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Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman Optimization of Straight Line Programs 1--19 Ronald V. Book Terminal Context in Context-Sensitive Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--30 F. K. Hwang and S. Lin A Simple Algorithm for Merging Two Disjoint Linearly Ordered Sets . . . . . 31--39 Arnold L. Rosenberg Symmetries in Data Graphs . . . . . . . 40--65 Robert L. Constable and Gries David On Classes of Program Schemata . . . . . 66--118 Raymond E. Miller Some Undecidability Results for Parallel Program Schemata . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--129 Philip M. Lewis, II Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vi
A. V. Aho and M. R. Garey and J. D. Ullman The Transitive Reduction of a Directed Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137 Donald P. Gaver Asymptotic Service System Output, with Application to Multiprogramming . . . . 138--145 Robert E. Tarjan Depth First Search and Linear Graph Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--160 Alan G. Konheim A Note on Merging . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166 J. F. Traub Computational Complexity of Iterative Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179 F\uanic\ua Gavril Algorithms for Minimum Coloring, Maximum Clique, Minimum Covering by Cliques, and Maximum Independent Set of a Chordal Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--187 Matthew S. Hecht and Jeffrey D. Ullman Flow Graph Reducibility . . . . . . . . 188--202
D. M. Jackson Expectations of Functions of Sequences over Finite Alphabets with Given Transition Probabilities by Methods Independent of Sequence Length . . . . . 203--217 G. S. Shedler and C. Tung Locality in Page Reference Strings . . . 218--241 Steven Brown and David Gries and Thomas Szymanski Program Schemes with Pushdown Stores . . 242--268 E. G. Coffman and L. A. Klimko and Barbara Ryan Analysis of Scanning Policies for Reducing Disk Seek Times . . . . . . . . 269--279
Ronald V. Book On Languages Accepted in Polynomial Time 281--287 Leonard J. Bass A Note on the Intersection of Complexity Classes of Functions . . . . . . . . . . 288--289 C. L. Liu Analysis and Synthesis of Sorting Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--304 Alfred V. Aho and Thomas G. Peterson A Minimum Distance Error-Correcting Parser for Context-Free Languages . . . 305--312 Richard B. Kieburtz and David Luckham Compatibility and Complexity of Refinements of the Resolution Principle 313--332 Michael A. Harrison and Ivan M. Havel Real-Time Strict Deterministic Languages 333--349 Edward M. Reingold Infix to Prefix Translation: The Insufficiency of a Pushdown Stack . . . 350--353
E. A. Akkoyunlu The Enumeration of Maximal Cliques of Large Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 C. L. Chang and R. C. T. Lee and J. K. Dixon The Specialization of Programs by Theorem Proving . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15 S. Goodman and S. Hedetniemi Eulerian Walks in Graphs . . . . . . . . 16--27 P. M. Spira A New Algorithm for Finding All Shortest Paths in a Graph of Positive Arcs in Average Time $ O(n^2 \log^2 n) $ . . . . 28--32 J. Nievergelt and E. M. Reingold Binary Search Trees of Bounded Balance 33--43 S. G. Williamson Isomorph Rejection and a Theorem of de Bruijn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--59 Michael S. Paterson and Larry J. Stockmeyer On the Number of Nonscalar Multiplications Necessary to Evaluate Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--66
J. Robert Jump and P. S. Thiagarajan On the Equivalence of Asynchronous Control Structures . . . . . . . . . . . 67--87 John H. Holland Genetic Algorithms and the Optimal Allocation of Trials . . . . . . . . . . 88--105 A. V. Aho and J. D. Ullman A Technique for Speeding up $ {\text {LR}}(k) $ Parsers . . . . . . . . . . . 106--127 Phillip J. Chase Transposition Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 128--133
J. E. Hopcroft and R. E. Tarjan Dividing a Graph into Triconnected Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--158 J. E. Hopcroft and J. Musinski Duality Applied to the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication and Other Bilinear Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--173 Walter J. Savitch How to Make Arbitrary Grammars Look Like Context-Free Grammars . . . . . . . . . 174--182 D. P. Gaver and G. S. Shedler Approximate Models for Processor Utilization in Multiprogrammed Computer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--192 Toshihide Ibaraki Finite State Representations of Discrete Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . 193--210 Robert Tarjan Enumeration of the Elementary Circuits of a Directed Graph . . . . . . . . . . 211--216
Loren Haskins and Donald J. Rose Toward Characterization of Perfect Elimination Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . 217--224 John E. Hopcroft and Richard M. Karp An $ n^{5 / 2} $ algorithm for maximum matchings in bipartite graphs . . . . . 225--231 Stephen S. Lavenberg Queueing Analysis of a Multiprogrammed Computer System Having a Multilevel Storage Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . 232--252 J. C. Dunn Continuous Group Averaging and Pattern Classification Problems . . . . . . . . 253--272 L. J. Bass On Optimal Processor Scheduling for Multiprogramming . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--280 Walter B. McRae and Ernest R. Davidson An algorithm for the extreme rays of a pointed convex polyhedral cone . . . . . 281--293 J. E. Hopcroft and J. D. Ullman Set Merging Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 294--303 Sheila A. Greibach The Hardest Context-Free Language . . . 304--310 D. G. Corneil and B. Graham An algorithm for determining the chromatic number of a graph . . . . . . 311--318
