DIMACS Workshop on Network Design: Connectivity and Facilities Location

April 28-30, 1997
Princeton University (Nassau Inn), Princeton, NJ

Organizers:
Ding-Zhu Du, University of Minnesota, dzd@cs.umn.edu
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, pardalos@ufl.edu

Advisory Committee:
P. Berman, Penn. State Univ.
Marshall Bern, Xerox Corporation
R.E. Burkhard, University of Graz
A. Goldberg, NEC
D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University
Frank K. Hwang, Rutcor
Takao Nishizeki, Tohoku University
Marek Karpinski, University of Bonn
W.R. Pullleybank, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
H. Roberstein, University of Molburn
C.K. Wong, Chinese University of HongKong

Distinguished Speaker: Sanjeev Arora


Description:

Connectivity and facilities location are two important topics in network designs with applications in data communication, transportation, production planning, and VISI designs. There are two issues concerning these two topics: design and optimization. They involve combinatorial design and combinatorial optimization. Finding the solution of design problems, and the optimal or approximate solution of the related optimization problem are challenging tasks because no polynomial time algorithms are known. Such problems include some variations of Steiner tree problems (such as multiple connected Steiner network, independent flow problem, and subset-interconnection designs), topology network design, nonlinear assignment problems (such as quadratic assignment problems), problems in facilities location and allocation and network problems appearing in VLSI design. The workshop will focus on combinatorial, algorithmic, and applicational aspects of these problems. We will be especially interested in efficient approximation algorithms and their computational performance.

Additional information on travel and local accommodations will be provided at a later date. More information on the DIMACS special year on Networks can be obtained from the DIMACS web pages: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1996_1997


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