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2008 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
October 25-October 28
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3436-7
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pp. C1
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[Copyright notice]
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pp. iv
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Table of contents
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pp. v-xi
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list-reviewer
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pp. xiv-xvi
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Title Page i
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pp. i
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Title Page iii
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pp. iii
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Foreword
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pp. xii
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Committees
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pp. xiii
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The Polynomial Method in Quantum and Classical Computing
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Scott Aaronson
pp. 3
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Theory of Sponsored Search Auctions
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Gagan Aggarwal
S. Muthukrishnan
pp. 7
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Average-case Complexity
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Luca Trevisan
pp. 11
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Truthful Approximation Schemes for Single-Parameter Agents
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Peerapong Dhangwatnotai
Shahar Dobzinski
Shaddin Dughmi
Tim Roughgarden
pp. 15-24
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Discretized Multinomial Distributions and Nash Equilibria in Anonymous Games
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Constantinos Daskalakis
Christos H. Papadimitriou
pp. 25-34
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Approximation Algorithms for Single-minded Envy-free Profit-maximization Problems with Limited Supply
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Maurice Cheung
Chaitanya Swamy
pp. 35-44
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Market Equilibria in Polynomial Time for Fixed Number of Goods or Agents
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Nikhil R. Devanur
Ravi Kannan
pp. 45-53
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The Sign-Rank of AC^O
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Alexander A. Razborov
Alexander A. Sherstov
pp. 57-66
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Arithmetic Circuits: A Chasm at Depth Four
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Manindra Agrawal
V. Vinay
pp. 67-75
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Dense Subsets of Pseudorandom Sets
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Omer Reingold
Luca Trevisan
Madhur Tulsiani
Salil Vadhan
pp. 76-85
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Almost-Natural Proofs
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Timothy Y. Chow
pp. 86-91
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Dynamic Connectivity: Connecting to Networks and Geometry
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Timothy M. Chan
Mihai Patrascu
Liam Roditty
pp. 95-104
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Algorithms for Single-Source Vertex Connectivity
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Julia Chuzhoy
Sanjeev Khanna
pp. 105-114
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A Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Euclidean Steiner Forest
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Glencora Borradaile
Philip N. Klein
Claire Mathieu
pp. 115-124
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Degree Bounded Network Design with Metric Costs
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Yuk Hei Chan
Wai Shing Fung
Lap Chi Lau
Chun Kong Yung
pp. 125-134
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Matrix Sparsification for Rank and Determinant Computations via Nested Dissection
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Raphael Yuster
pp. 137-145
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Fast Modular Composition in any Characteristic
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Kiran S. Kedlaya
Christopher Umans
pp. 146-155
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Gaussian Bounds for Noise Correlation of Functions and Tight Analysis of Long Codes
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Elchanan Mossel
pp. 156-165
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Worst Case to Average Case Reductions for Polynomials
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Tali Kaufman
Shachar Lovett
pp. 166-175
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On the Union of Cylinders in Three Dimensions
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Esther Ezra
pp. 179-188
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Spherical Cubes and Rounding in High Dimensions
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Guy Kindler
Ryan OʼDonnell
Anup Rao
Avi Wigderson
pp. 189-198
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Near-Optimal Sparse Recovery in the L1 Norm
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Piotr Indyk
Milan Ruzic
pp. 199-207
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On Basing Lower-Bounds for Learning on Worst-Case Assumptions
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Benny Applebaum
Boaz Barak
David Xiao
pp. 211-220
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The Bayesian Learner is Optimal for Noisy Binary Search
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Michael Ben-Or
Avinatan Hassidim
pp. 221-230
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Hardness of Minimizing and Learning DNF Expressions
