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Claire Kenyon and Andrew C. Yao On Evaluating Boolean Functions with Unreliable Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Saoudi and D. E. Muller and P. E. Schupp On the Complexity of omega-Tree Sets and Nerode Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 V. S. Subrahmanian A Ring-Theoretic Basis for Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Marek A. Suchenek Applications of Lyndon Homomorphism Theorems to the Theory of Minimal Models 49 Wei Wan-Di On a Personnel Assignment Problem . . . 61 Franco P. Preparata Planar Point Location Revisited . . . . 71
Emanuela Fachini and Jozef Gruska and Andrea Maggiolo Schettini and others Simulation of Systolic Tree Automata on Trellis Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 G. Ausiello and M. Protasi Limiting Polynomial Approximation of Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Sergio De Agostino and Rossella Petreschi Parallel Recognition Algorithms for Graphs with Restricted Neighbourhoods 123 Li Keqin and Cheng Kam-Hoi Generalized First-Fit Algorithms in Two and Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 131 Roberto Barbuti and Maurizio Martelli Recognizing Non-Floundering Logic Programs and Goals . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Franco Barbanera Combining Term Rewriting and Type Assignment Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Daniel P. Bovet and Miriam Di Ianni and Pierluigi Crescenzi Deadlock Prediction in the Case of Dynamic Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Danilo Bruschi and Deborah Joseph and Paul Young Strong Separations for the Boolean Hierarchy over RP . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Alessandra Cherubini and Claudio Citrini and Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and others Breadth and Depth Grammars and Deque Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Stefania Costantini Semantics of a Metalogic Programming Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Moreno Falaschi and Maurizio Gabbrielli and Giorgio Levi and others Nested Guarded Horn Clauses . . . . . . 249 Massimiliano Goldwurm Some Limit Distributions in Analysis of Algorithms for Problems on Trace Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Roberto Gorrieri and Ugo Montanari Towards Hierarchical Description of Systems: a Proof System for Strong Prefixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Erich Gradel On the Notion of Linear Time Computability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Filippo Mignosi Sturmian Words and Ambiguous Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 309 Adolfo Piperno and Enrico Tronci Regular Systems of Equations in lambda-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 G. Rosolini About Modest Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 341 A. Bertoni and C. Bohm and P. Miglioli Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Robert McNaughton The Development of Formal Language Theory Since 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . 355 William M. Farmer and Ronald J. Watro Redex Capturing in Term Graph Rewriting 369 Hubert Comon Solving Symbolic Ordering Constraints 387 Manfred Droste and Rudiger Gobel Universal Information Systems . . . . . 413 Jyrki Katajainen and Erkki Makinen Tree Compression and Optimization with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 A. P. Korah and M. R. Kaimal Dynamic Optimal Binary Search Tree . . . 449 V. S. Subrahmanian A Ring-Theoretic Basis for Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Martin Abadi and Benjamin Pierce and Gordon Plotkin Faithful Ideal Models for Recursive Polymorphic Types . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Thomas Wilmes Functional Production Systems Viewed as Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 J. A. Bergstra and S. Mauw and F. Wiedijk Uniform Algebraic Specifications of Finite Sets with Equality . . . . . . . 43 Cai Jin-Yi and Merrick Furst PSPACE Survives Constant-Width Bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Viktoria Zanko #P-Completeness via Many-One Reductions 77
V. Arvind and S. Biswas Edge-Deletion Graph Problems with First-Order Expressible Subgraph Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--100 Tung Nguyen Thanh A Relational Model of Demonic Nondeterministic Programs . . . . . . . 101--132 Hans L. Bodlaender On the Complexity of Some Coloring Games 133--148 Sachio Hirokawa Principal Type Assignment to Lambda Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--162 Tao Jiang and Edward McDowell and B. Ravikumar The Structure and Complexity of Minimal NFA's over a Unary Alphabet . . . . . . 163
Dung T. Huynh Efficient Detectors and Constructors for Simple Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--206 Chen Zhi-Zhong and Seinosuke Toda On the Complexity of Computing Optimal Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--220 A. Monti and D. Parente Systolic Tree with Base Automata . . . . 221--236 Lane A. Hemachandra and Sanjay Jain On the Limitations of Locally Robust Positive Reductions . . . . . . . . . . 237--256 Yves Metivier and Brigitte Rozoy On the Star Operation in Free Partially Commutative Monoids . . . . . . . . . . 257--266 J. V. Tucker and J. I. Zucker Projections of Semicomputable Relations on Abstract Data Types . . . . . . . . . 267
N. Marti-Oliet and J. Meseguer From Petri Nets to Linear Logic through Categories: a Survey . . . . . . . . . . 297--400 K. Inoue and A. Ito and I. Takanami Alternating Turing Machines with Modified Accepting Structure . . . . . . 401--418 G. Panti Solution of a Number Theoretic Problem Involving Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 419--424
S. Olariu and J. L. Schwing and J. Zhang Optimal Parallel Encoding and Decoding Algorithms for Trees . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 S. D. Agostino and R. Petreschi On PVsub chunk Operations and Matrogenic Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20 A. Saoudi Pushdown Automata on Infinite Trees and Nondeterministic Context-Free Programs 21--40 P. Campadelli and A. Morpurgo Learning Classes of Linearly Separable Boolean Functions from Positive Examples 41--54 F. Luccio and A. Pietracaprina and G. Pucci Analysis and Implementation of Parallel Uniform Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 J. Hromkovic and K. Inoue and B. Rovan and others On the Power of One-Way Synchronized Alternating Machines with Small Space 65--80 C. Marche The Word Problem of ACD-Ground Theories is Undecidable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--92 J. Case and S. Jain and A. Sharma On Learning Limiting Programs . . . . . 93
K. Lodaya and R. Ramanujam and P. S. Thiagarajan Temporal Logics for Communicating Sequential Agents: I . . . . . . . . . . 117--160 A. P. Stolboushkin On the Computing Power of Programs with Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--180 A. Bertoni and P. Massazza and N. Sabadini Holonomic Generating Functions and Context Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 181--192 W. van der Hoek and J.-J. Ch. Meyer Making Some Issues of Implicit Knowledge Explicit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--224 F. J. Oles When is a Category of Many-Sorted Algebras Cartesian Closed? . . . . . . . 225
A. Saoudi and D. E. Muller and P. E. Schupp Finite State Processes, $Z$-Temporal Logic and the Monadic Theory of the Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--244 S. L. Bloom and Z. Esik Iteration Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . 245--302 P. Krishnan A Calculus of Timed Communicating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--322 Y. Cheng and F. K. Hwang and I. F. Akyildiz and others Routing Algorithms for Double Loop Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--332 D. Pym A Unification Algorithm for the lambdaPi-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 333--378 S. Antonelli and S. Pelagatti On the Complexity of the Mapping Problem for Massively Parallel Architectures . . 379
M. Droste Concurrent Automata and Domains . . . . 389--418 F. Blanchet-Sadri The Dot-Depth of a Generating Class of Aperiodic Monoids is Computable . . . . 419--442 M. Mukund Petri Nets and Step Transition Systems 443--478 T. Ottmann and D. Wood Updating Binary Trees with Constant Linkage Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--502
J. Dassow and G. P\uaun and A. Salomaa Grammars Based on Patterns . . . . . . . 1--14 P. Crescenzi and R. Silvestri Average Measure, Descriptive Complexity and Approximation of Maximization Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--30 W. Penczek Temporal Logics for Trace Systems: On Automated Verification . . . . . . . . . 31--68 P. Kirschenhofer and H. Prodinger and W. Szpankowski Multidimensional Digital Searching and Some New Parameters in Tries . . . . . . 69--84 A. Moffat and O. Petersson Historical Searching . . . . . . . . . . 85--98 S. L. Bloom and Z. Esik Iteration Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . 99
S.-I. Nakano and T. Nishizeki Scheduling File Transfers Under Port and Channel Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 101--116 I. A. Stewart On Two Approximation Algorithms for the Clique Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134 O. H. Ibarra and T. Jiang and N. Tran and others On the Equivalence of Two-Way Pushdown Automata and Counter Machines Over Bounded Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146 M. T. Dickerson General Polynomial Decomposition and the $s$-$1$-Decomposition are NP-Hard . . . 147--156 S. Lange and T. Zeugmann Learning Recursive Languages With a Bounded Number of Mind Changes . . . . . 157--178 K. Diks and O. Garrido and A. Lingas Parallel Algorithms for Finding Maximal $k$-Dependent Sets and Maximal $f$-Matchings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
S. Olariu and I. A. Stewart A New Characterization of Unbreakable Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--196 F. Kamareddine and R. Nederpelt On Stepwise Explicit Substitution . . . 197--240 A. P. Lisitsa Complexity of Universal Circumscription 241--244 L. A. Hemaspaandra and S. Jain and N. K. Vereshchagin Banishing Robust Turing Completeness . . 245--266 B. F. Melnikov The Equality Condition for Infinite Catenations of Two Sets of Finite Words 267
K. Jansen Scheduling of Incompatible Jobs on Unrelated Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 275--292 H. Vollmer and K. W. Wagner The Complexity of Finding Middle Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--308 T. W. Lai and D. Wood A Top-Down Updating Algorithm for Weight-Balanced Trees . . . . . . . . . 309--324 A. Symvonis and S. Tragoudas Searching a Pseudo $3$-Sided Solid Orthoconvex Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--354 M. W. Vincent and B. Srinivasan Redundancy and the Justification for Fourth Normal Form in Relational Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
J.-Y. Cai Computing Jordan Normal Forms Exactly for Commuting Matrices in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? P. Duris and J. D. P. Rolim Conjunctive and Disjunctive Reducibilities to Sparse and Tally Sets Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? K. L. Leiberherr and C. Xiao Customizing Adaptive Software to Object-Oriented Software Using Grammars ?? J. Y.-T. Leung and V. K. M. Yu Heuristic for Minimizing the Number of Late Jobs on Two Processors . . . . . . ?? R. Maelbrancke and H. Olivie Dynamic Tree Rebalancing Using Recurrent Rotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? M. Ogihara On Serializable Languages . . . . . . . ?? J. L. Trahan and S. Vedantham Analysis of PRAM Instruction Sets from a Log Cost Perspective . . . . . . . . . . ?? H.-C. Yen and B.-Y. Wang and M.-S. Yang Some Complexity Results for Rings of Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
R. A. Baeza-Yates and P. V. Poblete Higher-Order Analysis of $2$-$3$ Trees 1 I. K. Musikaev and M. A. Taitslin Flat Backtracking Prolog for Databases: a Formal Semantics, the Computational Complexity and the Expressibility . . . 11 J. Hintikka and G. Sandu What is the Logic of Parallel Processing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 M. Monserrat and F. Rossello and J. Torrens When is a Category of Many-Sorted Partial Algebras Cartesian-Closed? . . . 51 J. Haralambides and S. Tragoudas Bipartitioning into Overlapping Sets . . 67 S. Jain An Infinite Class of Functions Identifiable Using Minimal Programs in All Kolmogorov Numberings . . . . . . . 89
S. L. Bloom and Z. Esik Some Equational Laws of Initiality in 2CCC's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 P. Besnard and J. Kohlas Evidence Theory Based on General Consequence Relations . . . . . . . . . 119 V. Arvind and J. Koebler and R. Schuler On Helping and Interactive Proof Systems 137 A. Clementi and M. Di Ianni Optimum Schedule Problems in Store and Forward Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 W. Peng and S. P. Iyer A New Type of Pushdown Automata on Infinite Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
S. Hayashi and S. Kobayashi A New Formalization of Feferman's System of Functions and Classes and Its Relation to Frege Structure . . . . . . 187 Y. Kameyama A Type-Free Theory of Half-Monotone Inductive Definitions . . . . . . . . . 203 S. F. Smith Hybrid Partial-Total Type Theory . . . . 235 I. Mason and C. Talcott Reasoning About Object Systems in VTLoE 265 M. Beeson Using Nonstandard Analysis to Ensure the Correctness of Symbolic Computations . . 299
W. Szwast A Note on the Asymptotic Probabilities of Existential Second-Order Minimal Goedel Sentences with Equality . . . . . 339 I. Castellani Observing Distribution in Processes: Static and Dynamic Localities . . . . . 353 J.-C. Dubacq How to Simulate Turing Machines by Invertible One-Dimensional Cellular Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 L. A. Hemaspaandra and A. Hoene and A. V. Naik and others Nondeterministically Selective Sets . . 403 N. Raja and R. K. Shyamasundar The Quine-Bernays Combinatory Calculus 417 A. Slobodova On the Power of One-Way Globally Deterministic Synchronized Alternating Turing Machines and Multihead Automata 431
D. Sankoff and G. Sundaram and J. Kececioglu Steiner Points in the Space of Genome Rearrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 R. Agarwala and D. Fernandez-Baca Simple-Algorithms for Perfect Phylogeny and Triangulating Colored Graphs . . . . 11 M. Fuerer and W. Miller Alignment-to-Alignment Editing with ``Move Gap'' Operations . . . . . . . . 23 K.-Z. Zhang and J. T. L. Wang and D. Shasha On the Editing Distance Between Undirected Acyclic Graphs . . . . . . . 43 L. Hanks and R. K. Cytron and W. Gillett On Finding Topologically Valid Matchings in Restriction-Fragment Maps . . . . . . 59 A. M. Duval and W. F. Smyth Covering a Circular String with Substrings of Fixed Length . . . . . . . 87
H. Ripphausen-Lipa and D. Wagner and K. Weihe Linear-Time Algorithms for Disjoint Two-Face Paths Problems in Planar Graphs 95 T. Kloks Treewidth of Circle Graphs . . . . . . . 111 G. Das and P. J. Heffernan Constructing Degree-$3$ Spanners with Other Sparseness Properties . . . . . . 121 R. Fleischer A Simple Balanced Search Tree with O(1) Worst-Case Update Time . . . . . . . . . 137 K. Ruohonen An Effective Cauchy-Peano Existence Theorem for Unique Solutions . . . . . . 151 R. Greenlaw Subtree Isomorphism is in DLOG for Nested Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 K. S. Larsen and R. Fagerberg Efficient Rebalancing of B-Trees with Relaxed Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
J. Viksna Inductive Inference of Limiting Programs with Bounded Number of Mind Changes . . 187 R. Orlandic and H. M. Mahmoud Storage Overhead of O-Trees, B-Trees and Prefix B-Trees: a Comparative Analysis 209 L. Chen and R. Schott Optimal Operations on Red-Black Trees 227 S. Caporaso Safe Turing Machines, Grzegorczyk Classes and Polytime . . . . . . . . . . 241 L. Breveglieri and A. Cherubini and C. Citrini and others Multi-Push-Down Languages and Grammars 253 H. Prodinger Depth and Path Length of Heap Ordered Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
P.-K. Wong An Algorithm for Finding a Maximum Cycle of Bipartite Graphs with Large Degrees 301 S. Kobayashi and T. Yokomori Families of Noncounting Languages and Their Learnability from Positive Data 309 I. I. Macarie A Note of Multihead Finite-State Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 M. Agrawal and S. Venkatesh On the Isomorphism Conjecture for $2$-DFA Reductions . . . . . . . . . . . 339 W. F. Klostermeyer Scheduling Two Salesmen in a Network . . 353 J. A. Plaza On the Propositional SLDNF-Resolution 359
Alexandru Mateescu and Grzegorz Rozenberg and Arto Salomaa Geometric Transformations of Language Families: The Power of Symmetry . . . . 1 Carl H. Smith and Rolf Wiehagen and Thomas Zeugmann Classifying Predicates and Languages . . 15--41 Lucian Finta and Zhen Liu Complexity of Task Graph Scheduling with Fixed Communication Capacity . . . . . . 43 Sorina Dumitrescu and Georghe P\uaun and Arto Salomaa Pattern Languages Versus Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems . . . . . 67 Oscar H. Ibarra and Pedro C. Diniz and Martin C. Rinard On the Complexity of Commutativity Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Zhigen Jiang Logspace Reducibility: Models and Equivalences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Jean-Claude Bermond and H. A. Harutyunyan and A. L. Liestman and others A Note on the Dimensionality of Modified Knödel Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Evangelos Kranakis and Danny Krizanc and Andrzej Pelc Hop-Congestion Trade-Offs for High-Speed Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Shuo-Cheng Hu and Chang-Biau Yang Fault Tolerance on Star Graphs . . . . . 127 Pascal Berthomé and Afonso Ferreira Communication Issues in Parallel Systems with Optical Interconnections . . . . . 143 Sajal K. Das and Dirk H. Hohndel and Maximilian Ibel and Sabine R. Öhring Efficient Communication in Folded Petersen Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Jie Wu and Haifeng Qian Multitriangle: a Constant Node Degree Interconnection Network . . . . . . . . 187 C. Calvin and L. Colombet and P. Michallon Methods to Overlap Communications in Parallel Numerical Algorithms . . . . . 211
H. K. Dai The Complexity of Deciding Strictly Non-Blocking Concentration and Generalized-Concentration Properties . . 237 Young Wook Keum and Hwakyung Rim Design and Analysis of the Symmetric Banyan Network (SBN): a Min with High Performance and High Fault Tolerance . . 253 Jop F. Sibeyn Routing on Triangles, Tori and Honeycombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Marc Baumslag and Bojana Obrenic Index-Shuffle Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 289 Xingde Jia and Weidong Su Triple Loop Networks with Minimal Transmission Delay . . . . . . . . . . . 305 A. Heirich A Scalable Diffusion Algorithm for Dynamic Mapping and Load Balancing on Networks of Arbitrary Topology . . . . . 329 Burkhard Monien and Ralf Diekmann and Reinhard Lüling The Construction of Large Scale Reconfigurable Parallel Computing Systems (The Architecture of the SC320) 347
Padmanabhan Krishnan A Process Algebraic Approach to Time Granularity Semantics . . . . . . . . . 363 Twan Basten Parsing Partially Ordered Multisets . . 379 Mark A. Changizi Learning with Natural Imprecision . . . 409 Bruno Martin Embedding Torus Automata into a Ring of Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 V. Arvind Constructivizing Membership Proofs in Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Glenn K. Manacher and Terrance A. Mankus Finding a Maximum Clique in a Set of Proper Circular Arcs in Time $ O(n) $ with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Anonymous Author Index Volume 8 (1997) . . . . . . 469
D. Frank Hsu Special Issue on Interconnection Networks --- Editors' Foreword . . . . . 1 Satoshi Okawa The Permutational Graph: a New Network Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Luz R. Nochefranca The diameter and Hamiltonian cycle of the generalized de Bruijn graphs $ \mbox {UG}_b(n, n(n + 1)) $ . . . . . . . . . 13 L. R. Nochefrance and P. W. Sy The Diameter and Hamiltonian Cycle of the Generalized de Bruijn Graphs UGB$ (n, n(n + 1)) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Thomas J. Cortina and Zhi-Wei Xu The Cube-Of-Rings Interconnection Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Ayan Banerjee and Emmanouel (Manos) Varvarigos A Dynamic Scheduling Communication Protocol and Its Analysis for Hypercube Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 A. L. Liestman and J. Opatrny and M. Zaragoza Network Properties of Double and Triple Fixed Step Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Guihai Chen and Francis C. M. Lau Shuffle-Ring: a New Constant-Degree Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Sandy Pavel and Selim G. Akl Integer Sorting and Routing in Arrays with Reconfigurable Optical Buses . . . 99
Miltos D. Grammatikakis and Eric Fleury and Miro Kraetzl Continuous Routing in Packet Switches 121 Roman Garcia and Jose Duato Suboptimal-Optimal Routing for LAN Internetworking Using Transparent Bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi Performance Analysis of Wormhole Routed $K$-Ary $N$-Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Paola Flocchini and Nicola Santoro Topological Constraints for Sense of Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Theodore McKendall Permutation Routing and Sorting on the Reconfigurable Mesh . . . . . . . . . . 199 Claude G. Diderich and Marc Gengler An Extended Dimension Order Token Distribution Algorithm on $k$-Ary $d$-Cubes and Its Complexity . . . . . . 213 Wei-Kuo Chiang and Rong-Jaye Chen Topological Properties of the $ (n, k)$-Star Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Hervé Le Verge and Yannic Saouter New Results on Computability of Recurrence Equations . . . . . . . . . . 249 Hans-Jörg Burtschick and H. Vollmer Lindström Quantifiers and Leaf Language Definability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Manfred Droste and Dietrich Kuske Recognizable and Logically Definable Languages of Infinite Computations In Concurrent Automata . . . . . . . . . . 295 Sanjay Jain Minimal Concept Identification and Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Fairouz Kamareddine The Soundness of Explicit Substitution with Nameless Variables . . . . . . . . 321
Peter Cappello and Ömer Egecio\uglu Processor Lower Bound Formulas for Array Computations and Parametric Diophantine Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Doowon Paik and Sudhakar Reddy and Sartaj Sahni Vertex Splitting in DAGs and Applications to Partial Scan Designs and Lossy Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 Kim S. Larsen Sort Order Problems in Relational Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 M. P. A. Sellink On the Conservativity of Leibniz Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Anonymous Author Index Volume 9 (1998) . . . . . . 455
S. Cho and S. Sahni Mergeable Double-Ended Priority Queues 1 G. Sajith and S. Saxena Parallel Vertex Colouring of Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 M. H. Karaata A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for Finding Articulation Points . . . . . . . . . . 33 Y. Chung and K. Park and Y. Cho Parallel Maximum Matching Algorithms in Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 J. Dassow and H. Fernau and G. P\uaun On the Leftmost Derivation in Matrix Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 K. Saraç and Ö. Egecio\uglu and A. El Abbadi DFT Techniques for Size Estimation of Database Join Operations . . . . . . . . 81 F. Roussel and I. Rusu and H. Thuillier On Graphs with Limited Number of $ P_4 $-Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
K. Nakano and S. Olariu Guest Editors' Introduction . . . . . . 123 Florian Roussel and Irena Rusu Holes and Dominoes in Meyniel Graphs . . 127 M. Habib and C. Paul and L. Viennot Partition Refinement Techniques: An Interesting Algorithmic Tool Kit . . . . 147 S. Isobe and X. Zhou and T. Nishizeki A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Finding Total Colorings of Partial $k$-Trees . . 171 K. Miura and D. Takahashi and S. I. Nakano and T. Nishizeki A Linear-Time Algorithm to Find Four Independent Spanning Trees in Four Connected Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . 195 S. S. H. Tse and F. C. M. Lau On the Complexity of Some Adaptive Polling Algorithms in General Networks 211 M. Holzrichter and S. Oliveira A Graph Based Davidson Algorithm for the Graph Partitioning Problem . . . . . . . 223
E. De Queiros Vieira Martins and M. M. B. Pascoal and J. L. E. Dos Santos Deviation Algorithms for Ranking Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262 E. D. Q. V. Martins and M. M. B. Pascoal and J. L. E. D. Santos Deviation Algorithms for Ranking Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 L. A. Hemaspaandra and H. Hempel and G. Wechsung Self-Specifying Machines . . . . . . . . 263--276 T. Calamoneri and R. Petreschi Optimal Layout of Trivalent Cayley Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . 277--288 M. C. Azizoglu and Ö. E\ugecio\uglu The Isoperimetric Number of $d$-Dimensional $k$-Ary Arrays . . . . . 289--300 K. S. Larsen On Grouping in Relational Algebra . . . 301--312 A. W. Krings and M. Dror Real-Time Dispatching: Scheduling Stability and Precedence . . . . . . . . 313--328 J. A. Makowsky and U. Rotics On the Clique-Width of Graphs with Few $ P_4 $'s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348 S. Greco and D. Sacc\`a and C. Zaniolo Grammars and Automata to Optimize Chain Logic Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--372
D. Andresen and T. Yang Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 H. Mongelli and S. W. Song Parallel Range Minima on Coarse Grained Multicomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--390 H. Mongelli and S. W. Song Part 1 (Irregular '99) . . . . . . . . . 375 K. T. Herley and A. Pietracaprina and G. Pucci Deterministic Branch-and-Bound on Distributed Memory Machines . . . . . . 391--404 C. Boeres and A. Nascimento and V. E. F. Rebello Cluster-Based Task Scheduling for the \em LogP Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--424 F. Voisin and G. R. Perrin Sparse Computation with PEI . . . . . . 425--442 K. Krithivasan and M. S. Balan and P. Harsha Distributed Processing in Automata . . . 443--464 K. Krithivasan and N. S. Balan and P. Harsha Part 2 (Regular Papers) . . . . . . . . 443 A. P. Sprague and T. Takaoka $ O(1) $ Query Time Algorithm for All Pairs Shortest Distances on Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--472 R. Uehara A Measure for the Lexicographically First Maximal Independent Set Problem and its Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--482 T. Okadome Simple Flat Languages: a Learnable Class in the Limit from Positive Data . . . . 483--502 L. G\kasieniec and E. Kranakis and D. Krizanc and A. Pelc Minimizing Congestion of Layouts for ATM Networks with Faulty Links . . . . . . . 503--512 J. L. Fouquet and V. Giakoumakis and J. M. Vanherpe Bipartite Graphs Totally Decomposable by Canonical Decomposition . . . . . . . . 513--534 R. Beigel and A. Bernasconi A Note on the Polynomial Representation of Boolean Functions Over $ \mbox {GF}(2) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542 Anonymous Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
J. Hsiang and A. Ohori Special Issue on Advances in Computing Science --- Asian '98 . . . . . . . . . 1 H. Ganzinger and F. Jacquemard and M. Veanes Rigid Reachability, The Non-Symmetric Form of Rigid E-Unification . . . . . . 3--28 H. Ganzinger and F. Jacquemard and M. Veanes Part 1 (Asian '98) . . . . . . . . . . . 3 M. Müller and S. Nishimura Type Inference for First-Class Messages with Feature Constraints . . . . . . . . 29--64 M. Hashimoto First-Class Contexts in ML . . . . . . . 65--88 I. Ogata Constructive Classical Logic as CPS-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--112 L. Roversi Light Affine Logic as a Programming Language: a First Contribution . . . . . 113--152 Z.-H. Yang and C.-Z. Sun and Y. Miao and A. Sattar and Y. Y. Yang Guaranteed Mutually Consistent Checkpointing in Distributed Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166 Z.-H. Yang and C.-Z. Sun and Y. Miao and A. Sattar and Y. Y. Yang Part 2 (Regular Papers) . . . . . . . . 153 G. P\uaun Computing with Membranes ($P$ Systems): a Variant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--182 A. L. Rosenberg Guidelines for Data-Parallel Cycle-Stealing in Networks of Workstations II: On Maximizing Guaranteed Output . . . . . . . . . . . 183--204
S. Rajasekaran and S. K. Sahni Special Issue on Randomized Computing 205--206 K. Li A Method for Evaluating the Expected Load of Dynamic Tree Embeddings in Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--230 K. Li Part 1 (Randomized Computing) . . . . . 207 N. R. Mahapatra and S. Dutt Random Seeking: a General, Efficient, and Informed Randomized Scheme for Dynamic Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . 231--246 S. Nikoletseas and K. Palem and P. Spirakis and M. Yung Connectivity Properties in Random Regular Graphs with Edge Faults . . . . 247--262 Hung-Min Sun On the Dealer's Randomness Required in Perfect Secret Sharing Schemes with Access Structures of Constant Rank . . . 263--282 R. K. Shyamasundar and S. Ramesh Languages for Reactive Specifications: Synchrony Vs Asynchrony . . . . . . . . 283--314 R. K. Shyamasundar and S. Ramesh Part 2 (Regular Papers) . . . . . . . . 283 H. Hempel and G. Wechsung The Operators min and max on the Polynomial Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . 315--342 H. Zantema and H. L. Bodlaender Finding Small Equivalent Decision Trees is Hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--354
M. M. Halldórsson and J. Kratochvíl and J. A. Telle Mod-$2$ Independence and Domination in Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--364 L. Perkovic and B. Reed An Improved Algorithm for Finding Tree Decompositions of Small Width . . . . . 365--372 Ö. Johansson NLC$_2$-Decomposition in Polynomial Time 373--396 Anne Berry and Jean-Paul Bordat and Olivier Cogis Generating All the Minimal Separators of a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--404 A. Accornero and M. Ancona and S. Varini All Separating Triangles in a Plane Graph Can Be Optimally ``Broken'' in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--422 M. C. Golumbic and U. Rotics On the Clique-Width of Some Perfect Graph Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--444 N. Nishimura and P. Ragde and D. M. Thilikos Finding Smallest Supertrees Under Minor Containment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--466 A. Liebers and D. Wagner and K. Weihe On the Hardness of Recognizing Bundles in Time Table Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 467--484 S. Cho and S. Sahni A New Weight Balanced Binary Search Tree 485--514 S. Cho and S. Sahni Part 2 (Regular Papers) . . . . . . . . 485 T. Okadome Some Sufficient Conditions of Learnability in the Limit From Positive Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--524
S. Kosub and H. Schmitz and H. Vollmer Uniform Characterizations of Complexity Classes of Functions . . . . . . . . . . 525--552 A. G. Bourgeois and J. L. Trahan Relating Two-Dimensional Reconfigurable Meshes with Optically Pipelined Buses 553--572 G. Dong and L. Zhang Separating Auxiliary Arity Hierarchy of First-Order Incremental Evaluation Systems Using $ (3 k + 1)$-ary Input Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--578 P. Bonizzoni and G. D. Vedova and G. Mauri Approximating the Maximum Isomorphic Agreement Subtree is Hard . . . . . . . 579--590 R. van der Meyden Predicate Boundedness of Linear Monadic Datalog is in PSPACE . . . . . . . . . . 591--614 J. Köbler and W. Lindner Oracles in $ \Sigma^p_2 $ are Sufficient for Exact Learning . . . . . . . . . . . 615--632 E. Csuhaj-Varjú and C. Martín-Vide and V. Mitrana and G. Vaszil Parallel Communicating Pushdown Automata Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--650 Anonymous Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Anonymous Special Issue on Functional and Logic Programming --- Part 1 . . . . . . . . . 1 Preface Special Issue on Functional and Logic Programming --- Part 1 . . . . . . . . . 1 Masako Takahashi and M. Sato and Y. Toyama Lambda-Representable Functions Over Term Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--30 (or 3--29??) Yasuyuki Tsukada and M. Sato and Y. Toyama Martin-Löf's Type Theory as an Open-Ended Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--67 (or 31--68??) Peter Borovanský and Claude Kirchner and Hél\`ene Kirchner and C. Ringeissen Rewriting with Strategies in ELAN: a Functional Semantics . . . . . . . . . . 69--95 (or 69--96??) Edgar F. A. Lederer and Romeo A. Dumitrescu Automatic Result Verification by Complete Run-Time Checking of Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124 Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Ralf Hinze and M. Sato and Y. Toyama Prolog's Control Constructs in a Functional Setting --- Axioms and Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--170 R. Hinze Special Issue on Functional and Logic Programming --- Part 2 . . . . . . . . . 125 Sergei Abramov and Robert Glück From Standard to Non-Standard Semantics by Semantics Modifiers . . . . . . . . . 171--211 (or 171--212??) Takafumi Sakurai Categorical Model Construction for Proving Syntactic Properties . . . . . . 213--244
Michael A. Palis Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing . . . . . . . . . 245--247 M. A. Palis Part 1 (Selected Papers From ISPAN '99) 245 Sartaj Sahni Models and Algorithms for Optical and Optoelectronic Parallel Computers . . . 249--264 Fabricio Alves Barbosa Da Silva and Isaac D. Scherson Efficient Parallel Job Scheduling Using Gang Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--284 Noriyuki Fujimoto and Tomoki Baba and Takashi Hashimoto and K. Hagihara On Message Packaging in Task Scheduling for Distributed Memory Parallel Machines 285--306 Weisong Shi and Zhimin Tang Load Balancing in Home-Based Software DSMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--324 Takayoshi Touyama and Susumu Horiguchi Performance Evaluation of Practical Parallel Computer Model LogPQ . . . . . 325--340 Jennifer M. Schopf and Francine Berman Using Stochastic Information to Predict Application Behavior on Contended Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--363 (or 341--364??) Marc Bui and Sajal K. Das and Ajoy K. Datta and D. T. Nguyen Randomized Mobile Agent Based Routing in Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 365--384 Birgit Elbl and Jiawen Su A Non-Definability Result for a Predicational Language with the Usual Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--396 B. Elbl Part 2 (Regular Papers) . . . . . . . . 385 Géza Harváth and Katsushi Inoue and Akira Ito and Y. Wang Closure Property of Probabilistic Turing Machines and Alternating Turing Machines with Sublogarithmic Spaces . . . . . . . 397--409
Alan Roberts and Antonios Symvonis On the Routing Number of Complete $d$-ary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--434 Koich Yamazaki and Sei'ichi Tani and Tetsuro Nishino A Characterization of $k$-th Powers $ P_{n, k}$ of Paths in Terms of $k$-Trees 435--443 (or 435--444??) Pak-Ken Wong An Algorithm for Finding Longest Cycles in Certain Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . 445--454 Lars Jacobsen and Kim S. Larsen Variants of $ (A, B) $-Trees with Relaxed Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--478 Christian S. Calude and Hajime Ishihara and Takeshi Yamaguchi Coding with Minimal Programs . . . . . . 479--489 (or 479--490??) M. Sitharam and Timothy Straney Derandomized Learning of Boolean Functions over Finite Abelian Groups . . 491--516 Oleg Verbitsky and Shafi Goldwasser Remarks on a Query-Based Variant of the Parallel Repetition Theorem . . . . . . 517--531 (or 517--532??) Wing-Kai Hon and Tak-Wah Lam Approximating the Nearest Neighbor Interchange Distance for Non-Uniform-Degree Evolutionary Trees 533--550 Adam Obtulowicz Membrane Computing and One-Way Functions 551--558
Albert Y. Zomaya Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--564 Albert Y. Zomaya Scheduling: Theory and Applications: Guest Editor's Preface . . . . . . . . . 559--564 A. Y. Zomaya Special Issue: Part 1 . . . . . . . . . 559 David L. Rhodes and Wayne Wolf and Albert Zomaya Two CoNP-Complete Schedule Analysis Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--580 Chantana Chantrapornchai and Sissades Tongsima and Albert Zomaya Resource Estimation Algorithm Under Impreciseness Using Inclusion Scheduling 581--598 Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian and Albert Zomaya Mapping Arbitrary Heterogeneous Task Graphs Onto Arbitrary Heterogeneous System Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599--628 J. Santoso and G. D. Van Albada and P. M. A. Sloot and B. A. A. Nazief Simulation of Hierarchical Resource Management for Meta-Computing Systems 629--643 (or 629--644??) Oliver Diessel and Hossam Elgindy and Albert Zomaya On Dynamic Task Scheduling for FPGA-Based Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 645--669 (or 645--670??) Harald Meyer Auf'm Hofe and Albert Zomaya Solving Rostering Tasks By Generic Methods for Constraint Optimization . . 671--693 Yasuyuki Tsukada Errata: The paper: \em Martin-Löf's Type Theory as an Open-Ended Framework . . . 695
Dirk Fimmel and J. Muller Optimal Software Pipelining Under Resource Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 697--718 Leila Azouz Saidane and F. Kamoun Modelling and Performance Evaluation of the Circulating Multisequencer, The Multi-Tokens and the Consensus Algorithms in a Real Time Distributed Transactional System . . . . . . . . . . 719--750 Paolo Priore and D. D. L. Fuente and A. Gomez and others Dynamic Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems with Machine Learning . . . . . 751--762 Keqin Li An Efficient Job Scheduling Algorithm in Partitionable Mesh Connected Systems . . 763--774 K. Oida and K. Shinjo Characteristics of Deterministic Optimal Routing for Two Heterogeneous Parallel Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--790 Teofilo F. Gonzalez On Solving Multimessage Multicasting Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--808 David Blokh and E. Levner The Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem on Banded Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 809--820 Oscar H. Ibarra and T. Bultan and J. Su On Reachability and Safety in Infinite-State Systems . . . . . . . . . 821--836 Gheorghe P\uaun and G. Rozenberg and T. Yokomori Hairpin Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 837--848 Anonymous Author Index Volume 12 (2001) . . . . . 849
S. Yu Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 D. Harel and H. Kugler Synthesizing State-Based Object Systems from LSC Specifications . . . . . . . . 5 A. Bergeron and S. Hamel Vector Algorithms for Approximate String Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 A. Brüggemann-Klein and D. Wood The Regularity of Two-Way Nondeterministic Tree Automata Languages 67 C. Campeanu and A. P\uaun and S. Yu An Efficient Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Cover Automata for Finite Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 J.-M. Champarnaud Evaluation of Three Implicit Structures to Implement Nondeterministic Automata From Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . 99 O. H. Ibarra Verification in Queue-Connected Multicounter Machines . . . . . . . . . 115 M. Mohri Generic e-Removal and Input e-Normalization Algorithms for Weighted Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 G. Pighizzini and J. Shallit Unary Language Operations, State Complexity and Jacobsthal's Function . . 145
S.-W. Cheng and T. Dey Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 O. Devillers The Delaunay Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . 163 O. Devillers and S. Pion and M. Teillaud Walking in a Triangulation . . . . . . . 181 A. Üngör and A. Sheffer Pitching Tents in Space-Time: Mesh Generation for Discontinuous Galerkin Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 H. Edelsbrunner and D. Guoy Sink Insertion for Mesh Improvement . . 223 W. Xu and R. Hammersley and K. Lu and D. Fussell Lossless Subdivision-Based Multiresolution Representation of Arbitrary Triangle Meshes Using Kite Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 G. Xu and C. L. Bajaj and S. Evans $ C^1 $ Modeling with Hybrid Multiple-Sided $A$-Patches . . . . . . . 261 W. H. Frey Boundary Triangulations Approximating Developable Surfaces that Interpolate a Close Space Curve . . . . . . . . . . . 285 O. Aichholzer and L. S. Alboul and F. Hurtado On Flips in Polyhedral Surfaces . . . . 303
P. S. Thiagarajan and R. Yap Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 J. I. D. Hartog and E. P. D. Vink Verifying Probabilistic Programs Using a Hoare Like Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 J. G. Henriksen An Expressive Extension of TLC . . . . . 341 F. Kamareddine and F. Monin An Extension of an Automated Termination Method of Recursive Functions . . . . . 361 A. Roychoudhury and K. N. Kumar and C. R. Ramakrishnan and I. V. Ramakrishnan Beyond Tamaki--Sato Style Unfold/Fold Transformations for Normal Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 E. Y. C. Cheng and S. Sahni Regular Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 M. Hutter The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems . . . . . . . 431 H. Zantema and H. L. Bodlaender Sizes of Ordered Decision Trees . . . . 445 K. Culik II and J. Karhumäki and J. Kari A Note on Synchronized Automata and Road Coloring Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
C. X. Ling and N. Cercone Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 A. Lörincz and I. Kókai and A. Meretei Intelligent High-Performance Crawlers Used to Reveal Topic-Specific Structure of WWW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 V. Estivill-Castro and J. Yang Clustering Web Visitors by Fast, Robust and Convergent Algorithms . . . . . . . 497 W. Gao and S. Wang and B. Liu A Dynamic Recommendation System Based on Log Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 V. Ng and M. K. Ho An Intelligent Agent for Web Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 N. Zhong Representation and Construction of Ontologies for Web Intelligence . . . . 555 N. Klarlund and A. Mòller and M. I. Schwatzbach Regular Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 J. Schmidhuber Hierarchies of Generalized Kolmogorov Complexities and Nonenumerable Universal Measures Computable in the Limit . . . . 587 R. Lep\`ere and D. Trystram and G. J. Woeginger Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Malleable Tasks Under Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Xiaotie Deng Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 J. M. Bilbao and J. R. Fernández and J. J. López On the Complexity of Computing Values of Restricted Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 633 Qizhi Fang and Shanfeng Zhu Linear and Integer Programming Techniques for Cooperative Games . . . . 653 Weijia Jia and Zhibin Sun On Computational Complexity of Hierarchical Optimization . . . . . . . 667 Xiaoguang Yang and Shuo Tao and Rongjun Liu and Maocheng Cai Complexity of Scenario-Based Portfolio Optimization Problem with Var Objective 671 Xiaotie Deng and Zhong-Fei Li and Shou-Yang Wang Computational Complexity of Arbitrage in Frictional Security Market . . . . . . . 681 Jiwu Shu and Yonggeng Gu and Weimin Zheng A Novel Numerical Approach of Computing American Option . . . . . . . . . . . . 685 Emmanuelle Anceaume Efficient Solution To Uniform Atomic Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 Nicoletta De Francesco and Antonella Santone A Formula-Driven Modular Attack on State Explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719 Carlos Martín-Vide and Alexandru Mateescu and Victor Mitrana Parallel Finite Automata Systems Communicating By States . . . . . . . . 733 Abdullah N. Arslan and Ömer E\ugecio\uglu Approximation Algorithms for Local Alignment with Length Constraints . . . 751 Juha Honkala Remarks Concerning the D0L $ \omega $-Equivalence Problem . . . . . . . . . 769
Andrei P\uaun and Gheorghe P\uaun and Grzegorz Rozenberg Computing By Communication in Networks of Membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779 C. Câmpeanu and K. Salomaa and S. Vágvölgyi Shuffle Decompositions of Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 Xiaotie Deng and Haodi Feng and Guojun Li and Guizhen Liu A PTAS for Minimizing Total Completion Time of Bounded Batch Scheduling . . . . 817 Nicholas Tran On Universally Polynomial Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 Andrea Mantler and Helen Cameron Constructing Red-Black Tree Shapes . . . 837 Emmanuelle Anceaume and Jean-Michel Helary and Michel Raynal A Note on the Determination of the Immediate Predecessors in a Distributed Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 Nadia Nedjah and Luiza De Macedo Mourelle Pattern Matching Code Minimization in Rewriting-Based Programming Languages 873 Michalis Faloutsos and Rajesh Pankaj and Kenneth C. Sevcik The Effect of Asymmetry on the On-Line Multicast Routing Problem . . . . . . . 889 Zhe Dang and Oscar H. Ibarra The Existence of $ \omega $-Chains for Transitive Mixed Linear Relations and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Anonymous Author Index Volume 13 (2002) . . . . . 937
Koji Nakano and Jie Wu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Arnold L. Rosenberg Efficient Pairing Functions --- and Why You Should Care . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Albert Y. Zomaya Mobile Computing: Opportunities for Parallel Algorithms Research . . . . . . 19 Claudia Leopold Cache Miss Analysis of $2$D Stencil Codes with Tiled Time Loop . . . . . . . 39 Martin Schmollinger and Michael Kaufmann Designing Parallel Algorithms for Hierarchical SMP Clusters . . . . . . . 59 Chin-Hsiung Wu and Shi-Jinn Horng Scalable and Optimal Speed-Up Parallel Algorithms for Template Matching on Arrays with Reconfigurable Optical Buses 79 Jie Wu and Stephen Olariu On Cost-Optimal Merge of Two Intransitive Sorted Sequences . . . . . 99 V. Giakoumakis and J. M. Vanherpe Linear Time Recognition and Optimizations for Weak-Bisplit Graphs, Bi-Cographs and Bipartite $ P_6 $-Free Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Koji Nakano Linear Layout of Generalized Hypercubes 137 Mutyam Madhu Probabilistic Rewriting $P$ Systems . . 157
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Guangbin Fan and Jingyuan Zhang Optimal Cellular Network Deployment Reusing Existing Base Stations . . . . . 169 Yu Wang and Xiang-Yang Li and Ophir Frieder Distributed Spanners with Bounded Degree for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks . . . . . . 183 Jie Wu and Fei Dai Broadcasting in Ad Hoc Networks Based on Self-Pruning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 A. Ferro and G. Pigola and A. Pulvirenti and D. Shasha Fast Clustering and Minimum Weight Matching Algorithms for Very Large Mobile Backbone Wireless Networks . . . 223 Justin Lipman and Paul Boustead and John Judge Neighbor Aware Adaptive Power Flooding (NAAP) in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks . . . . 237 Julien Cartigny and François Ingelrest and David Simplot RNG Relay Subset Flooding Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . 253 B. Bui Xuan and A. Ferreira and A. Jarry Computing Shortest, Fastest, and Foremost Journeys in Dynamic Networks 267 Khaled M. Alzoubi and Peng-Jun Wan and Ophir Frieder Maximal Independent Set, Weakly-Connected Dominating Set, and Induced Spanners in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Yuanzhu Peter Chen and Arthur L. Liestman A Zonal Algorithm for Clustering An Hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Peng-Jun Wan and Khaled M. Alzoubi and Ophir Frieder A Simple Heuristic for Minimum Connected Dominating Set in Graphs . . . . . . . . 323
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Sartaj Sahni and Kun Suk Kim and Haibin Lu Data Structures for One-Dimensional Packet Classification Using Most-Specific-Rule Matching . . . . . . 337 Michael A. Palis On the Competitiveness of Online Real-Time Scheduling with Rate of Progress Guarantees . . . . . . . . . . 359 Ke Qiu and Sajal K. Das Interconnection Networks and Their Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Jacir Luiz Bordim and Koji Nakano and Hong Shen Sorting on Single-Channel Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Peiyi Tang and Pen-Chung Yew Interprocedural Induction Variable Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Wolfgang W. Bein and Lawrence L. Larmore and Shahram Latifi and I. Hal Sudborough Block Sorting is Hard . . . . . . . . . 425 Sasthi C. Ghosh and Bhabani P. Sinha and Nabanita Das A New Approach to Efficient Channel Assignment for Hexagonal Cellular Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Haejae Jung and Sartaj Sahni Supernode Binary Search Trees . . . . . 465 S. Bansal and S. Sreekanth and P. Gupta M-Heap: a Modified Heap Data Structure 491 William C. Grimmell and Nageswara S. V. Rao On Source-Based Route Computation for Quickest Paths under Dynamic Bandwidth Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 E. Allen Emerson and Kedar S. Namjoshi On Reasoning about Rings . . . . . . . . 527 Ahmed Bouajjani and Javier Esparza and Tayssir Touili A Generic Approach to the Static Analysis of Concurrent Programs with Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 Edmund Clarke and Ansgar Fehnker and Zhi Han and Bruce Krogh and Joël Ouaknine and Olaf Stursberg and Michael Theobald Abstraction and Counterexample-Guided Refinement in Model Checking of Hybrid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 Constantinos Bartzis and Tevfik Bultan Efficient Symbolic Representations for Arithmetic Constraints in Verification 605 Deepak D'souza A Logical Characterisation of Event Clock Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 Li Jiao and To-Yat Cheung Characterizing Liveness Monotonicity for Weighted Petri Nets in Terms of Siphon-Based Properties . . . . . . . . 641 Axel Dold and Friedrich Von Henke and Wolfgang Goerigk A Completely Verified Realistic Bootstrap Compiler . . . . . . . . . . . 659 Kamala Krithivasan and K. Sharda and Sandeep V. Varma Distributed $ \omega $-Automata . . . . 681 J. Karhumäki and L. P. Lisovik The Equivalence Problem of Finite Substitutions on $ a b*c $, with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 Lov K. Grover An Improved Quantum Scheduling Algorithm 715 Gábor Ivanyos and Frédéric Magniez and Miklos Santha Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Some Instances of the Non-Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 Jan Bouda and Vladimír R. Bu\vzek Encryption of Quantum Information . . . 741 Markus Grassl and Martin Rötteler and Thomas Beth Efficient Quantum Circuits for Non-Qubit Quantum Error-Correcting Codes . . . . . 757 Andreas Klappenecker and Martin Rötteler Quantum Software Reusability . . . . . . 777 Philippe Jorrand and Mehdi Mhalla Separability of Pure $N$-Qubit States: Two Characterizations . . . . . . . . . 797 Tomoyuki Yamakami Analysis of Quantum Functions . . . . . 815 Harumichi Nishimura Quantum Computation with Restricted Amplitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 Alberto Bertoni and Carlo Mereghetti and Beatrice Palano Golomb Rulers and Difference Sets for Succinct Quantum Automata . . . . . . . 871 Dominik Janzing and Pawe\l Wocjan and Thomas Beth On the Computational Power of Physical Interactions: Bounds on the Number of Time Steps for Simulating Arbitrary Interaction Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 889 Anuj Jain and Sartaj Sahni and Jatinder Palta and James Dempsey Partitioning $3$D Phantoms into Homogeneous Cuboids . . . . . . . . . . 905 Evgeny Dantsin and Alexander Wolpert A Robust DNA Computation Model that Captures Pspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 933
Jean-Marc Champarnaud Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953 Mehryar Mohri Edit-Distance of Weighted Automata: General Definitions and Algorithms . . . 957 Cyril Allauzen and Mehryar Mohri Finitely Subsequential Transducers . . . 983 Cezar Câmpeanu and Andrei P\uaun Counting the Number of Minimal DFCA Obtained By Merging States . . . . . . . 995 Cezar Câmpeanu and Kai Salomaa and Sheng Yu A Formal Study of Practical Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007 Jurek Czyzowicz and Wojciech Fraczak and Andrzej Pelc and Wojciech Rytter Linear-Time Prime Decomposition of Regular Prefix Codes . . . . . . . . . . 1019 Mihaela Gheorghiu and Janusz Brzozowski Simulation of Feedback-Free Circuits in the Algebra of Transients . . . . . . . 1033 Franck Guingne and Florent Nicart and Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Lauri Karttunen and Tamás Gaál and André Kempe Virtual Operations on Virtual Networks: the Priority Union . . . . . . . . . . . 1055 Heiko Körner A Time and Space Efficient Algorithm for Minimizing Cover Automata for Finite Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071 Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Nondeterministic Descriptional Complexity of Regular Languages . . . . 1087 Alexander Okhotin Efficient Automaton-Based Recognition for Linear Conjunctive Languages . . . . 1103 Klaus Sutner Reduced Power Automata and Sofic Systems 1117 David S. L. Wei and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Kshirasagar Naik and Sy-Yen Kuo Efficient Algorithms for Selection and Sorting of Large Distributed Files on de Bruijn and Hypercube Structures . . . . 1129 Carlo Fantozzi and Andrea Pietracaprina and Geppino Pucci A General PRAM Simulation Scheme for Clustered Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 1147 Paul M. Martini and Walter A. Burkhard Double Hashing with Multiple Passbits 1165 Anonymous Author Index Volume 14 (2003) . . . . . 1183
Oscar H. Ibarra and Louxin Zhang Computing and Combinatorics Conference --- COCOON'02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jin-Yi Cai and Denis Charles and A. Pavan and Samik Sengupta On Higher Arthur--Merlin Classes . . . . 3 San Skulrattanakulchai and Harold N. Gabow Coloring Algorithms on Subcubic Graphs 21 Lucian Ilie and Sheng Yu and Kaizhong Zhang Word Complexity and Repetitions in Words 41 Abdullah N. Arslan and Ömer E\ugecio\uglu Dictionary Look-Up Within Small Edit Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Koji Nakano Time and Energy Optimal List Ranking Algorithms on the $k$-Channel Broadcast Communication Model with No Collision Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Thanh Minh Hoang and Thomas Thierauf On the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix 89 Yvo Desmedt and Yongge Wang Analyzing Vulnerabilities of Critical Infrastructures Using Flows and Critical Vertices in And/Or Graphs . . . . . . . 107 Weimin Ma and Yinfeng Xu and Jane You and James Liu and Kanliang Wang On the $k$-Truck Scheduling Problem . . 127 Michael Domaratzki Improved Bounds on the Number of Automata Accepting Finite Languages . . 143 Andreas Brandstädt and Ho\`ang-Oanh Le and Raffaele Mosca Gem- and Co-Gem-Free Graphs Have Bounded Clique-Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Yinlong Xu and Li Lin and Guoliang Chen and Yingyu Wan and Weijun Guo Multicasting and Broadcasting in Undirected WDM Networks and QoS Extensions of Multicasting . . . . . . . 187 Ricardo Alberich and Merc\`e Llabrés and Francesc Rosselló Single-Pushout Transformation of Total Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Eric Rivals A Survey on Algorithmic Aspects of Tandem Repeats Evolution . . . . . . . . 225 S. W. Margolis and J.-E. Pin and M. V. Volkov Words Guaranteeing Minimum Image . . . . 259 Alexandru Mateescu and Arto Salomaa Matrix Indicators for Subword Occurrences and Ambiguity . . . . . . . 277 S. Brlek and S. Hamel and M. Nivat and C. Reutenauer On the Palindromic Complexity of Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Gwénaël Richomme and Patrice Séébold Conjectures and Results on Morphisms Generating $k$-Power-Free Words . . . . 307 Jeffrey Shallit Simultaneous Avoidance of Large Squares and Fractional Powers in Infinite Binary Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 Jacques Justin and Giuseppe Pirillo Episturmian Words: Shifts, Morphisms and Numeration Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Tero Harju and Dirk Nowotka Minimal Duval Extensions . . . . . . . . 349 Arturo Carpi and Aldo de Luca Repetitions, Fullness, and Uniformity in Two-Dimensional Words . . . . . . . . . 355 Monaldo Mastrolilli Scheduling To Minimize Max Flow Time: Off-Line and On-Line Algorithms . . . . 385 Jacir L. Bordim and Oscar H. Ibarra and Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano Instance-Specific Solutions for Accelerating the CKY Parsing of Large Context-Free Grammars . . . . . . . . . 403 Manolis Gergatsoulis and Christos Nomikos A Proof Procedure for Temporal Logic Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Chun-Pong Lai and Cunsheng Ding Several Generalizations of Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme . . . . . . . . . 445
Koji Nakano and Jie Wu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 Akihiro Fujiwara and Ken'Ichi Matsumoto and Wei Chen Procedures for Logic and Arithmetic Operations with DNA Molecules . . . . . 461 Susumu Matsumae Simulation of Meshes with Separable Buses By Meshes with Multiple Partitioned Buses . . . . . . . . . . . 475 Mitali Singh and Viktor K. Prasanna A Hierarchical Model for Distributed Collaborative Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Lélia Blin and Franck Butelle The First Approximated Distributed Algorithm for the Minimum Degree Spanning Tree Problem on General Graphs 507 Dajin Wang and Jiannong Cao On Hierarchical Configuration of Distributed Systems on Mesh and Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 Thomas Rauber and Gudula Rünger Program-Based Locality Measures for Scientific Computing . . . . . . . . . . 535 Mojca Ciglari\vc Content Networks: Distributed Routing Decisions in Presence of Repeated Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Sartaj Sahni and Kun Suk Kim Efficient Dynamic Lookup for Bursty Access Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 Chung Keung Poon and Wenci Yu On Minimizing Total Completion Time in Batch Machine Scheduling . . . . . . . . 593 Xiaoyu Li and Howard Barnum Quantum Authentication Using Entangled States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Ömer E\ugecio\uglu and Jeffrey B. Remmel and S. Gill Williamson A Class of Graphs Which Has Efficient Ranking and Unranking Algorithms for Spanning Trees and Forests . . . . . . . 619 Dawei Hong and Shushuang Man Analysis of Web Search Algorithm Hits 649 Jürgen Dassow On the Descriptional Complexity of Lindenmayer Systems . . . . . . . . . . 663 Qingmin Shi and Joseph Jájá Fast Algorithms for $3$-D Dominance Reporting and Counting . . . . . . . . . 673 Thanh Minh Hoang and Thomas Thierauf Erratum: on the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Éric Laugerotte and Faissal Ouardi and Djelloul Ziadi From Regular Weighted Expressions To Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 687 Alessandro Ferrante and Mimmo Parente On the Vertex-Connectivity Problem for Graphs with Sharpened Triangle Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701 Kevin I.-J. Ho and Joseph Y.-T. Leung A Dual Criteria Preemptive Scheduling Problem for Minimax Error of Imprecise Computation Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 717 Joseph Y.-T. Leung Improved Competitive Algorithms for Two-Processor Real-Time Systems . . . . 733 Sahar Idwan and Dinesh P. Mehta and Mario A. Lopez Fast Pursuit of Mobile Nodes Using TPR Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753 Chung Keung Poon Optimal Range Max Datacube for Fixed Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773 Katsushi Inoue and Akira Ito and Takashi Kamiura and Holger Petersen and Lan Zhang A Note on Rebound Turing Machines . . . 791
Jun Luo and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Parallelizing $1$-Dimensional Estuarine Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 Olivier Finkel On Recognizable Languages of Infinite Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 Jaume Casasnovas and Joe Miró and Manuel Moy\`a and Francesc Rosselló An Approach To Membrane Computing Under Inexactitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841 Farn Wang Inductive Composition of Numbers with Maximum, Minimum, and Addition: a New Theory for Program Execution-Time Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 Wing-Kai Hon and Tak-Wah Lam and Siu-Ming Yiu and Ming-Yang Kao and Wing-Kin Sung Subtree Transfer Distance for Degree-$D$ Phylogenies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893 Anonymous Author Index Volume 15 (2004) . . . . . 911
Jacir L. Bordim and Koji Nakano and Arnold L. Rosenberg Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jie Wu and Shuhui Yang Energy-Efficient Node Scheduling Models in Sensor Networks with Adjustable Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Wayne Goddard and Stephen T. Hedetniemi and David P. Jacobs and Pradip K. Srimani Self-Stabilizing Algorithms for Orderings and Colorings . . . . . . . . 19 Akihiro Fujiwara and Satoshi Kamio Procedures for Multiple Input Functions with DNA Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . 37 José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Daniel Fajardo-Delgado and José Antonio Cárdenas-Haro and Anu G. Bourgeois Efficient Simulation of an Acyclic Directed Reconfigurable Model on an Undirected Reconfigurable Model . . . . 55 José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Alejandro Estrella-Balderrama and Anu G. Bourgeois Designing Fault Tolerant Algorithms for Reconfigurable Meshes . . . . . . . . . 71 Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano FM screening by the Local Exhaustive Search, with Hardware Acceleration . . . 89 Jaime Davila and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Randomized Sorting on the POPS Network 105 Kazuyuki Miura and Machiko Azuma and Takao Nishizeki Canonical Decomposition, Realizer, Schnyder Labeling and Orderly Spanning Trees of Plane Graphs . . . . . . . . . 117
Jacir L. Bordim and Koji Nakano and Arnold L. Rosenberg Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Henri Casanova Network Modeling Issues for Grid Application Scheduling . . . . . . . . . 145 Olivier Beaumont and Arnaud Legrand and Loris Marchal and Yves Robert Steady-State Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Franck Cappello and Pierre Fraigniaud and Bernard Mans and Arnold L. Rosenberg An Algorithmic Model for Heterogeneous Hyper-Clusters: Rationale And Experience 195 Pierre-François Dutot and Lionel Eyraud and Grégory Mounié and Denis Trystram Scheduling on Large Scale Distributed Platforms: From Models To Implementations . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Enrique Alba and Fikret Ercal and El-Ghazali Talbi and Albert Y. Zomaya Guest Editorial: Nature-Inspired Distributed Computing . . . . . . . . . 239 L. Vermeulen-Jourdan and C. Dhaenens and E-G. Talbi Linkage Disequilibrium Study with a Parallel Adaptive GA . . . . . . . . . . 241 Lucas A. Wilson and Michelle D. Moore Cross-Pollinating Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Multi-Objective Search And Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Albert Y. Zomaya and Gerard Chan Efficient Clustering for Parallel Tasks Execution in Distributed Systems . . . . 281 Ajay K. Katangur and Somasheker Akkaladevi and Yi Pan and Martin D. Fraser Routing in Optical Multistage Networks with Limited Crosstalk Using Ant Colony Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Daniel Merkle and Martin Middendorf and Alexander Scheidler Decentralized Packet Clustering in Router-Based Networks . . . . . . . . . 321 E. Alba and F. Chicano On the Behavior of Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Optimal Placement of Antennae in Telecommunications . . . . . 343 Klaus Jansen and Monaldo Mastrolilli and Roberto Solis-Oba Approximation Algorithms for Flexible Job Shop Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Jens S. Kohrt and Kim S. Larsen On-Line Seat Reservations Via Off-Line Seating Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . 381
