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- 93-01 
 Abstract: 
 A Randomized Algorithm for Finding
Maximum with O((log n)^2) Polynomial Tests
Hing F. Ting and Andrew C. Yao
- 93-02 
 Abstract: 
Projective Orientations of 
MatroidsI. M. Gelfand, G. Rybnikov and D. Stone
- 93-03
 Abstract: 
k-Neighborhood 
Covering and Independence Problems
Shiow-Fen Hwang and Gerard J. Chang
- 93-04 
 Abstract: 
A Polynomial-time 
Algorithm for the Phylogeny Problem
When the Number of Character States is Fixed
              
R. Agarwala and D. Fernandez-Baca
- 93-05 
 Abstract: 
Monotone Gray Codes and 
the Middle Levels Problem
Carla D. Savage and Peter Winkler
- 93-06 
 Abstract: 
   Optimal Compression
of Propositional Horn Knowledge Bases:  Complexity and Approximation
Peter L. Hammer and Alexander Kogan
- 93-07 
 Abstract: 
 
On Computing Algebraic Functions Using Logarithms and Exponentials
Dima Grigoriev, Michael Singer, and Andrew Yao
- 93-08 
 Abstract: 
Hilbert Series of Group Representations and Grobner Bases for Generic Modules
Shmuel Onn
- 93-09 
 Abstract: 
Asymptotic Results for Permutation Groups 
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Laszlo Pyber
- 93-10 
 Abstract: 
 Probabilistically
Checkable Debate Systems and Approximation Algorithms for
PSPACE-Hard Functions
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter Shor
- 93-11 
 Abstract: 
The
L(2,1)-Labeling Problem on Graphs
Gerard J. Chang and David Kuo
- 93-12 
 Abstract: 
 
A Tight Bound for Edge Guards in Rectilinear Monotone Polygons
Iliana Bjorling-Sachs
- 93-13 
 Abstract: 
Combinatorial Optimization and Computations in the Ring of Polynomials
Alexander I. Barvinok
- 93-14 
 Abstract: 
 Testing Simple Polygons             
Esther M. Arkin, Patrice Belleville, Joseph S.B. Mitchell,
David Mount, Kathleen Romanik, Steven Salzberg, Diane L. Souvaine
- 93-15 
 Abstract: 
Enumerating Consecutive and Nested Partitions for Graphs
G. J. Chang and F. K. Hwang
- 93-16 
 Abstract: 
 
Confluently Persistent Deques via Data-Structural Bootstrapping
A. L. Buchsbaum and R. E. Tarjan
- 93-17 
 Abstract: 
 
On the Structure of Co-Critical Graphs 
Anna Galluccio, Miklos Simonovits, Gabor Simonyi
- 93-18 
 Abstract: 
  Convex Relaxations of 0-1 Quadratic Programming 
Svatopluk Poljak and Henry Wolkowicz
- 93-19 
 Abstract: 
  Indefinite Trust Region Subproblems and Nonsymmetric
Eigenvalue Perturbations
Ronald J. Stern and Henry Wolkowicz
- 93-20 
 Abstract: 
  A First-Order Isomorphism Theorem  
Eric Allender, Jose Balcazar, and Neil Immerman
- 93-21 
 Abstract: 
  Dept Reduction for Noncommutative Arithmetic Circuits
Eric Allender and Jia Jiao
- 93-22 
 Abstract: 
 
  A Robust Model for Finding Optimal Evolutionary Trees
Martin Farach, Sampath Kannan, and Tandy Warnow
- 93-23 
 Abstract: 
  Consecutive Cuts and Paths, and Bounds on k-Terminal Reliability  
Heidi J. Strayer and Charles J. Colbourn
- 93-24 
 Abstract: 
  Weighted Independent Perfect Domination on Cocomparability Graphs 
Gerard J. Chang, C. Pandu Rangan and Satyan R. Coorg
- 93-25 
 Abstract: 
  The Russian Option:  Reduced Regret  
Larry Shepp and A. N. Shiryaev
- 93-26 
 Abstract: 
  A Dual Russian Option for Selling Short   
Larry Shepp and A. N. Shiryaev
- 93-27 
 Abstract: 
  Non-Stanley Bounds for Network Reliability 
Jason I. Brown and Charles J. Colbourn
- 93-28 
 Abstract: 
  Some Open Problems on Reliability Polynomials  
Charles J. Colbourn
- 93-29 
 Abstract: 
  Combinatorial Optimization:  A Survey      Martin Grotschel and Laszlo Lovasz
- 93-30 
 Abstract: 
  Lazy Structure Sharing for Query Optimization  
Adam L. Buchsbaum, Rajamani Sundar and Robert E. Tarjan
- 93-31 
 Abstract: 
  Constructing Language Instances Based on Partial Information  
Laura A. Sanchis
- 93-32 
 Abstract: 
Research Problems in Discrete Geometry: 
Packing and Covering 
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William Moser and Janos Pach
	
