Featuring 66 papers from the November 2000 conference in Redondo Beach, California, this volume presents recent and in some cases, continuing research in the fields of computer science and mathematics. Contributors tackle subjects like methods for extracting randomness, fairness measures for resource allocation, approximability, graph isomorphism, orthogonal range searching, testing functions, cryptography, clustering, opportunistic data structures, topological persistence and simplification, sampling, quantum Fourier transform, randomized rumor spreading, network design, and existential second-order logic. Name index only. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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