Download or read book Approximation and Online Algorithms written by Thomas Erlebach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, held in Palma de in October 2005. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshop include algorithmic game theory, approximation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, and mechanism design.