Kai Salomaa and Sheng Yu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Cyril Allauzen and Mehryar Mohri and Brian Roark The Design Principles and Algorithms of a Weighted Grammar Library . . . . . . . 403 Henning Bordihn and Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Unsolvability Levels of Operation Problems for Subclasses of Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 J.-M. Champarnaud and F. Coulon and T. Paranthoën Brute Force Determinization of NFAs by Means of State Covers . . . . . . . . . 441 Mark Daley and Ian Mcquillan Formal Modelling of Viral Gene Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 Alfons Geser and Dieter Hofbauer and Johannes Waldmann and Hans Zantema Finding Finite Automata That Certify Termination of String Rewriting Systems 471 Yonghua Han and Bin Ma and Kaizhong Zhang An Automata Approach to Match Gapped Sequence Tags Against Protein Database 487 Yo-Sub Han and Derick Wood The Generalization of Generalized Automata: Expression Automata . . . . . 499 Jozef Jirásek and Galina Jirásková and Alexander Szabari State Complexity of Concatenation and Complementation . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 Lila Kari and Stavros Konstantinidis and Petr Sosík Operations on Trajectories with Applications to Coding and Bioinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 Bryan Krawetz and John Lawrence and Jeffrey Shallit State Complexity and the Monoid of Transformations of a Finite Set . . . . 547 Anssi Yli-Jyrä Approximating Dependency Grammars Through Intersection of Star-Free Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 565 Stanley P. Y. Fung and Francis Y. L. Chin and Hong Shen Online Scheduling of Unit Jobs with Bounded Importance Ratio . . . . . . . . 581 K. Subramani Cascading Random Walks . . . . . . . . . 599
Cristian S. Calude Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 Bernd Borchert and Klaus-Jörn Lange and Frank Stephan and Pascal Tesson and Denis Thérien The Dot-Depth and the Polynomial Hierarchies Correspond on the Delta Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 Jürgen Dassow and Markus Holzer Language Families Defined by a Ciliate Bio-Operation: Hierarchies and Decision Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645 Rudolf Freund $P$ Systems Working in the Sequential Mode on Arrays and Strings . . . . . . . 663 Oscar H. Ibarra and Hsu-Chun Yen and Zhe Dang On Various Notions of Parallelism in $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 Markus Lohrey Decidability and Complexity in Automatic Monoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 Andreas Maletti Relating Tree Series Transducers and Weighted Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . 723 Anca Muscholl and Igor Walukiewicz An NP-Complete Fragment of LTL . . . . . 743 Narad Rampersad Words Avoiding $ \frac {7}{3}$-powers and the Thue--Morse Morphism . . . . . . 755 Chloé Rispal and Olivier Carton Complementation of Rational Sets on Countable Scattered Linear Orderings . . 767 Ludwig Staiger Infinite Iterated Function Systems in Cantor Space and the Hausdorff Measure of $ \omega $-Power Languages . . . . . 787 Takehiro Ito and Xiao Zhou and Takao Nishizeki Partitioning Trees of Supply and Demand 803
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 Janusz Brzozowski and Helmut Jürgensen Representation of Semiautomata by Canonical Words and Equivalences . . . . 831 Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Franck Guingne and Georges Hansel Cover Transducers for Functions with Finite Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851 Zhe Dang and Oscar H. Ibarra On One-Membrane $P$ Systems Operating in Sequential Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 Michael Domaratzki and Keith Ellul and Jeffrey Shallit and Ming-Wei Wang Non-Uniqueness and Radius of Cyclic Unary NFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 Michael Domaratzki and Kai Salomaa Restricted Sets of Trajectories and Decidability of Shuffle Decompositions 897 Piotr Faliszewski and Lane A. Hemaspaandra Advice for Semifeasible Sets and the Complexity-Theoretic Cost(Lessness) of Algebraic Properties . . . . . . . . . . 913 Rudolf Freund and Marion Oswald and Andrei P\uaun Optimal Results for the Computational Completeness of Gemmating (Tissue) $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929 Christos Kapoutsis Non-Recursive Trade-Offs for Two-Way Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943 Martin Kutrib The Phenomenon of Non-Recursive Trade-Offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 Hing Leung Descriptional Complexity of NFA of Different Ambiguity . . . . . . . . . . 975 Alexander Okhotin A Characterization of the Arithmetical Hierarchy by Language Equations . . . . 985 Libor Polák Minimalizations of NFA Using the Universal Automaton . . . . . . . . . . 999 Bettina Sunckel On the Descriptional Complexity of Metalinear CD Grammar Systems . . . . . 1011 Lynette Van Zijl Magic Numbers for Symmetric Difference NFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027 Lila Kari and Stavros Konstantinidis and Petr Sosík Bond-Free Languages: Formalizations, Maximality and Construction Methods . . 1039
Jan Holub Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071 Amihood Amir Theoretical Issues of Searching Aerial Photographs: a Bird's Eye View . . . . . 1075 Abdullah N. Arslan and Ömer E\ugecio\uglu Algorithms for the Constrained Longest Common Subsequence Problems . . . . . . 1099 Luigi Cinque and Sergio De Agostino and Franco Liberati and Bart Westgeest A Simple Lossless Compression Heuristic for Grey Scale Images . . . . . . . . . 1111 Marc Fontaine and Stefan Burkhardt and Juha Kärkkäinen BDD-based Analysis of Gapped $q$-Gram Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121 Frantisek Franek and W. F. Smyth Sorting Suffixes of Two-Pattern Strings 1135 Costas S. Iliopoulos and James Mchugh and Pierre Peterlongo and Nadia Pisanti and Wojciech Rytter and Marie-France Sagot A First Approach to Finding Common Motifs with Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145 Shunsuke Inenaga and Ayumi Shinohara and Masayuki Takeda A Fully Compressed Pattern Matching Algorithm for Simple Collage Systems . . 1155 Yair Kaufman and Shmuel T. Klein Semi-Lossless Text Compression . . . . . 1167 Alban Mancheron and Christophe Moan Combinatorial Characterization of the Language Recognized by Factor and Suffix Oracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179 Ernest Ketcha Ngassam and Bruce W. Watson and Derrick G. Kourie A Framework for the Dynamic Implementation of Finite Automata for Performance Enhancement . . . . . . . . 1193 Jan \vSupol and Bo\vrivoj Melichar Arithmetic Coding in Parallel . . . . . 1207 Uli Laube and Maik Weinard Conditional Inequalities and the Shortest Common Superstring Problem . . 1219 Lili Zhang and F. Blanchet-Sadri Algorithms for Approximate $K$-Covering of Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231 J.-M. Champarnaud and F. Coulon Enumerating Nondeterministic Automata for a Given Language Without Constructing the Canonical Automaton . . 1253 Giorgio Ausiello and Cristina Bazgan and Marc Demange and Vangelis Th. Paschos Completeness in Differential Approximation Classes . . . . . . . . . 1267 N. V. Vinodchandran Nondeterministic Circuit Minimization Problem and Derandomizing Arthur--Merlin Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297 Anonymous Author Index Volume 16 (2005) . . . . . 1309
Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Artiom Alhazov and Rudolf Freund and Marion Oswald Cell/Symbol Complexity of Tissue $P$ Systems with Symport/Antiport Rules . . 3 Luca Bianco and Federico Fontana and Vincenzo Manca $P$ Systems with Reaction Maps . . . . . 27 Luca Cardelli and Gheorghe P\uaun An Universality Result for a (Mem)Brane Calculus Based on Mate/Drip Operations 49 Matteo Cavaliere and Vincenzo Deufemia Further Results on Time-Free $P$ Systems 69 Rodica Ceterchi and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez On Simulating a Class of Parallel Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Gabriel Ciobanu and Mihai Gontineac Mealy Multiset Automata . . . . . . . . 111 Alberto Leporati and Claudio Zandron and Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo $P$ Systems with Input in Binary Form 127 Michael Muskulus and Robert Brijder Complexity of Bio-Computation: Symbolic Dynamics in Membrane Systems . . . . . . 147 Adam Obtu\lowicz Gandy's Principles for Mechanisms and Membrane Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Dario Pescini and Daniela Besozzi and Giancarlo Mauri and Claudio Zandron Dynamical Probabilistic $P$ Systems . . 183 Drago\cs Sburlan Further Results on $P$ Systems with Promoters/Inhibitors . . . . . . . . . . 205 Shiyong Lu and Arthur J. Bernstein and Philip M. Lewis Completeness and Realizability: Conditions for Automatic Generation of Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 U. Laube and M. Weinard Erratum: ``Conditional Inequalities and the Shortest Common Superstring Problem'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Koji Nakano and Jacir L. Bordim Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Thomas Rauber and Gudula Rünger A Data Re-Distribution Library for Multi-Processor Task Programming . . . . 251 Krishnendu Roy and Ramachandran Vaidyanathan and Jerry L. Trahan Routing Multiple Width Communications on the Circuit Switched Tree . . . . . . . 271 Mourad Hakem and Franck Butelle Critical Path Scheduling Parallel Programs on an Unbounded Number of Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Sharareh Babvey and Anu G. Bourgeois and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Steven W. Mclaughlin Scalable and Efficient Implementations of the LDPC Decoder Using Reconfigurable Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Zhenyu Xu and Pradip K. Srimani Self-Stabilizing Anonymous Leader Election in a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Meena Mahajan and Raghavan Rama and Venkatesh Raman and S. Vijaykumar Approximate Block Sorting . . . . . . . 337 Shiyong Lu and Feng Cao and Yi Lu PAMA: a Fast String Matching Algorithm 357--378 Yo-Sub Han and Yajun Wang and Derick Wood Infix-Free Regular Expressions and Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Zsolt Gazdag Decidability of the Shape Preserving Property of Bottom-Up Tree Transducers 395 Hong-Chun Hsu and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Hua-Min Hung and Lih-Hsing Hsu The Spanning Connectivity of the $ (n, k)$-Star Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Nata\vsa Jonoska and Joni Burnette Pirnot Transitivity in Two-Dimensional Local Languages Defined by Dot Systems . . . . 435 Juha Honkala The Base Problem for D0L Parikh Sets . . 465 A. Ehrenfeucht and G. Rozenberg Covers from Templates . . . . . . . . . 475
Clelia De Felice and Antonio Restivo Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Sergey Afonin and Elena Khazova Membership and Finiteness Problems for Rational Sets of Regular Languages . . . 493 D. S. Ananichev and I. V. Petrov and M. V. Volkov Collapsing Words: a Progress Report . . 507 Alexis B\`es and Olivier Carton A Kleene Theorem for Languages of Words Indexed by Linear Orderings . . . . . . 519 S. Brlek and G. Labelle and A. Lacasse Properties of the Contour Path of Discrete Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 Aldo De Luca and Alessandro De Luca Combinatorial Properties of Sturmian Palindromes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 Fernique Thomas Multidimensional Sturmian Sequences and Generalized Substitutions . . . . . . . 575 Dominik D. Freydenberger and Daniel Reidenbach and Johannes C. Schneider Unambiguous Morphic Images of Strings 601 Alexander Okhotin Generalized LR Parsing Algorithm for Boolean Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 Elena V. Pribavkina On Some Properties of the Language of $2$-Collapsing Words . . . . . . . . . . 665 Yung H. Tsin An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for $3$-Edge-Connectivity . . . . . . . . . 677 Daiji Fukagawa and Tatsuya Akutsu Fast Algorithms for Comparison of Similar Unordered Trees . . . . . . . . 703
Farn Wang Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731 E. Allen Emerson and Kristina D. Hager and Jay H. Konieczka Molecular Model Checking . . . . . . . . 733 Doron Peled and Hongyang Qu Enforcing Concurrent Temporal Behaviors 743 Freddy Y. C. Mang and Pei-Hsin Ho Controllability and Cooperativeness Analysis for Automatic Abstraction Refinement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 Fang Yu and Bow-Yaw Wang SAT-Based Model Checking for Region Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775 Robi Malik and David Streader and Steve Reeves Conflicts and Fair Testing . . . . . . . 797 Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti and Luca Durante and Riccardo Sisto and Adriano Valenzano Exploiting Symmetries for Testing Equivalence Verification in the Spi Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 Akio Nakata and Tadaaki Tanimoto and Suguru Sasaki and Teruo Higashino A Timed Failure Equivalence Preserving Abstraction for Parametric Time-Interval Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 Ehud Friedgut and Orna Kupferman and Moshe Y. Vardi Büchi Complementation Made Tighter . . . 851 Orna Kupferman and Gila Morgenstern and Aniello Murano Typeness for $ \omega $-Regular Automata 869 Ansgar Fehnker and Bruce Krogh Hybrid System Verification is Not a Sinecure --- The Electronic Throttle Control Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . 885 Tatsuya Akutsu Algorithms for Point Set Matching with $k$-Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . 903 Sylvain Gravier and Philippe Jorrand and Mehdi Mhalla and Charles Payan Quantum Octal Games . . . . . . . . . . 919 Xingqin Qi and Guojun Li and Jichang Wu and Bingqiang Liu Sorting Signed Permutations by Fixed-Length Reversals . . . . . . . . . 933 Yuli Ye and Janusz Brzozowski Covering of Transient Simulation of Feedback-Free Circuits by Binary Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949 Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Grzegorz Rozenberg Spike Trains in Spiking Neural $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975
Seok-Hee Hong and Hsu-Chun Yen Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003 Károly J. Börözky and János Pach and Géza Tóth Planar Crossing Numbers of Graphs Embeddable in Another Surface . . . . . 1005 Hubert De Fraysseix and Patrice Ossona De Mendez and Pierre Rosenstiehl Trémaux Trees and Planarity . . . . . . . 1017 Kazuyuki Miura and Shin-Ichi Nakano and Takao Nishizeki Convex Grid Drawings of Four-Connected Plane Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031 Maurizio Patrignani On Extending a Partial Straight-Line Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061 Emilio Di Giacomo and Giuseppe Liotta and Francesco Trotta On Embedding a Graph on Two Sets of Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071 Patrick Healy and Karol Lynch Two Fixed-Parameter Tractable Algorithms for Testing Upward Planarity . . . . . . 1095 Kazuyuki Miura and Machiko Azuma and Takao Nishizeki Convex Drawings of Plane Graphs of Minimum Outer Apices . . . . . . . . . . 1115 Huaming Zhang and Xin He An Application of Well-Orderly Trees in Graph Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129 Christian A. Duncan and Alon Efrat and Stephen Kobourov and Carola Wenk Drawing with Fat Edges . . . . . . . . . 1143 Hiroshi Nagamochi Packing Soft Rectangles . . . . . . . . 1165 Predrag T. To\vsi\'c On the Complexity of Counting Fixed Points and Gardens of Eden in Sequential Dynamical Systems on Planar Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179 Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Huaxiong Wang and Duncan S. Wong Resilient LKH: Secure Multicast Key Distribution Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 1205 Zbyn\vek K\vrivka and Alexander Meduna and Rudolf Schönecker Generation of Languages by Rewriting Systems That Resemble Automata . . . . . 1223 Janusz Brzozowski and Helmut Jürgensen Errata: \em Representation of Semiautomata by Canonical Words and Equivalences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231
Jan Holub Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1234 Domenico Cantone and Simone Faro A Space Efficient Bit-Parallel Algorithm for the Multiple String Matching Problem 1235--1251 Loek Cleophas and Kees Hemerik and Gerard Zwaan Two Related Algorithms for Root-To-Frontier Tree Pattern Matching 1253--1272 Sergio De Agostino Bounded Size Dictionary Compression: Relaxing the LRU Deletion Heuristic . . 1273--1280 Frantisek Franek and William F. Smyth Reconstructing a Suffix Array . . . . . 1281--1295 Shmuel T. Klein and Dana Shapira Compressed Pattern Matching in JPEG Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297--1306 Ernest Ketcha Ngassam and Bruce W. Watson and Derrick G. Kourie Dynamic Allocation of Finite Automata States for Fast String Recognition . . . 1307--1323 Heikki Hyyrö and Gonzalo Navarro Bit-Parallel Computation of Local Similarity Score Matrices with Unitary Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325--1344 Kimmo Fredriksson and Veli Mäkinen and Gonzalo Navarro Flexible Music Retrieval in Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345--1364 Szymon Grabowski and Gonzalo Navarro and Rafa\L Przywarski and Alejandro Salinger and Veli Mäkinen A Simple Alphabet-Independent FM-Index 1365--1384 Élise Prieur and Thierry Lecroq From Suffix Trees to Suffix Vectors . . 1385--1402 Joseph K. Liu and Duncan S. Wong Enhanced Security Models and a Generic Construction Approach for Linkable Ring Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403--1422 Michel Paquette and Andrzej Pelc Fast Broadcasting with Byzantine Faults 1423--1439 Shuguang Li and Guojun Li and Xingqin Qi Minimizing Total Weighted Completion Time on Identical Parallel Batch Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1453 Amr Elmasry A Priority Queue with the Working-Set Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1465 Sebastian Wernicke and Jochen Alber and Jens Gramm and Jiong Guo and Rolf Niedermeier The Computational Complexity of Avoiding Forbidden Submatrices by Row Deletions 1467--1484 Anonymous Author Index Volume 17 (2006) . . . . . 1485--1490
Doron A. Peled and Yih-Kuen Tsay Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Ittai Balaban and Amir Pnueli and Lenore D. Zuck Modular Ranking Abstraction . . . . . . 5--44 Limor Fix and Orna Grumberg and Amnon Heyman and Tamir Heyman and Assaf Schuster Verifying Very Large Industrial Circuits Using 100 Processes and Beyond . . . . . 45--61 Werner Damm and Guilherme Pinto and Stefan Ratschan Guaranteed Termination in the Verification of LTL Properties of Non-Linear Robust Discrete Time Hybrid Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--86 Stéphane Demri and David Nowak Reasoning About Transfinite Sequences 87--112 Sven Schewe and Bernd Finkbeiner Semi-Automatic Distributed Synthesis . . 113--138 Tobias Lauer and Thomas Ottmann and Amitava Datta Update-Efficient Data Structures for Dynamic IP Router Tables . . . . . . . . 139--161 Artiom Alhazov and Yurii Rogozhin and Sergey Verlan Minimal Cooperation in Symport/Antiport Tissue $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 163--179 Juha Honkala The D0L $ \omega $-Equivalence Problem 181--194
Joachim Gudmundsson and Barry Jay Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196 Yuichi Asahiro and Eiji Miyano and Hirotaka Ono and Kouhei Zenmyo Graph Orientation Algorithms to Minimize the Maximum Outdegree . . . . . . . . . 197--215 Anders Dessmark and Jesper Jansson and Andrzej Lingas and Eva-Marta Lundell and Mia Persson On the Approximability of Maximum and Minimum Edge Clique Partition Problems 217--226 Brian Herlihy and Peter Schachte and Harald Sòndergaard Un-Kleene Boolean Equation Solving . . . 227--250 Chung Keung Poon and Feifeng Zheng and Yinfeng Xu On-Demand Bounded Broadcast Scheduling with Tight Deadlines . . . . . . . . . . 251--262 Tadao Takaoka and Stephen Violich Fusing Loopless Algorithms for Combinatorial Generation . . . . . . . . 263--293 Tobias Lauer and Thomas Ottmann and Amitava Datta Update-Efficient Data Structures for Dynamic IP Router Tables . . . . . . . . 295--317 Sung Eun Bae and Tadao Takaoka Algorithms for $K$-Disjoint Maximum Subarrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--339 Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Haibing Li and Hairong Zhao Scheduling Two-Machine Flow Shops with Exact Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--359 Tomasz Jurdzi\'nski and Friedrich Otto Shrinking Restarting Automata . . . . . 361--385 Adrian Atanasiu Binary Amiable Words . . . . . . . . . . 387--400 Jesper Jansson and Zeshan Peng Online and Dynamic Recognition of Squarefree Strings . . . . . . . . . . . 401--414 Lud\vek Cienciala and Lucie Ciencialová and Pierluigi Frisco and Petr Sosík On the Power of Deterministic and Sequential Communicating $P$ Systems . . 415--431
Jacir L. Bordim and Koji Nakano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434 Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Arto Salomaa Spiking Neural $P$ Systems: an Early Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--455 Fabrizio Luccio and Linda Pagli and Nicola Santoro Network Decontamination in Presence of Local Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--474 Akihiro Fujiwara and Satoshi Kamio and Akiko Takehara Procedures for Computing the Maximum with DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--493 Francesco Quaglia Software Diversity-Based Active Replication As an Approach for Enhancing the Performance of Advanced Simulation Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--515 Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano and Youhei Yamagishi Efficient Hardware Algorithms for $n$ Choose $k$ Counters Using the Bitonic Merger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--528 Hanane Becha and Paola Flocchini Optimal Construction of Sense of Direction in a Torus by a Mobile Agent 529--546 Paola Flocchini and Miao Jun Huang and Flaminia L. Luccio Decontaminating Chordal Rings and Tori Using Mobile Agents . . . . . . . . . . 547--563 Alan J. Soper and Vitaly A. Strusevich An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Two-Machine Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with an Interstage Transporter 565--591 Benjamin Aziz and Geoff Hamilton Modelling and Analysis of PKI-Based Systems Using Process Calculi . . . . . 593--618 Gautam K. Das and Sasthi C. Ghosh and Subhas C. Nandy Improved Algorithm for Minimum Cost Range Assignment Problem for Linear Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--635 Jozef Gruska and Salvatore La Torre and Mimmo Parente The Firing Squad Synchronization Problem on Squares, Toruses and Rings . . . . . 637--654 Arseny M. Shur Rational Approximations of Polynomial Factorial Languages . . . . . . . . . . 655--665
Oscar H. Ibarra and Hsu-Chun Yen Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--668 Ming Li Information Distance and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--681 Kai Salomaa and Sheng Yu On the State Complexity of Combined Operations and Their Estimation . . . . 683--698 Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Johanna Högberg and Lisa Kaati Bisimulation Minimization of Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--713 Cédric Bastien and Jurek Czyzowicz and Wojciech Fraczak and Wojciech Rytter Reducing Simple Grammars: Exponential Against Highly-Polynomial Time in Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--725 Roderick Bloem and Alessandro Cimatti and Ingo Pill and Marco Roveri Symbolic Implementation of Alternating Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--743 Henning Bordihn and Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Hybrid Extended Finite Automata . . . . 745--760 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri and Ashish Rastogi $ L_p $ Distance and Equivalence of Probabilistic Automata . . . . . . . . . 761--779 Maxime Crochemore and Lucian Ilie and Emine Seid-Hilmi The Structure of Factor Oracles . . . . 781--797 Mathieu Giraud and Phillipe Veber and Dominique Lavenier Path-Equivalent Developments in Acyclic Weighted Automata . . . . . . . . . . . 799--811 Jens Glöckler Forgetting Automata and Unary Languages 813--827 Andreas Maletti Pure and $O$-Substitution . . . . . . . 829--845 Florent Nicart and Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Tibor Csáki and Tamás Gaál and André Kempe Labelling Multi-Tape Automata with Constrained Symbol Classes . . . . . . . 847--858 Martin \vSim\ocircunek and Bo\vrivoj Melichar Borders and Finite Automata . . . . . . 859--871 Elena Czeizler and Juhani Karhumäki On Non-Periodic Solutions of Independent Systems of Word Equations Over Three Unknowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--897 Sudha Balla and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Ion I. Mandoiu Efficient Algorithms for Degenerate Primer Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--910
Ryuhei Uehara and Yushi Uno On Computing Longest Paths in Small Graph Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--930 Vesa Halava and Tero Harju and Mika Hirvensalo Undecidability Bounds for Integer Matrices Using Claus Instances . . . . . 931--948 Bala Ravikumar and Nicolae Santean On the Existence of Lookahead Delegators for NFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--973 Miguel Couceiro and Erkko Lehtonen On the Effect of Variable Identification on the Essential Arity of Functions on Finite Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--986 Zhenchuan Chai and Zhenfu Cao and Xiaolei Dong Efficient ID-Based Multi-Receiver Threshold Decryption . . . . . . . . . . 987--1004 Eddie Cheng and László Lipták Fault Resiliency of Cayley Graphs Generated by Transpositions . . . . . . 1005--1022 Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Arnold L. Rosenberg and Prashant Shenoy Application Placement on a Cluster of Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1041 Cho-Chin Lin A Framework for Solving Sequence Problem of Multiple Input Streams . . . . . . . 1043--1064 Janusz Brzozowski and Helmut Jürgensen Representation of Semiautomata by Canonical Words and Equivalences, Part II: Specification of Software Modules 1065--1087 Lila Kari and Kalpana Mahalingam Involutively Bordered Words . . . . . . 1089--1106 Partha Sarathi Mandal and Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya Mobile Agent Based Checkpointing with Concurrent Initiations . . . . . . . . . 1107--1122 Tseren-Onolt Ishdorj and Ion Petre and Vladimir Rogojin Computational Power of Intramolecular Gene Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1136
Henning Bordihn and Bernd Reichel and Ralf Stiebe and Bianca Truthe Preface: Aspects in Language and Automata Theory: Special Issue Dedicated to Jürgen Dassow . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1138 Peter R. J. Asveld Generating All Circular Shifts by Context-Free Grammars in Greibach Normal Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1149 Charita Bhika and Sigrid Ewert and Ryan Schwartz and Mutahi Waruhiu Table-Driven Context-Free Picture Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1160 Oliver Boldt and Helmut Jürgensen Soliton Languages Are Nearly an Anti-AFL 1161--1165 Elena Czeizler and \vSt\vepán Holub and Juhani Karhumäki and Markku Laine Intricacies of Simple Word Equations: an Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167--1175 Mark Daley and Michael Domaratzki and Alexis Morris Intra-Molecular Template-Guided Recombination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1186 Frank Drewes Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1196 Zoltán Ésik and Werner Kuich Boolean Fuzzy Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1207 Henning Fernau Programmed Grammars with Rule Queues . . 1209--1213 Rudolf Freund and Marion Oswald Partial Halting in $P$ Systems . . . . . 1215--1225 Yan Gao and Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom $P$ Systems with Single Passenger Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227--1235 Ferenc Gécseg Classes of Tree Languages Determined by Classes of Monoids . . . . . . . . . . . 1237--1246 Oscar H. Ibarra and Sara Woodworth Characterizing Regular Languages by Spiking Neural $P$ Systems . . . . . . . 1247--1256 Helmut Jürgensen and Pauline Kraak Soliton Automata Based on Trees . . . . 1257--1270 Andreas Klein and Martin Kutrib Context-Free Grammars with Linked Nonterminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1282 Manfred Kudlek Some Remarks on Quantum Automata . . . . 1283--1292 Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher When Church--Rosser Becomes Context Free 1293--1302 Enzo Magalini and Giovanni Pighizzini A Pumping Condition for Ultralinear Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1312 Andreas Malcher and Bettina Sunckel On Metalinear Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1322 Carlos Martin-Vide and Victor Mitrana Decision Problems on Path-Controlled Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323--1332 Hartmut Messerschmidt and Friedrich Otto Cooperating Distributed Systems of Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . 1333--1342 Franti\vsek Mráz and Martin Plátek and Tomasz Jurdzi\'nski Ambiguity by Restarting Automata . . . . 1343--1352 Taishin Y. Nishida Membrane Algorithm with Brownian Subalgorithm and Genetic Subalgorithm 1353--1360 Alexander Okhotin Notes on Dual Concatenation . . . . . . 1361--1370 Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Grzegorz Rozenberg Computing Morphisms by Spiking Neural $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371--1382 Klaus Reinhardt A Tree-Height Hierarchy of Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383--1394 Arto Salomaa Comparing Subword Occurrences in Binary D0L Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395--1406 Kai Salomaa and Paul Schofield State Complexity of Additive Weighted Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407--1416 Ludwig Staiger Prefix-Free \Lukasiewicz Languages . . . 1417--1423 Maurice H. Ter Beek and Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and György Vaszil and Markus Holzer On Competence in CD Grammar Systems with Parallel Rewriting . . . . . . . . . . . 1425--1439 Sheng Yu and Qing Zhao SC-Expressions in Object-Oriented Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1452 Anonymous Author Index Volume 18 (2007) . . . . . 1453--1459
Jan Holub Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Giuseppe Lancia and Franca Rinaldi and Romeo Rizzi Flipping Letters to Minimize the Support of a String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--17 Christelle Melodelima and Laurent Gueguen and Christian Gautier and Didier Piau A Markovian Approach for the Analysis of the Gene Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 19--35 Manolis Christodoulakis and Costas S. Iliopoulos and M. Sohel Rahman and William F. Smyth Identifying Rhythms in Musical Texts . . 37--51 Ernest Ketcha Ngassam and Derrick G. Kourie and Bruce W. Watson On Implementation and Performance of Table-Driven DFA-Based String Processors 53--70 Pierre Peterlongo and Julien Allali and Marie-France Sagot Indexing Gapped-Factors Using a Tree . . 71--87 Ehud S. Conley and Shmuel T. Klein Using Alignment for Multilingual Text Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101 Domenico Cantone and Salvatore Cristofaro and Simone Faro On Some Combinatorial Problems Concerning the Harmonic Structure of Musical Chord Sequences . . . . . . . . 103--124 Tinus Strauss and Derrick G. Kourie and Bruce W. Watson A Concurrent Specification of Brzozowski's DFA Construction Algorithm 125--135 Shmuel T. Klein and Tamar C. Serebro and Dana Shapira Modeling Delta Encoding of Compressed Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--146 Yasuto Higa and Hideo Bannai and Shunsuke Inenaga and Masayuki Takeda Reachability on Suffix Tree Graphs . . . 147--162 Kimmo Fredriksson and Szymon Grabowski Efficient algorithms for $ (\delta, \gamma, \alpha) $ and $ (\delta, \kappa_\delta, \alpha)$-matching . . . . 163--183 Bruce W. Watson and Derrick G. Kourie and Tinus Strauss and Ernest Ketcha and Loek Cleophas Efficient Automata Constructions and Approximate Automata . . . . . . . . . . 185--193 Frantisek Franek and Qian Yang An Asymptotic Lower Bound for the Maximal Number of Runs in a String . . . 195--203 Steven Lindell A Normal Form for First-Order Logic Over Doubly-Linked Data Structures . . . . . 205--217 Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri and Ashish Rastogi and Michael Riley On the Computation of the Relative Entropy of Probabilistic Automata . . . 219--242 Anton \vCerný On Subword Symmetry of Words . . . . . . 243--250