George E. Collins The Computing Time of the Euclidean Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 R. R. Muntz and H. Opderbeck Stack Replacement Algorithms for Two-Level Directly Addressable Paged Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22 R. E. Osteen and P. P. Lin Picture Skeletons Based on Eccentricities of Points of Minimum Spanning Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40 Jay P. Fillmore and S. G. Williamson On Backtracking: a Combinatorial Description of the Algorithm . . . . . . 41--55 Jean François Pacault Computing the Weak Components of a Directed Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--61 Robert Tarjan Finding Dominators in Directed Graphs 62--89 Curtis R. Cook First Order Graph Grammars . . . . . . . 90--99
M. R. Garey Optimal Binary Search Trees with Restricted Maximal Depth . . . . . . . . 101--110 S. A. Greibach Jump PDA's and Hierarchies of Deterministic Context-Free Languages . . 111--127 Volker Strassen Polynomials with Rational Coefficients Which are Hard to Compute . . . . . . . 128--149 John E. Savage An Algorithm for the Computation of Linear Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--158
Y. S. Chua and A. J. Bernstein Analysis of a Feedback Scheduler . . . . 159--176 David M. Perlman Isomorph Rejection on Power Sets . . . . 177--183 Oscar H. Ibarra A Hierarchy Theorem for Polynomial-Space Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--187 T. C. Hu Optimum Communication Spanning Trees . . 188--195 Richard J. Fateman Polynomial Multiplication, Powers, and asymptotic Analysis: Some Comments . . . 196--213 S. E. Goodman and S. T. Hedetniemi On Hamiltonian Walks in Graphs . . . . . 214--221 J. M. Adams and J. M. Phelan and R. H. Stark A Note on the Hecht-Ullman Characterization of Nonreducible Flow Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223 Susan L. Graham On Bounded Right Context Languages and Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--254
M. D. McIlroy The Number of $1$'s in Binary Integers: Bounds and Extremal Properties . . . . . 255--261 Sartaj Sahni Computationally Related Problems . . . . 262--279 D. J. Kleitman A Note on Perfect Elimination Digraphs 280--282 Ronald Book and Maurice Nivat and Michael Paterson Reversal-Bounded Acceptors and Intersections of Linear Languages . . . 283--295 Sukhamay Kundu Existence of Graphs with Three Spanning Trees and Given Degree Sequence . . . . 296--298 D. S. Johnson and A. Demers and J. D. Ullman and M. R. Garey and R. L. Graham Worst-case Performance Bounds for Simple One-dimensional Packing Algorithms . . . 299--325 John H. Holland Erratum: Genetic Algorithms and the Optimal Allocation of Trials . . . . . . 326--326
J. Hartmanis and T. P. Baker On Simple Goedel Numberings and Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Dennis P. Geller Realization with Feedback Encoding. I: Analogues of the Classical Theory . . . 12--33 Dennis P. Geller Realization with Feedback Encoding. II: Applications to Distinguishing Sequences 34--48 Robert Mandl and Thomas Vari Computational Complexity of Inner Products of Vectors (And That of Other Bilinear Forms) over a Noncommutative Ring (Auxiliary Functions Allowed) . . . 49--55 Kapali P. Eswaran Faithful Representation of a Family of Sets by a Set of Intervals . . . . . . . 56--68 Jeanne Ferrante and Charles Rackoff A Decision Procedure for the First Order Theory of Real Addition with Order . . . 69--76 Donald B. Johnson Finding All the Elementary Circuits of a Directed Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84 Eugene S. Santos State-Splitting for Stochastic Machines 85--96
Webb Miller Computational Complexity and Numerical Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 S. S. Lavenberg and G. S. Shedler Derivation of Confidence Intervals for Work Rate Estimators in a Closed Queueing Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--124 Edward Ashcroft and Zohar Manna Translating Program Schemas to While-Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--146 D. J. Kuck and K. Maruyama Time Bounds on the Parallel Evaluation of Arithmetic Expressions . . . . . . . 147--162 Andrew D. Hall, Jr. Solving a problem in eigenvalue approximation with a symbolic algebra system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--174 Abraham Lempel Matrix Factorization over $ {GF}(2) $ and Trace-Orthogonal Bases of $ {GF}(2^n) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186 M. R. Garey and R. L. Graham Bounds for Multiprocessor Scheduling with Resource Constraints . . . . . . . 187--200 Ellis Horowitz and Sartaj Sahni The Computation of Powers of Symbolic Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--208
D. E. White and S. G. Williamson Computational Algorithms for the Enumeration of Group Invariant Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--213 Vaughan R. Pratt Every Prime Has a Succinct Certificate 214--220 F. Hadlock Finding a Maximum Cut of a Planar Graph in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . 221--225 Ravi Sethi Complete Register Allocation Problems 226--248 Ashok K. Chandra and C. K. Wong Worst-Case Analysis of a Placement Algorithm Related to Storage Allocation 249--263 R. L. (Scot) Drysdale, III and Frank H. Young Improved Divide/Sort/Merge Sorting Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--270 R. M. Karp and A. C. McKellar and C. K. Wong Near-Optimal Solutions to a $2$-Dimensional Placement Problem . . . 271--286 Arnold L. Rosenberg Managing Storage for Extendible Arrays 287--306 H. R. Strong, Jr. and A. Maggiolo-Schettini and B. K. Rosen Recursion Structure Simplification . . . 