Mikhail J. Atallah is a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University.Marina Blanton is an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department at the University of Notre Dame

• Preface, Editors, Contributors, 1 Algorithm Design and Analysis Techniques, 2 Searching, 3 Sorting and Order Statistics, 4 Basic Data Structures, 5 Topics in Data Structures, 6 Multidimensional Data Structures for Spatial Applications, 7 Basic Graph Algorithms, 8 Advanced Combinatorial Algorithms, 9 Dynamic Graph Algorithms, 10 External-Memory Algorithms and Data Structures, 11 Average Case Analysis of Algorithms, 12 Randomized Algorithms, 13 Pattern Matching in Strings, 14 Text Data Compression Algorithms, 15 General Pattern Matching, 16 Computational Number Theory, 17 Algebraic and Numerical Algorithms, 18 Applications of FFT and Structured Matrices, 19 Basic Notions in Computational Complexity, 20 Formal Grammars and Languages, 21 Computability, 22 Complexity Classes, 23 Reducibility and Completeness, 24 Other Complexity Classes and Measures, 25 Parameterized Algorithms, 26 Computational Learning Theory, 27 Algorithmic Coding Theory, 28 Parallel Computation: Models and Complexity Issues, 29 Distributed Computing: A Glimmer of a Theory, 30 Linear Programming, 31 Integer Programming, 32 Convex Optimization, 33 Simulated Annealing Techniques, 34 Approximation Algorithms for NP-Hard Optimization Problems