Sadok Ben Yahia and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--254 Radim B\velohlávek and Jan Outrata and Vilem Vychodil Fast Factorization by Similarity of Fuzzy Concept Lattices with Hedges . . . 255--269 Tarek Hamrouni and Sadok Ben Yahia and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo Succinct Minimal Generators: Theoretical Foundations and Applications . . . . . . 271--296 Radim B\velohlávek and Vilem Vychodil Basic Algorithm for Attribute Implications and Functional Dependencies in Graded Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 297--317 Peggy Cellier and Sébastien Ferré and Olivier Ridoux and Mireille Ducassé A Parameterized Algorithm to Explore Formal Contexts with a Taxonomy . . . . 319--343 Tim B. Kaiser and Stefan E. Schmidt and Cliff A. Joslyn Adjusting Annotated Taxonomies . . . . . 345--358 Jon Ducrou and Peter Eklund An Intelligent User Interface for Browsing and Searching MPEG-7 Images Using Concept Lattices . . . . . . . . . 359--381 Camille Roth and Sergei Obiedkov and Derrick G. Kourie On Succinct Representation of Knowledge Community Taxonomies with Formal Concept Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--404 Gautam K. Das and Sasanka Roy and Sandip Das and Subhas C. Nandy Variations of Base-Station Placement Problem on the Boundary of a Convex Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--427 Daniela Berardi and Fahima Cheikh and Giuseppe De Giacomo and Fabio Patrizi Automatic Service Composition Via Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--451 Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Franck Guingne and André Kempe and Florent Nicart Algorithms for the Join and Auto-Intersection of Multi-Tape Weighted Finite-State Machines . . . . . . . . . 453--476 Vadim V. Lozin and Jordan Volz The Clique-Width of Bipartite Graphs in Monogenic Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 477--494
Tero Harju and Juhani Karhumäki Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496 Alberto Bertoni and Roberto Radicioni Approximating the Mean Speedup in Trace Monoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--511 Volker Diekert and Paul Gastin and Manfred Kufleitner A Survey on Small Fragments of First-Order Logic Over Finite Words . . 513--548 Laurent Doyen and Thomas A. Henzinger and Jean-François Raskin Equivalence of Labeled Markov Chains . . 549--563 R\=usi\cn\vs Freivalds Non-Constructive Methods for Finite Probabilistic Automata . . . . . . . . . 565--580 Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of Union and Intersection of Finite Languages . . . . 581--595 Artur Je\.z Conjunctive Grammars Generate Non-Regular Unary Languages . . . . . . 597--615 Jozef Jirásek and Galina Jirásková and Alexander Szabari Deterministic Blow-Ups of Minimal Nondeterministic Finite Automata Over a Fixed Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--631 Pascal Ochem and Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit Avoiding Approximate Squares . . . . . . 633--648 Victor Selivanov Fine Hierarchy of Regular Aperiodic $ \omega $-Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 649--675 Hellis Tamm On Transition Minimality of Bideterministic Automata . . . . . . . . 677--690 Sebastian Link On the Implication of Multivalued Dependencies in Partial Database Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--715 Bala Ravikumar The Benford--Newcomb Distribution and Unambiguous Context-Free Languages . . . 717--727 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Gheorghe P\uaun and György Vaszil Tissue-Like $P$ Systems with Dynamically Emerging Requests . . . . . . . . . . . 729--745
Viliam Geffert and Giovanni Pighizzini Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--749 Marco Almeida and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis Exact Generation of Minimal Acyclic Deterministic Finite Automata . . . . . 751--765 Rudolf Freund and Marion Oswald Cd Grammar Systems with Regular Start Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--779 H. Jürgensen Complexity, Information, Energy . . . . 781--793 Martin Kutrib and Jens Reimann Optimal Simulations of Weak Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--811 Remco Loos and Andreas Malcher and Detlef Wotschke Descriptional Complexity of Splicing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--826 Carlo Mereghetti Testing the Descriptional Power of Small Turing Machines on Nonregular Language Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--843 Beatrice Palano A Regularity Condition for Context-Free Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--857 Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Takashi Yokomori Representations and Characterizations of Languages in Chomsky Hierarchy by Means of Insertion-Deletion Systems . . . . . 859--871 Bianca Truthe Remarks on Context-Free Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems Generating Crossed Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . 873--886 Ji\vrí Wiedermann and Dana Pardubská Wireless Mobile Computing and Its Links to Descriptive Complexity . . . . . . . 887--913 Vesa Halava and Igor Potapov Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--917 Oscar H. Ibarra and Zhe Dang and Linmin Yang On Counter Machines, Reachability Problems, and Diophantine Equations . . 919--934 Oleksiy Kurganskyy and Igor Potapov and Fernando Sancho-Caparrini Reachability Problems in Low-Dimensional Iterative Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--951 Alexei Lisitsa and Andrei P. Nemytykh Reachability Analysis in Verification Via Supercompilation . . . . . . . . . . 953--969 Maurice Margenstern The Finite Tiling Problem Is Undecidable in the Hyperbolic Plane . . . . . . . . 971--982 Anil Seth An Alternative Construction in Symbolic Reachability Analysis of Second Order Pushdown Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--998 Hsu-Chun Yen Decidability and Complexity Analysis of Forbidden State Problems for Discrete Event Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1013 Sunil Kumar Gupta and R. K. Chauhan and Parveen Kumar A Minimum-Process Coordinated Checkpointing Protocol for Mobile Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1038 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas On Inequalities Between Subword Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039--1047 N. Imani and H. Sarbazi-Azad and A. Zomaya Intruder Capturing in Mesh and Torus Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049--1071 David E. Daykin and Jacqueline W. Daykin Properties and Construction of Unique Maximal Factorization Families for Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1084
Michael Domaratzki and Kai Salomaa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1086 Franziska Biegler and Mark Daley and M. Elizabeth O. Locke Computation by Annotation: Modelling Epigenetic Regulation . . . . . . . . . 1087--1098 Cezar Câmpeanu and Stavros Konstantinidis State Complexity of the Subword Closure Operation with Applications to DNA Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1112 Cezara Dr\uagoi and Florin Manea On the Descriptional Complexity of Accepting Networks of Evolutionary Processors with Filtered Connections . . 1113--1132 Tseren-Onolt Ishdorj and Ion Petre Gene Assembly Models and Boolean Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1145 John Jack and Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón and Oscar H. Ibarra and Andrei P\uaun Discrete Nondeterministic Modeling of the FAS Pathway . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1162 Lila Kari and Kalpana Mahalingam Watson--Crick Bordered Words and Their Syntactic Monoid . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1179 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and György Vaszil Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1182 Francesco Bernardini and Marian Gheorghe and Maurice Margenstern and Sergey Verlan How to Synchronize the Activity of All Components of a $P$ System? . . . . . . 1183--1198 Radu Mardare and Matteo Cavaliere and Sean Sedwards A Logical Characterization of Robustness, Mutants and Species in Colonies of Agents . . . . . . . . . . . 1199--1221 Rudolf Freund and Mihai Ionescu and Marion Oswald Extended Spiking Neural $P$ Systems with Decaying Spikes And/Or Total Spiking . . 1223--1234 Maurice Margenstern On a Characterization of Cellular Automata in Tilings of the Hyperbolic Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1257 Linmin Yang and Zhe Dang and Oscar H. Ibarra On Stateless Automata and $P$ Systems 1259--1276
Jacir L. Bordim and Koji Nakano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1278 Zhen Jiang and Jie Wu On Achieving the Shortest-Path Routing in $2$-D Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1297 Johannes Jendrsczok and Rolf Hoffmann and Jörg Keller Implementing Hirschberg's PRAM-Algorithm for Connected Components on a Global Cellular Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1316 Jack Dongarra and Jean-François Pineau and Yves Robert and Zhiao Shi and Frédéric Vivien Revisiting Matrix Product on Master-Worker Platforms . . . . . . . . 1317--1336 José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Carlos Alberto Córdova-Flores and Anu G. Bourgeois Simulating an $R$-Mesh on an LR-Mesh in Constant Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337--1354 Stefan Dobrev and Nicola Santoro and Wei Shi Using Scattered Mobile Agents to Locate a Black Hole in an Un-Oriented Ring with Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1355--1372 Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano A New FM Screening Method to Generate Cluster-Dot Binary Images Using the Local Exhaustive Search with FPGA Acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1386 José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Juan Paulo Alvarado-Magaña Analysis of the Average Execution Time for a Self-Stabilizing Leader Election Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1402 M. V. Panduranga Rao Generalized Counters and Reversal Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403--1412 Eddie Cheng and Linda Lesniak and Marc J. Lipman and László Lipták Matching Preclusion for Alternating Group Graphs and Their Generalizations 1413--1437 F. Blanchet-Sadri and L. Bromberg and K. Zipple Remarks on Two Nonstandard Versions of Periodicity in Words . . . . . . . . . . 1439--1448 Ivan Fialík Separation Between Classical and Quantum Winning Strategies for the Matching Game 1449--1459 Markus Jalsenius and Kasper Pedersen A Systematic Scan for 7-Colourings of the Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1477 Anonymous Author Index Volume 19 (2008) . . . . . 1479--1485
Joachim Gudmundsson and James Harland Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Hee-Kap Ahn and Helmut Alt and Tetsuo Asano and Sang Won Bae and Peter Brass and Otfried Cheong and Christian Knauer and Hyeon-Suk Na and Chan-Su Shin and Alexander Wolff Constructing Optimal Highways . . . . . 3--23 Heidi Gebauer and Yoshio Okamoto Fast Exponential-Time Algorithms for the Forest Counting and the Tutte Polynomial Computation in Graph Classes . . . . . . 25--44 Regant Y. S. Hung and H. F. Ting A Near-Optimal Broadcasting Protocol for Mobile Video-On-Demand . . . . . . . . . 45--55 Jeremy E. Dawson and Rajeev Goré Termination of Abstract Reduction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--82 Peter Morris and Thorsten Altenkirch and Neil Ghani A Universe of Strictly Positive Families 83--107 Damien Vergnaud New Extensions of Pairing-Based Signatures into Universal (Multi) Designated Verifier Signatures . . . . . 109--133 Joachim Gudmundsson and Michiel Smid On Spanners of Geometric Graphs . . . . 135--149 Virgil Nicolae \cSerb\uanu\ct\ua On Parikh Matrices, Ambiguity, and Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--165 Wolfgang Bein and Lawrence L. Larmore and Rüdiger Reischuk Knowledge States for the Caching Problem in Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems 167--183 Hartmut Messerschmidt and Friedrich Otto On Deterministic CD-Systems of Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . 185--209
K. G. Subramanian and Ang Miin Huey and Atulya K. Nagar On Parikh Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219 Torsten Stüber and Heiko Vogler and Zoltán Fülöp Decomposition of Weighted Multioperator Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--245 Natalia V. Shakhlevich and Akiyoshi Shioura and Vitaly A. Strusevich Single Machine Scheduling with Controllable Processing Times by Submodular Optimization . . . . . . . . 247--269 Robert Brijder and Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom and Grzegorz Rozenberg Reduction Graphs from Overlap Graphs for Gene Assembly in Ciliates . . . . . . . 271--291 Katalin Anna Lázár and Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and András L\Horincz and György Vaszil Dynamically Formed Clusters of Agents in Eco-Grammar Systems . . . . . . . . . . 293--311 Ching-Lueh Chang and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and Yen-Wu Ti Testing Embeddability Between Metric Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--329 Tomá\vs Masopust On the Terminating Derivation Mode in Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems with Forbidding Components . . . . . . . 331--340 Ond\vrej Zají\vcek A Note on Scheduling Parallel Unit Jobs on Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--349 Cheng-Chi Lee and Min-Shiang Hwang and Shiang-Feng Tzeng A New Convertible Authenticated Encryption Scheme Based on the ElGamal Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--359 Danny Z. Chen and Mark A. Healy and Chao Wang and Bin Xu Geometric Algorithms for the Constrained $1$-D $K$-Means Clustering Problems and IMRT Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 361--377
Petr Sosík Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380 Gabriel Ciobanu and Mihai Gontineac Encodings of Multisets . . . . . . . . . 381--393 Dorel Lucanu Rewriting Logic-Based Semantics of $P$ Systems and the Maximal Concurrency . . 395--410 Thomas Hinze and Raffael Fassler and Thorsten Lenser and Peter Dittrich Register Machine Computations on Binary Numbers by Oscillating and Catalytic Chemical Reactions Modelled Using Mass-Action Kinetics . . . . . . . . . . 411--426 Francisco J. Romero-Campero and Jamie Twycross and Miguel Cámara and Malcolm Bennett and Marian Gheorghe and Natalio Krasnogor Modular Assembly of Cell Systems Biology Models Using $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . 427--442 Clemens Heuberger and Helmut Prodinger Analysis of Complements in Multi-Exponentiation Algorithms Using Signed Digit Representations . . . . . . 443--453 Vladimir Rogojin Successful Elementary Gene Assembly Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--477 Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Vamsi Kundeti Spectrum Based Techniques for Graph Isomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--499 Christian Glaßer and Alan L. Selman and Liyu Zhang The Informational Content of Canonical Disjoint NP-Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 501--522 Josef \vSprojcar Proposal of a Semiformal Model of Anonymous Communication . . . . . . . . 523--548 H. Ahrabian and A. Nowzari-Dalini and F. Zare-Mirakabad A Constant Time Algorithm for DNA Add 549--558
Oscar H. Ibarra and Bala Ravikumar Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--561 Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Nondeterministic Finite Automata --- Recent Results on the Descriptional and Computational Complexity . . . . . . . . 563--580 Hsu-Chun Yen Path Decomposition and Semilinearity of Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--596 Ryan Dixon and Ömer E\=gecio\=glu and Timothy Sherwood Analysis of Bit-Split Languages for Packet Scanning and Experiments with Wildcard Matching . . . . . . . . . . . 597--612 Cyril Allauzen and Mehryar Mohri $N$-Way Composition of Weighted Finite-State Transducers . . . . . . . . 613--627 Giovanni Pighizzini Deterministic Pushdown Automata and Unary Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--645 François Cantin and Axel Legay and Pierre Wolper Computing Convex Hulls by Automata Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--667 Marco Almeida and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis Antimirov and Mosses's Rewrite System Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--684 Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Ahmed Bouajjani and Luká\vs Holík and Lisa Kaati and Tomá\vs Vojnar Composed Bisimulation for Tree Automata 685--700 Harald Hempel and Madlen Kimmritz Aspects of Persistent Computations . . . 701--715 Tetsuya Matsumoto and Kazuhito Hagio and Masayuki Takeda A Run-Time Efficient Implementation of Compressed Pattern Matching Automata . . 717--733 Andrew Badr Hyper-minimization in $ O(n^2) $ . . . . 735--746 Yih-Kuen Tsay and Bow-Yaw Wang Automated Compositional Reasoning of Intuitionistically Closed Regular Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--762 Jean-Marc Champarnaud and Jean Philippe Dubernard and Hadrien Jeanne An Efficient Algorithm to Test Whether a Binary and Prolongeable Regular Language Is Geometrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--774
Vesa Halava and Igor Potapov Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--777 Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Giorgio Delzanno and Noomene Ben Henda and Ahmed Rezine Monotonic Abstraction: on Efficient Verification of Parameterized Systems 779--801 Juhani Karhumäki On the Power of Cooperating Morphisms Via Reachability Problems . . . . . . . 803--818 Étienne André and Thomas Chatain and Laurent Fribourg and Emmanuelle Encrenaz An Inverse Method for Parametric Timed Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--836 Yohan Boichut and Romeo Courbis and Pierre-Cyrille Heam and Olga Kouchnarenko Handling Non Left-Linear Rules When Completing Tree Automata . . . . . . . . 837--849 Ingo Felscher and Wolfgang Thomas Compositionality and Reachability with Conditions on Path Lengths . . . . . . . 851--868 Jan Friso Groote and Bas Ploeger Switching Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 869--886 Pavel Martyugin The Length of Subset Reachability in Nondeterministic Automata . . . . . . . 887--900 Arne Meier and Michael Thomas and Heribert Vollmer and Martin Mundhenk The Complexity of Satisfiability for Fragments of $ {\cal CTL} $ and $ {\cal CTL}* $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--918 Francois Nicolas and Yuri Pritykin On Uniformly Recurrent Morphic Sequences 919--940 Drago\vs Cvetkovi\'c and Tatjana Davidovi\'c Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks with Small Tightness . . . . . . . . . . 941--963
Jan Holub Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--966 Simone Faro and Thierry Lecroq Efficient Variants of the Backward-Oracle-Matching Algorithm . . . 967--984 W. F. Smyth and Shu Wang An Adaptive Hybrid Pattern-Matching Algorithm on Indeterminate Strings . . . 985--1004 Pawe\l Baturo and Marcin Piatkowski and Wojciech Rytter Usefulness of Directed Acyclic Subword Graphs in Problems Related to Standard Sturmian Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005--1023 Matthias Gallé and Pierre Peterlongo and François Coste In-Place Update of Suffix Array While Recoding Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025--1045 Manolis Christodoulakis and Gerhard Brey Edit Distance with Combinations and Splits and Its Applications in OCR Name Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1068 Wikus Coetser and Derrick G. Kourie and Bruce W. Watson On Regular Expression Hashing to Reduce FA Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1086 Domenico Cantone and Salvatore Cristofaro and Simone Faro New Efficient Bit-Parallel Algorithms for the $ (\delta, \alpha)$-Matching Problem with Applications in Music Information Retrieval . . . . . . . . . 1087--1108 Jie Lin and Yue Jiang and Don Adjeroh The Virtual Suffix Tree . . . . . . . . 1109--1133 Kazuhiko Kusano and Wataru Matsubara and Akira Ishino and Ayumi Shinohara Average Value of Sum of Exponents of Runs in a String . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1146 Yumei Huo and Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Xin Wang Preemptive Scheduling Algorithms with Nested Processing Set Restriction . . . 1147--1160 Anonymous Author Index Volume 20 (2009) . . . . . 1161--1166
Etsuro Moriya and Friedrich Otto On Alternating Phrase-Structure Grammars 1--25 Klaus Jansen and Roberto Solis-Oba Approximation Schemes for Scheduling Jobs with Chain Precedence Constraints 27--49 Yung-Hsing Peng and Chang-Biau Yang and Kuo-Tsung Tseng and Kuo-Si Huang An Algorithm and Applications to Sequence Alignment with Weighted Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 Ching-Lueh Chang and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu Efficient Testing of Forecasts . . . . . 61--72 Jinn-Shyong Yang and Jou-Ming Chang and Shyue-Ming Tang and Yue-Li Wang Constructing Multiple Independent Spanning Trees on Recursive Circulant Graphs $ G(2^m, 2) $ . . . . . . . . . . 73--90 Arto Salomaa and Sheng Yu Subword Occurrences, Parikh Matrices and Lyndon Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--111
Kedar Namjoshi and Tomohiro Yoneda Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--114 Geng-Dian Huang and Bow-Yaw Wang Complete SAT-Based Model Checking for Context-Free Processes . . . . . . . . . 115--134 Gilles Geeraerts and Jean-François Raskin and Laurent Van Begin On the Efficient Computation of the Minimal Coverability Set of Petri Nets 135--165 Orna Kupferman and Yoad Lustig Latticed Simulation Relations and Games 167--189 Scott Little and David Walter and Kevin Jones and Chris Myers and Alper Sen Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Verification Using Models Generated from Simulation Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--210 Edith Elkind and Blaise Genest and Doron Peled and Paola Spoletini Quantifying the Discord: Order Discrepancies in Message Sequence Charts 211--233 Laura Recalde and Serge Haddad and Manuel Silva Continuous Petri Nets: Expressive Power and Decidability Issues . . . . . . . . 235--256
Andreas Maletti and C\uat\ualin Ionu\ct Tîrn\uauc\ua Properties of Quasi-Relabeling Tree Bimorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276 Oliver Friedmann The Stevens-Stirling-Algorithm for Solving Parity Games Locally Requires Exponential Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--287 Henning Schnoor The Complexity of Model Checking for Boolean Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--309 Aysun Aytac and Zeynep Nihan Odabas Computing the Rupture Degree in Composite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--319 Yen-Wu Ti and Ching-Lueh Chang and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and Alexander Shen Sets of $k$-Independent Strings . . . . 321--327 Mihaela P\uaun and Nichamon Naksinehaboon and Raja Nassar and Chokchai Leangsuksun and Stephen L. Scott and Narate Taerat Incremental Checkpoint Schemes for Weibull Failure Distribution . . . . . . 329--344 Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Michael Main and Grzegorz Rozenberg Combinatorics of Life and Death for Reaction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--356 Hans Kellerer and Vitaly A. Strusevich Minimizing Total Weighted Earliness-Tardiness on a Single Machine Around a Small Common Due Date: an FPTAS Using Quadratic Knapsack . . . . . . . . 357--383 Jacir L. Bordim and Akihiro Fujiwara and Koji Nakano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386 Martti Forsell On the Performance and Cost of Some PRAM Models on CMP Hardware . . . . . . . . . 387--404 Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano Low-Latency Connected Component Labeling Using an FPGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--425 Ei Ando and Hirotaka Ono and Kunihiko Sadakane and Masafumi Yamashita The Space Complexity of Leader Election in Anonymous Networks . . . . . . . . . 427--440 Stefan D. Bruda and Yuanqiao Zhang Collapsing the Hierarchy of Parallel Computational Models . . . . . . . . . . 441--457 Sayaka Kamei and Hirotsugu Kakugawa A Self-Stabilizing Distributed Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum Connected Dominating Set . . . . . . . . 459--476
Masami Ito Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478 Anil Ada On the Non-Deterministic Communication Complexity of Regular Languages . . . . 479--493 Frédérique Bassino and Laura Giambruno and Cyril Nicaud The Average State Complexity of Rational Operations on Finite Languages . . . . . 495--516 Ond\vrej Klíma and Libor Polák Hierarchies of Piecewise Testable Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--533 Maxime Crochemore and Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Costas S. Iliopoulos and Inuka Jayasekera Number of Occurrences of Powers in Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--547 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Jürgen Dassow and György Vaszil Variants of Competence-Based Derivations in CD Grammar Systems . . . . . . . . . 549--569 Emmanuel Filiot and Jean-Marc Talbot and Sophie Tison Tree Automata with Global Constraints 571--596 Pawe\l Gawrychowski and Dalia Krieger and Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit Finding the Growth Rate of a Regular Or Context-Free Language in Polynomial Time 597--618 Jens Glöckler A Taxonomy of Deterministic Forgetting Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--631 \vSt\vepán Holub and Dirk Nowotka On the Relation Between Periodicity and Unbordered Factors of Finite Words . . . 633--645 Roberto Mantaci and Sabrina Mantaci and Antonio Restivo Balance Properties and Distribution of Squares in Circular Words . . . . . . . 647--664 Rémi Morin Unambiguous Shared-Memory Systems . . . 665--685
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Zoltán Ésik Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--688 Sergey Afonin and Elena Khazova On the Structure of Finitely Generated Semigroups of Unary Regular Languages 689--704 F. Blanchet-Sadri and Taktin Oey and Timothy D. Rankin Fine and Wilf's Theorem for Partial Words with Arbitrarily Many Weak Periods 705--722 Jürgen Dassow and Ralf Stiebe and Bianca Truthe Generative Capacity of Subregularly Tree Controlled Grammars . . . . . . . . . . 723--740 Michael Kaminski and Daniel Zeitlin Finite-Memory Automata with Non-Deterministic Reassignment . . . . . 741--760 Ond\vrej Klíma and Libor Polák Literally Idempotent Languages and Their Varieties --- Two Letter Case . . . . . 761--780 Martin Kutrib and Hartmut Messerschmidt and Friedrich Otto On Stateless Two-Pushdown Automata and Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . 781--798 Tommi Lehtinen and Alexander Okhotin Boolean Grammars and GSM Mappings . . . 799--815 Markus Lohrey Compressed Membership Problems for Regular Expressions and Hierarchical Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--841 Andreas Malcher and Carlo Mereghetti and Beatrice Palano Sublinearly Space Bounded Iterative Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--858 Florin Manea and Victor Mitrana and Takashi Yokomori Some Remarks on the Hairpin Completion 859--872
Rudolf Freund and Marian Gheorghe and Solomon Marcus and Victor Mitrana and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Oscar H. Ibarra On Strong Reversibility in $P$ Systems and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . 7--14 Kamala Krithivasan and Venkata Padmavati Metta and Deepak Garg On String Languages Generated by Spiking Neural P Systems with Anti-Spikes . . . 15--27 Linqiang Pan and Daniel Díaz-Pernil and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez Computation of Ramsey Numbers by $P$ Systems with Active Membranes . . . . . 29--38 Andrei P\uaun and Mihaela P\uaun and Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón and Manuela Sidoroff $P$ Systems with Proteins on Membranes: a Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--53 Ignacio Pérez-Hurtado and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Agustín Riscos-Núñez and Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo and Miquel Rius-Font On a Partial Affirmative Answer for a P\uaun's Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . 55--64 Antonio E. Porreca and Alberto Leporati and Giancarlo Mauri and Claudio Zandron $P$ Systems with Active Membranes Working in Polynomial Space . . . . . . 65--73 Petr Sosík and Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón and Lud\vek Cienciala On the Power of Families of Recognizer Spiking Neural $P$ Systems . . . . . . . 75--88 Daniela Besozzi and Paolo Cazzaniga and Stefania Cocolo and Giancarlo Mauri and Dario Pescini Modeling Diffusion in a Signal Transduction Pathway: the Use of Virtual Volumes in $P$ Systems . . . . . . . . . 89--96 Vincenzo Manca and Luca Marchetti Log-Gain Stoichiometric Stepwise Regression for MP Systems . . . . . . . 97--106 M. A. Martínez-Del-Amor and I. Pérez-Hurtado and M. J. Pérez-Jiménez and A. Riscos-Núñez and F. Sancho-Caparrini A Simulation Algorithm for Multienvironment Probabilistic $P$ Systems: a Formal Verification . . . . . 107--118 Roberto Barbuti and Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini and Paolo Milazzo and Simone Tini An Overview on Operational Semantics in Membrane Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131 Florentin Ipate and Raluca Lefticaru and Cristina Tudose Formal Verification of $P$ Systems Using Spin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 Artiom Alhazov and Marian Kogler and Maurice Margenstern and Yurii Rogozhin and Sergey Verlan Small Universal TVDH and Test Tube Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154 Fernando Arroyo Montoro and Juan Castellanos and Victor Mitrana and Eugenio Santos and Jose M. Sempere Filter Position in Networks of Substitution Processors Does Not Matter 155--165 Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Michael Main and Grzegorz Rozenberg Functions Defined by Reaction Systems 167--178 Pierluigi Frisco and Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom $P$ Systems and Topology: Some Suggestions for Research . . . . . . . . 179--190 Cristian S. Calude and Matteo Cavaliere and Radu Mardare An Observer-Based De-Quantisation of Deutsch's Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 191--201 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Marion Oswald and György Vaszil PC Grammar Systems with Clusters of Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212 Mark Daley and Lila Kari and Shinnosuke Seki and Petr Sos\`ik Orthogonal Shuffle on Trajectories . . . 213--222 Jürgen Dassow and György Vaszil On the Number of Active Symbols in Lindenmayer Systems . . . . . . . . . . 223--235 Miroslav Langer and Alica Kelemenová Positioned Agents in Eco-Grammar Systems 237--246 Fumiya Okubo and Takashi Yokomori Morphic Characterizations of Language Families in Terms of Insertion Systems and Star Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 247--260 Arto Salomaa Power Sums Associated with Certain Recursive Procedures on Words . . . . . 261--272 Radu-Florian Atanasiu Erratum: \em Parikh Matrix Mapping and Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Volker Diekert and Dirk Nowotka Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276 Marie-Pierre Béal and Mikhail V. Berlinkov and Dominique Perrin A Quadratic Upper Bound on the Size of a Synchronizing Word in One-Cluster Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--288 Alberto Bertoni and Christian Choffrut and Roberto Radicioni The Inclusion Problem of Context-Free Languages: Some Tractable Cases . . . . 289--299 Janusz Brzozowski and Elyot Grant and Jeffrey Shallit Closures in Formal Languages and Kuratowski's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . 301--321 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas Powers of Regular Languages . . . . . . 323--330 Galina Jirásková Magic Numbers and Ternary Alphabet . . . 331--344 Markku Laine and Wojciech Plandowski Word Equations with One Unknown . . . . 345--375 Tommi Lehtinen and Alexander Okhotin On Equations Over Sets of Numbers and Their Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . 377--393 Holger Petersen Simulations by Time-Bounded Counter Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--409 Georg Zetzsche Toward Understanding the Generative Capacity of Erasing Rules in Matrix Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--426 Zsolt Gazdag and Zoltán L. Németh A Kleene Theorem for Bisemigroup and Binoid Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--446 Lila Kari and Benoît Masson and Shinnosuke Seki Properties of Pseudo-Primitive Words and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 447--471 Vesa Halava and \vSt\vepán Holub Reduction Tree of the Binary Generalized Post Correspondence Problem . . . . . . 473--490 S. L. Bloom and Z. Ésik Algebraic Linear Orderings . . . . . . . 491--515
