Algorithms and Computation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC'96, held in Osaka, Japan, in December 1996.The 43 revised full papers were selected from a total of 119 submissions; also included are an abstract of one invited talk and a full version of a second. Among the topics covered are computational geometry, graph theory, graph algorithms, combinatorial optimization, searching and sorting, networking, scheduling, and coding and cryptology.