307--320 R. Bumby and E. Cooper and D. Latch Interactive Computation of Homology of Finite Partially Ordered Sets . . . . . 321--325 Vaughan R. Pratt The Power of Negative Thinking in Multiplying Boolean Matrices . . . . . . 326--330 S. Rao Kosaraju Speed of Recognition of Context-Free Languages by Array Automata . . . . . . 331--340 W. H. Hosken Optimum Partitions of Tree Addressing Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--347 Leslie G. Valiant Parallelism in Comparison Problems . . . 348--355 H. Opderbeck and W. W. Chu The Renewal Model for Program Behavior 356--374 P. M. Spira and A. Pan On Finding and Updating Spanning Trees and Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . . . . 375--380 L. Revah On the Number of Multiplications/Divisions Evaluating a Polynomial with Auxiliary Functions . . 381--392 Shimon Even An Algorithm for Determining Whether the Connectivity of a Graph is at Least $k$ 393--396
M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson Complexity Results for Multiprocessor Scheduling under Resource Constraints 397--411 D. Brand Proving Theorems with the Modification Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--430 Theodore Baker and John Gill and Robert Solovay Relativizations of the $ \mathcal {P} = ? \mathcal {NP} $ Question . . . . . . . 431--442 Arnold L. Rosenberg Preserving Proximity in Arrays . . . . . 443--460 Erol Gelenbe and Jacques Lenfant and Dominique Potier Response Time of a Fixed-Head Disk to Transfers of Variable Length . . . . . . 461--473 D. M. Jackson and G. H. J. Van Rees The Enumeration of Generalized Double Stochastic Nonnegative Integer Square Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--477 John Bruno and Micha Hofri On Scheduling Chains of Jobs on One Processor with Limited Preemption . . . 478--490 M. D. Alder A Convergence Theorem for Hierarchies of Model Neurones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--506 Shimon Even and R. Endre Tarjan Network Flow and Testing Graph Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--518 Matthew S. Hecht and Jeffrey D. Ullman A Simple Algorithm for Global Data Flow Analysis Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 519--532 A. V. Aho and K. Steiglitz and J. D. Ullman Evaluating Polynomials at Fixed Sets of Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--539 Alan G. Konheim An Elementary Solution of the Queuing System G/G/1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--545
Ian Munro and Philip M. Spira Sorting and Searching in Multisets . . . 1--8 Alon Itai Optimal Alphabetic Trees . . . . . . . . 9--18 Ronald L. Rivest Partial Match Retrieval Algorithms . . . 19--50 Lawrence J. Mazlack Machine Selection of Elements in Crossword Puzzles: An Application of Computational Linguistics . . . . . . . 51--72 Ravi Sethi Scheduling Graphs on Two Processors . . 73--82 Michael L. Fredman New Bounds on the Complexity of the Shortest Path Problem . . . . . . . . . 83--89 Prabhaker Mateti and Narsingh Deo On Algorithms for Enumerating All Circuits of a Graph . . . . . . . . . . 90--99 Andrew Chi-Chih Yao On the Evaluation of Powers . . . . . . 100--103 S. Goodman and S. Hedetniemi and R. E. Tarjan $b$-Matchings in Trees . . . . . . . . . 104--108 Laurent Hyafil Bounds for Selection . . . . . . . . . . 109--114 A. V. Aho and J. E. Hopcroft and J. D. Ullman On Finding Lowest Common Ancestors in Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--132 Tatsuo Ohtsuki A Fast Algorithm for Finding an Optimal Ordering for Vertex Elimination on a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--145 Allan Borodin and Stephen Cook On the Number of Additions to Compute Specific Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . 146--157 Ken Kennedy A Comparison of Two Algorithms for Global Data Flow Analysis . . . . . . . 158--180
David P. Dobkin and Richard J. Lipton Multidimensional Searching Problems . . 181--186 Robert L. Probert On the Additive Complexity of Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--203 Webb Miller Graph Transformations for Roundoff Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--216 I. H. Sudborough and A. Zalcberg On Families of Languages Defined by Time-Bounded Random Access Machines . . 217--230 Thomas G. Szymanski and John H. Williams Noncanonical Extensions of Bottom-Up Parsing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 231--250 Y. Edmund Lien Termination Properties of Generalized Petri Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--265 Donald J. Rose and R. Endre Tarjan and George S. Lueker Algorithmic Aspects of Vertex Elimination on Graphs . . . . . . . . . 266--283 Sven Skyum Decomposition Theorems for Various Kinds of Languages Parallel in Nature . . . . 284--296 Jay P. Fillmore and S. G. Williamson Ranking Algorithms: The Symmetries and Colorations of the $n$-Cube . . . . . . 297--304 Leon S. Levy Local Adjunct Languages and Regular Sets 305--308 Arthur Bernstein Synthesizing a Response Function with a Feedback Scheduling Algorithm . . . . . 309--317 D. Bollman On Preserving Proximity in Extendible Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--323 Volker Strassen Computational Complexity over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--331
