FSTTCS 2004: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science: 24th International Conference, Chennai, India, December 16-18, 2004, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540240587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 532 str.

Kamal Lodaya;Meena Mahajan

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on the Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS 2004, held in Chennai, India, in December 2004.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. The papers address a broad variety of current issues in software science, programming theory, systems design and analysis, formal methods, mathematical logic, mathematical foundations, discrete mathematics, combinatorial mathematics, complexity theory, automata theory, and theoretical computer science in general.

Spis treści

Invited Papers.- Genome Halving Problem Revisited.- Verifying Probabilistic Procedural Programs.- Streaming Algorithms for Geometric Problems.- Toward a Grainless Semantics for Shared-Variable Concurrency.- Regular Languages, Unambiguous Concatenation and Computational Complexity.- Contributed Papers.- Decidability of Zenoness, Syntactic Boundedness and Token-Liveness for Dense-Timed Petri Nets.- On the Urgency Expressiveness.- Asynchronous Automata-Theoretic Characterization of Aperiodic Trace Languages.- A Decidable Fragment of Separation Logic.- Approximate Range Searching Using Binary Space Partitions.- Representable Disjoint NP-Pairs.- Symbolic Reachability Analysis of Higher-Order Context-Free Processes.- Optimal Strategies in Priced Timed Game Automata.- A Calculus for Trust Management.- Short-Cuts on Star, Source and Planar Unfoldings.- Subdividing Alpha Complex.- Real-Counter Automata and Their Decision Problems.- Adjunct Elimination Through Games in Static Ambient Logic.- On the Bisimulation Invariant Fragment of Monadic ?1 in the Finite.- On the Complexity of Hilbert’s 17th Problem.- Who is Pointing When to Whom?.- An Almost Linear Time Approximation Algorithm for the Permanent of a Random (0-1) Matrix.- Distributed Games with Causal Memory Are Decidable for Series-Parallel Systems.- Expand, Enlarge, and Check: New Algorithms for the Coverability Problem of WSTS.- Minimum Weight Pseudo-Triangulations.- Join Algorithms for the Theory of Uninterpreted Functions.- No, Coreset, No Cry.- Hardness Hypotheses, Derandomization, and Circuit Complexity.- Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Graph Partitioning Problems Extended Abstract.- Learning Languages from Positive Data and a Finite Number of Queries.- The Complexity of the Local Hamiltonian Problem.- Quantum and Classical Communication-Space Tradeoffs from Rectangle Bounds.- Adaptive Stabilization of Reactive Protocols.- Visibly Pushdown Games.- Refinement and Separation Contexts.- Decidability of MSO Theories of Tree Structures.- Distributed Algorithms for Coloring and Domination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Monotone Multilinear Boolean Circuits for Bipartite Perfect Matching Require Exponential Size.- Testing Geometric Convexity.- Complexity of Linear Connectivity Problems in Directed Hypergraphs.- Actively Learning to Verify Safety for FIFO Automata.- Reasoning About Game Equilibria Using Temporal Logic.- Alternation in Equational Tree Automata Modulo XOR.