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Subhash Khot
Rishi Saket
pp. 231-240
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Elections Can be Manipulated Often
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Ehud Friedgut
Gil Kalai
Noam Nisan
pp. 243-249
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On the Hardness of Being Truthful
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Christos Papadimitriou
Michael Schapira
Yaron Singer
pp. 250-259
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Multi-unit Auctions with Budget Limits
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Shahar Dobzinski
Ron Lavi
Noam Nisan
pp. 260-269
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Multilinear Formulas, Maximal-Partition Discrepancy and Mixed-Sources Extractors
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Ran Raz
Amir Yehudayoff
pp. 273-282
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On the Impossibility of Basing Identity Based Encryption on Trapdoor Permutations
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Dan Boneh
Periklis Papakonstantinou
Charles Rackoff
Yevgeniy Vahlis
Brent Waters
pp. 283-292
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Leakage-Resilient Cryptography
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Stefan Dziembowski
Krzysztof Pietrzak
pp. 293-302
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Succincter
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Mihai Patrascu
pp. 305-313
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Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error
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Dana Moshkovitz
Ran Raz
pp. 314-323
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Constant-Time Approximation Algorithms via Local Improvements
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Huy N. Nguyen
Krzysztof Onak
pp. 327-336
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Some Results on Greedy Embeddings in Metric Spaces
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Ankur Moitra
Tom Leighton
pp. 337-346
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Set Covering with our Eyes Closed
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Fabrizio Grandoni
Anupam Gupta
Stefano Leonardi
Pauli Miettinen
Piotr Sankowski
Mohit Singh
pp. 347-356
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Minimizing Movement in Mobile Facility Location Problems
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Zachary Friggstad
Mohammad R. Salavatipour
pp. 357-366
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A Counterexample to Strong Parallel Repetition
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Ran Raz
pp. 369-373
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Rounding Parallel Repetitions of Unique Games
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Boaz Barak
Moritz Hardt
Ishay Haviv
Anup Rao
Oded Regev
David Steurer
pp. 374-383
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The Unbounded-Error Communication Complexity of Symmetric Functions
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Alexander A. Sherstov
pp. 384-393
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Lower Bounds for Noisy Wireless Networks using Sampling Algorithms
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Chinmoy Dutta
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
pp. 394-402
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Inapproximability for Metric Embeddings into R^d
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Jiri Matousek
Anastasios Sidiropoulos
pp. 405-413
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A Geometric Approach to Lower Bounds for Approximate Near-Neighbor Search and Partial Match
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Rina Panigrahy
Kunal Talwar
Udi Wieder
pp. 414-423
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Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity
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Alexandr Andoni
Dorian Croitoru
Mihai Patrascu
pp. 424-433
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(Data) STRUCTURES
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Mihai Patrascu
pp. 434-443
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Entangled Games are Hard to Approximate
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Julia Kempe
Hirotada Kobayashi
Keiji Matsumoto
Ben Toner
Thomas Vidick
pp. 447-456
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Unique Games with Entangled Provers are Easy
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Julia Kempe
Oded Regev
Ben Toner
pp. 457-466
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Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
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Michael Ben Or
Avinatan Hassidim
Haran Pilpel
pp. 467-476
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A Hypercontractive Inequality for Matrix-Valued Functions with Applications to Quantum Computing and LDCs
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Avraham Ben-Aroya
Oded Regev
Ronald de Wolf
pp. 477-486
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Sketching and Streaming Entropy via Approximation Theory
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Nicholas J.A. Harvey
Jelani Nelson
Krzysztof Onak
pp. 489-498
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On the Value of Multiple Read/Write Streams for Approximating Frequency Moments
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Paul Beame
Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc
pp. 499-508
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Clock Synchronization with Bounded Global and Local Skew
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Christoph Lenzen
Thomas Locher
Roger Wattenhofer
pp. 509-518
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Shallow-Low-Light Trees, and Tight Lower Bounds for Euclidean Spanners
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Yefim Dinitz
Michael Elkin
Shay Solomon
pp. 519-528
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What Can We Learn Privately?