Robert L. Constable and David Park Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--335 E. A. Ashcroft and W. W. Wadge Lucid --- a Formal System for Writing and Proving Programs . . . . . . . . . . 336--354 Susan L. Gerhart Proof Theory of Partial Correctness Verification Systems . . . . . . . . . . 355--377 Peter J. Downey and Ravi Sethi Correct Computation Rules for Recursive Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--401 Ashok K. Chandra Generalized Program Schemas . . . . . . 402--413 Zohar Manna and Adi Shamir The Theoretical Aspects of the Optimal FixedPoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414--426 Steven S. Muchnick Computational Complexity of Multiple Recursive Schemata . . . . . . . . . . . 427--451 G. D. Plotkin A Powerdomain Construction . . . . . . . 452--487 Christopher P. Wadsworth The Relation Between Computational and Denotational Properties for Scott's $ D_\infty $-Models of the Lambda-Calculus 488--521 Dana Scott Data Types as Lattices . . . . . . . . . 522--587
Bharat Kinariwala and Kabekode V. S. Bhat Theory of Output Set Assignments and Degree Switching Operations . . . . . . 589--601 S. G. Williamson Ranking Algorithms for Lists of Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--617 L. Csanky Fast Parallel Matrix Inversion Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--623 Roger W. Brockett and David Dobkin On the Number of Multiplications Required for Matrix Multiplication . . . 624--628 Takao Asano and Michiro Shibui and Itsuo Takanami General Results on Tour Lengths in Machines and Digraphs . . . . . . . . . 629--645 Robert M. Solovay On Sets Cook-Reducible to Sparse Sets 646--652 Kapali P. Eswaran and R. Endre Tarjan Augmentation Problems . . . . . . . . . 653--665 John C. Cherniavsky Simple Programs Realize Exactly Presburger Formulas . . . . . . . . . . 666--677 Amnon Barak and Eliahu Shamir On the Parallel Evaluation of Boolean Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--681 Francis Y. Chin A Generalized Asymptotic Upper Bound on Fast Polynomial Evaluation and Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--690 S. Even and A. Itai and A. Shamir On the Complexity of Timetable and Multicommodity Flow Problems . . . . . . 691--703 M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson and R. Endre Tarjan The Planar Hamiltonian Circuit Problem is NP-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--714 W. J. Hendricks An Account of Self-Organizing Systems 715--723 David Cheriton and Robert Endre Tarjan Finding Minimum Spanning Trees . . . . . 724--742 Alan Jay Smith Analysis of the Optimal, Look-Ahead Demand Paging Algorithms . . . . . . . . 743--757 L. J. Bass Errata: On Optimal Processor Scheduling for Multiprogramming . . . . . . . . . . 758--758
Derek A. Zave Optimal Polyphase Sorting . . . . . . . 1--39 Donald L. Adolphson Single Machine Job Sequencing with Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . 40--54 Arnie Rosenthal and Anita Goldner Smallest Augmentations to Biconnect a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66 Lawrence T. Kou Polynomial Complete Consecutive Information Retrieval Problems . . . . . 67--75 Christos H. Papadimitriou and Kenneth Steiglitz On the Complexity of Local Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . 76--83 R. Solovay and V. Strassen A Fast Monte-Carlo Test for Primality 84--85 K. Aoshima and M. Iri Comments on F. Hadlock's Paper: ``Finding a Maximum Cut of a Planar Graph in Polynomial Time'' . . . . . . . 86--87 Peter B. Henderson and Yechezkel Zalcstein A Graph-Theoretic Characterization of the $ \text {PV}_{\text {chunk}} $ Class of Synchronizing Primitives . . . . . . 88--108 T. G. Szymanski and J. D. Ullman Evaluating Relational Expressions with Dense and Sparse Arguments . . . . . . . 109--122 Seymour Ginsburg and Nancy Lynch Derivation Complexity in Context-Free Grammar Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138 Harold N. Gabow Two Algorithms for Generating Weighted Spanning Trees in Order . . . . . . . . 139--150 Sukhamay Kundu and Jayadev Misra A Linear Tree Partitioning Algorithm . . 151--154 Teofilo Gonzalez and Oscar H. Ibarra and Sartaj Sahni Bounds for LPT Schedules on Uniform Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--166 D. G. Kafura and V. Y. Shen Task Scheduling on a Multiprocessor System with Independent Memories . . . . 167--187 David G. Kirkpatrick and Zvi M. Kedem Addition Requirements for Rational Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--199
Masahiro Miyakawa and Toshitsugu Yuba and Yoshio Sugito and Mamoru Hoshi Optimum Sequence Trees . . . . . . . . . 201--234 Kurt Mehlhorn A Best Possible Bound for The Weighted Path Length of Binary Search Trees . . . 235--239 Robert Sedgewick Quicksort with Equal Keys . . . . . . . 240--267 Janet Fabri Some Remarks on $p$-Way Merging . . . . 268--271 Aravind K. Joshi and Leon S. Levy Constraints on Structural Descriptions: Local Transformations . . . . . . . . . 272--284 T. Hikita and A. Nozaki A Completeness Criterion for Spectra . . 285--297 Nicholas Pippenger Superconcentrators . . . . . . . . . . . 298--304 L. Berman and J. Hartmanis On Isomorphisms and Density of $ {NP} $ and Other Complete Sets . . . . . . . . 305--322 Donald E. Knuth and James H. Morris, Jr. and Vaughan R. Pratt Fast Pattern Matching in Strings . . . . 323--350 Luis Trabb Pardo Stable Sorting and Merging with Optimal Space and Time Bounds . . . . . . . . . 351--372 W. F. McColl and M. S. Patterson The Depth of All Boolean Functions . . . 373--380 David B. Benson Some Preservation Properties of Normal Form Grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--402
