Fun with Algorithms

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Fun with Olympiad in Algorithmics.- The FUNnest Talks That belong to FUN (Abstract).- Fun with Games.- Do We Need a Stack to Erase a Component in a Binary Image?.- Kaboozle Is NP-complete, Even in a Strip.- A Hat Trick.- Fun at a Department Store: Data Mining Meets Switching Theory.- Using Cell Phone Keyboards Is ( ) Hard.- Urban Hitchhiking.- A Fun Application of Compact Data Structures to Indexing Geographic Data.- On Table Arrangements, Scrabble Freaks, and Jumbled Pattern Matching.- Cryptographic and Physical Zero-Knowledge Proof: From Sudoku to Nonogram.- A Better Bouncer's Algorithm.- Tradeoffs in Process Strategy Games with Application in the WDM Reconfiguration Problem.- UNO Is Hard, Even for a Single Player.- Leveling-Up in Heroes of Might and Magic III.- The Magic of a Number System.- Bit-(Parallelism)2: Getting to the Next Level of Parallelism.- An Algorithmic Analysis of the Honey-Bee Game.- Mapping an Unfriendly Subway System.- Cracking Bank PINs by Playing Mastermind.- Computational Complexity of Two-Dimensional Platform Games.- Christmas Gift Exchange Games.- Return of the Boss Problem: Competing Online against a Non-adaptive Adversary.- Managing Change in the Era of the iPhone.- The Computational Complexity of RaceTrack.- Simple Wriggling Is Hard Unless You Are a Fat Hippo.- The Urinal Problem.- Fighting Censorship with Algorithms.- The Complexity of Flood Filling Games.- The Computational Complexity of the Kakuro Puzzle, Revisited.- Symmetric Monotone Venn Diagrams with Seven Curves.- The Feline Josephus Problem.- Scheduling with Bully Selfish Jobs.- O(1)-Time Unsorting by Prefix-Reversals in a Boustrophedon Linked List.