@InProceedings{ghaffari_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2017.20, author = {Ghaffari, Mohsen and Lymouri, Christiana}, title = {{Simple and Near-Optimal Distributed Coloring for Sparse Graphs}}, booktitle = {31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)}, pages = {20:1--20:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-053-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {91}, editor = {Richa, Andr\'{e}a}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.20}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-80178}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.20}, annote = {Keywords: Distributed Graph Algorithms, Graph Coloring, Arboricity} }