Bruce D. Russell Implementation Correctness Involving a Language with goto Statements . . . . . 403--415 M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson Two-Processor Scheduling with Start-Times and Deadlines* . . . . . . . 416--426 Wolfgang J. Paul A $ 2.5 n$-Lower Bound on the Combinational Complexity of Boolean Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--443 Zvi Galil On Resolution with Clauses of Bounded Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--459 Y. Igarashi The Tape Comilexity of Some Classes of Szilard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 460--466 Richard E. Ladner The Computational Complexity of Provability in Systems of Modal Propositional Logic . . . . . . . . . . 467--480 D. L. Adolphson and G. N. Thomas A Linear Time Algorithm for a $ 2 \times n $ Transportation Problem . . . . . . . 481--486 Joel I. Seiferas Linear-Time Computation by Nondeterministic Multidimensional Iterative Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--504 Shuji Tsukiyama and Mikio Ide and Hiromu Ariyoshi and Isao Shirakawa A New Algorithm for Generating All the Maximal Independent Sets . . . . . . . . 505--517 Shui Lam and Ravi Sethi Worst Case Analysis of Two Scheduling Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--536 Robert Endre Tarjan and Anthony E. Trojanowski Finding a Maximum Independent Set . . . 537--546 Erik Meineche Schmidt and Thomas G. Szymanski Succinctness of Descriptions of Unambiguous Context-Free Languages . . . 547--553 Francis Y. Chin The Partial Fraction Expansion Problem and Its Inverse . . . . . . . . . . . . 554--562 Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and Richard E. Stearns and Philip M. Lewis, II An analysis of several heuristics for the traveling salesman problem . . . . . 563--581 H. T. Kung and D. M. Tong Fast Algorithms for Partial Fraction Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--593 D. T. Lee and F. P. Preparata Location of a Point in a Planar Subdivision and its Applications . . . . 594--606
David L. Russell Internal Fragmentation in a Class of Buddy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--621 Adriano M. Garsia and Michelle L. Wachs A New Algorithm for Minimum Cost Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--642 V. Chvátal Determining the Stability Number of a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--662 Richard G. Larson Minimizing Garbage Collection as a Function of Region Size . . . . . . . . 663--668 Ronald L. Rivest On the Worst-Case Behavior of String-Searching Algorithms . . . . . . 669--674 John Gill Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Turing Machines . . . . . 675--695 John S. Carson and Averill M. Law A Note on Spira's Algorithm for the All-Pairs Shortest-Path Problem . . . . 696--699 Bernard J. Fino and V. Ralph Algazi A Unified Treatment of Discrete Fast Unitary Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . 700--717 Jayadev Misra Prospects and Limitations of Automatic Assertion Generation for Loop Programs 718--729 Steven W. Reyner An Analysis of a Good Algorithm for the Subtree Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--732 Allan Borodin On Relating Time and Space to Size and Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--744 F. Ruskey and T. C. Hu Generating Binary Trees Lexicographically . . . . . . . . . . . 745--758
E. G. Coffman, Jr. and M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson An Application of Bin-Packing to Multiprocessor Scheduling . . . . . . . 1--17 R. Michael Tanner Minimean Merging and Sorting: An Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--38 Michael Machtey and Karl Winklmann and Paul Young Simple Gödel Numberings, Isomorphisms, and Programming Properties . . . . . . . 39--60 Richard J. Lipton Polynomials with $0$-$1$ Coefficients That are Hard to Evaluate . . . . . . . 61--69 Stephen A. Cook Soundness and Completeness of an Axiom System for Program Verification . . . . 70--90 Robert L. Probert An extension of computational duality to sequences of bilinear computations . . . 91--98 H. B. Hunt, III and D. J. Rosenkrantz Computational Parallels between the Regular and Context-Free Languages . . . 99--114 Joachim Biskup The Time Measure of One-Tape Turing Machines Does Not Have the Parallel Computation Property . . . . . . . . . . 115--117 R. Solovay and V. Strassen Erratum: a Fast Monte-Carlo Test for Primality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--118
Nancy Lynch and Richard J. Lipton On Structure Preserving Reductions . . . 119--126 C. P. Schnorr An algorithm for transitive closure with linear expected time . . . . . . . . . . 127--133 Michael L. Fredman Observations on the Complexity of Generating Quasi-Gray Codes . . . . . . 134--146 Donald B. Johnson and Tetsuo Mizoguchi Selecting the $ {K} $ th Element in $ {X} + {Y} $ and $ {X}_1 + {X}_2 + \cdots + {X}_m $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--153 Nimrod Megiddo and Arie Tamir An $ O(n \cdot \log n) $ Algorithm for a Class of Matching Problems . . . . . . . 154--157 H. A. Maurer and A. Salomaa and D. Wood On Good EOL Forms . . . . . . . . . . . 158--166 Ronald V. Book and Maurice Nivat Linear languages and the intersection closures of classes of languages . . . . 167--177 Greg N. Frederickson and Matthew S. Hecht and Chul E. Kim Approximation Algorithms for Some Routing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--193 Celia Wrathall Rudimentary Predicates and Relative Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--209 A. G. Konheim and M. Reiser Finite Capacity Queuing Systems with Applications in Computer Modeling . . . 210--229 Eshrat Reghbati (Arjomandi) and D. G. Corneil Parallel Computations in Graph Theory 230--237 R. W. Brockett and D. Dobkin Errata: On the Number of Multiplications Required for Matrix Multiplication . . . 238--238
