Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation, ALENEX 2001, held in Washington, DC, USA in January 2001.;The 15 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of three invited presentations have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision and were selected from 31 submissions.;Among the topics addressed are heuristics for approximation, network optimization, TSP, randomization, sorting, information retrieval, graph computations, tree clustering, scheduling, network algorithms, point set computations, searching, and data mining.