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15th Intl. Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems - APPROX 2012

16th Intl. Workshop on Randomization and Computation - RANDOM 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 on 15-17 August 2012 at 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 focus 
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
       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

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be received by 17:00pm (EDT) of April 20 at:
http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/
in order to be considered.
Abstract Format: Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper). An abstract should 
start with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, followed 
by a one-paragraph summary of the results to be presented. This should then be followed by a 
technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results including 
motivation and a clear comparison with related work.

The abstract should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages on letter-size paper, using reasonable 
margins and at least 11-point font (not including the references). If the authors believe that 
more details are essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly
marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.


PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Previous proceedings of APPROX appeared as LNCS 1444, 1671, 1913, 2129, 2462, 2764, 3122, 3624, 
4110 and 4627 while previous proceedings of RANDOM appeared as LNCS 1269, 1518, 1671, 2129, 2483, 
2764, 3122, 3624, 4110, 4627 and as Proceedings in Informatics 8.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions: April 20, 2012
Notifications: June 8, 2012
Camera ready: June 18, 2012

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Approx

Alexandr Andoni (Microsoft Research SVC) Yossi Azar (Tel-Aviv University) Shuchi Chawla (University
of Wisconsin - Madison) Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, chair) Sariel Har-Peled 
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Jochen Koenemann (University of Waterloo) Amit Kumar 
(Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) Lap Chi Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
Konstantin Makarychev (IBM Watson) Monaldo Mastrolilli (IDSIA) Dana Moshkovitz (MIT) Rene Sitters 
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) David Steurer (Microsoft Research and Cornell) Kunal Talwar 
(Microsoft Research SVC) Jan Vondrak (IBM Almaden) Lisa Zhang (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)

Random

Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion)
Andrej Bogdanov (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Mark Braverman (Princeton) Colin Cooper 
(King's College, London) Tobias Friedrich (Saarland University / Max-Planck-Institut) Tali Kaufman 
(Bar-Ilan University / Weizmann Institute of Science) Raghu Meka (Institute for Advanced Study) 
Jelani Nelson (Princeton) Ilan Newman (University of Haifa) Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon 
University) Konstantinos Panagiotou (Max-Planck-Institut) Prasad Raghavendra (Georgia Tech) Atri 
Rudra (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Rocco Servedio (Columbia, chair) Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley) 
Emanuele Viola (Northeastern)


PROGRAM CHAIRS

APPROX
Anupam Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University


RANDOM
Rocco Servedio, Columbia University



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva
Klaus Jansen, U. of Kiel

CONFERENCE WEB PAGE

http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/


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