Robert Sedgewick Data Movement in Odd-Even Merging . . . 239--272 Kellogg S. Booth Isomorphism Testing for Graphs, Semigroups, and Finite Automata are Polynomially Equivalent Problems . . . . 273--279 Harold N. Gabow and Eugene W. Myers Finding All Spanning Trees of Directed and Undirected Graphs . . . . . . . . . 280--287 Ronald Fagin and Thomas G. Price Efficient Calculation of Expected Miss Ratios in the Independent Reference Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--297 Mark R. Brown Implementation and Analysis of Binomial Queue Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--319 E. Mark Gold Deadlock Prediction: Easy and Difficult Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--336 Christopher P. Wadsworth Approximate Reduction and Lambda Calculus Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--356 Robert A. Wagner and Joel I. Seiferas Correcting Counter-Automaton-Recognizable Languages 357--375 Brenda S. Baker Generalized Syntax Directed Translation, Tree Transducers, and Linear Space . . . 376--391
John Bruno and Peter Downey Complexity of task sequencing with deadlines, setup times and changeover costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--404 Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and Harry B. Hunt, III Polynomial algorithms for deterministic pushdown automata . . . . . . . . . . . 405--412 Alon Itai and Michael Rodeh Finding a Minimum Circuit in a Graph . . 413--423 Frank Ruskey Generating $t$-Ary Trees Lexicographically . . . . . . . . . . . 424--439 Alan L. Selman Polynomial Time Enumeration Reducibility 440--457 David Plaisted Some polynomial and integer divisibility problems are $ {NP}$-hard . . . . . . . 458--464 Arnold L. Rosenberg and Lawrence Snyder Minimal-comparison $ 2, \, 3$-trees . . 465--480 Paul W. Purdom Tree Size by Partial Backtracking . . . 481--491 Anthony E. Trojanowski Ranking and Listing Algorithms for $k$-Ary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--509 Nicholas Pippenger Generalized Connectors . . . . . . . . . 510--514 Andrew Chi Chih Yao On the Loop Switching Addressing Problem 515--523 Oscar H. Ibarra The unsolvability of the equivalence problem for $ \varepsilon $-free NGSM's with unary input (output) alphabet and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--532 Theodore P. Baker A technique for extending rapid exact-match string matching to arrays of more than one dimension . . . . . . . . 533--541
Colin McDiarmid Determining the Chromatic Number of a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Yossi Shiloach A minimum linear arrangement algorithm for undirected trees . . . . . . . . . . 15--32 Mark R. Brown A Partial Analysis of Random Height-Balanced Trees . . . . . . . . . 33--41 Raymond E. Miller and Nicholas Pippenger and Arnold L. Rosenberg and Lawrence Snyder Optimal $2$,$3$-Trees . . . . . . . . . 42--59 Vijay B. Aggarwal and James W. Burgmeier A round-off error model with applications to arithmetic expressions 60--72 S. Zaks and D. Richards Generating trees and other combinatorial objects lexicographically . . . . . . . 73--81 James R. Bitner Heuristics That Dynamically Organize Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--110 J. Opatrný Total Ordering Problem . . . . . . . . . 111--114
L. H. Harper and J. E. Savage Lower Bounds on Synchronous Combinational Complexity . . . . . . . . 115--119 Laurent Hyafil On the parallel evaluation of multivariate polynomials . . . . . . . . 120--123 E. C. R. Hehner and R. N. S. Horspool A new representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic . . . . 124--134 Alon Itai and Yossi Shiloach Maximum Flow in Planar Networks . . . . 135--150 Larry J. Stockmeyer and Ashok K. Chandra Provably Difficult Combinatorial Games 151--174 Kurt Mehlhorn Dynamic Binary Search . . . . . . . . . 175--198 Carl R. Carlson A counterexample to Reingold's pushdown permuter characterization theorem . . . 199--201 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Joseph Y.-T. Leung Combinatorial analysis of an efficient algorithm for processor and storage allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--217 A. V. Aho and Y. Sagiv and J. D. Ullman Equivalences among Relational Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--246 Kenichi Hagihara and Minoru Ito and Kenichi Taniguchi and Tadao Kasami Decision problems for multi-valued dependencies in relational databases . . 247--264 C. P. Schnorr Bottlenecks and edge connectivity in unsymmetrical networks . . . . . . . . . 265--274 Sartaj Sahni and Yookun Cho Nearly on line scheduling of a uniform processor system with release times . . 275--285
David R. Stoutemyer Automatic asymptotic and big-$O$ calculations via computer algebra . . . 287--299 Paul S. Wang and Barry M. Trager New algorithms for polynomial squarefree decomposition over the integers . . . . 300--305 Michael C. Wirth Symbolic Vector and Dyadic Analysis . . 306--319 H. I. Epstein A Natural Structure Theorem for Complex Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--325 Dorothea A. Klip New Algorithms for Polynomial Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--343 J. McKay Some Remarks on Computing Galois Groups 344--347 David Y. Y. Yun Uniform Bounds for a Class of Algebraic Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--356 Michael Rothstein and B. F. Caviness A structure theorem for exponential and primitive functions . . . . . . . . . . 357--367 Andrew Chi Chih Yao The complexity of pattern matching for a random string . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--387 L. J. Stockmeyer and C. K. Wong On the number of comparisons to find the intersection of two relations . . . . . 388--404 C. H. Papadimitriou and M. Yannakakis Scheduling Interval-Ordered Tasks . . . 405--409 Leslie G. Valiant The Complexity of Enumeration and Reliability Problems . . . . . . . . . . 410--421 Yossi Shiloach Multi-Terminal $0$--$1$ Flow . . . . . . 422--430 Steven Fortune A Note on Sparse Complete Sets . . . . . 431--433 Ronald V. Book Polynomial Space and Transitive Closure 434--439 David W. Walkup On the Expected Value of a Random Assignment Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 440--442 Joseph JáJá Optimal Evaluation of Pairs of Bilinear Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--462 Gaston H. Gonnet and J. Ian Munro Efficient Ordering of Hash Tables . . . 463--478
