Algorithmic Applications in Management: First International Conference, AAIM 2005, Xian, China, June 22-25, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Algorithmic Applications in Management, AAIM 2005, held in Xian, China in June 2005.

The 46 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. Among the topics addressed are approximation, complexity, automatic timetabling, scheduling algorithms, game-theoretic algorithms, economic equilibrium computation, graph computations, network algorithms, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, sequencing, network management, data mining, Knapsack problems, etc.