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Lukasz Kowalik

Lukasz Kowalik

Postdoctoral researcher in

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 1: Algorithms and Complexity
Building 46.1, Room 318
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Publications


Publications in MPI database

Published papers

  1. A Note on Scheduling Equal-Length Jobs to Maximize Throughput, with M. Chrobak, C. Durr, W. Jawor, M. Kurowski
    Short version: Journal on Scheduling, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2006, 71-73.
    [BibTeX entry] [PDF]
    Extended version: arXiv.org e-Print archive, cs.DS/0410046, 2004.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
  2. A Generalization of Kotzig's Theorem and its Application, with Richard Cole, Riste Skrekovski,
    Technical Report no. IMFM-(2005)-PS-999, Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics in Ljubljana, November 2005.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © SIAM. To appear in SIAM J. Discrete Math.
  3. Fast 3-Coloring Triangle-Free Planar Graphs,
    Proc. 12th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2004), LNCS 3221, 2004, 436-447.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
    Full version (submitted Jan 2005): [PS] [PDF]
  4. More on Light Graphs in 3-Connected Plane Graphs Without Triangular or Quadrangular Faces,
    Technical Report no. 275, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, 2004.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
  5. Short Cycles in Planar Graphs,
    Proc. 29th Workshop Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Comp. Sci. (WG 2003), LNCS 2880, 2003, 284-296.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
  6. Short Path Queries in Planar Graphs in Constant Time, with M.Kurowski,
    Proc. 35th Symp. Theory of Computing (STOC 2003), 2003, 143-148.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © ACM, the original publication is available at portal.acm.org
  7. A New 3-Color Criterion For Planar Graphs, with K. Diks and M. Kurowski,
    Proc. 28th Workshop Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Comp. Sci. (WG 2002), LNCS 2573, 2002, 138-149.
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

Papers Accepted for Publication in Journals and Conference Proceedings

  1. Approximation Scheme for Lowest Outdegree Orientation and Graph Density Measures
    To appear in Proc. 17th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2006), LNCS, 2006.
    [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com
  2. Improved Edge Coloring with Three Colors
    To appear in Proc. 32nd Int. Workshop Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Comp. Sci. (WG 2006) , LNCS, 2006.
    [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com
    File [quasi-convex.cpp] contains the program used to find optimal values of parameters in measure-and-conquer time complexity proof of the 3-edge-coloring algorithm from the paper. It is a C++ implementation of the quasi-convex programming algorithm from the paper D. Eppstein "Quasiconvex Analysis of Backtracking Algorithms", Proc. SODA'04, pages 781-790, 2004.
  3. New Linear-Time Algortihms for Edge-Coloring Planar Graphs, with Richard Cole
    To appear in Algorithmica, (written 2005).
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © Springer, the original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com
  4. Oracles for Bounded Length Shortest Paths in Planar Graphs, with Maciej Kurowski
    To appear in ACM Transactions on Algorithms, (written 2005).
    [BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
    © ACM, the original publication will be available at portal.acm.org

Papers Submitted to Journals and Conferences

  1. Adjacency Queries in Dynamic Sparse Graphs
    submitted, 2006.

PhD Thesis

Algorytmiczne problemy sciezkowe w grafach planarnych (rozprawa doktorska),
Algorithmic Path Problems in Planar Graphs (PhD Thesis, in Polish)
Warsaw University, 2005.
[BibTeX entry] [PS] [PDF]
(The thesis is based on papers "Oracles for bounded length shortest paths in planar graphs", "Fast 3-coloring triangle-free planar graphs" and "Short cycles in planar graphs")

Other papers

  1. Spacery po mostach i przejazdzki po miescie, Software 2.0, 7 / 2002. (in Polish)

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