Ingo Wegener

Reflects recent developments in its emphasis on randomized and approximation algorithms and communication models All topics are considered from an algorithmic point of view stressing the implications for algorithm design

Exploring the Limits of Efficient Algorithms

Complexity Theory

Ning Cai

Gunter Dueck

Zhen Zhang

Ingo Althöfer

Levon H. Khachatrian

Marcus Pinsker

G. Sarkozy

Numbers, Information and Complexity is a collection of about 50 articles in honour of Rudolf Ahlswede. His main areas of research are represented in the three sections, `Numbers and Combinations', `Information Theory (Channels and Networks, Combinatorial and Algebraic Coding, Cryptology, with the related fields Data Compression, Entropy Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, Probability and Statistics)', and `Complexity'. Special attention was paid to the interplay between the fields. Surveys on topics of current interest are included as well as new research results. The book features surveys on Combinatorics about topics such as intersection theorems, which are not yet covered in textbooks, several contributions by leading experts in data compression, and relations to Natural Sciences are discussed.

Numbers, Information and Complexity

Bart Preneel

Michele Bugliesi

Vladimiro Sassone

The two-volume set LNCS 4051 and LNCS 4052 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006, held in Venice, Italy, July 2006. In all, these volumes present more 100 papers and lectures. Volume II (4052) presents 2 invited papers and 2 additional conference tracks with 24 papers each, focusing on algorithms, automata, complexity and games as well as on security and cryptography foundation.

33rd International Colloquium, ICALP 2006, Venice, Italy, July 10-14, 2006, Proceedings, Part II

Automata, Languages and Programming

Norbert Wurm

Sang-Zin Yi

Symmetric functions in ACO can be computed in constant depth with very small size

Thomas Jansen

Stefan Droste

A Natural and Simple Function Wich is Hard for All Evolutionary Algorithms

Finite functions (in particular, Boolean functions) play a fundamental role in computer science and discrete mathematics. This book describes representations of Boolean functions that have small size for many important functions and which allow efficient work with the represented functions. The representation size of important and selected functions is estimated, upper and lower bound techniques are studied, efficient algorithms for operations on these representations are presented, and the limits of those techniques are considered. This book is the first comprehensive description of theory and applications. Research areas like complexity theory, efficient algorithms, data structures, and discrete mathematics will benefit from the theory described in this book. The results described within have applications in verification, computer-aided design, model checking, and discrete mathematics. This is the only book to investigate the representation size of Boolean functions and efficient algorithms on these representations.

Theory and Applications

Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams

33rd International Colloquium, ICALP 2006, Venice, Italy, July 10-14, 2006, Proceedings

Das Neue an dieser Einführung in die Theoretische Informatik ist die konsequent algorithmenorientierte Sichtweise, d.h. eine Umsetzung in praktisch und theoretisch effiziente Algorithmen wird angestrebt. Auf diese Weise bietet das Buch eine Einführung in die zentralen Gebiete der Theoretischen Informatik, wie sie in einer Einführungsvorlesung an deutschen Universitäten vorgesehen ist.

— eine algorithmenorientierte Einführung

Theoretische Informatik

Presents a large number of recent research results previously unavailable in book form. Initially deals with the wee-known computation models, and goes on to special types of circuits, parallel computers, and branching programs. Includes basic theory as well recent research findings. Each chapter includes exercises.

The Complexity of Boolean Functions

The two-volume set LNCS 4051 and LNCS 4052 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006, held in Venice, Italy, July 2006. In all, these volumes present more 100 papers and lectures. Volume I (4051) presents 61 revised full papers together with 1 invited lecture, focusing on algorithms, automata, complexity and games, on topics including graph theory, quantum computing, and more.

Ingo Wegener

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