Jacir L. Bordim and Koji Nakano and Akihiro Fujiwara Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--518 Javid Taheri and Albert Y. Zomaya On the Performance of Static and Dynamic Location Management Strategies in Mobile Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--546 Akihiro Fujiwara and Takeshi Tateishi Logic and Arithmetic Operations with a Constant Number of Steps in Membrane Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--564 Flávio K. Miyazawa and André L. Vignatti Bounds on the Convergence Time of Distributed Selfish Bin Packing . . . . 565--582 Yuichi Asahiro and Jesper Jansson and Eiji Miyano and Hirotaka Ono Graph Orientation to Maximize the Minimum Weighted Outdegree . . . . . . . 583--601 Wei Sun Population Size Modeling for Ga in Time-Critical Task Scheduling . . . . . 603--620 Anne Benoit and Veronika Rehn-Sonigo and Yves Robert and Henri Casanova Resource Allocation Strategies for Constructive In-Network Stream Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--638 Marin Bougeret and Pierre-François Dutot and Alfredo Goldman and Yanik Ngoko and Denis Trystram Approximating the Discrete Resource Sharing Scheduling Problem . . . . . . . 639--656 Ajoy K. Datta and Stéphane Devismes and Florian Horn and Lawrence L. Larmore Self-stabilizing $k$-out-of-$ \ell $ exclusion in tree networks . . . . . . . 657--677 Lali Barri\`ere and Paola Flocchini and Eduardo Mesa-Barrameda and Nicola Santoro Uniform Scattering of Autonomous Mobile Robots in a Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--697 \vSt\vepán Holub Binary Morphisms with Stable Suffix Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699--712 Sushanta Karmakar and Arobinda Gupta Adaptive Distributed Mutual Exclusion by Dynamic Topology Switching . . . . . . . 713--737 Han-Yu Lin and Chien-Lung Hsu A Novel Identity-Based Key-Insulated Convertible Authenticated Encryption Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--756
Olivier Bournez and Igor Potapov Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--760 Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Giorgio Delzanno and Ahmed Rezine Automatic Verification of Directory-Based Consistency Protocols with Graph Constraints . . . . . . . . . 761--782 Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Peter Habermehl On Yen's Path Logic for Petri Nets . . . 783--799 Pieter Collins and Ivan S. Zapreev Computable Semantics for Ctl* on Discrete-Time and Continuous-Space Dynamic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--821 Thomas Henzinger and Barbara Jobstmann and Verena Wolf Formalisms for Specifying Markovian Population Models . . . . . . . . . . . 823--841 Denis Lugiez Forward Analysis of Dynamic Network of Pushdown Systems Is Easier Without Order 843--862 Amaldev Manuel and R. Ramanujam Class Counting Automata on Datawords . . 863--882 Cyril Allauzen and Mehryar Mohri and Ashish Rastogi General Algorithms for Testing the Ambiguity of Finite Automata and the Double-Tape Ambiguity of Finite-State Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--904 Julien Cassaigne and Gwénaël Richomme and Kalle Saari and Luca Q. Zamboni Avoiding Abelian Powers in Binary Words with Bounded Abelian Complexity . . . . 905--920 Meng Zhang and Liang Hu and Yi Zhang Weighted Automata for Full-Text Indexing 921--943 Gonzalo Navarro and Rodrigo Paredes and Patricio V. Poblete and Peter Sanders Stronger Quickheaps . . . . . . . . . . 945--969 Deshi Ye and Qinming He Worst-Case Performance Evaluation on Multiprocessor Task Scheduling with Resource Augmentation . . . . . . . . . 971--982 Debashis Mondal and Abhay Kumar and Arijit Bishnu and Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya and Subhas C. Nandy Measuring the Quality of Surveillance in a Wireless Sensor Network . . . . . . . 983--998
Akihiro Fujiwara and Hirotsugu Kakugawa and Koji Nakano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1000 Yamin Li and Shietung Peng and Wanming Chu Disjoint-Paths and Fault-Tolerant Routing on Recursive Dual-Net . . . . . 1001--1018 Shihong Xu and Hong Shen A Distributed Approximation Algorithm for Fault-Tolerant Metric Facility Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1034 Marc Moreno Maza and Yuzhen Xie Balanced Dense Polynomial Multiplication on Multi-Cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1055 Duhu Man and Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano An Efficient Parallel Sorting Compatible with the Standard Qsort . . . . . . . . 1057--1071 Shlomi Dolev and Yuval Elovici and Alex Kesselman and Polina Zilberman Trawling Traffic Under Attack Overcoming DDOS Attacks by Target-Controlled Traffic Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1098 Yukiko Yamauchi and Doina Bein and Toshimitsu Masuzawa Reliable Communication on Emulated Channels Resilient to Transient Faults 1099--1122 Emmanuelle Anceaume and Francisco Brasileiro and Romaric Ludinard and Bruno Sericola and Frédéric Tronel Dependability Evaluation of Cluster-Based Distributed Systems . . . 1123--1142 Fabienne Carrier and Stéphane Devismes and Franck Petit and Yvan Rivierre Asymptotically Optimal Deterministic Rendezvous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1159 Abusayeed Saifullah and Yung H. Tsin Self-Stabilizing Computation of 3-Edge-Connected Components . . . . . . 1161--1185 Aysun Aytac and Tufan Turaci Vertex Vulnerability Parameter of Gear Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187--1195 Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa Overlap-Free Languages and Solid Codes 1197--1209 Takaaki Mizuki and Satoru Nakayama and Hideaki Sone An Application of ST-Numbering to Secret Key Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1227 Aysun Aytaç and Zeynep Nihan Odaba\cs Residual Closeness of Wheels and Related Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1229--1240
Cunsheng Ding and Qi Wang Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1241 Lilya Budaghyan and Tor Helleseth On Isotopisms of Commutative Presemifields and CCZ-Equivalence of Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243--1258 Claude Carlet More Vectorial Boolean Functions with Unbounded Nonlinearity Profile . . . . . 1259--1269 Keqin Feng and Jing Yang Vectorial Boolean Functions with Good Cryptographic Properties . . . . . . . . 1271--1282 Xiutao Feng and Zhenqing Shi and Chuankun Wu and Dengguo Feng On Guess and Determine Analysis of Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1296 Mark Goresky and Andrew Klapper Statistical Properties of the Arithmetic Correlation of Sequences . . . . . . . . 1297--1315 Honggang Hu and Guang Gong Periods on Two Kinds of Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers with Time Varying Feedback Functions . . . . . . . 1317--1329 Xuelian Li and Yupu Hu and Juntao Gao Lower Bounds on the Second Order Nonlinearity of Boolean Functions . . . 1331--1349 Laurent Poinsot and Alexander Pott Non-Boolean Almost Perfect Nonlinear Functions on Non-Abelian Groups . . . . 1351--1367 Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Shaoquan Jiang Unconditionally Secure Conference Key Distribution: Security Notions, Bounds and Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1393 Christophe Tartary and Huaxiong Wang and Yun Zhang An Efficient and Information Theoretically Secure Rational Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Symmetric Bivariate Polynomials . . . . . . . . . 1395--1416 Yang Yang and Xiaohu Tang and Udaya Parampalli Authentication Codes from Difference Balanced Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1429 Yin Zhang and Meicheng Liu and Dongdai Lin On the Nonexistence of Bent Functions 1431--1438 Danny Z. Chen and Haitao Wang Processing an Offline Insertion-Query Sequence with Applications . . . . . . . 1439--1456 Hamed M. K. Alazemi and Anton \vCerný Counting Subwords Using a Trie Automaton 1457--1469 Arnold L. Rosenberg and Ron C. Chiang Heterogeneity in Computing: Insights from a Worksharing Scheduling Problem 1471--1493
Sheng Yu Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1495--1498 Robert Brijder and Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Michael Main and Grzegorz Rozenberg A Tour of Reaction Systems . . . . . . . 1499--1517 Dora Giammarresi Exploring Inside Tiling Recognizable Picture Languages to Find Deterministic Subclasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1519--1532 Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib The Complexity of Regular(-Like) Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533--1548 Michel Rigo and Laurent Waxweiler Logical Characterization of Recognizable Sets of Polynomials Over a Finite Field 1549--1563 Mikhail V. Berlinkov On a Conjecture by Carpi and D'Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1565--1576 Henning Bordihn and Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher Undecidability and Hierarchy Results for Parallel Communicating Finite Automata 1577--1592 Sabine Broda and António Machiavelo and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis On the Average State Complexity of Partial Derivative Automata: an Analytic Combinatorics Approach . . . . . . . . . 1593--1606 Sylvia Friese and Helmut Seidl and Sebastian Maneth Earliest Normal Form and Minimization for Bottom-Up Tree Transducers . . . . . 1607--1623 Tom Head Computing with Light: Toward Parallel Boolean Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625--1637 Galina Jirásková and Tomá\vs Masopust Complexity in Union-Free Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1639--1653 Lila Kari and Shinnosuke Seki Schema for Parallel Insertion and Deletion: Revisited . . . . . . . . . . 1655--1668 Elena Pribavkina and Emanuele Rodaro State Complexity of Code Operators . . . 1669--1681 Arseny M. Shur On the Existence of Minimal $ \beta $-Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683--1696 Benjamin Steinberg The Averaging Trick and the \vCerný Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1697--1706 Saladi Rahul and Prosenjit Gupta and K. S. Rajan Data Structures for Range-Aggregation Over Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707--1728 Allen Yuan and Eddie Cheng and László Lipták Linearly Many Faults in $ (n, k)$-star graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1729--1745 Lakshmanan Kuppusamy and Anand Mahendran and Kamala Krithivasan On the Ambiguity of Insertion Systems 1747--1758
Michael Domaratzki and Kai Salomaa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1759--1760 Cyril Allauzen and Corinna Cortes and Mehryar Mohri A dual coordinate descent algorithm for SVMs combined with rational kernels . . 1761--1779 Cyril Allauzen and Michael Riley and Johan Schalkwyk A Filter-Based Algorithm for Efficient Composition of Finite-State Transducers 1781--1795 Bo Cui and Yuan Gao and Lila Kari and Sheng Yu State Complexity of Two Combined Operations: Catenation-Union and Catenation-Intersection . . . . . . . . 1797--1812 Volker Diekert and Steffen Kopecki It Is NL-Complete to Decide Whether a Hairpin Completion of Regular Languages Is Regular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813--1828 Manfred Droste and Ingmar Meinecke Weighted Automata and Regular Expressions Over Valuation Monoids . . . 1829--1844 Zoltán Ésik and Andreas Maletti The Category of Simulations for Weighted Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845--1859 Manfred Kufleitner and Alexander Lauser Partially Ordered Two-Way Büchi Automata 1861--1876 Andreas Maletti and Daniel Quernheim Optimal Hyper-Minimization . . . . . . . 1877--1891 Jan \vZ\vdárek and Bo\vrivoj Melichar Tree-Based $2$D Indexing . . . . . . . . 1893--1907 Fang Yu and Tevfik Bultan and Oscar H. Ibarra Relational String Verification Using Multi-Track Automata . . . . . . . . . . 1909--1924 J. C. Birget On the Circuit-Size of Inverses . . . . 1925--1938 Chavdar Dangalchev Residual Closeness and Generalized Closeness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1939--1948 Artur Czumaj and Jurek Czyzowicz and Leszek G\kasieniec and Jesper Jansson and Andrzej Lingas and Pawel Zylinski Approximation Algorithms for Buy-At-Bulk Geometric Network Design . . . . . . . . 1949--1969 Csilla Bujtás and György Dósa and Csanád Imreh and Judit Nagy-György and Zsolt Tuza The Graph-Bin Packing Problem . . . . . 1971--1993 Anonymous Author Index Volume 22 (2011) . . . . . 1995--2004
Ian Mcquillan and Giovanni Pighizzini Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3 Martin Kappes and Andreas Malcher and Detlef Wotschke In Memoriam: Chandra Kintala . . . . . . 5--19 Janusz Brzozowski and Baiyu Li and Yuli Ye On the Complexity of the Evaluation of Transient Extensions of Boolean Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--35 Cristian S. Calude and Kai Salomaa and Tania K. Roblot State-Size Hierarchy for Finite-State Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50 Bo Cui and Yuan Gao and Lila Kari and Sheng Yu State Complexity of Two Combined Operations: Catenation-Star and Catenation-Reversal . . . . . . . . . . 51--66 Krystian Dudzinski and Stavros Konstantinidis Formal Descriptions of Code Properties: Decidability, Complexity, Implementation 67--85 Zoltán Ésik Ordinal Automata and Cantor Normal Form 87--98 Ronny Harbich and Bianca Truthe A Comparison of the Descriptional Complexity of Classes of Limited Lindenmayer Systems: Part I . . . . . . 99--114 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi and Martin Kutrib The Magic Number Problem for Subregular Language Families . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131 Przemys\law Prusinkiewicz and Mitra Shirmohammadi and Faramarz Samavati $L$-Systems in Geometric Modeling . . . 133--146 Adilson Luiz Bonifacio and Arnaldo Vieira Moura and Adenilso Simao Model Partitions and Compact Test Case Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--172 Junping Zhou and Minghao Yin and Xiangtao Li and Jinyan Wang Phase Transitions of Expspace-Complete Problems: a Further Step . . . . . . . . 173--184 Egor Dolzhenko and Nata\vsa Jonoska Two-Dimensional Languages and Cellular Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--206 Kalpana Mahalingam and K. G. Subramanian Product of Parikh Matrices and Commutativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--223 César Domínguez and Dominique Duval A Parameterization Process: from a Functorial Point of View . . . . . . . . 225--242
F. Chin and O. Ibarra and S. Sahni and A. Salomaa Sheng Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--246 Jan Holub Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248 Costas S. Iliopoulos and Mirka Miller and Solon P. Pissis Parallel Algorithms for Mapping Short Degenerate and Weighted DNA Sequences to a Reference Genome . . . . . . . . . . . 249--259 Shunsuke Inenaga and Hideo Bannai Finding Characteristic Substrings from Compressed Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--280 Maxime Crochemore and Laura Giambruno and Alessio Langiu On-Line Construction of a Small Automaton for a Finite Set of Words . . 281--301 Marcin Piatkowski and Wojciech Rytter Asymptotic Behaviour of the Maximal Number of Squares in Standard Sturmian Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--321 Matteo Campanelli and Domenico Cantone and Simone Faro and Emanuele Giaquinta Pattern Matching with Swaps in Practice 323--342 Domenico Cantone and Simone Faro and Emanuele Giaquinta Adapting Boyer--Moore-Like Algorithms for Searching Huffman Encoded Texts . . 343--356 Péter Burcsi and Ferdinando Cicalese and Gabriele Fici and Zsuzsanna Lipták Algorithms for Jumbled Pattern Matching in Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--374 Sebastian Smyczy\'nski Constant-Memory Iterative Generation of Special Strings Representing Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--387 Frantisek Franek and Mei Jiang Crochemore's Repetitions Algorithm Revisited: Computing Runs . . . . . . . 389--401 Enrique Alba and Franciszek Seredynski and El-Ghazali Talbi and Albert Y. Zomaya Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--405 Azzedine Boukerche and Rodolfo Bezerra Batista and Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves De Melo and Felipe Brandt Scarel and Lavir Antonio Bahia Carvalho De Souza Exact Parallel Alignment of Megabase Genomic Sequences with Tunable Work Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--429 Allani Abderrahim and El-Ghazali Talbi and Mellouli Khaled Hybridization of Genetic and Quantum Algorithm for Gene Selection and Classification of Microarray Data . . . 431--444 Young Choon Lee and Javid Taheri and Albert Y. Zomaya A Parallel Metaheuristic Framework Based on Harmony Search for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Systems . . . . . 445--464 Piotr Switalski and Franciszek Seredynski An Effective Multiprocessor Scheduling with Use of Geo Metaheuristic . . . . . 465--481 Lakhdar Loukil and Malika Mehdi and Nouredine Melab and El-Ghazali Talbi and Pascal Bouvry Parallel Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Solving Q3Ap on Computational Grid . . . 483--500 Marcin Seredynski and Pascal Bouvry Direct Reciprocity-Based Cooperation in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks . . . . . . . . . 501--521 Patrick Ediger and Rolf Hoffmann Efficiency Analysis of the Time-Shuffling Method for the Evolution of Agent Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . 523--542 Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro and Juan Manuel Estevez-Tapiador and Pedro Peris-Lopez and John A. Clark and El-Ghazali Talbi Metaheuristic Traceability Attack Against SLMAP, an RFID Lightweight Authentication Protocol . . . . . . . . 543--553
Angelo Montanari and Margherita Napoli and Mimmo Parente Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555 Davide Bresolin and Pietro Sala and Guido Sciavicco On Begins, Meets and Before . . . . . . 559 Lubo\vs Brim and Jakub Chaloupka Using Strategy Improvement to Stay Alive 585 Krishnendu Chatterjee and Rupak Majumdar Discounting and Averaging in Games Across Time Scales . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Giovanna D'Agostino and Giacomo Lenzi On Modal $ \mu $-Calculus over Finite Graphs with Small Components or Small Tree Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 John Fearnley and Martin Zimmermann Playing Muller Games in a Hurry . . . . 649 Oliver Friedmann and Martin Lange Two Local Strategy Iteration Schemes for Parity Game Solving . . . . . . . . . . 669 Hugo Gimbert and Wies\law Zielonka Blackwell Optimal Strategies in Priority Mean-Payoff Games . . . . . . . . . . . 687 Henning Bordihn and Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher On the Computational Capacity of Parallel Communicating Finite Automata 713 Yuechuan Wei and Chao Li and Dan Cao Improved Related-Key Rectangle Attack on the Full HAS-160 Encryption Mode . . . . 733 Deshuai Dong and Longjiang Qu and Shaojing Fu and Chao Li New Constructions of Vectorial Boolean Functions with Good Cryptographic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749
Jacir L. Bordim and Akihiro Fujiwara and Koji Nakano Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761 Wayne Goddard and Pradip K. Srimani Self-Stabilizing Master-Slave Token Circulation and Efficient Size-Computation in a Unidirectional Ring of Arbitrary Size . . . . . . . . . 763 Keqin Li Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Random Walk Algorithms on Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779 Alain Bui and Abdurusul Kudireti and Devan Sohier An Adaptive Random Walk Based Distributed Clustering Algorithm . . . . 803 Guoqiang Li and Xiaojuan Cai and Shoji Yuen Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time Systems with Mutex Components . . . . . 831 Daniel Fajardo-Delgado and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Anu G. Bourgeois Randomized Self-Stabilizing Leader Election in Preference-Based Anonymous Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 Adam Gudy\'s and Sebastian Deorowicz A Parallel Algorithm for the Constrained Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem Designed for GPUs . . . . . . . . . . . 877 Liang Hu and Meng Zhang and Yi Zhang and Jijun Tang Label-Guided Graph Exploration with Adjustable Ratio of Labels . . . . . . . 903 Chi-Jung Kuo and Chiun-Chieh Hsu and Hon-Ren Lin and Da-Ren Chen Minimum Feedback Arc Sets in Rotator and Incomplete Rotator Graphs . . . . . . . 931 Desh Ranjan and Mohammad Zubair Vertex Isoperimetric Parameter of a Computation Graph . . . . . . . . . . . 941
Giancarlo Maur and Alberto Leporati Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965 Sabine Broda and António Machiavelo and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis On the Average Size of Glushkov and Partial Derivative Automata . . . . . . 969 Namit Chaturvedi and Jörg Olschewski and Wolfgang Thomas Languages Versus $ \omega $-Languages in Regular Infinite Games . . . . . . . . . 985 Volker Diekert and Alexei Myasnikov Group Extensions Over Infinite Words . . 1001 Michael Domaratzki and Narad Rampersad Abelian Primitive Words . . . . . . . . 1021 Émilie Charlier and Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit Enumeration and Decidable Properties of Automatic Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 1035 Edita Pelantová and \vStépán Starosta Almost Rich Words As Morphic Images of Rich Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067 Yuan Gao and Sheng Yu State Complexity and Approximation . . . 1085 A. C. Cem Say and Abuzer Yakaryilmaz Quantum Counter Automata . . . . . . . . 1099 Shenggen Zheng and Daowen Qiu and Lvzhou Li Some Languages Recognized by Two-Way Finite Automata with Quantum and Classical States . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117 Pablo Arrighi and Gilles Dowek The Physical Church--Turing Thesis and the Principles of Quantum Theory . . . . 1131 Guaning Chen and Chih-Wei Yi and Min-Te Sun and Fang-Chu Liu and Wei-Chi Lan Minimum Local Disk Cover Sets for Broadcasting in Heterogeneous Multihop Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 1147 Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Michael Main and Grzegorz Rozenberg and Allison Thompson Brown Stability and Chaos in Reaction Systems 1173
Pál Dömösi and Zoltán Ésik Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185 F. Blanchet-Sadri Algorithmic Combinatorics on Partial Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189 Andreas Maletti and Daniel Quernheim Unweighted and Weighted Hyper-Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . 1207 Jean-Éric Pin Equational Descriptions of Languages . . 1227 Gilles Benattar and Béatrice Bérard and Didier Lime and John Mullins and Olivier H. Roux and Mathieu Sassolas Channel Synthesis for Finite Transducers 1241 Janusz Brzozowski and Bo Liu Quotient Complexity of Star-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Peter Leupold and Kayoko Shikishima-Tsuji On Non-Primitive Palindromic Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 1277 Oscar H. Ibarra and Shinnosuke Seki Characterizations of Bounded Semilinear Languages by One-Way and Two-Way Deterministic Machines . . . . . . . . . 1291 Lila Kari and Zhi Xu De Bruijn Sequences Revisited . . . . . 1307 Manfred Kufleitner and Alexander Lauser Around Dot-Depth One . . . . . . . . . . 1323 Keqin Li Probing High-Capacity Peers to Reduce Download Times in P2P File Sharing Systems with Stochastic Service Capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341 Michalis Christou and Maxime Crochemore and Costas S. Iliopoulos Identifying All Abelian Periods of a String in Quadratic Time and Relevant Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371 Jana Hadravová and \vSt\uepán Holub Large Simple Binary Equality Words . . . 1385 Orly Yahalom Testing for Forbidden Posets in Ordered Rooted Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405
Jérôme Durand-Lose and Maurice Margenstern and Klaus Sutner Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419 Artiom Alhazov and Yurii Rogozhin and Sergey Verlan On Small Universal Splicing Systems . . 1423 David Auger and Olivier Teytaud The Frontier of Decidability in Partially Observable Recursive Games . . 1439 Amir M. Ben-Amram and Lars Kristiansen On the Edge of Decidability in Complexity Analysis of Loop Programs . . 1451 Mark Burgin Decidability and Universality in the Axiomatic Theory of Computability and Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465 Olivier Finkel Three Applications to Rational Relations of the High Undecidability of the Infinite Post Correspondence Problem in a regular $ \omega $-Language . . . . . 1481 Klaus Meer Some Initial Thoughts on Bounded Query Computations Over the Reals . . . . . . 1499 Yunyun Niu and K. G. Subramanian and Ibrahim Venkat and Rosni Abdullah A Tissue $P$ System Based Solution to Quadratic Assignment Problem . . . . . . 1511 Hammadi Bennoui and Allaoua Chaoui and Kamel Barkaoui On Structural Analysis of Interacting Behavioral Petri Nets for Distributed Causal Model-Based Diagnosis . . . . . . 1523 Chung-Shou Liao and Louxin Zhang Approximating the Spanning $k$-Tree Forest Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1543 Alexander Meduna and Petr Zemek Jumping Finite Automata . . . . . . . . 1555
Zuzana Masáková and \vSt\vepán Holub Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579 Irina A. Gorbunova and Arseny M. Shur On Pansiot Words Avoiding 3-Repetitions 1583 Elena A. Petrova and Arseny M. Shur Constructing Premaximal Binary Cube-Free Words of Any Level . . . . . . . . . . . 1595 Luke Schaeffer and Jeffrey Shallit The Critical Exponent Is Computable for Automatic Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 1611 Daniel Dombek Substitutions over Infinite Alphabet Generating $(-\beta)$-integers . . . . . 1627 Bastian Bischoff and James Currie and Dirk Nowotka Unary Patterns with Involution . . . . . 1641 Steven Widmer Permutation Complexity and the Letter Doubling Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653 Fabio Burderi Full Monoids and Maximal Codes . . . . . 1677 Michaël Cadilhac and Alain Finkel and Pierre Mckenzie Bounded Parikh Automata . . . . . . . . 1691 Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and Pierluigi San Pietro From Regular to Strictly Locally Testable Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 1711 Shuming Zhou and Lanxiang Chen and Jun-Ming Xu Conditional Fault Diagnosability of Dual-Cubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1729 Juha Honkala Equality Sets of Morphic Word Sequences 1749 Anonymous Author Index Volume 23 (2012) . . . . . 1767
Alex Potanin and Taso Viglas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Peter Floderus and Andrzej Lingas and Mia Persson Towards More Efficient Infection and Fire Fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Akira Suzuki and Kei Uchizawa and Xiao Zhou Energy-Efficient Threshold Circuits Computing Mod Functions . . . . . . . . 15 John Augustine and Qi Han and Philip Loden and Sachin Lodha and Sasanka Roy Tight Analysis of Shortest Path Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks 31 Guillaume Blin and Romeo Rizzi and Florian Sikora and Stephane Vialette Minimum Mosaic Inference of a Set of Recombinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 N. S. Narayanaswamy and N. Sadagopan A Unified Framework for Bi(tri)connectivity and Chordal Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Marcin Bienkowski and Pawe\l Zalewski $ (1, 2) $-Hamiltonian Completion on a Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Martin R. Ehmsen and Kim S. Larsen A Technique for Exact Computation of Precoloring Extension on Interval Graphs 109 Fabien Durand Decidability of Uniform Recurrence of Morphic Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Arto Salomaa Functional Constructions Between Reaction Systems and Propositional Logic 147
Giorgio Delzanno and Igor Potapov Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Krishnendu Chatterjee and Luca De Alfaro and Rupak Majumdar The Complexity of Coverage . . . . . . . 165 Parosh Aziz Abdulla and Jonathan Cederberg and Tomá\vs Vojnar Monotonic Abstraction for Programs with Multiply-Linked Structures . . . . . . . 187 Alessandro Carioni and Silvio Ghilardi and Silvio Ranise Automated Termination in Model-Checking Modulo Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Laurent Fribourg and Ulrich Kühne Parametric Verification and Test Coverage for Hybrid Automata Using the Inverse Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Vladimir V. Gusev Lower Bounds for the Length of Reset Words in Eulerian Automata . . . . . . . 251 Malcolm Mumme and Gianfranco Ciardo An Efficient Fully Symbolic Bisimulation Algorithm for Non-Deterministic Systems 263 Nataliya Skrypnyuk and Flemming Nielson Reachability for Finite-State Process Algebras Using Horn Clauses . . . . . . 283
Goksen Bacak-Turan and Alpay Kirlangic Neighbor Integrity of Transformation Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Tomá\vs Masopust A Note on Limited Pushdown Alphabets in Stateless Deterministic Pushdown Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Javad Akbari Torkestani A Learning Automata-Based Algorithm to the Stochastic Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem . . . . . 329 Houguang Yue From Computing to Interaction: on the Expressiveness of Asynchronous Pi-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 S. P. Tiwari and Shambhu Sharan and Anupam K. Singh On Coverings of Products of Rough Transformation Semigroups . . . . . . . 375 K. G. Subramanian and Kalpana Mahalingam and Rosni Abdullah and Atulya K. Nagar Two-Dimensional Digitized Picture Arrays and Parikh Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 393 Ziran Tu and Yupeng Jiang and Xiangyong Zeng Constructing Odd Variable Boolean Functions with Optimal Algebraic Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Alessio Lomuscio and Ben Strulo and Nigel Walker and Peng Wu Assume-Guarantee Reasoning with Local Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Robert Merca\cs A Note on the Decidability of Subword Inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Friedrich Otto On Centralized Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems with Context-Sensitive Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 Sudipta Pathak and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Marius Nicolae Ems1: an Elegant Algorithm for Edit Distance Based Motif Search . . . . . . 473 Mark Burgin and Cristian S. Calude and Elena Calude Inductive Complexity Measures for Mathematical Problems . . . . . . . . . 487 Katalin Anna Lázár A Bridge Between Self-Organizing Networks and Grammar Systems Theory . . 501 Antonios Kalampakas and Olympia Louscou-Bozapalidou Minimization of Planar Directed Acyclic Graph Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Han Cai and Xiangyong Zeng and Xiaohu Tang and Lei Hu New Optimal Frequency Hopping Sequence Sets from Balanced Nested Difference Packings of Partition-Type . . . . . . . 533
Marian Gheorghe and Gheorghe P\uaun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and Grzegorz Rozenberg Research Frontiers of Membrane Computing: Open Problems and Research Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 Ashok Kumar Das and Santanu Chatterjee and Jamuna Kanta Sing A Novel Efficient Access Control Scheme for Large-Scale Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 Andreas Darmann Popular Spanning Trees . . . . . . . . . 655 Yo-Sub Han An Improved Prefix-Free Regular-Expression Matching . . . . . . 679
Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 Janusz Brzozowski In Search of Most Complex Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 José N. Oliveira Weighted Automata As Coalgebras in Categories of Matrices . . . . . . . . . 709 Mikhail V. Berlinkov Synchronizing Quasi-Eulerian and Quasi-One-Cluster Automata . . . . . . . 729 Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and Pierluigi San Pietro Strict Local Testability with Consensus Equals Regularity, and Other Properties 747 F. M. Fominykh and P. V. Martyugin and M. V. Volkov P(l)aying for Synchronization . . . . . 765 Daniel Go\vc and Dane Henshall and Jeffrey Shallit Automatic Theorem-Proving in Combinatorics on Words . . . . . . . . . 781 Oscar H. Ibarra and Nicholas Q. Tran How to Synchronize the Heads of a Multitape Automaton . . . . . . . . . . 799 Artur Je\.z and Andreas Maletti Hyper-Minimization for Deterministic Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 Martin Kutrib and Friedrich Otto On the Descriptional Complexity of the Window Size for Deleting Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831 Mehryar Mohri On the Disambiguation of Finite Automata and Functional Transducers . . . . . . . 847 Daniel Pr\ru\vsa and Franti\vsek Mráz Restarting Tiling Automata . . . . . . . 863 En Zhang and Yongquan Cai Rational Multi-Secret Sharing Scheme in Standard Point-To-Point Communication Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 Guangyan Zhou and Zongsheng Gao A new upper bound for random $ (2 + p) $-SAT by flipping two variables . . . . 899 Prabhu M. Santhosh Self Stabilization in Distributed Knot Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913 Jing Li and Di Liu and Jun Yuan The Super Spanning Connectivity and Super Spanning Laceability of Tori with Faulty Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 921
Hsu-Chun Yen and Oscar H. Ibarra Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941 Arto Salomaa and Kai T. Salomaa and Andrew L. Szilard Goodby to the Kindhearted Dragon Prof. Sheng Yu, 1950--2012 . . . . . . . . . . 945 Juraj Hromkovi\vc and Rastislav Královi\vc and Richard Královi\vc and Richard \vStefanec Determinism vs. Nondeterminism for Two-Way Automata: Representing the Meaning of States by Logical Formulæ . . 955 Kazuo Iwama and Harumichi Nishimura Recovering Strings in Oracles: Quantum and Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979 Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú P and DP automata: unconventional versus classical automata . . . . . . . . . . . 995 Janusz Brzozowski and Hellis Tamm Complexity of Atoms of Regular Languages 1009 Zoltán Ésik and Satoshi Okawa On Context-Free Languages of Scattered Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029 Tommi Lehtinen and Alexander Okhotin Homomorphisms Preserving Deterministic Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 1049 Yo-Sub Han and Sang-Ki Ko and Kai Salomaa The Edit-Distance Between a Regular Language and a Context-Free Language . . 1067 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi From Equivalence to Almost-Equivalence, and Beyond: Minimizing Automata with Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083 Michaël Cadilhac and Alain Finkel and Pierre Mckenzie Unambiguous Constrained Automata . . . . 1099 Markus L. Schmid Inside the Class of Regex Languages . . 1117 Juhani Karhumäki and Svetlana Puzynina and Aleksi Saarela Fine and Wilf's theorem for $k$-Abelian periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135 Alexandre Blondin Massé and Sarah Desmeules and Sébastien Gaboury and Sylvain Hallé Multipseudoperiodic Words . . . . . . . 1153 Viliam Geffert and Dana Pardubská Unary coded NP-complete languages in $ {\rm ASPACE}(\log \log n) $ . . . . . . 1167
Simon Ware and Robi Malik Compositional Verification of the Generalized Nonblocking Property Using Abstraction and Canonical Automata . . . 1183 Zhengbang Zha and Lei Hu Constructing New APN Functions from Known PN Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 1209 Stephen Fenner and Yong Zhang On the Complexity of the Hidden Subgroup Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1221 Yunchao Wei and Fuguang Chen Generalized connectivity of $ (n, k) $-star graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz and A. C. Cem Say Tight Bounds for the Space Complexity of Nonregular Language Recognition by Real-Time Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 1243 Hermann Gruber and Markus Holzer Provably Shorter Regular Expressions from Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . 1255 Sebastian Deorowicz and Agnieszka Danek Bit-Parallel Algorithms for the Merged Longest Common Subsequence Problem . . . 1281 Rolf Harren and Klaus Jansen and Lars Prädel and Ulrich M. Schwarz and Rob Van Stee Two for One: Tight Approximation of $2$D Bin Packing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299 Aysun Aytaç and Hanife Aksu Some Results for the Rupture Degree . . 1329 Kenya Ueno Breaking the Rectangle Bound Barrier Against Formula Size Lower Bounds . . . 1339 Anonymous Author Index Volume 24 (2013) . . . . . 1355
Jia Fan and Yuliang Zheng and Xiaohu Tang A New Construction of Identity-Based Signcryption Without Random Oracles . . 1 George Lagogiannis Parent Queries Over Dynamic Balanced Parenthesis Strings . . . . . . . . . . 25 Xiang-Lan Cao and Elkin Vumar Super Edge Connectivity of Kronecker Products of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Haejae Jung A Simple Array Version of $M$-Heap . . . 67 Alexander Golovnev Approximating Asymmetric TSP in Exponential Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Galina Jirásková The Ranges of State Complexities for Complement, Star, and Reversal of Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Jheng-Cheng Chen and Chia-Jui Lai and Chang-Hsiung Tsai A Three-Round Adaptive Diagnostic Algorithm in a Distributed System Modeled by Dual-Cubes . . . . . . . . . 125 Nata\vsa Jonoska and Daria Karpenko Active Tile Self-Assembly, Part 1: Universality at Temperature 1 . . . . . 141 Nata\vsa Jonoska and Daria Karpenko Active Tile Self-Assembly, Part 2: Self-Similar Structures and Structural Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Eric Wang and Cewei Cui and Zhe Dang and Thomas R. Fischer and Linmin Yang Zero-Knowledge Blackbox Testing: Where Are the Faults? . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Pai-Chou Wang Dynamic Reducts Generation Using Cascading Hashes . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Andrzej Pelc and Anas Tiane Efficient Grid Exploration with a Stationary Token . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Jing Zhang and Xiaofan Yang and Cui Yu and Li He The Congestion of Generalized Cube Communication Pattern in Linear Array Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and Grzegorz Rozenberg Zoom Structures and Reaction Systems Yield Exploration Systems . . . . . . . 275 Yoshiyuki Yamamoto and Kouichi Hirata and Tetsuji Kuboyama Tractable and Intractable Variations of Unordered Tree Edit Distance . . . . . . 307 Nhat Lam and Min Kyung An and Dung T. Huynh and Trac Nguyen Broadcast Scheduling Problem in SINR Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Yu Zhou and Lin Wang and Weiqiong Wang and Xinfeng Dong and Xiaoni Du One Sufficient and Necessary Condition on Balanced Boolean Functions with $ \sigma_f = 2^{2n} + 2^{n + 3} (n \geq 3) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Amr Elmasry and Yung H. Tsin On Finding Sparse Three-Edge-Connected and Three-Vertex-Connected Spanning Subgraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Ning Ding and Yan Lan and Xin Chen and György Dósa and He Guo and Xin Han Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling with a Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525 Jia Zheng and Baofeng Wu and Yufu Chen and Zhuojun Liu Constructing $ 2 m$-variable Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity based on polar decomposition of $ \mathbb {F}_{2^{2m}}^*$ . . . . . . . 537 Yinkui Li and Zongtian Wei and Xiaokui Yue and Erqiang Liu Tenacity of Total Graphs . . . . . . . . 553 Partha Sarathi Mandal and Anil K. Ghosh A Statistical Approach Towards Secure Location Verification in Noisy Wireless Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 Tim Boykett and Gerhard Wendt $ {\cal I}_2 $ Radical in Automata Near Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 Gennaro Cordasco and Arnold L. Rosenberg On Scheduling Series--Parallel DAGs to Maximize Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 Taha Ghasemi and Hossein Ghasemalizadeh and Mohammadreza Razzazi An Algorithmic Framework for Solving Geometric Covering Problems --- with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 Manfred Droste and Bundit Pibaljommee Weighted Nested Word Automata and Logics Over Strong Bimonoids . . . . . . . . . 641
Junping Zhou and Weihua Su and Jianan Wang New Worst-Case Upper Bound for Counting Exact Satisfiability . . . . . . . . . . 667 Pedro García and Damián López and Manuel Vázquez De Parga Efficient Deterministic Finite Automata Split-Minimization Derived from Brzozowski's Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 679 Haijun Yang and Minqiang Li and Qinghua Zheng Performance Analysis of Grid Architecture Via Queueing Theory . . . . 697 Chiao-Wei Chiu and Kuo-Si Huang and Chang-Biau Yang and Chiou-Ting Tseng An Adaptive Heuristic Algorithm with the Probabilistic Safety Vector for Fault-Tolerant Routing on the $ (n, k)$-Star Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 Lin Chen and Deshi Ye and Guochuan Zhang Online Scheduling of Mixed CPU--GPU Jobs 745 Deng Tang and Claude Carlet and Xiaohu Tang A Class of $1$-Resilient Boolean Functions with Optimal Algebraic Immunity and Good Behavior Against Fast Algebraic Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . 763 Tamar Aizikowitz and Michael Kaminski Linear Conjunctive Grammars and One-Turn Synchronized Alternating Pushdown Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781
Helmut Jürgensen and Rogério Reis Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Janusz Brzozowski and Baiyu Li Syntactic Complexity of $ \cal R $- and $ \cal J $-Trivial Regular Languages . . 807 Daniel Go\vc and Alexandros Palioudakis and Kai Salomaa Nondeterministic State Complexity of Proportional Removals . . . . . . . . . 823 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi Nondeterministic Biautomata and Their Descriptional Complexity . . . . . . . . 837 K. Sutner Iteration of Invertible Transductions 857 Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt Simulations of Unary One-Way Multi-Head Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 877 Giovanni Pighizzini and Andrea Pisoni Limited Automata and Regular Languages 897 Cezar Câmpeanu Descriptional Complexity in Encoded Blum Static Complexity Spaces . . . . . . . . 917
Marie-Pierre Béal and Olivier Carton Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 Arseny M. Shur Languages with a Finite Antidictionary: Some Growth Questions . . . . . . . . . 937 Manfred Droste and Heiko Vogler The Chomsky--Schützenberger Theorem for Quantitative Context-Free Languages . . 955 Tony Tan and Domagoj Vrgo\vc Regular Expressions for Querying Data Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971 U\ugur Küçük and A. C. Cem Say and Abuzer Yakaryilmaz Finite Automata with Advice Tapes . . . 987 Zoltán Ésik and Szabolcs Iván Operational Characterization of Scattered MCFLs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001 Marcella Anselmo and Dora Giammarresi and Maria Madonia Prefix Picture Codes: a Decidable Class of Two-Dimensional Codes . . . . . . . . 1017 Joel D. Day and Daniel Reidenbach and Johannes C. Schneider On the Dual Post Correspondence Problem 1033 Jürgen Dassow and Florin Manea and Robert Merca\cs and Mike Müller Inner Palindromic Closure . . . . . . . 1049 Alberto Bertoni and Christian Choffrut and Flavio D'Alessandro On the Decidability of the Intersection Problem for Quantum Automata and Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 1065 Mohamed Faouzi Atig and K. Narayan Kumar and Prakash Saivasan Adjacent Ordered Multi-Pushdown Systems 1083 Daniel Go\vc and Narad Rampersad and Michel Rigo and Pavel Salimov On the Number of Abelian Bordered Words (with an Example of Automatic Theorem-Proving) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097 Vincent Carnino and Sylvain Lombardy Factorizations and Universal Automaton of Omega Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 1111 Oscar H. Ibarra and Bala Ravikumar Some Decision Questions Concerning the Time Complexity of Language Acceptors 1127 Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt Stateless One-Way Multi-Head Finite Automata with Pebbles . . . . . . . . . 1141 Silvia Bonomo and Sabrina Mantaci and Antonio Restivo and Giovanna Rosone and Marinella Sciortino Sorting Conjugates and Suffixes of Words in a Multiset . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161 Anonymous Author Index: Volume 25 (2014) . . . . . 1177
Puwen Wei and Yuliang Zheng On the Construction of Public Key Encryption with Sender Recovery . . . . 1 Sanpawat Kantabutra Fast Sequential and Parallel Vertex Relabelings of $ K_{m, m} $ . . . . . . 33 Ratnik Gandhi and Samaresh Chatterji Applications of Algebra for Some Game Theoretic Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Jon M. Corson and Lance L. Ross Automata with Counters that Recognize Word Problems of Free Products . . . . . 79 Uraz Cengiz Türker and Hüsnü Yenigün Complexities of Some Problems Related to Synchronizing, Non-Synchronizing and Monotonic Automata . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Wen Chean Teh On Core Words and the Parikh Matrix Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Qunying Liao and Juan Zhu A Note on Optimal Constant Dimension Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Boris Ryabko Complexity of Approximating Functions on Real-Life Computers . . . . . . . . . . 153 Xianyong Li and Xiaofan Yang and Li He and Cui Yu and Jing Zhang Conditional Fault Tolerance of Hypermesh Optical Interconnection Networks . . . . 159
Koji Nuida and Takuro Abe and Shizuo Kaji and Toshiaki Maeno and Yasuhide Numata A Mathematical Problem for Security Analysis of Hash Functions and Pseudorandom Generators . . . . . . . . 169 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni and Alireza Bagheri Constrained Point Set Embedding of a Balanced Binary Tree . . . . . . . . . . 195 Hae-Sung Eom and Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of $k$-Union and $k$-Intersection for Prefix-Free Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Yihua Ding and James Z. Wang and Pradip K. Srimani New Self-Stabilizing Algorithms for Minimal Weakly Connected Dominating Sets 229 Kai Feng and Shiying Wang and Guozhen Zhang Link Failure Tolerance in the Arrangement Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Stephen Fenner and Yong Zhang Quantum Algorithms for a Set of Group Theoretic Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Tina M. Kouri and Daniel Pascua and Dinesh P. Mehta Random Models and Analyses for Chemical Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Stéphane Devismes and Sébastien Tixeuil and Masafumi Yamashita Weak vs. Self vs. Probabilistic Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Subrata Saha and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Rampi Ramprasad Novel Randomized Feature Selection Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Eric Rowland and Jeffrey Shallit Automatic Sets of Rational Numbers . . . 343 Xingqin Qi and Edgar Fuller and Rong Luo and Guodong Guo and Cunquan Zhang Laplacian Energy of Digraphs and a Minimum Laplacian Energy Algorithm . . . 367 Jozef Gruska and Daowen Qiu and Shenggen Zheng Potential of Quantum Finite Automata with Exact Acceptance . . . . . . . . . 381 Alexander Grigoriev and Bert Marchal and Natalya Usotskaya A Note on the Minimum $H$-Subgraph Edge Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Joan Boyar and Kim S. Larsen and Abyayananda Maiti The Frequent Items Problem in Online Streaming Under Various Performance Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Jaros\law Rudy Dynamic Random-Access Stored-Program Machine for Runtime Code Modification 441 Cristian S. Calude and Damien Desfontaines Anytime Algorithms for Non-Ending Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Jan Christensen and Anders Nicolai Knudsen and Kim S. Larsen Soccer is Harder Than Football . . . . . 477 Xishun Zhu and Xiangyong Zeng and Yuan Chen Some Binomial and Trinomial Differentially $4$-Uniform Permutation Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Arnaud Casteigts and Paola Flocchini and Bernard Mans and Nicola Santoro Shortest, Fastest, and Foremost Broadcast in Dynamic Networks . . . . . 499 Tiziana Calamoneri Optimal $ L(j, k) $-Edge-Labeling of Regular Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Arto Salomaa and Francis Chin and Oscar Ibarra and Sartaj Sahni Alberto Apostolico . . . . . . . . . . . iii Xiwang Cao and Lei Hu Two Boolean Functions with Five-Valued Walsh Spectra and High Nonlinearity . . 537 Thomas E. O'Neil Complement, Complexity, and Symmetric Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 Shiying Wang and Kai Feng and Yubao Guo Sufficient Conditions for Maximally k-Isoperimetric Edge Connectivity of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 Guangkui Xu and Xiwang Cao Constructing New Piecewise Differentially $4$-Uniform Permutations from Known APN Functions . . . . . . . . 599 Tzu-Hsin Ho and Li-Hsing Yen and Chien-Chao Tseng Simple-Yet-Efficient Construction and Revocation of Group Signatures . . . . . 611 Abdullah N. Arslan Fast Algorithms for Local Similarity Queries in Two Sequences . . . . . . . . 625 Friedrich Otto Asynchronous Parallel Communicating Systems of Pushdown Automata . . . . . . 643
Aysun Aytaç and Tufan Turaci Vulnerability Measures of Transformation Graph $ G^{xy+} $ . . . . . . . . . . . 667 Jan van Leeuwen and Ji\vrí Wiedermann Separating the Classes of Recursively Enumerable Languages Based on Machine Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 Hae-Sung Eom and Yo-Sub Han State Complexity of Boundary of Prefix-Free Regular Languages . . . . . 697 Zbyn\vek K\vrivka and Alexander Meduna Jumping Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 Laura Giambruno and Sabrina Mantaci and Jean Néraud and Carla Selmi A Generalization of Girod's Bidirectional Decoding Method to Codes with a Finite Deciphering Delay . . . . 733 Brahim Neggazi and Nabil Guellati and Mohammed Haddad and Hamamache Kheddouci Efficient Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for Independent Strong Dominating Sets in Arbitrary Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 751 Javad Akbari Torkestani Algorithms for Steiner Connected Dominating Set Problem Based on Learning Automata Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 Javier Esparza and Michael Luttenberger and Maximilian Schlund FPSOLVE: A Generic Solver for Fixpoint Equations Over Semirings . . . . . . . . 805 Giovanni Pighizzini Investigations on Automata and Languages Over a Unary Alphabet . . . . . . . . . 827 Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis The Computational Paradigm of Cellular Automata in Crowd Evacuation . . . . . . 851 Ivone Amorim and António Machiavelo and Rogério Reis On the Number of Linear Finite Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873 Maria Paola Bianchi and Carlo Mereghetti and Beatrice Palano On the Power of One-Way Automata with Quantum and Classical States . . . . . . 895 Janusz Brzozowski and Marek Szyku\la Large Aperiodic Semigroups . . . . . . . 913 Marius Dumitran and Javier Gil and Florin Manea and Victor Mitrana Bounded Prefix-Suffix Duplication: Language Theoretic and Algorithmic Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 Vladimir V. Gusev and Elena V. Pribavkina Reset Thresholds of Automata with Two Cycle Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953 Oscar H. Ibarra On the Ambiguity and Finite-Valuedness Problems in Acceptors and Transducers 967 Andreas Maletti The Power of Weighted Regularity-Preserving Multi Bottom-Up Tree Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . 987
Zoltán Ésik Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007 Hermann Gruber and Markus Holzer From Finite Automata to Regular Expressions and Back --- A Summary on Descriptional Complexity . . . . . . . . 1009 Christof Löding Simplification Problems for Deterministic Pushdown Automata on Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041 Sebastian Maneth A Survey on Decidable Equivalence Problems for Tree Transducers . . . . . 1069 Henning Bordihn and Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher Returning Parallel Communicating Finite Automata with Communication Bounds: Hierarchies, Decidabilities, and Undecidabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101 Vincent Carnino and Sylvain Lombardy On Determinism and Unambiguity of Weighted Two-Way Automata . . . . . . . 1127 Chen Fei Du and Jeffrey Shallit and Arseny M. Shur Optimal Bounds for the Similarity Density of the Thue--Morse Word with Overlap-Free and $ 7 / 3$-Power-Free Infinite Binary Words . . . . . . . . . 1147 Henning Fernau and Rudolf Freund and Markus Holzer The Finite Index Restriction Meets Hybrid Modes in Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167 Arne Meier and Michael Thomas and Heribert Vollmer and Martin Mundhenk Erratum: The Complexity of Satisfiability for Fragments of CTL and CTL$^\star $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189 Anonymous Author Index Volume 26 (2015) . . . . . 1191
Peng Wu and Minsoo Ryu EDZL Scheduling and Schedulability Analysis for Performance Asymmetric Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Slavcho Shtrakov and Ivo Damyanov On the Computational Complexity of Finite Operations . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Wen Chean Teh Separability of $M$-Equivalent Words by Morphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Changyuan Wang and Daiyuan Peng and Limengnan Zhou New Constructions of Optimal Frequency-Hopping Sequence Sets with Low-Hit-Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Marin Bertier and Matthieu Perrin and Cédric Tedeschi On the Complexity of Concurrent Multiset Rewriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Lunzhi Deng and Jiwen Zeng and Huawei Huang Efficient Certificateless Proxy Signature Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Arseny Shur Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Yuri Gurevich Past Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Sven De Felice and Cyril Nicaud Average Case Analysis of Brzozowski's Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Jorge Almeida and Emanuele Rodaro Semisimple Synchronizing Automata and the Wedderburn--Artin Theory . . . . . . 127 Dmitry Berdinsky and Bakhadyr Khoussainov Cayley Automatic Representations of Wreath Products . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi Minimal and Hyper-Minimal Biautomata . . 161 Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt Set Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Salvatore La Torre and Margherita Napoli and Gennaro Parlato Scope-Bounded Pushdown Languages . . . . 215 Pierre-Alain Reynier and Jean-Marc Talbot Visibly Pushdown Transducers with Well-Nested Outputs . . . . . . . . . . 235 Zuzana Bednárová and Viliam Geffert and Klaus Reinhardt and Abuzer Yakaryilmaz New Results on the Minimum Amount of Useful Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz and A. C. Cem Say and H. Gökalp Demirci Debates with Small Transparent Quantum Verifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Kayoko Shikishima-Tsuji and Akihiro Yamamura Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Jing Tian and Yong Shao and Xianzhong Zhao Out Subword-Free Languages and Its Subclasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Yoshiyuki Kunimochi Some Properties of Extractable Codes and Insertable Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Peter Leupold General Idempotency Languages Over Small Alphabets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Alexander Meduna and Ond\vrej Soukup Simple Matrix Grammars and Their Leftmost Variants . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Kayoko Shikishima-Tsuji Regularity of Iterative Hairpin Completions of Crossing $ (2, 2)$-Words 375 Hiroyuki Chigahara and Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Akihiro Yamamura One-Way Jumping Finite Automata . . . . 391
Janusz Januszewski and \Lukasz Zielonka Improved Online Algorithms for $2$-Space Bounded $2$-Dimensional Bin Packing . . 407 Michael Forsyth and Amlesh Jayakumar and Jarkko Peltomäki and Jeffrey Shallit Remarks on Privileged Words . . . . . . 431 Shanding Xu and Xiwang Cao and Guangkui Xu Optimal Frequency-Hopping Sequence Sets Based on Cyclotomy . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Yongjia Wang and Xi Xiong and Haining Fan $ {\rm GF}(2^n) $ Redundant Representation Using Matrix Embedding for Irreducible Trinomials . . . . . . . 463 Somnath Bera and Kalpana Mahalingam Some Algebraic Aspects of Parikh $q$-Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Zongtian Wei and Nannan Qi and Xiaokui Yue Vertex-Neighbor-Scattering Number of Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 Carole J. Etherington and Matthew W. Anderson and Eric Bach and Jon T. Butler and Pantelimon St\uanic\ua A Parallel Approach in Computing Correlation Immunity up to Six Variables 511
Ali Alatabbi and Costas S. Iliopoulos and Alessio Langiu and M. Sohel Rahman Algorithms for Longest Common Abelian Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 Wen Chean Teh Parikh Matrices and Strong $M$-Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 Vojt\vech Vorel Subset Synchronization and Careful Synchronization of Binary Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 Savio S. H. Tse Belated Analyses of Three Credit-Based Adaptive Polling Algorithms . . . . . . 579 Xianfang Wang and Jian Gao and Fang-Wei Fu Secret Sharing Schemes from Linear Codes over $ F_p + \nu F_p $ . . . . . . . . . 595 Eddy Caron and Ajoy K. Datta and Franck Petit and Cédric Tedeschi Self-Stabilizing Prefix Tree Based Overlay Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 Julien Cassaigne and Idrissa Kaboré Abelian Complexity and Frequencies of Letters in Infinite Words . . . . . . . 631 Alexander Meduna and Ond\vrej Soukup Corrigendum: ``Simple Matrix Grammars and Their Leftmost Variants [3]'' . . . 651
Wenming Zhang and E. Zhang and Feifeng Zheng Online Two Stage $k$-Search Problem and Its Competitive Analysis . . . . . . . . 653 Jiyong Lu and Jun Zhang and Xuan Guang and Fang-Wei Fu Multiple Repair Localities with Distinct Erasure Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . 665 Pascal Caron and Jean-Gabriel Luque and Ludovic Mignot and Bruno Patrou State Complexity of Catenation Combined with a Boolean Operation: A Unified Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 Sang-Ki Ko and Hae-Sung Eom and Yo-Sub Han Operational State Complexity of Subtree-Free Regular Tree Languages . . 705 Ersin Aslan Weak-Rupture Degree of Graphs . . . . . 725 Ferhan Nihan Altundag and Goksen Bacak-Turan Neighbor Rupture Degree of Harary Graphs 739 Adrian Atanasiu and Wen Chean Teh A New Operator over Parikh Languages . . 757 Édouard Bonnet and Florian Sikora A Note on Edge Isoperimetric Numbers and Regular Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
Lakshmanan Kuppusamy and Indhumathi Raman and Kamala Krithivasan On Succinct Description of Certain Context-Free Languages by Ins-Del and Matrix Ins-Del Systems . . . . . . . . . 775 Peter Kostolányi and Branislav Rovan Automata with Auxiliary Weights . . . . 787 David Caissy and Andrzej Pelc Exploration of Faulty Hamiltonian Graphs 809 Satoshi Fujita On the Power of Lookahead in Greedy Scheme for Finding a Minimum CDS for Unit Disk Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 Hui-Jie Xu and Wan-Dong Cai and Gui-Rong Chen Forums-Oriented Research on the Spreading and Inhibition of Rumors . . . 845 Yo-Sub Han and Sang-Ki Ko and Timothy Ng and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of Insertion . . . . . 863 Zibi Xiao and Xiangyong Zeng and Zhimin Sun $2$-Adic Complexity of Two Classes of Generalized Cyclotomic Binary Sequences 879
Francis Chin and Oscar H. Ibarra and Sartaj K. Sahni Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--896 Haibo Liu and Qunying Liao Some New Constructions for Generalized Zero-Difference Balanced Functions . . . 897--908 Saeid Alirezazadeh On Pseudovarieties of Forest Algebras 909--942 Chen Fei Du and Hamoon Mousavi and Luke Schaeffer and Jeffrey Shallit Decision Algorithms for Fibonacci-Automatic Words, III: Enumeration and Abelian Properties . . . 943--964 Sang-Ki Ko and Ha-Rim Lee and Yo-Sub Han State Complexity of Regular Tree Languages for Tree Matching . . . . . . 965--980 Toru Fujita and Koji Nakano and Yasuaki Ito Fast Simulation of Conway's Game of Life Using Bitwise Parallel Bulk Computation on a GPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--1004 Anonymous Author Index Volume 27 (2016) . . . . . 1005
Guangkui Xu and Xiwang Cao and Shanding Xu Several Classes of Quadratic Ternary Bent, Near-Bent and $2$-Plateaued Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Rongjia Li and Chenhui Jin Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on $ 11$-Round $3$D Block Cipher . . . . . . . . . . . 19--28 Vecdi Aytaç and Zeynep Nihan Berberler Binding Number and Wheel Related Graphs 29--38 Frank Gurski and Patrick Gwydion Poullie Interval Routing Schemes for Circular-Arc Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 30--60 Dongfang Zhou and Jianxi Fan and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Jingya Zhou and Xi Wang Cycles Embedding in Exchanged Crossed Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76 Samir Elouasbi and Andrzej Pelc Deterministic Rendezvous with Detection Using Beeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97
Xiang Wang and Fang-Wei Fu Deterministic Construction of Compressed Sensing Matrices from Codes . . . . . . 99--109 Quentin Bramas and Sébastien Tixeuil The Random Bit Complexity of Mobile Robots Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . 111--133 Michael Coons Regular Sequences and the Joint Spectral Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--140 George Lagogiannis Query-Optimal Partially Persistent B-Trees with Constant Worst-Case Update Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--169 Zuling Chang and Pinhui Ke and Yongcheng Zhao Some Enumeration Results on Binary $ 2^n$-Periodic Sequences . . . . . . . . 171--184 Stefan Arnold Identifying Generalized Reed--Muller Codewords by Quantum Queries . . . . . . 185--194
Alexandros Palioudakis and Kai Salomaa and Selim G. Akl Worst Case Branching and Other Measures of Nondeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Jing Li and Yuxing Yang and Xiaohui Gao Hamiltonicity of the Torus Network Under the Conditional Fault Model . . . . . . 211 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi More on Minimizing Finite Automata with Errors --- Nondeterministic Machines . . 229 Wen Chean Teh and Adrian Atanasiu Minimal Reaction Systems Revisited and Reaction System Rank . . . . . . . . . . 247 Jean Mairesse and Ir\`ene Marcovici Uniform Sampling of Subshifts of Finite Type on Grids and Trees . . . . . . . . 263 Meng Zhang Fast Convolutions of Packed Strings and Pattern Matching with Wildcards . . . . 289
