Algorithms - ESA'99

The 7th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '99) is held in Prague, Czech Republic, July 16-18, 1999. This continued the tradition of the meetings which were held in - 1993 Bad Honnef (Germany) - 1994 Utrecht (Netherlands) - 1995 Corfu (Greece) - 1996 Barcelona (Spain) - 1997 Graz (Austria) - 1998 Venice (Italy) (The proceedingsof previousESA meetings were publishedas Springer LNCS v- umes 726, 855, 979, 1136, 1284, 1461.) In the short time of its history ESA (like its sister meeting SODA) has become a popular and respected meeting. The call for papers stated that the "e;Symposium covers research in the use, design, and analysis of ef?cient algorithms and data structures as it is carried out in c- puter science, discrete applied mathematics and mathematical programming. Papers are solicited describing original results in all areas of algorithmic research, including but not limited to: Approximation Algorithms; Combinatorial Optimization; Compu- tional Biology; Computational Geometry; Databases and Information Retrieval; Graph and Network Algorithms; Machine Learning; Number Theory and Computer Algebra; On-line Algorithms; Pattern Matching and Data Compression; Symbolic Computation.