Download or read book Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms written by and published by SIAM. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January 1994 Symposium was jointly sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group for Automata and Computability Theory and the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics. Among the topics in 79 (unrefereed) papers: comparing point sets under projection; on-line search in a simple polygon; low- degree tests; maximal empty ellipsoids; roots of a polynomial and its derivatives; dynamic algebraic algorithms; fast comparison of evolutionary trees; an efficient algorithm for dynamic text editing; and tight bounds for dynamic storage allocation. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR