Algorithm Engineering

Invited Lectures.- Selecting Problems for Algorithm Evaluation.- BSP Algorithms - "Write Once, Run Anywhere".- Ten Years of LEDA: Some Thoughts.- Contributed Papers.- Computing the K Shortest Paths: A New Algorithm and an Experimental Comparison.- Efficient Implementation of Lazy Suffix Trees.- Experiments with List Ranking for Explicit Multi-Threaded (XMT) Instruction Parallelism.- Finding Minimum Congestion Spanning Trees.- Evaluation of an Algorithm for the Transversal Hypergraph Problem.- Construction Heuristics and Domination Analysis for the Asymmetric TSP.- Counting in Mobile Networks: Theory and Experimentation.- Dijkstra's Algorithm On-Line: An Empirical Case Study from Public Railroad Transport.- Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of Graph Connectivity Algorithms Using LEDA.- On-Line Zone Construction in Arrangements of Lines in the Plane.- The Design and Implementation of Planar Maps in CGAL.- An Easy to Use Implementation of Linear Perturbations within Cupgal.- Analysing Cache Effects in Distribution Sorting.- Fast Regular Expression Search.- An Experimental Evaluation of Hybrid Data Structures for Searching.- LEDA-SM: Extending LEDA to Secondary Memory.- A Priority Queue Transform.- Implementation Issues and Experimental Study of a Wavelength Routing Algorithm for Irregular All-Optical Networks.- Estimating Large Distances in Phylogenetic Reconstruction.- The Performance of Concurrent Red-Black Tree Algorithms.- Performance Engineering Case Study: Heap Construction.- A Fast and Simple Local Search for Graph Coloring.- BALL: Biochemical Algorithms Library.- An Experimental Study of Priority Queues in External Memory.

Jeffrey Scott Vitter is the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. With a PhD from Stanford University, he is a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, a Fulbright Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, an IBM Faculty Development Awardee, and a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE. He also holds several patents in the fields of external sorting, prediction, and approximate data structures.