- 93-33 
 Abstract: 
  Inverse Theorems in Additive Number Theory  
Melvyn B. Nathanson
- 93-34 
 Abstract: 
Trust Regions and the 
Quadratic Assignment Problem  
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Stefan E. Karisch, Franz Rendl, and Henry Wolkowicz
- 93-35 
 Abstract: 
  Entropy Splitting Hypergraphs
Gabor Simonyi
- 93-36 
 Abstract: 
  Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Unstructured & Dynamic Problems 
Bill Aiello, Albert G. Greenberg, Andrew Ogielski
- 93-37 
 Abstract: 
  Quasi-Acyclic Propositional Horn Knowledge Bases: Optimal Compression
Peter L. Hammer and Alexander Kogan
- 93-38 
 Abstract: 
  Parallel Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems   
Grama Y. Ananth, Vipin Kumar, and Panos M. Pardalos
- 93-39 
 Abstract: 
  The Simplex Algorithm with a New Primal and Dual Pivot Rule  
Hsin-Der Chen, Panos M. Pardalos, and Michael A. Saunders
- 93-40 
 Abstract: 
  On Lattice-Free Polytopes  
Michel Deza and Shmuel Onn
- 93-41 
 Abstract: 
  On Edge Bijections of Graphs
A. K. Kelmans
- 93-42 
 Abstract: 
  On a Covering Property of Maximal Sperner Families 
Peter L. Erdos and Niall Graham
- 93-43 
 Abstract: 
  Relationships Among PL, #L, and the Determinant  
Eric Allender and Mitsunori Ogiwara
- 93-44 
 Abstract: 
 
Half-integral Flows in a Planar Graph With Four Holes  
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Alexander V. Karzanov
- 93-45 
 Abstract: 
  An Efficient Algorithm for Dynamic Text Indexing 
Ming Gu, Martin Farach and Richard Beigel
- 93-46 
 Abstract: 
 
  Fast Comparison of Evolutionary Trees 
Martin Farach and Mikkel Thorup
- 93-47 
 Abstract: 
 
  A New Approach to the Construction of Optimal Designs
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-48 
 Abstract: 
 
  Covering Arrays and Intersecting Codes  
N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-49 
 Abstract: 
  The Nordstrom-Robinson Code is the Binary Image of the Octacode 
G. David Forney, Jr., N.J.A. Sloane and Mitchell D. Trott
- 93-50 
 Abstract: 
  A Linear Construction for Certain Kerdock and Preparata Codes  
A.R. Calderbank, A.R. Hammons, Jr., and P. Vijay Kumar
- 93-51
 Abstract: 
  
Operating Manual for Gosset:  A General-Purpose Program for 
Constructing Experimental Designs (Second Edition)
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-52
 Abstract: 
  
The Z sub 4-Linearity of Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals and Related Codes
A.R. Hammons, Jr., P. Vijay Kumar, A.R. Calderbank, N.J.A. Sloane, and Patrick Sole
- 93-53 
 Abstract: 
 
Quaternary Constructions for the Binary Single-Error-Correcting
Codes of Julin, Best and Others
J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-54 
 Abstract: 
Expressing (a sup 2 + b sup 2 + c sup 2 + d sup 2) sup 3
as a Sum of 23 Sixth Powers
R.H. Hardin and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-55
 Abstract: 
  
  D sub 4, E sub 8, Leech and Certain Other Lattices are Symplectic 
J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-56 
 Abstract: 
 
  A Pedestrian Approach to Ray Shooting:  Shoot a Ray, Take a Walk
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
- 93-57 
 Abstract: 
 
  Finding a Shortest Diagonal of a Simple Polygon in Linear Time
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
- 93-58 
 Abstract: 
 
  Matrix Searching with the Shortest Path Metric   
John Hershberger and Subhash Suri
- 93-59 
 Abstract: 
  Can Visibility Graphs Be Represented Compactly? 
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Noga Alon, Boris Aronov, Subhash Suri
- 93-60 
 Abstract: 
 
