I was just reading through the paper “Cache Oblivious Distribution Sweeping” By Gerth and Rolf. That paper refers some details and applications of the distribution sweeping algorithm to the full version of the paper which it claims is in the BRICS Technical Report RS-02-18. So I look that up on the BRICS homepage and see that this supposedly full version is one of the only papers in the technical report which is not available online directly. It states that the paper is in volume 2380 of the Lecture Notes in Compute Science at Springer. These notes were not readily available online, so I walked to the computer science library which is near my office and find the notes, locate the article in the table of contents and go to it. My worst fears were then realized as I noted that It was the exact same article I already was reading, so I had just follow a cycle and the paper referred to itself (albeit in a somewhat tedious way). Well, maybe not, but it is still annoying. Maybe they decided not do to a full version anyways.
[Update] I did eventually find the pape, I just needed to improve my paper searching voodoo skills :)
Thomas, you simply didn’t do your research properly. Perhaps you found http://www.brics.dk/cgi-bin/viewpubupd?email=gerth#rr (or similar query) which just gives BibTeX for the research reports. It’s trying to be helpful by telling you that the conference version appeared in ICALP. But the research report exists, and is quite a bit longer. It’s on Gerth’s webpage: http://www.brics.dk/~gerth/pub58.html
Yeah, I did eventually find it through Gerth as well :)
Although in my defense, I’m pretty sure that TR had not been put online at the time I wrote this post two years ago :p.