Invited Talk -- The Robustness of Level Sets -- Session 1a -- Solving an Avionics Real-Time Scheduling Problem by Advanced IP-Methods -- Non-clairvoyant Speed Scaling for Weighted Flow Time -- A Robust PTAS for Machine Covering and Packing -- Session 1b -- Balancing Degree, Diameter and Weight in Euclidean Spanners -- Testing Euclidean Spanners -- Fast Approximation in Subspaces by Doubling Metric Decomposition -- f-Sensitivity Distance Oracles and Routing Schemes -- Session 2a -- Fast Minor Testing in Planar Graphs -- On the Number of Spanning Trees a Planar Graph Can Have -- Contractions of Planar Graphs in Polynomial Time -- Session 2b -- Communication Complexity of Quasirandom Rumor Spreading -- A Complete Characterization of Group-Strategyproof Mechanisms of Cost-Sharing -- Contribution Games in Social Networks -- Session 3a -- Improved Bounds for Online Stochastic Matching -- Online Stochastic Packing Applied to Display Ad Allocation -- Caching Is Hard – Even in the Fault Model -- Session 3b -- Superselectors: Efficient Constructions and Applications -- Estimating the Average of a Lipschitz-Continuous Function from One Sample -- Streaming Graph Computations with a Helpful Advisor -- Session 4a -- Algorithms for Dominating Set in Disk Graphs: Breaking the logn Barrier -- Minimum Vertex Cover in Rectangle Graphs -- Feedback Vertex Sets in Tournaments -- Session 4b -- n-Level Graph Partitioning -- Fast Routing in Very Large Public Transportation Networks Using Transfer Patterns -- Finding the Diameter in Real-World Graphs -- Session 5a -- Budgeted Red-Blue Median and Its Generalizations -- All Ternary Permutation Constraint Satisfaction Problems Parameterized above Average Have Kernels with Quadratic Numbers of Variables -- Strong Formulations for the Multi-module PESP and a Quadratic Algorithm for Graphical Diophantine Equation Systems -- Robust Algorithms for Sorting Railway Cars -- Session 5b -- Cloning Voronoi Diagrams via Retroactive Data Structures -- A Unified Approach to Approximate Proximity Searching -- Spatio-temporal Range Searching over Compressed Kinetic Sensor Data -- Constructing the Exact Voronoi Diagram of Arbitrary Lines in Three-Dimensional Space -- Invited Talk -- Local Graph Exploration and Fast Property Testing -- Session 6a -- A Fully Compressed Algorithm for Computing the Edit Distance of Run-Length Encoded Strings -- Fast Prefix Search in Little Space, with Applications -- On the Huffman and Alphabetic Tree Problem with General Cost Functions -- Medium-Space Algorithms for Inverse BWT -- Session 6b -- Median Trajectories -- Optimal Cover of Points by Disks in a Simple Polygon -- Stability of ?-Kernels -- The Geodesic Diameter of Polygonal Domains -- Session 7a -- Polyhedral and Algorithmic Properties of Quantified Linear Programs -- Approximating Parameterized Convex Optimization Problems -- Approximation Schemes for Multi-Budgeted Independence Systems -- Session 7b -- Algorithmic Meta-theorems for Restrictions of Treewidth -- Determining Edge Expansion and Other Connectivity Measures of Graphs of Bounded Genus -- Constructing the R* Consensus Tree of Two Trees in Subcubic Time.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, held in Liverpool, UK in September 2010.