Invited Papers -- A Survey of Some Recent Results on Bent Functions -- A Survey of the Merit Factor Problem for Binary Sequences -- A Survey of Feedback with Carry Shift Registers -- Univariate and Multivariate Merit Factors -- Complexity of Sequences I -- Discrete Fourier Transform, Joint Linear Complexity and Generalized Joint Linear Complexity of Multisequences -- Expected Value of the Linea…
Oral Presentations -- Relativistic Scale-Spaces -- Regularity and Scale-Space Properties of Fractional High Order Linear Filtering -- Image Features and the 1-D, 2 nd Order Gaussian Derivative Jet -- A New Technique for Local Symmetry Estimation -- Geometry of Isophote Curves -- Stability of Top-Points in Scale Space -- Discrete Representation of Top Points via Scale Space Tessellation -- A Lin…
Invited Talks -- New Directions in PVM/Harness Research -- Towards a Productive MPI Environment -- Components of Systems Software for Parallel Systems -- Virtualization in Parallel Distributed Computing -- Tutorials -- Advanced Message Passing and Threading Issues -- Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach -- Algorithms -- Some Improvements to a Parallel Decomposition Technique for Training Suppo…
Constraint Propagation -- GCC-Like Restrictions on the Same Constraint -- A Note on Bilattices and Open Constraint Programming -- Pruning by Equally Constrained Variables -- Search -- Trying Again to Fail-First -- Characterization of a New Restart Strategy for Randomized Backtrack Search -- Dynamic Distributed BackJumping -- A Value Ordering Heuristic for Local Search in Distributed Resource Al…
Portfolio Optimization -- One-Variable Optimization -- Optimal Portfolios with N Assets -- Unconstrained Optimization in N Variables -- The Steepest Descent Method -- The Newton Method -- Quasi-Newton Methods -- Conjugate Gradient Methods -- Optimal Portfolios with Restrictions -- Larger-Scale Portfolios -- Data-Fitting & The Gauss-Newton Method -- Equality Constrained Optimization -- Linear Eq…
Performance and Tools -- Performance of Scientific Applications on Modern Supercomputers -- A Lightweight Dynamic Application Monitor for SMP Clusters -- gridlib — A Parallel, Object-oriented Framework for Hierarchical-hybrid Grid Structures in Technical Simulation and Scientific Visualization -- Computational Fluid Dynamics -- Preface -- Fully Three-Dimensional Coupling of Fluid and Thin-Wal…
Discrete Tomography -- Binary Matrices Under the Microscope: A Tomographical Problem -- On the Reconstruction of Crystals Through Discrete Tomography -- Binary Tomography by Iterating Linear Programs from Noisy Projections -- Combinatorics and Computational Models -- Hexagonal Pattern Languages -- A Combinatorial Transparent Surface Modeling from Polarization Images -- Integral Trees: Subtree D…
General Issues -- Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling -- Semantic Components for Timetabling -- An Open Interactive Timetabling Tool -- Distributed Choice Function Hyper-heuristics for Timetabling and Scheduling -- Transport Timetabling -- A Hybridised Integer Programming and Local Search Method for Robust Train Driver Schedules Planning -- Logistics Service Network Des…
Contributed Talks of APPROX -- The Network as a Storage Device: Dynamic Routing with Bounded Buffers -- Rounding Two and Three Dimensional Solutions of the SDP Relaxation of MAX CUT -- What Would Edmonds Do? Augmenting Paths and Witnesses for Degree-Bounded MSTs -- A Rounding Algorithm for Approximating Minimum Manhattan Networks -- Packing Element-Disjoint Steiner Trees -- Approximating the B…