J. R. Bitner and C. K. Wong Optimal and near-optimal scheduling algorithms for batched processing in linear storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--498 Ravindran Kannan and Achim Bachem Polynomial algorithms for computing the Smith and Hermite normal forms of an integer matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--507 Lutz Priese Towards a precise characterization of the complexity of universal and nonuniversal Turing machines . . . . . . 508--523 A. Bagchi and J. K. Roy On $ {V}$-Optimal Trees . . . . . . . . 524--541 F. P. Preparata A note on locating a set of points in a planar subdivision . . . . . . . . . . . 542--545 James Donahue On the semantics of ``data type'' . . . 546--560 Richard M. Karp A patching algorithm for the nonsymmetric traveling-salesman problem 561--573 Takumi Kasai and Akeo Adachi and Shigeki Iwata Classes of Pebble Games and Complete Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--586 Elaine J. Weyuker Translatability and decidability questions for restricted classes of program schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--598 David Maier An Efficient Method for Storing Ancestor Information in Trees . . . . . . . . . . 599--618 M. S. Krishnamoorthy and Narsingh Deo Node-Deletion NP-Complete Problems . . . 619--625 David K. Probst and Vangalur S. Alagar A family of algorithms for powering sparse polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . 626--644 Adi Shamir A linear time algorithm for finding minimum cutsets in reducible graphs . . 645--655 T. Hikita and A. Nozaki Corrigenda: ``A completeness criterion for spectra'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 6 (1977), no. 2, 285--297, MR \bf 57 #2759] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--656
Alan Tucker An Efficient Test for Circular-Arc Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 Stephen L. Bloom and Calvin C. Elgot and Jesse B. Wright Solutions of the iteration equation and extensions of the scalar iteration operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45 Chandra M. R. Kintala and Patrick C. Fischer Refining nondeterminism in relativized polynomial-time bounded computations . . 46--53 Richard P. Brent and Joseph F. Traub On the Complexity of Composition and Generalized Composition of Power Series 54--66 M. C. B. Hennessy The semantics of call-by-value and call-by-name in a nondeterministic environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--84 Paul K. Stockmeyer and F. Frances Yao On the Optimality of Linear Merge . . . 85--90 Yookun Cho and Sartaj Sahni Bounds for List Schedules on Uniform Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--103 R. Statman Worst case exponential lower bounds for input resolution with paramodulation . . 104--110 C. K. Wong and M. C. Easton An efficient method for weighted sampling without replacement . . . . . . 111--113 J. Hartmanis On the succinctness of different representations of languages . . . . . . 114--120 David Dobkin and Richard J. Lipton Addition chain methods for the evaluation of specific polynomials . . . 121--125 D. S. Hirschberg On the Complexity of Searching a Set of Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--129 J. T. Joichi and Dennis E. White and S. G. Williamson Combinatorial Gray Codes . . . . . . . . 130--141 P. Flajolet and Lyle Ramshaw A Note on Gray Code and Odd-Even Merge 142--158 Barry K. Rosen Monoids for Rapid Data Flow Analysis . . 159--196 Zvi Galil Finding the Vertex Connectivity of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199 D. T. Lee and C. K. Wong Vorono\uì diagrams in $ L_1 $ ($ L_{\infty } $) metrics with $2$-dimensional storage applications . . 200--211 László Babai On the complexity of canonical labeling of strongly regular graphs . . . . . . . 212--216 E. C. R. Hehner and R. N. S. Horspool Corrigendum: ``A new representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 8 (1979), no. 2, 124--134, MR 80h:68027] 217--217
Yossi Shiloach A multiterminal minimum cut algorithm for planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224 S. Winograd On Multiplication of Polynomials Modulo a Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229 Nicholas Pippenger On the Evaluation of Powers and Monomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--250 Salvatore D. Morgera Efficient synthesis and implementation of large discrete Fourier transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--272 Michael O. Rabin Probabilistic Algorithms in Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--280 D. G. Corneil and D. G. Kirkpatrick A theoretical analysis of various heuristics for the graph isomorphism problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--297 F. K. Hwang Optimal Merging of $3$ Elements with $n$ Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--320 V. Ya. Pan New Fast Algorithms for Matrix Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--342 Andrew C. Yao and Ronald L. Rivest On the Polyhedral Decision Problem . . . 343--347 Eitan M. Gurari and Oscar H. Ibarra Path systems: constructions, solutions and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--374 John H. Reif Code Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--395 H. B. Hunt, III and R. L. Constable and S. Sahni On the computational complexity of program scheme equivalence . . . . . . . 396--416 Zvi Galil and Joel Seiferas Saving Space in Fast String-Matching . . 417--438 David K. Probst and Vangalur S. Alagar Corrigendum: ``A family of algorithms for powering sparse polynomials'' . . . 439--439
