List of accepted papers for APPROX 2002: Improved approximation algorithms for metric facility location Mohammad Mahdian and Yinyu Ye and Jiawei Zhang Two Approximation Algorithms for 3-Cycle Covers Markus Blaeser and Bodo Siebert Approximating Maximum Edge Coloring in Multigraphs Uriel Feige and Eran Ofek and Udi Wieder Approximation Algorithms for the Unsplittable Flow Problem. A. Chakrabarti and C. Chekuri and A. Gupta and A. Kumar Approximating Min-sum Set Cover U. Feige and L. Lovasz and P. Tetali Approximating the Geometric Minimum-Diameter Spanning Tree Joachim Gudmundsson and Herman Haverkort and Sang-Min Park and Chan-Su Shin and Alexander Wolff 1.5-Approximation for Treewidth of Graphs Excluding a Graph with One Crossing as a Minor Erik D. Demaine and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Dimitrios M. Thilikos Hardness of approximation for vertex-connectivity network design Guy Kortsarz and Robert Krauthgamer and James R. Lee Improved approximation algorithms for the partial vertex cover problem Eran Halperin and Aravind Srinivasan Non-Abusiveness Helps: An O(1)-Competitive Algorithm for Minimizing the Maximum Flow Time in the Online Traveling Salesman Problem Sven O. Krumke and Luigi Laura and Maarten Lipmann and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Willem E. de Paepe and Diana Poensgen and Leen Stougie Improved Approximation Algorithms for Multilevel Facility Alexander A. Ageev On the Power of Priority Algorithms for Facility Location and Set Spyros Angelopoulos and Allan Borodin Primal-Dual Algorithms for Connected Facility Location Problems Chaitanya Swami and Amit Kumar A 27/26-approximation algorithm for the chromatic sum coloring of bipartite graphs Krzysztof Giaro and Robert Janczewski and Marek Kubale and Michal Malafiejski Complexity of Makespan Minimization for Pipeline Transportation of Petroleum Products Ruy Luiz Milidi£ and Artur Alves Pessoa and Eduardo Sany Laber On Constrained Hypergraph Coloring and Scheduling Nitin Ahuja and Anand Srivastav Typical Rounding Problems Benjamin Doerr Approximating the complement of the maximum compatible subset of leaves of k trees Ganeshkumar Ganapathy and Tandy Warnow Minimum restricted diameter spanning trees Refael Hassin and Asaf Levin Routing and Admission Control in Networks with Advance Reservations Liane Lewin-Eytan and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Ariel Orda