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APPROX

Alexandr Andoni
Yossi Azar
Shuchi Chawla
Anupam Gupta (chair)
Sariel Har-Peled
Jochen Koenemann
Amit Kumar
Lap Chi Lau
Konstantin Makarychev
Monaldo Mastrolilli
Dana Moshkovitz
Rene Sitters
David Steurer
Kunal Talwar
Jan Vondrak
Lisa Zhang

RANDOM

Eli Ben-Sasson
Andrej Bogdanov
Mark Braverman
Colin Cooper
Tobias Friedrich
Tali Kaufman
Raghu Meka
Jelani Nelson
Ilan Newman
Ryan O'Donnell
Konstantinos Panagiotou
Prasad Raghavendra
Atri Rudra
Rocco Servedio (chair)
Alistair Sinclair
Emanuele Viola

Program Chairs


APPROX
Anupam Gupta,
Carnegie Mellon University
email:
anupamg+approx@cs.cmu.edu

RANDOM
Rocco Servedio,
Columbia University
email:
Rocco@cs.columbia.edu

Workshop Chairs


José Rolim,
U. of Geneva
e-mail: jose.rolim@unige.ch
Klaus Jansen,
U. of Kiel
e-mail: kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de
Important dates
Submission deadline
April 20, 2012
5PM EDT


Notification to authors
June 8, 2012

Camera ready
June 15, 2012

Conference
August 15-17, 2012
Call for papers
Thank you

The Random/Approx organization would like to thank Microsoft Research New England for their support.


Approx 2012 + Random 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
Boston, USA
Aug.15-Aug.17 2012


The 15th. International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX'2012), and the 16th. International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM'2012) will be held Aug.15-Aug.17 in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.).

APPROX'2012 focuses on algorithmic and complexity theoretic issues relevant to the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems, while RANDOM'2012 focuses on applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems. RANDOM'2012 is the sixteenth workshop in the series; APPROX'2012 is the fifteenth in the series.
Topics

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to randomization and approximation, including, but not limited to:

APPROX
  • design and analysis of approximation algorithms
  • hardness of approximation
  • small space, sub-linear time, and streaming
  • algorithms
  • embeddings and metric space methods
  • mathematical programming methods
  • combinatorial problems in graphs and networks
  • game theory, markets, and economic applications
  • geometric problems
  • packing, covering, and scheduling
  • approximate learning
  • design and analysis of online algorithms
  • other applications
RANDOM
  • design and analysis of randomized algorithms
  • randomized complexity theory
  • pseudorandomness and derandomization
  • random combinatorial structures
  • random walks/Markov chains
  • expander graphs and randomness extractors
  • probabilistic proof systems
  • random projections and embeddings
  • error-correcting codes
  • average-case analysis
  • property testing
  • computational learning theory