Computing and Combinatorics [electronic resource] : 15th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2009 Niagara Falls, NY, USA, July 13-15, 2009 Proceedings /

Invited Talk -- Bidding on Configurations in Internet Ad Auctions -- Algorithmic Game Theory and Coding Theory -- An Attacker-Defender Game for Honeynets -- On the Performances of Nash Equilibria in Isolation Games -- Limits to List Decoding Random Codes -- Algorithms and Data Structures -- Algorithm for Finding k-Vertex Out-trees and Its Application to k-Internal Out-branching Problem -- A (4n???4)-Bit Representation of a Rectangular Drawing or Floorplan -- Relationship between Approximability and Request Structures in the Minimum Certificate Dispersal Problem -- GraphDrawing -- Coordinate Assignment for Cyclic Level Graphs -- Crossing-Optimal Acyclic HP-Completion for Outerplanar st-Digraphs -- Edge-Intersection Graphs of k-Bend Paths in Grids -- Algorithms and Data Structures -- Efficient Data Structures for the Orthogonal Range Successor Problem -- Reconstruction of Interval Graphs -- A Fast Algorithm for Computing a Nearly Equitable Edge Coloring with Balanced Conditions -- Cryptography and Security -- Minimal Assumptions and Round Complexity for Concurrent Zero-Knowledge in the Bare Public-Key Model -- Efficient Non-interactive Range Proof -- Approximation Algorithms for Key Management in Secure Multicast -- Algorithms -- On Smoothed Analysis of Quicksort and Hoare’s Find -- On an Online Traveling Repairman Problem with Flowtimes: Worst-Case and Average-Case Analysis -- Three New Algorithms for Regular Language Enumeration -- Computational Geometry -- Convex Partitions with 2-Edge Connected Dual Graphs -- The Closest Pair Problem under the Hamming Metric -- Space Efficient Multi-dimensional Range Reporting -- Approximation Algorithms -- Approximation Algorithms for a Network Design Problem -- An FPTAS for the Minimum Total Weighted Tardiness Problem with a Fixed Number of DistinctDue Dates -- On the Hardness and Approximability of Planar Biconnectivity Augmentation -- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics -- Determination of Glycan Structure from Tandem Mass Spectra -- On the Generalised Character Compatibility Problem for Non-branching Character Trees -- Inferring Peptide Composition from Molecular Formulas -- Optimal Transitions for Targeted Protein Quantification: Best Conditioned Submatrix Selection -- Computing Bond Types in Molecule Graphs -- Sampling and Learning -- On the Diaconis-Gangolli Markov Chain for Sampling Contingency Tables with Cell-Bounded Entries -- Finding a Level Ideal of a Poset -- A Polynomial-Time Perfect Sampler for the Q-Ising with a Vertex-Independent Noise -- Extracting Computational Entropy and Learning Noisy Linear Functions -- HITS Can Converge Slowly, but Not Too Slowly, in Score and Rank -- Algorithms -- Online Tree Node Assignment with Resource Augmentation -- Why Locally-Fair Maximal Flows in Client-Server Networks Perform Well -- On Finding Small 2-Generating Sets -- Convex Recoloring Revisited: Complexity and Exact Algorithms -- Strongly Chordal and Chordal Bipartite Graphs Are Sandwich Monotone -- Complexity and Computability -- Hierarchies and Characterizations of Stateless Multicounter Machines -- Efficient Universal Quantum Circuits -- An Improved Time-Space Lower Bound for Tautologies -- Probabilistic Analysis -- Multiple Round Random Ball Placement: Power of Second Chance -- The Weighted Coupon Collector’s Problem and Applications -- Sublinear-Time Algorithms for Tournament Graphs -- Complexity and Computability -- Classification of a Class of Counting Problems Using Holographic Reductions -- Separating NE from Some Nonuniform Nondeterministic Complexity Classes -- On the Readability of Monotone Boolean Formulae -- Algorithmsand Data Structures -- Popular Matchings: Structure and Algorithms -- Graph-Based Data Clustering with Overlaps -- Directional Geometric Routing on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.