By Andrei Z. Broder, Michael Mitzenmacher (auth.), Dorit S. Hochbaum, Klaus Jansen, José D. P. Rolim, Alistair Sinclair (eds.)

This e-book constitutes the refereed lawsuits of the 3rd foreign Workshop on Randomization and Approximation thoughts in desktop technological know-how, RANDOM'99, held together with the second one foreign Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization difficulties, APPROX'99, in Berkeley, California in August 1999.
The quantity offers 24 revised complete papers chosen from forty four submissions and 4 invited contributions. The papers current a wealth of recent effects and record the state of the art within the components lined by means of the workshop.

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Ii) v(n) 2 + (n1(n) ; 2) bn1c 2 + (log2 (bnc2 ) ; 1) bn1c . (iii) v(n) 2:0005. 2 2 2 2 2 Approximation of Multi-color Discrepancy 45 Proof. (i): For the proof of the lower bound let T = (VT ET ) together with l be any partition tree of n. Then there is a path v0 : : : vk of length k such that vk is a leaf and l(vi;1 ) 2l(vi ) for all i 2 k]. Thus kX ;1 k 1 i=1 l(vi ) X i=0 2;i = 2 ; 2k1;1 log2 dne2 2 ; dn1e : 2 (ii): For the proof of the upper bound we give a strategy howPto construct a partition tree of n.

We have Theorem 7. For any matrix A, lindisc(A c) < 2kAk1. The problem of computing a : n] ! Mc for a given p : n] ! M c such that kA(p ; )k1 < 2kAk1 has time complexity O(c4 ) times the complexity of the 2 color problem. Proof. Set := kAk1 and A = (aij ) the matrix resulting from A by replacing every entry aij by aij Ic as introduced in section 1. Note that = kAk1. Let p : n] ! M c . Set = p. Successively we will change to a : n] ! Mc . Set J := fj 2 cn]j j 2= f;P1c c;c 1 gg and call these columns oating (the others xed).

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