DIMACS Workshop Parallell Processing of Discrete Optimization Problems

April 28 - 29, 1994
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:
P.M. Pardalos, University of Florida, pardalos@math.ufl.edu
M.G.C. Resende, AT&T Bell Labs, mgcr@research.att.com
K.G. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Bell Labs, kgr@research.att.com
Presented under the auspices of the Special Year on Massively Parallel Computing.

Workshop Program:

Thursday, April 28, 1994

9:00 Welcome from the DIMACS Director and the Organizers

Session T.A Chairman: P. Pardalos

9:10 David Applegate, R. Bixby, V. Chvatal and W. Cook Solving Large TSPs in Parallel 9:45 Jonathan Eckstein Parallel Branch-and-Bound Techniques for General Mixed Integer Programming on the CM-5 10:20 Jun Gu Parallel Processing for Satisfiability (SAT) Problems 10:55 Break

Session T.B Chairman: M.G.C. Resende

11:15 Gerasoulis Apostolos A Multistage Approach to Scheduling Task Graphs and its Impact to Parallel Numerical Computing 11:50 Christian Schutt and Jens Clausen Parallel Algorithms for the Assignment Problem - An Experimental Evaluation of 3 Distributed Algorithms 12:25 Lunch

Session T.C Chairman: K.G. Ramakrishnan

2:15 Per S. Laursen Experiences with a Synchronous Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm 2:50 Reinhard Luling, Burkhard Monien, Stefan Tschoke Load Balancing for Distributed Branch & Bound Algorithms: Experiments and Theory 3:25 George Karypis, Anshul Gupta, and Vipin Kumar Parallel Formulation of Interior Point Algorithms 4:00 Break

Session T.D Chairman: P.M. Pardalos

4:20 Costas Busch and Marios Mavronicolas Proving Correctness of Balancing Networks 4:55 R. Correa and A. Ferreira On (A)synchronous Parallel Branch-and-Bound 5:30 Van-Dat Cung and Bertrand Le Cun A Suitable Data Structure for Parallel A* 7:00 Banquet

Friday, April 29, 1994

Session F.A Chairman: M.G.C. Resende

9:00 Catherine Roucairol Parallelism and Irregular Data Structures 9:35 J. MacGregor Smith and Kui Xu Serial & Parallel Algorithms for Quadratic Set Packing Problems 10:10 Robert Meyer Parallel Genetic Algorithms in Network Optimization 10:45 Break

Session F.B Chairman: K.G. Ramakrishnan

11:05 Shantanu Dutt and Nihar R. Mahapatra New Anticipatory and Scalable Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel Best First Search 11:40 Santosh Pande and Kleanthis Psarris Scheduling Acyclic Task Graphs on Distributed Memory Parallel Architectures 12:15 Alexander Reinefeld Scalability of Massively Parallel Depth-First Search 12:50 Lunch

Session F.C Chairman: P. Pardalos

2:30 Andrea Clementi, Ludek Kucera and Jose Rolim A Note on Parallel Randomized Algorithms for Searching Problems 3:05 Jaideep Srivastava, Thomas M. Niccum and Bhaskar Himatsingka Query Optimization and Processing in Parallel Databases 3:40-4:00 Break

Session F.D Chairman: M.G.C. Resende

4:00 Theodore Johnson Asynchronous Distributed Data Structures: Lists and Priority Locks 4:35 Boleslaw Mikolajczak Parallel Distributed Algorithm to Compute all Homomorphisms of Finite Atomata 5:10 Zhijun Wu E-Optimal Solutions to Nonlinear 0-1 Integer Programs Using the Subgradient Algorithm 5:45 Closing Remarks from the Organizers 7:00 Dinner

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