Publications by Anastasios Sidiropoulos

How to walk your dog in the mountains with no magic leash.
Sariel Har-Peled, Amir Nayyeri, Mohammad Salavatipour, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
[PDF]


How strong is Nisan's pseudo-random generator?
Matei David, Periklis Papakonstantinou, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Information Processing Letters, 2011.


Near-optimal distortion bounds for embedding doubling spaces into L1.
James R. Lee, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2011). [Extended abstract: PDF, Slides: PDF, Video of lecture]


Computationally limited randomness.
Matei David, Phuong Nguyen, Periklis Papakonstantinou, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science (ICS 2011). [PDF]


On graph crossing number and edge planarization.
Julia Chuzhoy, Yury Makarychev, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2011). [Extended abstract: PDF, full version: PDF, slides: PDF]


Optimal stochastic planarization.
Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2010). [Arxiv, slides: PDF, Video of lecture]


On-line embeddings.
Piotr Indyk, Avner Magen, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Anastasios Zouzias.
Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2010). [PDF]


Genus and the geometry of the cut graph.
James R. Lee, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010). [PDF, slides: PDF]


Inapproximability for planar embedding problems.
Jeff Edmonds, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Anastasios Zouzias.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010). [PDF]


Undecidability and intractability results concerning datalog programs and their persistency numbers.
Stavros Cosmadakis, Eugenie Foustoucos, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 2010. [PDF]


Randomly removing g handles at once.
Glencora Borradaile, James R. Lee, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Journal version: Invited to Computational Geometry. [Link to article]
Preliminary version: ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2009). [PDF]


On the geometry of graphs with a forbidden minor.
James R. Lee, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2009). [Extended abstract: PDF, slides: PDF]


Streaming Embeddings with Slack.
Christiane Lammersen, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Christian Sohler.
Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2009).


Inapproximability for metric embeddings into Rd.
Jiri Matousek, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Journal version: Transactions of the AMS, 2010.
Preliminary version: IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2008). [Extended abstract: PDF, full version: PDF, slides: PDF]


Ordinal embedding: Approximation algorithms and dimensionality reduction.
Mihai Badoiu, Erik Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Morteza Zadimoghaddam.
Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2008). [PS, PDF]


Fat polygonal partitions with applications to visualization and embeddings.
Mark de Berg, Krzysztof Onak, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Submitted. [Arxiv]
Preliminary version: Circular partitions with applications to visualization and embeddings.
Krzysztof Onak, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2008). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


On distributing symmetric streaming computations.
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Cliff Stein, Zoya Svitkina.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2008). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


Probabilistic embeddings of bounded genus graphs into planar graphs.
Piotr Indyk, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2007). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


Approximation algorithms for embedding general metrics into trees.
Mihai Badoiu, Piotr Indyk, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


Embedding ultrametrics into low-dimensional spaces.
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2006). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


Convergence and approximation in potential games.
George Christodoulou, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2006). [PS, PDF]


Low-distortion embeddings of general metrics into the line.
Mihai Badoiu, Julia Chuzhoy, Piotr Indyk, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2005). [Extended abstract: PS, PDF, full version: PDF]


Ordinal embeddings of minimum relaxation: General properties, trees, and ultrametrics.
Noga Alon, Mihai Badoiu, Erik Demaine, Martin Farach-Colton, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Journal version: ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2008.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2005). [PS, PDF, slides: PDF]


Approximation algorithms for low-distortion embeddings into low-dimensional spaces.
Mihai Badoiu, Kedar Dhamdhere, Anupam Gupta, Yuri Rabinovich, Harald Raecke, R. Ravi, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2005). [PS, PDF]


Fractional and integral coloring of locally-symmetric sets of paths on binary trees.
Ioannis Caragiannis, Christos Kaklamanis, Pino Persiano, Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
Workshop on Approximation and On-line Algorithms (WAOA 2003). [PS, PDF]

Thesis

PhD Thesis.
Computational metric embeddings.
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, May 2008. [PS, PDF]


MSc Thesis.
Approximation algorithms for low-distortion embeddings into low-dimensional spaces.
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, May 2005. [PS, PDF]