Friday, February 10, 2012

[DMANET] APEX 2012: Call for participation

APEX 2012
International Workshop on Approximation,
Parameterized and EXact algorithms
February 28-29, 2012, Paris,
France
http://apex.lip6.fr/

- Registration is
open:http://apex.lip6.fr/registration.html

No fees are
required.
However, the registration is mandatory due to
administrative reasons.

- Program:

*** Tuesday,
February 28, 2012 ***

9h00-9h30 Welcome

9h30-10h30 Invited talk: Henning Fernau

Definitions, motivations, techniques and limitations of

parameterized approximation

10h30-10h45 Coffee break

10h45-11h15 A. Langer, F. Reidl, P. Rossmanith and S. Sikdar
Linear Kernels on Graphs Excluding Topological
Minors
11h15-11h45 P. Golovach, M. Kaminski, D. Paulusma and D.
Thilikos
Increasing the Minimum
Degree of a
Graph by Contractions
11h45-12h15 A. Perez and S. Bessy

A quartic kernel for Proper Interval Completion

12h15-14h30 Lunch

14h30-15h30 Invited talk: Martin
Skutella
Unsplittable and k-splittable flows in
single-source
networks

15h30-15h45 Coffee break

15h45-16h15 S. Mengel and A. Durand
The
Complexity of Weighted Counting for Acyclic
Conjunctive

Queries
16h15-16h45 R. Watrigant, M. Bougeret, R.
Giroudeau and J.-C. König
On the
approximability of the Sum-Max graph
partitioning problem

16h45-17h00 Coffee break

17h00-17h30 Ch. Lenté, M.
Liedloff, A. Soukhal and V. T'Kindt
Scheduling
parallel machines with exponential algorithms
17h30-18h00 R.
Crowston, M. Jones and M. Mnich
Max-Cut
Parameterized Above the Edwards-Erdös Bound

*** Wednesday,
February 29, 2012 ***

9h30-10h00 K. Jansen

A (3/2+\epsilon) approximation algorithm for scheduling

malleable and non-malleable parallel tasks
10h00-10h30 T.
Dokka, A. Kouvela and F. Spieksma
Approximating the
multi-level bottleneck assignment
problem

10h30-10h45
Coffee break

10h45-11h15 M. Chapelle

Domination-like problems parameterized by tree-width
11h15-11h45
E.-J. Kim and D. Goncalves
On Exact Algorithms for
Permutation CSP
11h45-12h15 K. Meeks and A. Scott

The parameterised complexity of list problems on graphs of

bounded treewidth

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