The papers address a variety of graph-theoretic issues relevant from the computer science point of view such as graph algorithms, cycles, graph decompositions, interconnection networks, local search, graph orderings, graph matching, graph languages, tree-width computation, etc.

Gadgets, approximation, and linear programming: Improved hardness results for cut and satisfiability problems.- Non-oblivious local search for MAX 2-CCSP with application to MAX DICUT.- On the number of simple cycles in planar graphs.- On the separable-homogeneous decomposition of graphs.- Pseudo-hamiltonian graphs.- Acyclic orientations for deadlock prevention in interconnection networks.- Weak-order extensions of an order.- An upper bound for the maximum cut mean value.- NP-completeness results for minimum planar spanners.- Computing the independence number of dense triangle-free graphs.- Algorithms for the treewidth and minimum fill-in of HHD-free graphs.- Block decomposition of inheritance hierarchies.- Minimal elimination ordering inside a given chordal graph.- On-line algorithms for networks of temporal constraints.- Parallel algorithms for treewidth two.- On optimal graphs embedded into paths and rings, with analysis using l 1-spheres.- On greedy matching ordering and greedy matchable graphs.- Off-line and on-line call-scheduling in stars and trees.- Computational complexity of the Krausz dimension of graphs.- Asteroidal sets in graphs.- Complexity of colored graph covers I. Colored directed multigraphs.- A syntactic approach to random walks on graphs.- Bicliques in graphs II: Recognizing k-path graphs and underlying graphs of line digraphs.- Large networks with small diameter.- The bounded tree-width problem of context-free graph languages.- Structured programs have small tree-width and good register allocation.- A measure of parallelization for the lexicographically first maximal subgraph problems.- Make your enemies transparent.- Optimal fault-tolerant ATM-routings for biconnected graphs.

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