Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques [electronic resource] : 16th International Workshop, APPROX 2013, and 17th International Workshop, RANDOM 2013, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Prasad Raghavendra, Sofya Raskhodnikova, Klaus Jansen, José D. P. Rolim.

Spectral Sparsification in Dynamic Graph Streams -- The Online Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem -- On the NP-Hardness of Approximating Ordering Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Approximating Large Frequency Moments with Pick-and-Drop Sampling -- Generalizing the Layering Method of Indyk and Woodruff: Recursive Sketches for Frequency-Based Vectors on Streams -- Capacitated Network Design on Undirected Graphs -- Scheduling Subset Tests: One-Time, Continuous, and How They Relate -- On the Total Perimeter of Homothetic Convex Bodies in a Convex Container -- Partial Interval Set Cover - Trade-Offs between Scalability and Optimality -- Online Square-into-Square Packing -- Online Non-clairvoyant Scheduling to Simultaneously Minimize All Convex Functions -- Shrinking Maxima, Decreasing Costs: New Online Packing and Covering Problems -- Multiple Traveling Salesmen in Asymmetric Metrics -- Approximate Indexability and Bandit Problems with Concave Rewards and Delayed Feedback -- The Approximability of the Binary Paintshop Problem -- Approximation Algorithms for Movement Repairmen -- Improved Hardness of Approximating Chromatic Number -- A Pseudo-approximation for the Genus of Hamiltonian Graphs -- A Local Computation Approximation Scheme to Maximum Matching -- Sketching Earth-Mover Distance on Graph Metrics -- Online Multidimensional Load Balancing -- A New Regularity Lemma and Faster Approximation Algorithms for Low Threshold Rank Graphs -- Interdiction Problems on Planar Graphs -- Conditional Random Fields, Planted Constraint Satisfaction and Entropy Concentration -- Finding Heavy Hitters from Lossy or Noisy Data -- Private Learning and Sanitization: Pure vs. Approximate Differential Privacy -- Phase Coexistence and Slow Mixing for the Hard-Core Model on Z2 -- Fast Private Data Release Algorithms for Sparse Queries -- Local Reconstructors and Tolerant Testers for Connectivity and Diameter -- An Optimal Lower Bound for Monotonicity Testing over Hypergrids -- Small-Bias Sets for Nonabelian Groups: Derandomizations of the Alon-Roichman Theorem -- What You Can Do with Coordinated Samples -- Robust Randomness Amplifiers: Upper and Lower Bounds -- The Power of Choice for Random Satisfiability -- Connectivity of Random High Dimensional Geometric Graphs -- Matching-Vector Families and LDCs over Large Modulo -- Explicit Noether Normalization for Simultaneous Conjugation via Polynomial Identity Testing -- Testing Membership in Counter Automaton Languages -- Tight Lower Bounds for Testing Linear Isomorphism -- Randomness-Efficient Curve Samplers -- Combinatorial Limitations of Average-Radius List Decoding -- Zero Knowledge LTCs and Their Applications -- A Tight Lower Bound for High Frequency Moment Estimation with Small Error -- Improved FPTAS for Multi-spin Systems -- Pseudorandomness for Regular Branching Programs via Fourier Analysis -- Absolutely Sound Testing of Lifted Codes -- On the Average Sensitivity and Density of k-CNF Formulas -- Improved Bounds on the Phase Transition for the Hard-Core Model in 2-Dimensions.