Shortcutting Planar Digraphs and
(second part of this paper in postscript) 
Mikkel Thorup
- 93-61 
 Abstract: 
 Controlled Grammatic Ambiguity  
 First Part, 
 Second Part, and
 Third Part. 
Mikkel Thorup
- 93-62 
 Abstract: 
  Minors and the Chromatic Index of r-graphs  
K. Kilakos and B. Shepherd
- 93-63 
 Abstract: 
  A Note on a Conjecture of Toft
T. R. Jensen and F. B. Shepherd
- 93-64 
 Abstract: 
  On Enumeration of Near to Best Solutions in Discrete and Dynamic Programming
Joseph V. Romanovsky
- 93-65 
 Abstract: 
  Instance-Hiding Proof Systems  
D. Beaver, J. Feigenbaum, R. Ostrovsky, and V. Shoup
- 93-66 
 Abstract: 
  The Least Possible Value at Zero of Some Nonnegative Cosine Polynomials 
Szilard Gy. Revesz
- 93-67 
 Abstract: 
Approximation Clustering for Homogeneous Data Tables   
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Boris Mirkin
- 93-68 
 Abstract: 
  Generalization of the Tetrad Representation Theorem   
Glenn Shafer, Alexander Kogan and Peter Spirtes
- 93-69 
 Abstract: 
  Some Experimental and Theoretical Results on Test Case Generators
for the Maximum Clique Problem
Laura A. Sanchis and Arun Jagota
- 93-70 
 Abstract: 
  Eigenvalues and Expansion of Regular Graphs 
Nabil Kahale
- 93-71
 Abstract: 
  A Randomized Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Minimum Spanning   
Philip N. Klein and Robert E. Tarjan
- 93-72
 Abstract: 
 
  Symmetric Quasi-Definite Matrices  
Robert J. Vanderbei
- 93-73 
 Abstract: 
  Affine-Scaling Trajectories Associated with a Semi-Infinite Linear Program
Robert J. Vanderbei
- 93-74
 Abstract: 
  Brownian Bandits  
Avi Mandelbaum and Robert J. Vanderbei
- 93-75 
 Abstract: 
  Interior-Point Methods for Max-Min Eigenvalue Problems
Franz Rendl, Robert J. Vanderbei, and Henry Wolkowicz
- 93-76 
 Abstract: 
  Bipartite Dimensions and Bipartite Degrees of Graphs   
Peter C. Fishburn and Peter L. Hammer
- 93-77
 Abstract: 
  An Analog of Freiman's Theorem in Groups 
Imre Z. Ruzsa
- 93-78 
 Abstract: 
  On Reducing the Cut Ratio to the Multicut Problem
Nabil Kahale
- 93-79 
 Abstract: 
  Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions   
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund and Peter Shor
- 93-80 
 Abstract: 
On Sums With Small Prime Factors 
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Gabor Sarkozy
- 93-81 
 Abstract: 
Fast Parallel Algorithms or Finding Hamiltonian Cycles and Trees in Graphs
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Gabor Sarkozy
- 93-82
 Abstract: 
  A Geometric Approach for Denoting and Intersecting TR Subgroups of the Euclidean Group
Yanxi Liu
- 93-83 
 Abstract: 
  Isoperimetric Inequalities and Eigenvalues 
Nabil Kahale
- 93-84 
 Abstract: 
  Notes on the Kolakoski Sequence    
Vasek Chvatal
- 93-85 
 Abstract: 
 
On the Diameter of the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope 
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Fred J. Rispoli
- 93-87 
 Abstract: 
Workshop on Models, Architectures, and
Technologies for Parallel Computation   
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P.B. Gibbons, R.M. Karp, C.E. Leiserson, G.M. Papadopoulos
- 93-88 
 Abstract: 
  On Lattices Equivalent to Their Duals
J. H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane
- 93-89 
 Abstract: 
  Optimization Methods for Computing Global Minima of Nonconvex Potential Energy Functions
Panos M. Pardalos, David Shalloway, and Guoliang Xue
- 93-90 
 Abstract: 
 
Workshop on Parallel Algorithms: 
From Solving Combinatorial Problems to Solving Grand Challenge Problems
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James Flanagan, Yossi Matias, and Vijaya Ramachandran
- 93-91 
 Abstract: 
Balancing Updates vs Queries for
the Partial Sum Problem   
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Haripriyan Hampapuram and Michael L. Fredman
- 93-92 
 Abstract: 
  DIMACS Annual Report
- 93-93 
 Abstract: 
  On the Very Weak 0-1 Law for Random Graphs With Orders 
Saharon Shelah
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