Combinatorial Optimization and Applications Third International Conf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2009, held in Huangshan, China, in June 2009. The 50 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 1

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Ding-Zhu Du Xiaodong Hu Panos M. Pardalos (Eds.)

Combinatorial Optimization and Applications Third International Conference, COCOA 2009 Huangshan, China, June 10-12, 2009 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Ding-Zhu Du University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Computer Science 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA E-mail: [email protected] Xiaodong Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics Zhong Guan Cun Dong Lu 55, Beijing 100190, P. R. China E-mail: [email protected] Panos M. Pardalos University of Florida, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering 303 Weil Hall, P.O. Box 116595, Gainesville, FL 32611-6595, USA E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

The Third Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2009, took place in Huangshan, China, June 10–12, 2009. Past COCOA conferences were held in Xi’an, China (2007) and Newfoundland, Canada (2008). COCOA 2009 provided a forum for researchers working in the areas of combinatorial optimization and its applications. In addition to theo