The results and activities of the ALCOM-FT project may be grouped as follows:
Below, we list the contribution of the project in each of these
categories. Some of these contributions are formally defined as
deliverables of the project, others are simply activities
performed within the project.
At the end, we give a list of all deliverables of the project.
A major contribution from the ALCOM-FT project are research papers documenting our scientific findings. These papers are published via the normal channels of the scientific community, in particular conferences and journals.
Besides these channels, all scientific papers resulting from the ALCOM-FT project also appear in the ALCOM-FT Report Series, which is available on-line. The series now comprises 538 scientific reports.
The following software systems have been developed during the ALCOM-FT project:
In an effort to increase the transfer of advanced algorithmic methods from research to industri, the partners of the consortium are available for talks on algorithms and our deliverables aimed at industrial audiences. For further information about the talks offered, contact the Project Coordinator at alcomft@brics.dk. As an example, site Paderborn has established a series called Industrie trifft Informatik (Industry meets Computer Science), which is a forum (in German) where university and business cultivate their dialogue in the field of information technologies, and where possibilities for new cooperations are launched.
A total of eight summer schools/workshops on forefront topics in algorithmics have been organised with funding from the ALCOM-FT project. These events were targeted at Ph.D. students and young researchers, and were open to participants from all European countries.
The eight events were:
| Title | Date | Place |
| ADFOCS 2000 | August 31 to September 4, 2000 | Saarbrücken |
| Spring School on Dynamic Algorithms | May 10 to May 11, 2001 | Paderborn |
| ADFOCS 2001 | September 4 to September 8, 2001 | Saarbrücken |
| Summer School on Algorithm Engineering | September 10 to September 12, 2001 | Rome |
| Advanced school on Models and Algorithms for the World Wide Web | June 17 to 21, 2002 | Udine |
| ADFOCS 2002 | September 9 to 13, 2002 | Saarbrücken |
| Workshop on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures 2003 | March 10, 2003 | Paderborn |
| ADFOCS 2003 | September 8 to 12, 2003 | Saarbrücken |
As a means to increase the awareness of algorithmics in research communities outside ALCOM-FT, we have set up two algorithmic competitions based on finding worst case instances for graph algorithms from the LEDA library.
The following events have occured or are currently scheduled:
| Event | Date | Place |
| Steering Committee meeting | September 9, 2000 | Saarbrücken |
| First annual review meeting | September 13, 2001 | Rome |
| ALCOM-FT Workshop | September 14-15, 2001 | Rome |
| ALCOM-FT Workshop | July 5, 2002 | Warwick |
| Second annual review meeting | July 6, 2002 | Warwick |
| ALCOM-FT Workshop | January 22, 2004 | Aarhus |
| Final review meeting | January 23, 2004 | Aarhus |
Various documents related to the running of the ALCOM-FT project have been produced. These include the following:
The following deliverables of the ALCOM-FT project have been completed:
| No. | Deliverable | Month
| D1 | Research reports (web site)
| Cont.
| D2 | Project Presentation (web site) | 3
| D3 | Dissemination and Use Plan (ps, pdf) | 6
| D4 | Guidelines for algorithmic experiments,
internal release (ps, pdf) | 6
| D5 | Testbed for experimental algorithmics,
specification (ps, pdf) | 6
| D6 | External memory experimental platform,
design (ps, pdf) | 12
| D7 | Distributed algorithmic engineering
software package, prototype (web site) | 12
| D8 | BSP-style library for dynamic distributed
environments, prototype (web site) | 12
| D9 | Production and transportation planning
modeling report. Part A (ps, pdf), Part B (ps, pdf) | 12
| D10 | Guidelines for algorithmic experiments,
external release (Springer
LNCS volume) | 36
| D11 | Algorithm Forum web site (web site) | 12
| D12 | First progress report (ps, pdf)
with addendum (ps, pdf) | 12
| D13 | Testbed for experimental algorithmics,
internal release (website). | 18
| D14 | PR web-pages for algorithmics (website). | 36
| D15 | External memory experimental platform,
prototype (website). | 36
| D16 | Data mining demonstration package (web
site) | 24
| D17 | Distributed algorithmic engineering
software package, beta version (web site) | 24
| D18 | BSP-style library for dynamic
distributed enviroments, beta version (web site) | 24
| D19 | Production and transportation planning
software prototype (ps, pdf, source
code) | 36
| D20 | Description language for high level
constraints in optimization (web site) | 24
| D21 | Testbed for experimental algorithmics,
external release (web
site) | 24
| D22 | Second progress report (ps, pdf) | 24
| D23 | Library of separation routines for
ABACUS (web
site) | 36
| D24 | External memory experimental platform,
final release (web site) | 42
| D25 | Distributed algorithmic engineering
software package, final release (web site) | 42
| D26 | BSP-style library for dynamic
distributed environments, final release (web site) | 42
| D27 | Production and transportation planning
software user evaluation report (ps, pdf) | 42
| D28 | Production and transportation planning
problem instance database (ps, pdf) | 42
| D29 | Complete software system for structured
combinatorial optimization problems (web site) | 42
| D30 | Testbed for experimental algorithmics,
final release (web
site) | 42
| D32 | Third progress report (ps, pdf) | 42
| D33 | Final report (ps, pdf) | 42
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