Complexity Theory Retrospective: In Honor of Juris Hartmanis on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, July 5, 1988

ISBN-13: 9781461287933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 234 str.

Alan L. Selman

Opis

In 1965 Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns published a paper "On the Computational Complexity of Algorithms." The field of complexity theory takes its name from this seminal paper and many of the major concepts and issues of complexity theory were introduced by Hartmanis in subsequent work. In honor of the contribution of Juris Hartmanis to the field of complexity theory, a special session of invited talks by Richard E. Stearns, Allan Borodin and Paul Young was held at the third annual meeting of the Structure in Complexity conference, and the first three chapters of this book are the final versions of these talks. They recall intellectual and professional trends in Hartmanis' contributions. All but one of the remainder of the chapters in this volume originated as a presentation at one of the recent meetings of the Structure in Complexity Theory Conference and appeared in preliminary form in the conference proceedings. In all, these expositions form an excellent description of much of contemporary complexity theory.

Spis treści

0 Introduction.- 1 Juris Hartmanis: The Beginnings of Computational Complexity.- 2 Juris Hartmanis: Building a Department—Building a Discipline.- 3 Juris Hartmanis: Fundamental Contributions to Isomorphism Problems.- 4 Describing Graphs: A First-Order Approach to Graph Canonization.- 5 Self-Reducibility: Effects of Internal Structure on Computational Complexity.- 6 The Structure of Complete Degrees.- 7 Applications of Kolmogorov Complexity in the Theory of Computation.- 8 The Power of Counting.

O autorze

Juris Hartmanis is a pioneer of complexity theory. This Festschrift recalls his work and reviews the current state of the theory.