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Monday 22/8
ESA 1 ESA 2 WABI ALGOCLOUD
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:15 Session 1A: Online Algorithms I
Chair: Guy Even
Session 1B: Geometry I
Chair: Piotr Sankowski
Session 1C
Chair: Christian N. S. Pedersen
Session 1D
Chair: T. Sellis
09:00 Dror Rawitz, Adi Rosén
Online Budgeted Maximum Coverage
Erin Chambers, Irina Kostitsyna, Maarten Löffler, Frank Staals
Homotopy Measures for Representative Trajectories
Lianrong Pu, Daming Zhu and Haitao Jiang:
A New Approximation Algorithm for Unsigned Translocation Sorting
ALGOCLOUD
invited
Volker Markl
Big Data
Management
and
Scalable Data
Science:
Key Challenges
and (Some)
Solutions
09:25 Thomas Kesselheim, Andreas Tönnis
Think Eternally: Improved Algorithms for the Temp Secretary Problem and Extensions
Quirijn W. Bouts, Irina Irina Kostitsyna, Marc van Kreveld, Wouter Meulemans, Willem Sonke, Kevin Verbeek
Mapping Polygons to the Grid with Small Hausdorff and Fréchet Distance
Diego P. Rubert, Pedro Feijao, Marilia Braga, Jens Stoye and Fábio V. Martinez:
A Linear Time Approximation Algorithm for the DCJ Distance for Genomes with Bounded Number of Duplicates
09:50 Tobias Arndt, Danijar Hafner, Thomas Kellermeier, Simon Krogmann, Armin Razmjou, Martin S. Krejca, Ralf Rothenberger, Tobias Friedrich
Probabilistic Routing for On-Street Parking Search
Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin
Sampling-Based Bottleneck Pathfinding with Applications to Fréchet Matching
Guillaume Fertin, Geraldine Jean and Eric Tannier:
Genome Rearrangements on Both Gene Order and Intergenic Regions
10:15-10:35 Coffee Break
10:35-11:25 Session 2A: Clustering
Chair: Kasper Green Larsen
Session 2B: Parametrized Distances
Chair: Piotr Sankowski
Session 2C
Chair: Martin Frith
Session 2D: Software Tools and Distributed Architectures for Cloud-based Data Management I.
Chair: T. Sellis
10:35 Pavel Kolev, Kurt Mehlhorn
A Note On Spectral Clustering
Ely Porat, Eduard Shahbazian, Roei Tov
New Parameterized Algorithms for APSP in Directed Graphs
Marius Erbert, Steffen Rechner and Matthias Müller-Hannemann:
Gerbil: A Fast and Memory-Efficient k-mer Counter with GPU-Support
Ioannis Kokotinis, Marios Kendea, Nikolaos Nodarakis, Angeliki Rapti, Spyros Sioutas, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Dimitrios Tsolis and Yannis Panagis:
NSM-Tree: Efficient Indexing on Top of NoSQL Databases
11:00 Tim Roughgarden, Joshua R. Wang
The Complexity of the k-means Method
Davide Bilo, Luciano Guala, Stefano Leucci, Guido Proietti
Compact and Fast Sensitivity Oracles for Single-Source Distances
Yaron Orenstein, David Pellow, Guillaume Marcais, Ron Shamir and Carl Kingsford:
Compact Universal k-mer Hitting Sets
Alexandros Baltas, Andreas Kanavos and Athanasios Tsakalidis:
An Apache Spark Implementation for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Data
11:25-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 ESA Invited
Ola Svennson
Algorithms with provable guarantees for clustering
Chair: Piotr Sankowski
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Session 3A: Distributed Algorithms
Chair: Dorothea Wagner
Session 3B: Exponential Algorithms
Chair: Bart M. P. Jansen
Session 3C
Chair: Paola Bonizzoni
Session 3D:
Algorithmic Aspects of Large-Scale Data Stores I.