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Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan
Homin K. Lee
Kobbi Nissim
Sofya Raskhodnikova
Adam Smith
pp. 531-540
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Learning Geometric Concepts via Gaussian Surface Area
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Adam R. Klivans
Ryan OʼDonnell
Rocco A. Servedio
pp. 541-550
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Isotropic PCA and Affine-Invariant Clustering
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Spencer Charles Brubaker
Santosh Vempala
pp. 551-560
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Approximate Kernel Clustering
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Subhash Khot
Assaf Naor
pp. 561-570
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Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
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Venkatesan Guruswami
Rajsekar Manokaran
Prasad Raghavendra
pp. 573-582
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(Acyclic) Job Shops are Hard to Approximate
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Monaldo Mastrolilli
Ola Svensson
pp. 583-592
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Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs
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Grant Schoenebeck
pp. 593-602
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The Power of Reordering for Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling
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Matthias Englert
Deniz özmen
Matthias Westermann
pp. 603-612
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Locally Testing Direct Product in the Low Error Range
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Irit Dinur
Elazar Goldenberg
pp. 613-622
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Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
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Zeev Dvir
Avi Wigderson
pp. 625-633
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A Dichotomy Theorem for the Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems
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Siu On Chan
Michael Molloy
pp. 634-643
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Holographic Algorithms by Fibonacci Gates and Holographic Reductions for Hardness
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Jin-Yi Cai
Pinyan Lu
Mingji Xia
pp. 644-653
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Network Extractor Protocols
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Yael Tauman Kalai
Xin Li
Anup Rao
David Zuckerman
pp. 654-663
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[Roster]
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pp. 836
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Isomorhism of Hypergraphs of Low Rank in Moderately Exponential Time
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Laszlo Babai
Paolo Codenotti
pp. 667-676
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Computing the Tutte Polynomial in Vertex-Exponential Time
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Andreas Björklund
Thore Husfeldt
Petteri Kaski
Mikko Koivisto
pp. 677-686
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On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP
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Deeparnab Chakrabarty
Gagan Goel
pp. 687-696
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Submodular Approximation: Sampling-based Algorithms and Lower Bounds
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Zoya Svitkina
Lisa Fleischer
pp. 697-706
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Short Proofs May Be Spacious: An Optimal Separation of Space and Length in Resolution
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Eli Ben-Sasson
Jakob Nordström
pp. 709-718
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Noise Tolerance of Expanders and Sublinear Expander Reconstruction
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Satyen Kale
Yuval Peres
C. Seshadhri
pp. 719-728
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Sequence Length Requirement of Distance-Based Phylogeny Reconstruction: Breaking the Polynomial Barrier
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Sébastien Roch
pp. 729-738
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Size Bounds and Query Plans for Relational Joins
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Albert Atserias
Martin Grohe
Dániel Marx
pp. 739-748
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Eigenvalue Bounds, Spectral Partitioning, and Metrical Deformations via Flows
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Punyashloka Biswal
James R. Lee
Satish Rao
pp. 751-760
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Embeddings of Topological Graphs: Lossy Invariants, Linearization, and 2-Sums
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Amit Chakrabarti
Alexander Jaffe
James R. Lee
Justin Vincent
pp. 761-770
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A Simpler Linear Time Algorithm for Embedding Graphs into an Arbitrary Surface and the Genus of Graphs of Bounded Tree-Width
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Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
Bojan Mohar
Bruce Reed
pp. 771-780
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Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees
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Ittai Abraham
Yair Bartal
Ofer Neiman
pp. 781-790
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Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions
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Dimitris Achlioptas
Amin Coja-Oghlan
pp. 793-802
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Mixing Time of Exponential Random Graphs
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Shankar Bhamidi
Guy Bresler
Allan Sly
pp. 803-812
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k-Wise Independent Random Graphs
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Noga Alon
Asaf Nussboim
pp. 813-822
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Broadcasting with Side Information
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Noga Alon
Eyal Lubetzky
Uri Stav
Amit Weinstein
Avinatan Hassidim
pp. 823-832
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Author Index
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pp. 833-835
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