Zahra Moslehi and Alireza Bagheri Separating Bichromatic Point Sets by Minimal Triangles with a Fixed Angle . . 309 Benjamin Russell and Susan Stepney The Geometry of Speed Limiting Resources in Physical Models of Computation . . . 321 Goksen Bacak-Turan and Ekrem Oz Neighbor Rupture Degree of Transformation Graphs $ G^{xy-} $ . . . 335 Zhiqiang Sun and Lei Hu Several Classes of Boolean Functions with Four-Valued Walsh Spectra . . . . . 357 Dima Grigoriev and Laszlo B. Kish and Vladimir Shpilrain Yao's Millionaires' Problem and Public-Key Encryption Without Computational Assumptions . . . . . . . 379 Pinhui Ke and Zhifan Ye and Zhengchun Zhou and Jian Shen Autocorrelation of the Modified Binary Two-Prime Sidelnikov Sequence . . . . . 391 Rachid Hadid and Mehmet Hakan Karaata and Vincent Villain A Stabilizing Algorithm for Finding Two Node-Disjoint Paths in Arbitrary Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Zoltán Fülöp In Memoriam Zoltán Ésik (1951--2016) . . . 441 Christos A. Kapoutsis and Lamana Mulaffer A Logical Characterization of Small 2NFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Shinnosuke Seki and Andrew Winslow The Complexity of Fixed-Height Patterned Tile Self-Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Aleksandrs Belovs and J. Andres Montoya and Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz On a Conjecture by Christian Choffrut 483 Holger Bock Axelsen and Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib The Degree of Irreversibility in Deterministic Finite Automata . . . . . 503 Markus Teichmann Regular Approximation of Weighted Linear Context-Free Tree Languages . . . . . . 523 Martin Sulzmann and Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu Derivative-Based Diagnosis of Regular Expression Ambiguity . . . . . . . . . . 543 Akio Fujiyoshi A Practical Algorithm for the Uniform Membership Problem of Labeled Multidigraphs of Tree-Width 2 for Spanning Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . 563 Suna Bensch and Johanna Björklund and Martin Kutrib Deterministic Stack Transducers . . . . 583 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza and Jose Oncina and Colin de la Higuera Computing the Expected Edit Distance from a String to a Probabilistic Finite-State Automaton . . . . . . . . . 603 Daniel Pr\ru\vsa Complexity of Matching Sets of Two-Dimensional Patterns by Two-Dimensional On-Line Tessellation Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Jinguang Han and Yogachandran Rahulamathavan and Willy Susilo Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 Chunguang Ma and Juyan Li and Weiping Ouyang Lattice-Based Identity-Based Homomorphic Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption for Secure Big Data Computing in Cloud Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645 Rashed Mazumder and Atsuko Miyaji and Chunhua Su Probably Secure Keyed-Function Based Authenticated Encryption Schemes for Big Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 Youwen Zhu and Xingxin Li and Jian Wang and Yining Liu and Zhiguo Qu Practical Secure Na\"\ive Bayesian Classification Over Encrypted Big Data in Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 Gang Yu and Xiaoxiao Ma and Zhenfu Cao and Guang Zeng and Wenbao Han Accountable CP-ABE with Public Verifiability: How to Effectively Protect the Outsourced Data in Cloud . . 705 Yangguang Tian and Guomin Yang and Yi Mu and Shiwei Zhang and Kaitai Liang and Yong Yu One-Round Attribute-Based Key Exchange in the Multi-Party Setting . . . . . . . 725 Fucai Zhou and Su Peng and Jian Xu and Zifeng Xu Identity-Based Batch Provable Data Possession with Detailed Analyses . . . 743 Jianye Huang and Qiong Huang and Chunhua Pan A Black-Box Construction of Strongly Unforgeable Signature Scheme in the Leakage Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . 761 Chin-Ling Chen and Jungpil Shin and Yu-Ting Tsai and Aniello Castiglione and Francesco Palmieri Securing Information Exchange in VANETs by Using Pairing-Based Cryptography . . 781 Jiameng Sun and Binrui Zhu and Jing Qin and Jiankun Hu and Qianhong Wu Confidentiality-Preserving Publicly Verifiable Computation . . . . . . . . . 799
Lei Sun and Fangwei Fu and Jian Liu On the Conjecture About the Linear Structures of Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819 Aysun Aytaç and Zeynep Nihan Odaba\cs Berberler Robustness of Regular Caterpillars . . . 835 Jianghong Wei and Xinyi Huang and Wenfen Liu and Xuexian Hu Cost-Effective and Scalable Data Sharing in Cloud Storage Using Hierarchical Attribute-Based Encryption with Forward Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 Gokarna Sharma and Costas Busch The Bursty Steiner Tree Problem . . . . 869 Jie Lin and Yue Jiang and E. James Harner and Bing-Hua Jiang and Don Adjeroh IDPM: An Improved Degenerate Pattern Matching Algorithm for Biological Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889 Lili Guo and Xi Wang and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Jingya Zhou and Jianxi Fan A Fault-Free Unicast Algorithm in the Generalized Hypercube with Restricted Faulty Vertices . . . . . . . . . . . . 915 Vaishali M. Wadhwa and Deepak Garg Approximation Algorithm for Resource Allocation Problems with Time Dependent Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931
Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Benedikt Bollig and Peter Habermehl Emptiness of Ordered Multi-Pushdown Automata is 2ETIME-Complete . . . . . . 945 Wenyi Hong and Zhenbo Wang Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Combination of Parallel Machine Scheduling and Vertex Cover . . . . . . 977 Yinkui Li and Mingzhe Du and Hongyan Li and Xiaolin Wang Edge Rupture Degree of Graphs . . . . . 993 Sepinoud Azimi and Charmi Panchal and Andrzej Mizera and Ion Petre Multi-Stability, Limit Cycles, and Period-Doubling Bifurcation with Reaction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007 Joel Antonio Trejo-Sánchez and José Alberto Fernández-Zepeda and Julio César Ramírez-Pacheco A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for a Maximal $2$-Packing in a Cactus Graph Under Any Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . 1021 Pingshan Li and Min Xu The Super Spanning Connectivity of Arrangement Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 1047 Anonymous Author Index Volume 28 (2017) . . . . . 1073
Vojt\vech Vorel On Basic Properties of Jumping Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Martin Lück Quirky Quantifiers: Optimal Models and Complexity of Computation Tree Logic . . 17 Safia Kedad-Sidhoum and Florence Monna and Grégory Mounié and Denis Trystram A Family of Scheduling Algorithms for Hybrid Parallel Platforms . . . . . . . 63 Nianfeng Lin and Damei Lü and Jinhua Wang $ L(2, 1) $-Edge-Labelings of the Edge-Path-Replacement of a Graph . . . . 91 Alejandro López-Ortiz and Cynthia B. Perez and Jazmín Romero Arbitrary Overlap Constraints in Graph Packing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Ghajendran Poovanandran and Wen Chean Teh On $M$-Equivalence and Strong $M$-Equivalence for Parikh Matrices . . 123
Igor Potapov and Pavel Semukhin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Hideo Bannai and Travis Gagie and Shunsuke Inenaga and Juha Kärkkäinen and Dominik Kempa and Marcin Pi\katkowski and Shiho Sugimoto Diverse Palindromic Factorization is NP-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Dietmar Berwanger and Marie van den Bogaard Consensus Game Acceptors and Iterated Transductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Maria Paola Bianchi and Juraj Hromkovi\vc and Ivan Ková\vc On the Size of Two-Way Reasonable Automata for the Liveness Problem . . . 187 Christopher Czyba and Wolfgang Thomas and Christopher Spinrath Finite Automata Over Infinite Alphabets: Two Models with Transitions for Local Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Joey Eremondi and Oscar H. Ibarra and Ian McQuillan On the Density of Context-Free and Counter Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Markus Holzer and Sebastian Jakobi and Martin Kutrib Minimal Reversible Deterministic Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Ismaël Jecker and Emmanuel Filiot Multi-Sequential Word Relations . . . . 271 Ines Klimann and Matthieu Picantin and Dmytro Savchuk A Connected $3$-State Reversible Mealy Automaton Cannot Generate an Infinite Burnside Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Timothy Ng and David Rappaport and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of Neighbourhoods and Approximate Pattern Matching . . . . . . 315
Michelangelo Bucci and Gwenaël Richomme Greedy Palindromic Lengths . . . . . . . 331--356 Khodakhast Bibak and Bruce M. Kapron and Venkatesh Srinivasan and László Tóth On an Almost-Universal Hash Function Family with Applications to Authentication and Secrecy Codes . . . . 357--375 Parisa Derakhshan and Walter Hussak Optimal Bounds for Disjoint Hamilton Cycles in Star Graphs . . . . . . . . . 377--389 Pardis Kavand and Ali Mohades A Time-Space Trade-off for the Shortest Path Tree in a Simple Polygon . . . . . 391--402 Somnath Bera and Kalpana Mahalingam and K. G. Subramanian Properties of Parikh Matrices of Binary Words Obtained by an Extension of a Restricted Shuffle Operator . . . . . . 403--413 Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim and Andre Luis Brasil Cavalcante The Iota-Delta Function as an Alternative to Boolean Formalism . . . . 415--423 Masaki Nakanishi Quantum Pushdown Automata with Garbage Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--446 Zeynep Nihan Berberler and Esin Yigit Link Vulnerability in Networks . . . . . 447--456
Jarkko Kari and Alexander Okhotin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--459 Patrizio Angelini and Giordano Da Lozzo and Marco Di Bartolomeo and Valentino Di Donato and Maurizio Patrignani and Vincenzo Roselli and Ioannis G. Tollis Algorithms and Bounds for $L$-Drawings of Directed Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480 Harout Aydinian and Ferdinando Cicalese and Christian Deppe and Vladimir Lebedev A Combinatorial Model of Two-Sided Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--504 Maria Paola Bianchi and Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and Tatjana Brülisauer and Dennis Komm and Beatrice Palano Online Minimum Spanning Tree with Advice 505--527 Olivier Bournez and Oleksiy Kurganskyy and Igor Potapov Reachability Problems for One-Dimensional Piecewise Affine Maps 529--549 Elisabet Burjons and Juraj Hromkovi\vc and Rastislav Královi\vc and Richard Královi\vc and Xavier Muñoz and Walter Unger Online Graph Coloring Against a Randomized Adversary . . . . . . . . . . 551--569 M. W. Gazda and T. A. C. Willemse Cooking Your Own Parity Game Preorders Through Matching Plays . . . . . . . . . 571--590 Jan Clemens Gehrke and Klaus Jansen and Stefan E. J. Kraft and Jakob Schikowski A PTAS for Scheduling Unrelated Machines of Few Different Types . . . . . . . . . 591--621 Heikki Hyyrö and Shunsuke Inenaga Dynamic RLE-Compressed Edit Distance Tables Under General Weighted Cost Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--645 Dmitry Kravchenko and Nikolajs Nahimovs and Alexander Rivosh Grover's Search with Faults on Some Marked Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--662 Kent Kwee and Friedrich Otto Nondeterministic Ordered Restarting Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--685 Nikolajs Nahimovs and Alexander Rivosh Quantum Walks on Two-Dimensional Grids with Multiple Marked Locations . . . . . 687--700
Alexandre Blondin Massé and Sre\vcko Brlek and Christophe Reutenauer Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--704 V. Berthé and F. Dolce and F. Durand and J. Leroy and D. Perrin Rigidity and Substitutive Dendric Words 705--720 Émilie Charlier and Wolfgang Steiner Permutations and Negative Beta-Shifts 721--740 Cedric Chauve and Julien Courtiel and Yann Ponty Counting, Generating, Analyzing and Sampling Tree Alignments . . . . . . . . 741--767 Nicolas Bedon Complementation of Branching Automata for Scattered and Countable $N$-Free Posets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--799 Luc Dartois and Ismaël Jecker and Pierre-Alain Reynier Aperiodic String Transducers . . . . . . 801--824 Jörg Endrullis and Juhani Karhumäki and Jan Willem Klop and Aleksi Saarela Degrees of Infinite Words, Polynomials and Atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--843 Daniil Gasnikov and Arseny M. Shur Square-Free Partial Words with Many Wildcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--860 Jozef Jirásek, Jr. and Galina Jirásková and Juraj \vSebej Operations on Unambiguous Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--876 Andreas Maletti Compositions of Tree-to-Tree Statistical Machine Translation Models . . . . . . . 877--892 Florin Manea and Dirk Nowotka and Markus L. Schmid On the Complexity of Solving Restricted Word Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--909 Henryk Michalewski and Micha\l Skrzypczak On the Strength of Unambiguous Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--933 Dirk Nowotka and Aleksi Saarela One-Variable Word Equations and Three-Variable Constant-Free Word Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--950
Ludovic Mignot and Nadia Ouali-Sebti and Djelloul Ziadi An Efficient Algorithm for the Construction of the Equation Tree Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--978 Andreas Darmann and Janosch Döcker and Britta Dorn The Monotone Satisfiability Problem with Bounded Variable Appearances . . . . . . 979--993 Shuli Zhao and Weihua Yang and Shurong Zhang and Liqiong Xu Component Edge Connectivity of Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1001 Yu-Liang Liu and Jou-Ming Chang Realizing Exchanged Crossed Cube Communication Patterns on Linear Array WDM Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1021 Heewon Chung and Myungsun Kim Encoding of Rational Numbers and Their Homomorphic Computations for FHE-Based Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1044 Younes Guellouma and Hadda Cherroun From Tree Automata to Rational Tree Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1062 Caixue Zhou and Guangyong Gao and Zongmin Cui and Zhiqiang Zhao Certificate-Based Generalized Ring Signcryption Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1088
Meng Zhang and Yi Zhang Space-Efficient Representations for Glushkov Automata . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1105 Hong Wang and Jie Guan and Lin Ding On Equivalence Relations of State Diagram of Cascade Connection of an LFSR into an NFSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1117 Ömür Kìvanç Kürkçü and Ersin Aslan A Comparison Between Edge Neighbor Rupture Degree and Edge Scattering Number in Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1142 Minjia Shi and Hongwei Zhu and Liqin Qian and Patrick Solé On Self-Dual Four Circulant Codes . . . 1143--1150 Canan Çiftçi and Aysun Aytaç Exponential Independence Number of Some Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151--1164 Wen Chean Teh Compositions of Functions and Permutations Specified by Minimal Reaction Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165--1179 Shuo Yan and Yunyong Zhang and Binfeng Yan and Lin Yan and Jinfeng Kou Data Associations Between Two Hierarchy Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1201 Toshihiro Koga Context-Freeness of Parsing Expression Languages is Undecidable . . . . . . . . 1203--1213 Mehdy Roayaei and MohammadReza Razzazi Parameterized Complexity of Directed Steiner Network with Respect to Shared Vertices and Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1230 Mostafa Nouri-Baygi The Computational Complexity of and Approximation Algorithms for Variants of the Component Selection Problem . . . . 1231--1245
Costas S. Iliopoulos and Fatima Vayani Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1248 Kamil Salikhov Improved Compression of DNA Sequencing Data with Cascading Bloom Filters . . . 1249--1255 Andreas Poyias and Simon J. Puglisi and Rajeev Raman m-Bonsai: A Practical Compact Dynamic Trie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1278 Djamal Belazzougui and Travis Gagie and Veli Mäkinen and Marco Previtali and Simon J. Puglisi Bidirectional Variable-Order de Bruijn Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1295 Andreia Sofia Teixeira and Francisco Fernandes and Alexandre P. Francisco SpliceTAPyR --- An Efficient Method for Transcriptome Alignment . . . . . . . . 1297--1310 Micha\ll Adamczyk and Mai Alzamel and Panagiotis Charalampopoulos and Jakub Radoszewski Palindromic Decompositions with Gaps and Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311--1329 Carl Barton and Chang Liu and Solon P. Pissis Fast Average-Case Pattern Matching on Weighted Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1343 Maryam Abdollahyan and Greg Elgar and Fabrizio Smeraldi Identifying Potential Regulatory Elements by Transcription Factor Binding Site Alignment Using Partial Order Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345--1354 Jamie J. Alnasir and Hugh P. Shanahan Transcriptomics: Quantifying Non-Uniform Read Distribution Using MapReduce . . . 1355--1372 Anonymous Author Index Volume 29 (2018) . . . . . 1373--1379
Émilie Charlier and Julien Leroy and Michel Rigo Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 Simon Beier and Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Operational State Complexity and Decidability of Jumping Finite Automata 5--27 Michiel de Bondt and Henk Don and Hans Zantema Lower Bounds for Synchronizing Word Lengths in Partial Automata . . . . . . 29--60 Alice L. L. Gao and Sergey Kitaev and Wolfgang Steiner and Philip B. Zhang On a Greedy Algorithm to Construct Universal Cycles for Permutations . . . 61--72 Zsolt Gazdag and Krisztián Tichler and Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú A Pumping Lemma for Permitting Semi-Conditional Languages . . . . . . . 73--92 François Gonze and Vladimir V. Gusev and Raphaël M. Jungers and Balázs Gerencsér and Mikhail V. Volkov On the Interplay Between \vCerný and Babai's Conjectures . . . . . . . . . . 93--114 Michal Hospodár and Galina Jirásková and Peter Mlynár\vcik Descriptional Complexity of the Forever Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--134 Michal Kunc and Jan Meitner The Generalized Rank of Trace Languages 135--169 Gwenaël Richomme Characterization of Infinite LSP Words and Endomorphisms Preserving the LSP Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--196
Markus Chimani and Giuseppe Di Battista and Fabrizio Frati and Karsten Klein Advances on Testing $c$-Planarity of Embedded Flat Clustered Graphs . . . . . 197--230 Rolf Klein and Elmar Langetepe and Barbara Schwarzwald and Christos Levcopoulos and Andrzej Lingas On a Fire Fighter's Problem . . . . . . 231--246 Guangyan Zhou and Rui Kang On the Lower Bounds of $ (1, 0)$-Super Solutions for Random $k$-SAT . . . . . . 247--254 Min-Shiang Hwang and Cheng-Chi Lee and Shih-Ting Hsu An ElGamal-like Secure Channel Free Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--273 Xianping Liu and Yuan Chen and Yunge Xu and Zhimin Sun Triple-Cycle Permutations Over Finite Fields of Characteristic Two . . . . . . 272--292 Ulrike Große and Christian Knauer and Fabian Stehn and Joachim Gudmundsson and Michiel Smid Fast Algorithms for Diameter-Optimally Augmenting Paths and Trees . . . . . . . 293--313 Yoann Dieudonné and Shlomi Dolev and Franck Petit and Michael Segal Explicit Communication Among Stigmergic Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--332 Miguel Couceiro and Miklós Maróti and Tamás Waldhauser and László Zádori Computing Version Spaces in the Qualitative Approach to Multicriteria Decision Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--353
Cristina G. Fernandes and Carlos E. Ferreira and Flávio K. Miyazawa and Yoshiko Wakabayashi Prices of Anarchy of Selfish $2$D Bin Packing Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374 Joan Boyar and Faith Ellen Tight Bounds for Restricted Grid Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--405 Daitao Huang and Minjia Shi and Patrick Solé Double Circulant Self-Dual and LCD Codes Over $ \mathbb {Z}_{p^2} $ . . . . . . . 407--416 Esin Yi\ugit and Zeynep Nihan Berberler A Note on the Link Residual Closeness of Graphs Under Join Operation . . . . . . 417--424 Barun Gorain and Partha Sarathi Mandal Approximation Algorithms for Barrier Sweep Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--448 Olivier Finkel Incompleteness Theorems, Large Cardinals, and Automata Over Finite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--467 Xiaofang Xu and Chunlei Li and Xiangyong Zeng Nonsingular Polynomials from Feedback Shift Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--487
Yong Yu and Guomin Yang and Huaxiong Wang Preface: Special Issue Cryptography and Provable Security . . . . . . . . . . . 489--492 Yi-Fan Tseng and Chun-I Fan and Cheng-Wei Sung On the Anonymity of Multi-Receiver Identity-Based Encryption Based on Fujisaki--Okamoto Transformation . . . . 493--509 Fatemeh Rezaeibagha and Yi Mu and Shiwei Zhang and Xiaofen Wang Provably Secure (Broadcast) Homomorphic Signcryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--529 Zhongyuan Yao and Yi Mu ACE with Compact Ciphertext Size and Decentralized Sanitizers . . . . . . . . 531--549 Wenjuan Meng and Jianhua Ge and Tao Jiang Secure Data Deduplication with Reliable Data Deletion in Cloud . . . . . . . . . 551--570 Zifeng Xu and Fucai Zhou and Yuxi Li and Jian Xu and Qiang Wang Privacy-Preserving Subgraph Matching Protocol for Two Parties . . . . . . . . 571--588 Qiqi Lai and Bo Yang and Zhe Xia and Yannan Li and Yuan Chen and Zhenlong Li Novel Identity-Based Hash Proof System with Compact Master Public Key from Lattices in the Standard Model . . . . . 589--606 Yupu Hu and Zhizhu Lian and Jiangshan Chen and Baocang Wang and Shanshan Zhang Algebraic Attacks Against Several Weak Variants of GVW 13 ABE . . . . . . . . . 607--618 Burong Kang and Xinyu Meng and Lei Zhang and Yinxia Sun Nonce-Based Key Agreement Protocol Against Bad Randomness . . . . . . . . . 619--633 Xiangxin Liu and Xiaoyuan Yang and Yiliang Han and Xu An Wang A Secure and Efficient Code-Based Signature Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--645 Libing Wu and Yubo Zhang and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Debiao He Pairing-Free Identity-Based Encryption with Authorized Equality Test in Online Social Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--664
Yinghui Zhang and Menglei Yang and Dong Zheng and Tiantian Zhang and Rui Guo and Fang Ren Leakage-Resilient Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption with Recipient Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--681 Hossein Teimoori Faal A Multiset Version of Even-Odd Permutations Identity . . . . . . . . . 683--691 Pingshan Li and Min Xu Fault-Free Hamiltonian Cycles in Balanced Hypercubes with Conditional Edge Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--717 Ghajendran Poovanandran and Wen Chean Teh Strong $ (2 \cdot t) $ and Strong $ (3 \cdot t) $ Transformations for Strong $M$-Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--733 Gang Wang and Min-Yao Niu and Fang-Wei Fu Bounds on Subspace Codes Based on Orthogonal Space Over Finite Fields of Characteristic 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--757 Priti Kumari and Pramod Kumar Kewat 2-Adic and Linear Complexities of a Class of Whiteman's Generalized Cyclotomic Sequences of Order Four . . . 759--779 Aysun Aytaç and Betül Atay Atakul Exponential Domination Critical and Stability in Some Graphs . . . . . . . . 781--791 Shu-Li Zhao and Rong-Xia Hao The Generalized Connectivity of Bubble-Sort Star Graphs . . . . . . . . 793--809
Hüseyin Tokat and Alpay Kirlangiç On the Domination Integrity . . . . . . 811--826 Cezar Câmpeanu and Giovanni Pighizzini Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--829 Shaull Almagor and Denis Kuperberg and Orna Kupferman Sensing as a Complexity Measure . . . . 831--873 Marcella Anselmo and Dora Giammarresi and Maria Madonia Sets of Pictures Avoiding Overlaps . . . 875--898 Sabine Broda and António Machiavelo and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis On Average Behaviour of Regular Expressions in Strong Star Normal Form 899--920 Janusz A. Brzozowski and Sylvie Davies Most Complex Non-Returning Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--957 Jürgen Dassow Operational Accepting State Complexity: The Unary and Finite Case . . . . . . . 959--978 Rachel Faran and Orna Kupferman A Parametrized Analysis of Algorithms on Hierarchical Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 979--1003 Rudolf Freund and Vladimir Rogojin and Sergey Verlan Variants of Networks of Evolutionary Processors with Polarizations and a Small Number of Processors . . . . . . . 1005--1027 Kitti Gelle and Szabolcs Iván Recognizing Union--Find Trees is NP-Complete, Even Without Rank Info . . 1029--1045 Yo-Sub Han and Hwee Kim and Trent A. Rogers and Shinnosuke Seki Self-Attraction Removal from Oritatami Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1067 Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib One-Time Nondeterministic Computations 1069--1089 Jozef Jirásek, Jr. and Matú Palmovský and Juraj \vSebej Kuratowski Algebras Generated by Prefix-, Suffix-, Factor-, and Subword-Free Languages Under Star and Complementation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1115 Galina Jirásková and Ivana Kraj\vnáková Square on Deterministic, Alternating, and Boolean Finite Automata . . . . . . 1117--1134 Chris Keeler and Kai Salomaa Branching Measures and Nearly Acyclic NFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135--1155 Giovanna J. Lavado and Luca Prigioniero Concise Representations of Reversible Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1175 Marina Maslennikova Reset Complexity of Ideal Languages Over a Binary Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . 1177--1196 Timothy Ng and David Rappaport and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of Suffix Distance . . 1197--1216 Alexander Okhotin and Kai Salomaa State Complexity of the Quotient Operation on Input-Driven Pushdown Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217--1235
Qiang Fu and Ruihu Li and Fangwei Fu and Yi Rao On the Construction of Binary Optimal LCD Codes with Short Length . . . . . . 1237--1245 Xirong Xu and Huifeng Zhang and Sijia Zhang and Yuansheng Yang Fault-Tolerant Panconnectivity of Augmented Cubes $ A Q_n $ . . . . . . . 1247--1278 Sraban Kumar Mohanty and G. Sajith An Input/Output Efficient Algorithm for Hessenberg Reduction . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1300 Liqiong Xu and Shuming Zhou and Weihua Yang Fault-Tolerant Maximal Local-Connectivity on Cayley Graphs Generated by Transpositions . . . . . . 1301--1315 Maksims Dimitrijevs and Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz Uncountable Realtime Probabilistic Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1333 Özlem Salehi and Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz and A. C. Cem Say New Results on Vector and Homing Vector Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335--1361 Lucas Mol and Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit and Manon Stipulanti Cobham's Theorem and Automaticity . . . 1363--1379 Anonymous Author Index Volume 30 (2019) . . . . . 1381--1387
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Florin Manea Preface --- Special Issue: A Collection of Papers in Honour of the 60th Birthday of Victor Mitrana . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Fernando Arroyo Montoro and Sandra Gómez-Canaval and Karina Jiménez Vega and Alfonso Ortega de la Puente A Linear Time Solution for $N$-Queens Problem Using Generalized Networks of Evolutionary Polarized Processors . . . 7--21 Somnath Bera and Rodica Ceterchi and Kalpana Mahalingam and K. G. Subramanian Parikh $q$-Matrices and $q$-Ambiguous Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36 Henning Bordihn and György Vaszil Deterministic Lindenmayer Systems with Dynamic Control of Parallelism . . . . . 37--51 Paolo Bottoni and Anna Labella and Grzegorz Rozenberg Networks of Reaction Systems . . . . . . 53--71 Jürgen Dassow and Bianca Truthe Networks with Evolutionary Processors and Ideals and Codes as Filters . . . . 73--89 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Robert Merca\cs and Daniel Reidenbach On the Prefix--Suffix Duplication Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102 Luis Fernando de Mingo López and Nuria Gómez Blas and Angel Luis Castellanos Peñuela and Juan Bautista Castellanos Peñuela Swarm Intelligence Models: Ant Colony Systems Applied to BNF Grammars Rule Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116 Andrei P\uaun and Florin-Daniel B\^\ilb\^\ie Universality of SNQ P Systems Using One Type of Spikes and Restrictive Rule Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132 José M. Sempere On Compensation Loops in Genomic Duplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142 Cristina T\^\irn\uauc\ua and José L. Balcázar and Domingo Gómez-Pérez Closed-Set-Based Discovery of Representative Association Rules . . . . 143--156
Eunkyung Kim and Hyang-Sook Lee and Jeongeun Park Towards Round-Optimal Secure Multiparty Computations: Multikey FHE Without a CRS 157--174 Yinxia Sun and Futai Zhang and Anmin Fu and Zhe Xia CCA-Secure and Revocable Certificateless Encryption with Ciphertext Evolution . . 175--191 Jiaxian Lv and Yi Wang and Jinshu Su and Rongmao Chen and Wenjun Wu Security of Auditing Protocols Against Subversion Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . 193--206 Hatem M. Bahig and Dieaa I. Nassr and Ashraf Bhery and Abderrahmane Nitaj A Unified Method for Private Exponent Attacks on RSA Using Lattices . . . . . 207--231 Yuejuan Han and Lantao You and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Jianxi Fan Communication Performance Evaluation of the Locally Twisted Cube . . . . . . . . 233--252 Tatsuya Akutsu and Avraham A. Melkman and Takeyuki Tamura Improved Hardness of Maximum Common Subgraph Problems on Labeled Graphs of Bounded Treewidth and Bounded Degree . . 253--273 Manjanna Basappa and Ramesh K. Jallu and Gautam K. Das Constrained $k$-Center Problem on a Convex Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--291
Minghui Yang and Jiejing Wen On the $k$-error Linear Complexity of Subsequences of $d$-ary Sidel'nikov Sequences Over Prime Field $ \mathbb {F}_d$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--300 Zhongxiao Wang and Xiangyu Wang and Tian Tian Constructing de Bruijn Sequences Based on a New Necessary Condition . . . . . . 301--312 Mei-Mei Gu and Jou-Ming Chang and Rong-Xia Hao On Component Connectivity of Hierarchical Star Networks . . . . . . . 313--326 Gang Wang and Min-Yao Niu and Fang-Wei Fu Constructions of $ (r, t)$-LRC Based on Totally Isotropic Subspaces in Symplectic Space Over Finite Fields . . 327--339 Hironori Ando and Satoshi Fujita Tight Bounds on the Upload Capacity to Enable Two-Hop Delivery in Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Systems . . . . . . . . 341--354 Ke Chen and Adrian Dumitrescu Selection Algorithms with Small Groups 355--369 Jing Li and Chris Melekian and Shurong Zuo and Eddie Cheng Unpaired Many-to-Many Disjoint Path Covers on Bipartite $k$-Ary $n$-Cube Networks with Faulty Elements . . . . . 371--383 Subhrangsu Mandal and Arobinda Gupta Convergecast Tree on Temporal Graphs . . 385--409 Masamichi Kuroda Monomial Generalized Almost Perfect Nonlinear Functions . . . . . . . . . . 411--419
Sanjib Sadhu and Sasanka Roy and Soumen Nandi and Subhas C. Nandy and Suchismita Roy Efficient Algorithm for Computing the Triangle Maximizing the Length of Its Smallest Side Inside a Convex Polygon 421--443 Shunzhe Zhang and Dong Li and Huiqing Liu On $g$-Extra Conditional Diagnosability of Twisted Hypercubes under MM$^\star $ Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--459 Markus Hittmeir A Reduction of Integer Factorization to Modular Tetration . . . . . . . . . . . 461--481 Ahmet Çevik Palindromic Characteristic of Committed Graphs and Some Model Theoretic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--498 Shanding Xu and Xiwang Cao and Jiafu Mi and Chunming Tang Simplified Bounds on FHSs Set and Its Strictly Optimal Construction . . . . . 499--513 Benedek Nagy On the Membership Problem of Permutation Grammars --- A Direct Proof of NP-Completeness . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--525 Grzegorz Madejski and Andrzej Szepietowski Membership Problem for Two-Dimensional General Row Jumping Finite Automata . . 527--538