Chair: Y. Panagis
14:00 Moran Feldman, Moshe Tennenholtz, Omri Weinstein
Distributed Signaling Games
Jesper Nederlof
Finding Large Set Covers Faster via the Representation Method
Broňa Brejová, Askar Gafurov, Dana Pardubska, Michal Sabo and Tomas Vinar:
Isometric Gene Tree Reconciliation Revisited
Vasileios Kassiano, Anastasios Gounaris, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos and Kostas Tsichlas:
Mining Uncertain Graphs: An Overview
14:25 Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky, Peter Kling, Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, Chris Wastell
Plurality Consensus in Arbitrary Graphs: Lessons Learned from Load Balancing
Andrew Drucker, Jesper Nederlof, Rahul Santhanam
Exponential Time Paradigms Through the Polynomial Time Lens
Daniel Doerr, Pedro Feijao, Metin Balaban and Cedric Chauve:
The Gene Family-Free Median of Three
Ioannis Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Konstantinou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Nectarios Koziris:
Recovering from Cloud Application Deployment Failures through Re-execution
14:50 Cameron Chalk, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Luis Vega, Andrew Winslow, Tim Wylie
Optimal Staged Self-Assembly of General Shapes
Tillmann Miltzow, Lothar Narins, Yoshio Okamoto, Günter Rote, Antonis Thomas, Takeaki Uno
Approximation and Hardness of Token Swapping
Riccardo Dondi, Nadia El-Mabrouk and Manuel Lafond:
Correction of Weighted Orthology and Paralogy Relations - Complexity and Algorithmic Results
Nikolaos Korasidis, Ioannis Giannakopoulos, Katerina Doka, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Nectarios Koziris:
Fair, Fast and Frugal Large-Scale Matchmaking for VM Placement
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:45 Session 4A: Optimization I
Chair: Ola Svensson
Session 4B: Algorithmic Game Theory
Chair: Hiro Ito
Session 4C
Chair: Martin Frith
Session 4D:
Algorithmic Aspects of Large-Scale Data Stores II
Chair: I. Giannakopoulos
15:30 Markus Chimani, Tilo Wiedera
An ILP-based Proof System for the Crossing Number Problem
George Christodoulou, Martin Gairing, Sotiris Nikoletseas, Christoforos Raptopoulos and Paul Spirakis:
Strategic Contention Resolution with Limited Feedback
Qiang Kou, Si Wu, Nikola Tolic, Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic and Xiaowen Liu:
Mass graphs and their applications in top-down proteomics
Spyros Sioutas, Phivos Mylonas, Alexandros Panaretos, Panagiotis Gerolymatos, Dimitrios Vogiatzis, Eleftherios Karavaras, Thomas Spitieris and Andreas Kanavos:
Survey of machine learning algorithms on Spark over DHT-based Structures
15:55 Matthias Mnich, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, László A. Végh
A 7/3-Approximation for Feedback Vertex Sets in Tournaments
Xiaohui Bei, Jugal Garg, Martin Hoefer, Kurt Mehlhorn
Computing Equilibria in Markets with Budget-Additive Utilities
Matthieu David, Guillaume Fertin and Dominique Tessier:
SpecTrees: An Efficient Without a Priori Data Structure for MS/MS Spectra Identification
Yannis Panagis and Evangelos Sakkopoulos:
Scaling out to become doctrinal: Using Hadoop to study the case-law of international courts
16:20 Riley Murray, Megan Chao, Samir Khuller
Scheduling Distributed Clusters of Parallel Machines: Primal-Dual and LP-based Approximation Algorithms
Ruta Mehta, Ioannis Panageas, Georgios Piliouras, Sadra Yazdanbod
The Computational Complexity of Genetic Diversity
Ludovic Gillet, Simon Rösch, Thomas Tschager and Peter Widmayer:
A Better Scoring Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing: The Symmetric Difference Between Explained and Measured Masses
Ioannis Karydis, Spyros Sioutas, Markos Avlonitis, Phivos Mylonas and Andreas Kanavos:
A Survey on Big Data and Collective Intelligence
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:15 Session 5A: Graph Matchings
Chair: Piotr Sankowski
Session 5B: Geometry II
Chair: Stefan Schirra
  Session 5D:
Software Tools and Distributed Architectures for Cloud-based Data Management II.
Chair: A.Kanavos
17:00 Melika Abolhassani, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Fei Chen, Hossein Esfandiari, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Mahini Hamid, Xiaowei Wu
Beating Ratio 0.5 for Weighted Oblivious Matching Problems
Mikkel Abrahamsen, Bartosz Walczak
Outer Common Tangents and Nesting of Convex Hulls in Linear Time and Constant Workspace
Nikolaos Nodarakis, Angeliki Rapti, Spyros Sioutas, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Dimitrios Tsolis, Giannis Tzimas and Yannis Panagis:
(A)kNN Query Processing on the Cloud: A Survey
17:25 Brian Brubach, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, Aravind Srinivasan, Pan Xu
New Algorithms, Better Bounds, and a Novel Model for Online Stochastic Matching
Sathish Govindarajan, Rajiv Raman, Saurabh Ray, Aniket Basu Roy
Packing and Covering with Non-Piercing Regions
Kalliopi Giannakopoulou, Spyros Kontogiannis, Georgia Papastavrou and Christos Zaroliagis:
A Cloud-based Time-Dependent Routing Service
17:50 Christoph Dürr, Christian Konrad, Marc Renault
On the Power of Advice and Randomization for Online Bipartite Matching
Édouard Bonnet, Tillmann Miltzow
Parameterized Hardness of Art Gallery Problems
Ioannis Petalas, Ahmad Ammari, Panagiotis Georgakis and Christopher Nwagboso:
A Big data architecture for Traffic Forecasting using Multi-source Information
18:15-18:30 Break
18:30-... ESA business meeting / Welcome reception