Organizers: Ding-Zhu Du (dzd@cs.umn.edu), Panos Pardalos (pardalos@ufl.edu)
Advisory Committee: P. Berman, R. Burkard, A.V. Goldberg, F.K. Hwang, M. Karpinski, Robert E. Tarjan, H. Rubinstein, A.C. Yao.
Monday, April 28, 1997 Session 1 (Chair Panos M. Pardalos) 8:45- 9:30 S. Arora "Nearly Linear Time Approximation Schemes for Euclidean TSP and Other Geometric Problems" 9:30-10:00 Break Session 2 (Chair Ding-Zhu Du) 10:00-10:30 Marek Karpinski and Alexander Zelikovsky "Approximation for Steiner trees in dense graphs" 10:30-11:00 Stefan Voss and Kai Gutenschwager, "A Chunking based genetic algorithm for the Steiner tree problem in graphs" 11:00-11:30 Piotr Berman and Alexander Zelikovsky "On the Power-$p$ and Bottleneck Steiner Tree Problems" 11:30-12:00 J. H. Rubinstein, M. Brazil, D. Thomas, J. Weng, and N. Wormald "Shortest Networks on Spheres" 12:00- 2:00 lunch Session 3 (Chair Piotr Berman) 2:00- 2:30 J. F. Weng "A New Model of Generalised Steiner Networks" 2:30- 3:00 Doreen Thomas "Gradient Constrained Minimal Steiner Trees" 3:00- 3:30 Dietmar Cieslik, "Using of Hadwiger Numbers in Network Design" 3:30- 4:00 Break Session 4 (Chair J.F. Weng) 4:00- 4:30 S. Cheng, "The Steiner Tree Problem for Terminals on the Boundary of a Rectilinear Polygon" 4:30- 5:00 Klaus Jansen and Thomas Erlebach "Approximation results for the optimum cost chromatic partition problem" 5:00- 5:30 Narsingh Deo and Nishit Kumar, "Constrained Spanning Tree Problems: Fast Approximate Methods and Parallel Computation" 5:40- 8:30 Reception Prospect Gardens Drawing Room & Terrace Princeton Campus
Tuesday, April 29, 1997 Session 5 (Chair Ding-Zhu Du) 8:30- 9:00 David Shmoys, Eva Tardos, Karen Aardal, "Approximation Algorithms for Facility Location Problems" 9:00- 9:30 Francisco Barahona and David Jensen "Plant location with minimum inventory" 9:30-10:00 Wu-ji Li and J.MacGregor Smith "Star, Grid, and Ring Topologies in Facility Location and Network Design" 10:00-10:30 Break Session 6 (Chair Panos M. Pardalos) 10:30-11:00 Warren B. Powell, Zhi-Long Chen, Greg Godfrey, Joel Shapiro "Massive Dynamic Decomposition Methods for Dynamic Network Flows" 11:00-11:30 Guoliang Xue "Optimal Routing in Communication Systems with Channel Capacities and Channel Reliabilities" 11:30-12:00 Roberto Battiti and Alan Bertossi "Greedy and prohibition-based diversification heuristics for Graph Partitioning" 12:00- 2:00 lunch Session 7 (Chair Guo-Liang Xue) 2:00- 2:30 Andreas Eisenblaetter "A Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Phone Networks" 2:30- 3:00 Roland Wessaely and Martin Groetschel "Dimensioning of survivable telecommunication networks" 3:00- 3:30 S. Raghavan and T.L. Magnanti "Strong formulations for network design with connectivity requirements" 3:30- 4:00 Break Session 8 (Chair Pengjun Wan) 4:00- 4:30 Samir Khuller "Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic K-Center Problems" 4:30- 5:00 Jose D. P. Rolim and Luca Trevisan "A Case Study of Derandomization Methods for Combinatorial Approximation Algorithms" 5:00- 5:30 Cees Duin "An reduction based algorithm for the Steiner problem in graphs" 6:00-10:00 Banquet, followed by panel discussion Prospect Gardens Princeton Campus Presidential Dining Room
Wednesday, April 30, 1997 Session 5 (Chair Panos M. Pardalos) 8:30- 9:00 Rainer E. Burkard and Jakob Krarup "A linear algorithm for the 1-median problem on a cactus with positive and negative weights" 9:00- 9:30 Jianer Chen "Network Parallel Routing and Maximum Partition Matching" 9:30-10:00 Feng Cao*, D. Z. Du, and F. D. Hsu "Fault-tolerant Routing and Multicasting in Butterfly Networks" 10:00-10:30 Break Session 6 (Chair Ding-Zhu Du) 10:30-11:00 Ramamoorthi Ravi "Service-Constrained Network Design Problems" 11:00-11:30 Robert R. Meyer "Genetic Algorithms and Multi-Coordination in Network Design" 11:30-12:00 S. Raghavan and T.L. Magnanti "A Dual-Ascent Approach to Low-Connectivity Network Design" 12:00- 2:00 lunch Session 7 (Chair Mauricio Resende) 2:00- 2:30 Klaus Jansen "Wavelength allocation in optical networks" 2:30- 3:00 Pengjun Wan "Several Isuues in Optical Networks" 3:00- 3:30 C.S. Adjiman, C.A. Schweiger, and C.A. Floudas "Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization in Process Network Systems" 3:30- 4:00 Break Session 8 (Chair C.A. Floudas) 4:00- 4:30 R. A. Murphey and P. M. Pardalos and L. Pitsoulis "A GRASP For The MultiTarget MultiSensor Tracking Problem" 4:30- 5:00 Mauricio Resende "Computing approximate solution to the maximum covering problem with GRASP" 5:00- 5:30 Kristina Holmqvist, Athanasios Migdalas* and Panos M. Pardalos "A GRASP Algorithm for the Single Source Uncapacitated Minimum Concave-Cost Network Flow Problem" 5:30-6:00 Madhav Marathe "Network Improvement Problems"