Solutions in Weighted Congestion Games.- Some Anomalies of Farsighted Strategic Behavior.- Session 6: Approximation Algorithms Scheduling with an Orthogonal Resource Constraint.- Improved Approximation Guarantees for Lower-Bounded Facility Location.- A 4-Approximation for the Height of Drawing 2-Connected Outer-Planar Graphs.- Approximation Algorithms for the Wafer to Wafer Integration Problem.