Flexible and Efficient Information Handling ; 23rd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 23, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, July 18-20, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 23, held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 2006. The volume presents 12 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers, together with 2 invited lectures and 13 poster papers. Topical sections include data modelling and architectures and transaction management, data integration and interoperability and information retrieval, query processing and optimisation, data mining, data warehousing and more.
Approximation, randomization, and combinatorial optimization algorithms and techniques ; 9th International Workshop on approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, APPROX 2006 and 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, August 28-30, 2006, Proceedings
This is the joint refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2006 and the 10th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2006. The book presents 44 carefully reviewed and revised full papers. Among the topics covered are design and analysis of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation problems, small spaces and data streaming algorithms, embeddings and metric space methods, and more.

