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Record Nr.

UNISA996466156903316

Titolo

STACS 99 : 16th annual symposium on theoretical aspects of computer science, Trier, Germany, March 4-6, 1999 : proceedings / / Christoph Meinel, Sophie Tison, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

3-540-49116-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 590 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; ; 1563

Disciplina

004.015113

Soggetti

Computer science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Talks -- Algorithms for Selfish Agents -- The Reduced Genus of a Multigraph -- Classifying Discrete Temporal Properties -- Complexity 1 -- Circuit Complexity of Testing Square-Free Numbers -- Relating Branching Program Size and Formula Size over the Full Binary Basis -- Theory of Parallel Algorithms 1 -- Memory Organization Schemes for Large Shared Data: A Randomized Solution for Distributed Memory Machines -- The Average Time Complexity to Compute Prefix Functions in Processor Networks -- Complexity 2 -- On the Hardness of Permanent -- One-Sided Versus Two-Sided Error in Probabilistic Computation -- Computational Geometry -- An Optimal Competitive Strategy for Walking in Streets -- An Optimal Strategy for Searching in Unknown Streets -- Parallel Searching on m Rays -- Complexity 3 -- A Logical Characterisation of Linear Time on Nondeterministic Turing Machines -- Descriptive Complexity of Computable Sequences -- Complexity of Some Problems in Universal Algebra -- Algorithms and Data Structures 1 -- New Branchwidth Territories -- Balanced Randomized Tree Splitting with Applications to Evolutionary Tree Constructions -- Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In of Weakly Triangulated Graphs -- Automata and Formal Languages -- Decidability and Undecidability of Marked PCP -- On Quadratic Word Equations -- Some Undecidability Results Related to the Star Problem in Trace Monoids -- Algorithms and Data Structures 2 -- An



Approximation Algorithm for Max p-Section -- Approximating Bandwidth by Mixing Layouts of Interval Graphs -- Linear Time 1/2-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Weighted Matching in General Graphs -- Complexity 4 -- Extending Downward Collapse from 1-versus-2 Queries to j-versus-j + 1 Queries -- Sparse Sets, Approximable Sets, and Parallel Queries to NP -- Algorithms and Data Structures 3 -- External Selection -- Fast Computations of the Exponential Function -- Verification -- A Model of Behaviour Abstraction for Communicating Processes -- Model Checking Lossy Vector Addition Systems -- Algorithms and Data Structures 4 -- Constructing Light Spanning Trees with Small Routing Cost -- Finding Paths with the Right Cost -- Complexity 5 -- In How Many Steps the k Peg Version of the Towers of Hanoi Game Can Be Solved? -- Lower Bounds for Dynamic Algebraic Problems -- An Explicit Lower Bound for TSP with Distances One and Two -- Theory of Parallel Algorithms 2 -- Scheduling Dynamic Graphs -- Supporting Increment and Decrement Operations in Balancing Networks -- Worst-Case Equilibria -- Algorithmic Learning -- A Complete and Tight Average-Case Analysis of Learning Monomials -- Costs of General Purpose Learning -- Universal Distributions and Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity -- Logic in Computer Science -- The Descriptive Complexity Approach to LOGCFL -- The Weakness of Self-Complementation -- On the Difference of Horn Theories -- Complexity 6 -- On Quantum Algorithms for Noncommutative Hidden Subgroups -- On the Size of Randomized OBDDs and Read-Once Branching Programs for k-Stable Functions -- How To Forget a Secret -- Logic in Computer Science 2 -- A Modal Fixpoint Logic with Chop -- Completeness of Neighbourhood Logic -- Eliminating Recursion in the ?-Calculus -- Complexity 7 -- On Optimal Algorithms and Optimal Proof Systems -- Space Bounds for Resolution -- Algorithms and Data Structures 5 -- Upper Bounds for Vertex Cover Further Improved -- Online Matching for Scheduling Problems.