Andreas Kosmatopoulos and Athanasios Tsakalidis and Kostas Tsichlas A Space-Optimal Hidden Surface Removal Algorithm for Iso-Oriented Rectangles 539--549 Juyan Li and Chunguang Ma and Zhen Gu Multi-use Deterministic Public Key Proxy Re-Encryption from Lattices in the Auxiliary-Input Setting . . . . . . . . 551--567 Lianhua Wang and Xiaoni Du Linear Complexity of Binary Threshold Sequences Derived from Generalized Polynomial Quotient with Prime-Power Modulus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--581 Saeid Alirezazadeh and Khadijeh Alibabaei Weak Separation Problem for Tree Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--593 Hayam Alamro and Mai Alzamel and Costas S. Iliopoulos and Solon P. Pissis and Wing-Kin Sung and Steven Watts Efficient Identification of $k$-Closed Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--610 Ameneh Farhadian Almost Every $n$-Vertex Graph is Determined by Its $ 3 \log_2 n$-Vertex Subgraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--619 Zi Jing Chern and K. G. Subramanian and Azhana Ahmad and Wen Chean Teh A New Study of Parikh Matrices Restricted to Terms . . . . . . . . . . 621--638 Ömer E\ugecio\uglu and Elif Saygì and Zülfükar Saygì $k$-Fibonacci Cubes: A Family of Subgraphs of Fibonacci Cubes . . . . . . 639--661
Shinnosuke Seki Special Issue Developments in Language Theory 2018 --- Preface . . . . . . . . 663--665 Jason Bell and Thomas F. Lidbetter and Jeffrey Shallit Additive Number Theory via Approximation by Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . 667--687 Shaull Almagor and Michaël Cadilhac and Filip Mazowiecki and Guillermo A. Pérez Weak Cost Register Automata are Still Powerful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--709 Emmanuel Filiot and Nicolas Mazzocchi and Jean-François Raskin A Pattern Logic for Automata with Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--748 Patrick Landwehr and Christof Löding Projection for Büchi Tree Automata with Constraints between Siblings . . . . . . 749--775 Costanza Catalano and Raphaël M. Jungers The Synchronizing Probability Function for Primitive Sets of Matrices . . . . . 777--803 Simon Beier and Markus Holzer Decidability of Right One-Way Jumping Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--825 Lukas Fleischer The Intersection Problem for Finite Semigroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--842 Nicolas Baudru and Pierre-Alain Reynier From Two-Way Transducers to Regular Function Expressions . . . . . . . . . . 843--873
Zexia Shi and Lei Sun and Fang-Wei Fu New Constructions of Codebooks Nearly Meeting the Welch Bound . . . . . . . . 875--889 Kalpana Mahalingam and Ujjwal Kumar Mishra and Rama Raghavan Watson--Crick Jumping Finite Automata 891--913 Nata\vsa Jonoska and Masahico Saito and Hwee Kim and Brad Mostowski Symbol Separation in Double Occurrence Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--928 Tongtong Ding and Min Xu and Qiang Zhu The Non-inclusive Diagnosability of Hypercubes under the MM* Model . . . . . 929--940 Parikshit Saikia and Sushanta Karmakar Distributed Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Tree in the CONGESTED CLIQUE . . 941--968 Aysun Asena Kunt and Zeynep Nihan Berberler Efficient Identification of Node Importance Based on Agglomeration in Cycle-Related Networks . . . . . . . . . 969--978
Cezar Câmpeanu Implementations and Applications of Automata 2018: Preface . . . . . . . . . 979--982 Stavros Konstantinidis and Nelma Moreira and Rogério Reis and Joshua Young Regular Expressions and Transducers Over Alphabet-Invariant and User-Defined Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1019 Holger Bock Axelsen and Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt Boosting Reversible Pushdown and Queue Machines by Preprocessing . . . . . . . 1021--1049 Samira Attou and Ludovic Mignot and Djelloul Ziadi The Bottom-Up Position Tree Automaton and the Father Automaton . . . . . . . . 1051--1068 Laurent Bartholdi and Thibault Godin and Ines Klimann and Camille Noûs and Matthieu Picantin A New Hierarchy for Automaton Semigroups 1069--1089 Mikhail V. Berlinkov and Cyril Nicaud Synchronizing Almost-Group Automata . . 1091--1112 Janusz A. Brzozowski and Lila Kari and Bai Li and Marek Szyku\la State Complexity of Overlap Assembly . . 1113--1132 Bruno Guillon and Giovanni Pighizzini and Luca Prigioniero Non-Self-Embedding Grammars, Constant-Height Pushdown Automata, and Limited Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1157 Michal Hospodár and Markus Holzer The Ranges of Accepting State Complexities of Languages Resulting from Some Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1177 Oscar H. Ibarra and Ian McQuillan Semilinearity of Families of Languages 1179--1198 Anonymous Author Index Volume 31 (2020) . . . . . 1199--1204
Tangliu Wen and Jie Peng and Jinyun Xue and Zhen You and Lan Song Strict Linearizability and Abstract Atomicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--35 Priscila P. Camargo and Uéverton S. Souza and Julliano R. Nascimento Remarks on $k$-Clique, $k$-Independent Set and $2$-Contamination in Complementary Prisms . . . . . . . . . . 37--52 Chunfang Li and Shangwei Lin and Shengjia Li Hamiltonian Cycle Embeddings in Faulty Hypercubes Under the Forbidden Faulty Set Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--72 Jinhui Liu and Yong Yu and Bo Yang and Jianwei Jia and Qiqi Lai Cryptanalysis of Cramer--Shoup Like Cryptosystems Based on Index Exchangeable Family . . . . . . . . . . 73--91 Vadim E. Levit and David Tankus Recognizing Generating Subgraphs Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--114
Ting Yao and Shixin Zhu and Binbin Pang Triple Cyclic Codes Over $ \mathbb {F} q + u \mathbb {F}q $ . . . . . . . . . . . 115--135 Litao Guo and Mingzu Zhang and Shaohui Zhai and Liqiong Xu Relation of Extra Edge Connectivity and Component Edge Connectivity for Regular Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--149 Yuxing Yang Super $ C_k $ and Sub-$ C_k $ Connectivity of $k$-Ary $n$-Cube Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162 Toshihiro Koga A Proof of Parikh's Theorem via Dickson's Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--173 Ikhlass Ammar and Yamen El Touati and John Mullins and Moez Yeddes Timed Bounded Verification of Inclusion Based on Timed Bounded Discretized Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--202 Thijmen J. P. Krebs A More Reasonable Proof of Cobham's Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--207 Yuichi Asahiro and Jesper Jansson and Eiji Miyano and Hirotaka Ono and T. P. Sandhya Graph Orientation with Edge Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--233
Yali Lv and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Guijuan Wang An Exchanged 3-Ary $n$-Cube Interconnection Network for Parallel Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252 Rong Wang and Xiaoni Du and Cuiling Fan and Zhihua Niu Infinite Families of 2-Designs from a Class of Linear Codes Related to Dembowski--Ostrom Functions . . . . . . 253--267 Zeynep Nihan Berberler and Halil \. Ibrahim Yildirim and Tolga \. Iltüzer and \. Izzet Tunç Agglomeration-Based Node Importance Analysis in Wheel-Type Networks . . . . 269--288 Xirong Xu and Huifeng Zhang and Ziming Wang and Qiang Zhang and Peng Zhang $ (n - 2)$-Fault-Tolerant Edge-Pancyclicity of Crossed Cubes CQn 289--304 Yihong Wang and Cheng-Kuan Lin and Shuming Zhou and Tao Tian Subgraph-based Strong Menger Connectivity of Hypercube and Exchanged Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--330 Amit Sharma and P. Venkata Subba Reddy Algorithmic Aspects of Outer-Independent Total Roman Domination in Graphs . . . . 331--339
Arturo Carpi and Flavio D'Alessandro On the Commutative Equivalence of Algebraic Formal Series and Languages 341--367 Jurek Czyzowicz and Konstantinos Georgiou and Evangelos Kranakis and Danny Krizanc and Lata Narayanan and Jaroslav Opatrny and Sunil Shende Search on a Line by Byzantine Robots . . 369--387 Albert Guan A Lightweight Key Agreement Protocol with Authentication Capability . . . . . 389--404 Shiying Wang The $r$-Extra Diagnosability of Hyper Petersen Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--416
Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--418 Cyril Nicaud and Pablo Rotondo Random Regular Expression Over Huge Alphabets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419--438 Jürgen Dassow Further Remarks on the Operational Nonterminal Complexity . . . . . . . . . 439--453 Stavros Konstantinidis and Mitja Mastnak and Juraj \vSebej Zero-Avoiding Transducers, Length Separable Relations, and the Rational Asymmetric Partition Problem . . . . . . 455--480 Oscar H. Ibarra and Ian McQuillan Generalizations of Checking Stack Automata: Characterizations and Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--508 Sang-Ki Ko and Yo-Sub Han and Kai Salomaa Generalizations of Code Languages with Marginal Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--529 Sang-Ki Ko and Yo-Sub Han Left is Better Than Right for Reducing Nondeterminism of NFAs . . . . . . . . . 531--550 Benedek Nagy Union-Freeness Revisited --- Between Deterministic and Nondeterministic Union-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . . 551--573 Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas and Hwee Kim and Ryuichi Matsuoka and Reoto Morita and Shinnosuke Seki Linear Bounds on the Size of Conformations in Greedy Deterministic Oritatami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--596 Daniel Gabric and Narad Rampersad and Jeffrey Shallit An Inequality for the Number of Periods in a Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--614
Nata\vsa Jonoska and Dmytro Savchuk Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--617 Pamela Fleischmann and Marie Lejeune and Florin Manea and Dirk Nowotka and Michel Rigo Reconstructing Words from Right-Bounded-Block Words . . . . . . . 619--640 Lukas Fleischer and Jeffrey Shallit Recognizing Lexicographically Smallest Words and Computing Successors in Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 641--662 Johan Kopra On the Interplay of Direct Topological Factorizations and Cellular Automata Dynamics on Beta-Shifts . . . . . . . . 663--683 Lila Kari and Timothy Ng Descriptional Complexity of Semi-Simple Splicing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 685--711 Augusto Modanese Sublinear-Time Language Recognition and Decision by One-Dimensional Cellular Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--731 Florent Koechlin and Cyril Nicaud and Pablo Rotondo Simplifications of Uniform Expressions Specified by Systems . . . . . . . . . . 733--760 Raphaela Löbel and Michael Luttenberger and Helmut Seidl On the Balancedness of Tree-to-Word Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--783 Collin Bleak Normalish Amenable Subgroups of the R. Thompson Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 785--800 Oscar H. Ibarra and Jozef Jirásek, Jr. and Ian McQuillan and Luca Prigioniero Space Complexity of Stack Automata Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--823
Oscar H. Ibarra and Sartaj K. Sahni Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rishat Ibrahimov and Kamil Khadiev and Kri\vsj\=anis Pr\=usis and Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz Error-Free Affine, Unitary, and Probabilistic OBDDs . . . . . . . . . . 827--847 Mengyue Cao and Tongtong Ding and Min Xu The $ (n, k)$-Modified-Bubble-Sort Graph: a Generalized Modified-Bubble-Sort Graph . . . . . . . 849--860 Jiejing Wen and Fang-Wei Fu On the Construction of Multiply Constant-Weight Codes . . . . . . . . . 861--870 Ömer E\ugecio\uglu and Elif Saygì and Zülfükar Saygì Alternate Lucas Cubes . . . . . . . . . 871--899 Olivier Finkel Two Effective Properties of $ \omega $-Rational Functions . . . . . . . . . . 901--920
Bo Zhou and Zhenan Li and Haiyan Guo Extremal Results on Vertex and Link Residual Closeness . . . . . . . . . . . 921--941 Huazhong Lü and Tingzeng Wu Unpaired Many-to-Many Disjoint Path Cover of Balanced Hypercubest . . . . . 943--956 Chenli Shen and Wensong Lin NP-Hardness and Approximation Algorithms for Iterative Pricing on Social Networks with Externalities . . . . . . . . . . . 957--979 Boris Ryabko A Pseudo-Random Generator Whose Output is a Normal Sequence . . . . . . . . . . 981--989 Anonymous Author Index Volume 32 (2021) . . . . . 991--995
P. Renjith and N. Sadagopan Hamiltonian Cycle in $ K_{1, r} $-Free Split Graphs --- a Dichotomy . . . . . . 1--32 Pingshan Li and Rong Liu and Xianglin Liu The (E)FTSM-(edge) Connectivity of Cayley Graphs Generated by Transposition Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43 José Carlos Costa and Conceição Nogueira and Maria Lurdes Teixeira The Overlap Gap Between Left-Infinite and Right-Infinite Words . . . . . . . . 45--53 Yen Hung Chen The Clustered Selected-Internal Steiner Tree Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Hongbin Zhuang and Wenzhong Guo and Xiaoyan Li and Ximeng Liu and Cheng-Kuan Lin The Component Diagnosability of General Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--89
Vasco Boavida De Brito and José Félix Costa and Diogo Poças The Power of Machines That Control Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--118 Tien Tran and Dung T. Huynh Symmetric Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks with $ \pi / 3 $ Directional Antennas . . . . . . . . . . 119--140 Chih-Yuan Lin and Jia-Jie Liu and Yue-Li Wang and William Chung-Kung Yen and Chiun-Chieh Hsu The Outer-Paired Domination of Graphs 141--148 Hongyu Zhou and Xinmin Hou Strongly Connected Orientation with Minimum Lexicographic Order of Indegrees 149--153 Dongqin Cheng Extra Connectivity and Structure Connectivity of 2-Dimensional Torus Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--173
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and Pál Dömösi and György Vaszil Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178 Artiom Alhazov and Rudolf Freund and Sergiu Ivanov and Sergey Verlan Tissue P Systems with Vesicles of Multisets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--202 Francine Blanchet-Sadri and Kun Chen and Kenneth Hawes Dyck Words, Lattice Paths, and Abelian Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--226 Manfred Droste and Zoltán Ésik and Werner Kuich The Triple-Pair Construction for Weighted $ \omega $-Pushdown Automata 227--246 Kitti Gelle and Szabolcs Iván Descriptive Complexity of Reversible Languages Having Finitely Many Reduced Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262 Bruno Guillon and Giovanna J. Lavado and Giovanni Pighizzini and Luca Prigioniero Weakly and Strongly Irreversible Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--284 Markus Holzer and Martin Kutrib and Andreas Malcher and Matthias Wendlandt Input-Driven Double-Head Pushdown Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--311 Laurette Marais and Lynette van Zijl Descriptional Complexity of Non-Unary Self-Verifying Symmetric Difference Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--333 Jakub Marti\vsko and Alexander Meduna and Zbyn\vek K\vrivka CD Grammar Systems with Two Propagating Scattered Context Components Characterize the Family of Context Sensitive Languages . . . . . . . . . . 335--348 Masaki Nakanishi and Kamil Khadiev and Krisjanis Prusis and Jevgenijs Vihrovs and Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz Exact Affine Counter Automata . . . . . 349--370 Martin Plátek and Friedrich Otto and Franti\vsek Mráz One-Way Restarting Automata and Their Sensitivities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--387
Kalpana Mahalingam and Palak Pandoh HV-Palindromes in Two-Dimensional Words 389--409 Yijie Han and Xin He More Efficient Parallel Integer Sorting 411--427 Halil \. Ibrahim Yildirim and Zeynep Nihan Berberler Isolated Rupture in Thorny Networks . . 429--438 Kai Feng Subnetwork Preclusion of $ (n, k) $-Star Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--451 Sunil Kumar and Harshdeep Singh and Gaurav Mittal A Novel Approach Towards Degree and Walsh-Transform of Boolean Functions . . 453--479
Jia-Bao Liu and Muhammad Javaid and Mohammad Reza Farahani Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--487 Konduru Upendra Raju and Amutha Prabha Nagarajan A Steganography Embedding Method Based on CDF-DWT Technique for Reversible Data Hiding Application Using Elgamal Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--512 Salisu Ibrahim Mathematical Modelling and Computational Analysis of Covid-19 Epidemic in Erbil Kurdistan Using Modified Lagrange Interpolating Polynomial . . . . . . . . 513--529 Aldosary Saad and Abdullah Alharbi Securing Smart City Services in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the Computation Annealed Selection Process 531--557 S. Raghavendra and A. Harshavardhan and S. Neelakandan and R. Partheepan and Ranjan Walia and V. Chandra Shekhar Rao Multilayer Stacked Probabilistic Belief Network-Based Brain Tumor Segmentation and Classification . . . . . . . . . . . 559--582 Changwei Liu and Kexin Wang and Aman Wu Management and Monitoring of Multi-Behavior Recommendation Systems Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--601 Kun Li and Yanjun Chen Fuzzy Clustering-Based Financial Data Mining System Analysis and Design . . . 603--624 R. Priya and N. Sivakumar Improving the Quality of Service (QoS) and Resource Allocation in Vehicular Platoon Using Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 625--647 Feng Shi and Xiaomei Hu Fuzzy Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Basketball Robot Based on Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Technology . . 649--666 Muhammad Faisal Nadeem and Waqar Ali and Hafiz Muhammad Afzal Siddiqui Locating Number of Biswapped Networks 667--690 Qi Zhang and Guang Wen and Zhixin Chen and Qin Zhou and Guoqi Xiang and Guangchun Yang and Xuegang Zhang Sensitivity Analysis Contact Reliability of VH-CATT Cylindrical Gear and Its Reliability with Material Strength Degradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691--716 Yangfeng Zheng and Zheng Shao and Zhanghao Gao and Mingming Deng and Xuesong Zhai Optimizing the Online Learners' Verbal Intention Classification Efficiency Based on the Multi-Head Attention Mechanism Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 717--733 Zeqiang Ni and Lei Zhang and Junqing He Recomputation of Public Capital Based on PIM and the Effect on China Regional Economic Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . 735--753 Jiajing Zhang and Tingting Zhang and Jinlan Chen Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Reviews Based on BiTCN-Attention Model . . . . . 755--770 Jian Wu and Chaoyu Yang Graph Convolutional Network-Guided Mine Gas Concentration Predictor . . . . . . 771--785 Baixiu Ni and Ying Wang and Jingfu Huang and Guocheng Li Hybrid Enhanced Binary Honey Badger Algorithm with Quadratic Programming for Cardinality Constrained Portfolio Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--803 Ziyi Sun and Jing Zhang Research on Prediction of Housing Prices Based on GA-PSO-BP Neural Network Model: Evidence from Chongqing, China . . . . . 805--818 Liting Yu and Dongyan Liu and Nairu Xu Special Aquatic Products Supply Chain Coordination Considering Bilateral Green Input in the Context of High-Quality Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--844 Wei Zhang and Zhiguang Li Identifying the Configurations to Operating Efficiency in China's Life Insurance Industry Using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis . . . . 845--865 Li-Jun Xu and Shou-Yu Wei and Xiao-Qing Lu and Ze-Hua He and Jia-Ming Zhu Algorithm Design for Asset Trading Under Multiple Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--886 Bin Yang and Jie Wang An Improved Helmet Detection Algorithm Based on YOLO V4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--902 Kai Xie and Zijian Wei and Kang Yin and Songsong Li and Xinyan Yao and Xiaoyu Zhou Structural Synthesis of PLC Program for Real-Time Specification Patterns . . . . 903--929 Salman Mukhtar and Muhammad Salman and Ayse Dilek Maden and Masood Ur Rehman Metric Properties of Non-Commuting Graph Associated to Two Groups . . . . . . . . 931--952 Havva Kìrgìz and A. Dilek Maden New Bounds for Some Topological Indices 953--965
Branislav Rovan and András Varga Finite Approximations and Similarity of Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--1003 Xiaoqing Liu and Shuming Zhou and Hong Zhang and Baohua Niu The Component (Edge) Connectivity of Round Matching Composition Networks . . 1005--1018 Zhengqin Yu and Shuming Zhou and Hong Zhang Fault-Tolerant Strong Menger (Edge) Connectivity of DCC Linear Congruential Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1032 Chavdar Dangalchev Additional Closeness of Cycle Graphs . . 1033--1052 Anonymous Author Index Volume 33 (2022) . . . . . 1053--1058
Mingzu Zhang and Hongxi Liu and Pingping Li Embedded Edge-Connectivity Reliability Evaluation of Augmented Hypercube Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . 1--10 Vecdi Aytaç and Tufan Turacì Analysis of Vulnerability of Some Transformation Networks . . . . . . . . 11--24 Subhash Bhagat and Abhinav Chakraborty and Bibhuti Das and Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya Optimal Gathering Over Weber Meeting Nodes in Infinite Grid . . . . . . . . . 25--49 Loris Marchal and Samuel McCauley and Bertrand Simon and Frédéric Vivien Minimizing I/Os in Out-of-Core Task Tree Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--80
Nelma Moreira and Rogéxrio Reis Special Issue: 25th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2021) --- Preface . . . . . 81--83 Stijn Cambie and Michiel de Bondt and Henk Don Extremal Binary PFAs with Small Number of States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--115 Luc Edixhoven and Sung-Shik Jongmans Balanced-by-Construction Regular and $ \omega $-Regular Languages . . . . . . . 117--144 Fabian Frei and Juraj Hromkovi\vc and Rastislav Královi\vc and Richard Královi\vc Two-Way Non-Uniform Finite Automata . . 145--162 Vesa Halava and Tero Harju and Reino Niskanen and Igor Potapov Integer Weighted Automata on Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--182 Viktor Henriksson and Manfred Kufleitner Forbidden Patterns for FO$^2$ Alternation Over Finite and Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--224 Martin Kutrib and Uwe Meyer Reversible Top-Down Syntax Analysis . . 225--251 Sebastian Maneth and Helmut Seidl and Martin Vu Definability Results for Top-Down Tree Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--287 Mikhail Mrykhin and Alexander Okhotin The Hardest LL($k$) Language . . . . . . 289--319 Julian Pape-Lange Tight Upper Bounds on Distinct Maximal (Sub-)Repetitions in Highly Compressible Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--345
Lan Lin and Yixun Lin Graph Bipartization Problem with Applications to Via Minimization in VLSI Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361 Halil \. Ibrahim Yildirim and Zeynep Nihan Berberler Isolated Rupture in Composite Networks 363--371 Zhiyao Yang and Pinhui Ke and Zhixiong Chen and Chenhuang Wu Results on the Gowers U2 Norm of Generalized Boolean Functions . . . . . 373--393 Hong Zhang and Shuming Zhou and Qifan Zhang Component Connectivity of Alternating Group Networks and Godan Graphs . . . . 395--410 Zsolt Gazdag and Sándor Vágvölgyi The Component Hierarchy of Chain-Free Cooperating Distributed Regular Tree Grammars Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 411--427 Jung-Heum Park Paired 3-Disjoint Path Covers in Bipartite Torus-Like Graphs with Edge Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--441
Meijie Ma and Chaoming Guo and and Xiang-Jun Li Strong Menger Connectivity of Folded Hypercubes with Faulty Subcube . . . . . 443--451 Jesper Jansson and Christos Levcopoulos and and Andrzej Lingas Online and Approximate Network Construction from Bounded Connectivity Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--468 Hong Zhang and Shuming Zhou and and Baohua Niu Fault-Tolerance of Star Graph Based on Subgraph Fault Pattern . . . . . . . . . 469--485 Tetsuo Asano Transportation Problem Allowing Sending and Bringing Back . . . . . . . . . . . 487--505 Tayssir Touili and Xin Ye Reachability Analysis of Self Modifying Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--536
Manfred Droste and George Rahonis and and Arto Salomaa Special Issue: International Colloquium: Recent Advances of Quantitative Models in Computer Science (RAQM 2021) --- Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--538 Malte Blattmann and Andreas Maletti Compositions with Constant Weighted Extended Tree Transducers . . . . . . . 539--558 Maria Pittou and George Rahonis Modelling Uncertainty in Architectures of Parametric Component-Based Systems 559--601 Paulina Paraponiari Fuzzy Propositional Configuration Logics 603--631 Manfred Droste and Zoltán Fülöp and and Dávid Kószó Decidability Boundaries for the Finite-Image Property of Weighted Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--653 Eugenija A. Bondar and David Casas and and Mikhail V. Volkov Completely Reachable Automata: an Interplay Between Automata, Graphs, and Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--690
Zoltán Fülöp and George Rahonis and and Kai Salomaa Special Issue: Articles Dedicated to the Memory of Magnus Steinby --- Preface . . ?? Paula Steinby In Memoriam: Magnus Steinby (1941--2021) 3--5 A. Salomaa and M. Steinby Volume Edited by Magnus Steinby . . . . 7--10 Christof Löding and Wolfgang Thomas On the Boolean Closure of Deterministic Top-Down Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . 11--22 Erik Paul Equivalence, Unambiguity, and Sequentiality of Finitely Ambiguous Max-Plus Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . 23--49 Zoltán Fülöp and Heiko Vogler A Comparison of Sets of Recognizable Weighted Tree Languages Over Specific Sets of Bounded Lattices . . . . . . . . 51--76 Pierre Béaur and Jarkko Kari Effective Projections on Group Shifts to Decide Properties of Group Cellular Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100 Tero Harju A Note on Squares in Binary Words . . . 101--106 Andreas Maletti Compositions of Weighted Extended Tree Transducers --- The Unambiguous Case . . 107--127 Vesa Halava and \vSt\vepán Holub Binary Generalized PCP for Two Periodic Morphisms is Decidable in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144 Manfred Droste and Gustav Grabolle and and George Rahonis Weighted Linear Dynamic Logic . . . . . 145--177 Emmanuel Filiot and Sarah Winter Synthesizing Computable Functions from Rational Specifications Over Infinite Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--214 Henrik Björklund and Johanna Björklund and and Petter Ericson Tree-Based Generation of Restricted Graph Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--243
Fei Guo and Zilong Wang Balanced Even-Variable Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions with Optimal Algebraic Immunity, Maximum Algebraic Degree and Higher Nonlinearity . . . . . 245--270 Baohua Niu and Shuming Zhou and and Hong Zhang Influential Node Identification of Network Based on Agglomeration Operation 271--295 Xiangdong Cheng and Xiwang Cao and and Liqin Qian Linear Codes and Linear Complementary Pairs of Codes Over a Non-Chain Ring . . 297--311 Xianyong Li and Jiaming Huang and Yajun Du and Yongquan Fan and and Xiaoliang Chen The $g$-Good-Neighbor Conditional Diagnosabilities of Hypermesh Optical Interconnection Networks Under the PMC and Comparison Models . . . . . . . . . 313--325 Ruyan Guo and Yan Wang and Jianxi Fan and and Weibei Fan Embedding Hierarchical Cubic Networks into $k$-Rooted Complete Binary Trees for Minimum Wirelength . . . . . . . . . 327--352 Fatemeh Keshavarz-Kohjerdi and Alireza Bagheri The Longest Path Problem in Odd-Sized O-Shaped Grid Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 353--374
Zeynep Nihan Berberler and Aysun Aytaç Node and Link Vulnerability in Complete Multipartite Networks . . . . . . . . . 375--385 Vahan Mkrtchyan and Ojas Parekh and and K. Subramani Approximation Algorithms for Partial Vertex Covers in Trees . . . . . . . . . 387--407 A. Berin Greeni and R. Sundara Rajan and and Paul Immanuel Embedding Augmented Cube into Certain Trees and Windmill Graphs . . . . . . . 409--434 Baohua Niu and Shuming Zhou and Tao Tian and and Qifan Zhang The Wide Diameter and Fault Diameter of Exchanged Crossed Cube . . . . . . . . . 435--451 Hosein Salami and Mostafa Nouri-Baygi A Simple and Efficient Method for Accelerating Construction of the Gap-Greedy Spanner . . . . . . . . . . . 453--481 Huifen Ge and Shumin Zhang and and Chengfu Ye The Structure Fault Tolerance of Alternating Group Networks . . . . . . . 483--500
Giuseppe D'Alconzo On Two Modifications of the McEliece PKE and the CFS Signature Scheme . . . . . . 501--512 Zhiwei Wang and Chen Tian and Zhanlin Wang and and Yuhang Wang Robust Subgroup Multisignature with One-Time Public Keys in Order . . . . . 513--533 Hsin-Jung Lin and Shyue-Ming Tang and Kung-Jui Pai and and Jou-Ming Chang A Recursive Algorithm for Constructing Dual-CISTs in Hierarchical Folded Cubic Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--550 Jingui Huang and Jie Chen and Yunlong Liu and Guang Xiao and and Jianxin Wang Parameterized Algorithms for Fixed-Order Book Drawing with Few Crossings Per Edge 551--577 Zhecheng Yu and Liqiong Xu and Xuemin Wu and and Chuanye Zheng On the Super (Edge)-Connectivity of Generalized Johnson Graphs . . . . . . . 579--593 Ching-Lueh Chang and Chun-Wei Chang Approximating All-Points Furthest Pairs and Maximum Spanning Trees in Metric Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--603
Donglei Du and Lu Han and Rolf H. Möhring and and Chenchen Wu Preface --- Special Issue: Research in Combinatorial Optimization and Applications of COCOA 2021 . . . . . . . 605--607 Yunlong Liu and Yixuan Li and and Jingui Huang Vertex-Bipartition: A Unified Approach for Kernelization of Graph Linear Layout Problems Parameterized by Vertex Cover 609--629 Min Cui and Donglei Du and Ling Gai and and Ruiqi Yang Improved Linear-Time Streaming Algorithms for Maximizing Monotone Cardinality-Constrained Set Functions 631--650 Raffael Muralha Paranhos and Janio Carlos Nascimento Silva and and Uéverton dos Santos Souza Parameterized Complexity Classes Defined by Threshold Circuits and Their Connection with Sorting Networks . . . . 651--668 Pooja Goyal and B. S. Panda Hardness Results of Connected Power Domination for Bipartite Graphs and Chordal Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--703 Sankardeep Chakraborty and Seungbum Jo and Kunihiko Sadakane and and Srinivasa Rao Satti Succinct Data Structures for SP, Block-Cactus and 3-Leaf Power Graphs . . 705--722 R. Inkulu and Pawan Kumar Routing Among Convex Polygonal Obstacles in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--739 Tom Davot and Rodolphe Giroudeau and and Jean-Claude König On the Shared Transportation Problem: Computational Hardness and Exact Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--756 Sai Ji and Yukun Cheng and Jingjing Tan and and Zhongrui Zhao An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Capacitated Correlation Clustering Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--774
Md. Saidur Rahman and Hsu-Chun Yen Special Issue: Graph Algorithms: Theory and Applications --- a Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Takao Nishizeki --- Preface . . . . . . 691--692 Tetsuo Asano Minimizing Maximum Unmet Demand by Transportations Between Adjacent Nodes Characterized by Supplies and Demands 693--714 Shin-Ichi Nakano Family Trees for Enumeration . . . . . . 715--736 Áron Ambrus and Mónika Csikós and Gergely Kiss and János Pach and and Gábor Somlai Optimal Embedded and Enclosing Isosceles Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--760 Siu-Wing Cheng Shortest Journeys in Directed Temporal Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--771 Rahnuma Islam Nishat and Sue Whitesides Reconfiguration of Hamiltonian Cycles in Rectangular Grid Graphs . . . . . . . . 773--793 I-Cheng Liao and Hsueh-I Lu A Simple 2-Approximation for Maximum-Leaf Spanning Tree . . . . . . . 795--805 Luca Grilli and Seok-Hee Hong and Jan Kratochvíl and and Ignaz Rutter Drawing Simultaneously Embedded Graphs with Few Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--824 Jian-Xi Shao and Ya-Chun Liang and and Chung-Shou Liao Online Predictions for Online TSP on the Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--851 Kazuo Iwama and Shuichi Miyazaki Marriage and Roommate . . . . . . . . . 853--873 Carla Binucci and Emilio Di Giacomo and Michael Kaufmann and Giuseppe Liotta and Alessandra Tappini $k$-Planar Placement and Packing of $ \Delta $-Regular Caterpillars . . . . . 875--902