Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques [electronic resource] : 7th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2004 and 8th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA August 22-24, 2004 , Proceedings /

Contributed Talks of APPROX -- Designing Networks with Existing Traffic to Support Fast Restoration -- Simultaneous Source Location -- Computationally-Feasible Truthful Auctions for Convex Bundles -- Randomized Approximation Algorithms for Set Multicover Problems with Applications to Reverse Engineering of Protein and Gene Networks -- On the Crossing Spanning Tree Problem -- A 3/4-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum ATSP with Weights Zero and One -- Maximum Coverage Problem with Group Budget Constraints and Applications -- The Greedy Algorithm for the Minimum Common String Partition Problem -- Approximating Additive Distortion of Embeddings into Line Metrics -- Polylogarithmic Inapproximability of the Radio Broadcast Problem -- On Systems of Linear Equations with Two Variables per Equation -- An Auction-Based Market Equilibrium Algorithm for the Separable Gross Substitutability Case -- Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design -- Approximating Max k CSP Using Random Restrictions -- Approximation Schemes for Broadcasting in Heterogenous Networks -- Centralized Deterministic Broadcasting in Undirected Multi-hop Radio Networks -- Convergence Issues in Competitive Games -- Cuts and Orderings: On Semidefinite Relaxations for the Linear Ordering Problem -- Min-Max Multiway Cut -- Contributed Talks of RANDOM -- The Chromatic Number of Random Regular Graphs -- Estimating the Distance to a Monotone Function -- Edge Coloring with Delays -- Small Pseudo-random Families of Matrices: Derandomizing Approximate Quantum Encryption -- The Sketching Complexity of Pattern Matching -- Non-Abelian Homomorphism Testing, and Distributions Close to Their Self-convolutions -- Robust Locally Testable Codes and Products of Codes -- A Stateful Implementation of a Random Function Supporting Parity Queries over Hypercubes.-Strong Refutation Heuristics for Random k-SAT -- Counting Connected Graphs and Hypergraphs via the Probabilistic Method -- Improved Randomness Extraction from Two Independent Sources -- The Diameter of Randomly Perturbed Digraphs and Some Applications -- Maximum Weight Independent Sets and Matchings in Sparse Random Graphs -- Estimating Frequency Moments of Data Streams Using Random Linear Combinations -- Fooling Parity Tests with Parity Gates -- Distribution-Free Connectivity Testing -- Testing the Independence Number of Hypergraphs -- A Note on Approximate Counting for k-DNF.