Hartmut Ehrig and Barry K. Rosen The Mathematics of Record Handling . . . 441--469 D. Stott Parker, Jr. Conditions for Optimality of the Huffman Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--489 A. Schönhage Storage Modification Machines . . . . . 490--508 Wojciech Rytter A correct preprocessing algorithm for Boyer--Moore string-searching . . . . . 509--512 John R. Gilbert and Thomas Lengauer and Robert Endre Tarjan The Pebbling Problem is Complete in Polynomial Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--524 Stephen L. Bloom and Calvin C. Elgot and Jesse B. Wright Vector Iteration in Pointed Iterative Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540 Jeffrey M. Jaffe Bounds on the Scheduling of Typed Task Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--551 Bruce W. Weide Random Graphs and Graph Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--557 E. L. Lawler and J. K. Lenstra and A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan Generating all maximal independent sets: NP-hardness and polynomial-time algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--565 Andrew Chi Chih Yao Bounds on Selection Networks . . . . . . 566--582 Alan George and Joseph W. H. Liu An Optimal Algorithm for Symbolic Factorization of Symmetric Matrices . . 583--593 Mark R. Brown and Robert E. Tarjan Design and analysis of a data structure for representing sorted lists . . . . . 594--614 Richard J. Lipton and Robert Endre Tarjan Applications of a Planar Separator Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--627 László Babai and Paul Erd\Hos and Stanley M. Selkow Random Graph Isomorphism . . . . . . . . 628--635 Stephen A. Cook and Charles W. Rackoff Space lower bounds for maze threadability on restricted machines . . 636--652 Kuo Chung Tai Predictors of Context-Free Grammars . . 653--664
Krzysztof R. Apt and Lambert G. L. T. Meertens Completeness with finite systems of intermediate assertions for recursive program schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--671 Leo J. Guibas and Andrew M. Odlyzko A new proof of the linearity of the Boyer--Moore string searching algorithm 672--682 Stephen L. Bloom and Ralph Tindell Compatible Orderings on the Metric Theory of Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--691 Dario Bini and Grazia Lotti and Francesco Romani Approximate solutions for the bilinear form computational problem . . . . . . . 692--697 David A. Plaisted The application of multivariate polynomials to inference rules and partial tests for unsatisfiability . . . 698--705 Terry Beyer and Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi Constant Time Generation of Rooted Trees 706--712 Joseph JáJá On the complexity of bilinear forms with commutativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--728 Ronald V. Book and Franz--Josef Brandenburg Equality Sets and Complexity Classes . . 729--743 David Nassimi and Sartaj Sahni Finding connected components and connected ones on a mesh-connected parallel computer . . . . . . . . . . . 744--757 Gadiel Seroussi and Abraham Lempel Factorization of symmetric matrices and trace-orthogonal bases in finite fields 758--767 Jerome A. Feldman and Anil Nigam A model and proof technique for message-based systems . . . . . . . . . 768--784 Mila E. Majster and Angelika Reiser Efficient on-line construction and correction of position trees . . . . . . 785--807 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson and R. E. Tarjan Performance bounds for level-oriented two-dimensional packing algorithms . . . 808--826 Bengt Aspvall and Yossi Shiloach A polynomial time algorithm for solving systems of linear inequalities with two variables per inequality . . . . . . . . 827--845 Brenda S. Baker and E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Ronald L. Rivest Orthogonal Packings in Two Dimensions 846--855
Michael L. Fredman Lower bounds on the complexity of some optimal data structures . . . . . . . . 1--10 Anna Lubiw Some NP-complete problems similar to graph isomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . 11--21 Oscar H. Ibarra and Brian S. Leininger Characterizations of Presburger Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--39 A. Ehrenfeucht and G. Rozenberg and D. Vermeir On ETOL systems with finite tree-rank 40--58 John H. Rowland and Philip J. Davis On the selection of test data for recursive mathematical subroutines . . . 59--72 D. T. Lee and R. L. Drysdale, III Generalization of Vorono\uì diagrams in the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--87 Martin H. Ellis and J. Michael Steele Fast Sorting of Weyl Sequences Using Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--95 Charles H. Bennett and John Gill Relative to a Random Oracle $ {A} $, $ {\bf P}^A \not = {\bf NP}^A \ne \text {co-}{\bf NP}^A $ with Probability $1$ 96--113 Neil D. Jones and Sven Skyum A Note on the Complexity of General $ {D0L} $ Membership . . . . . . . . . . . 114--117 Ken Chih Liu On string pattern matching: a new model with a polynomial time algorithm . . . . 118--140 Frank Ruskey Listing and Counting Subtrees of a Tree 141--150 Manfred Kunde Nonpreemptive LP-scheduling on homogeneous multiprocessor systems . . . 151--173 Stefano Crespi-Reghizzi and Giovanni Guida and Dino Mandrioli Operator precedence grammars and the noncounting property . . . . . . . . . . 174--191 M. I. Dessouky and J. S. Deogun Sequencing Jobs with Unequal Ready Times to Minimize Mean Flow Time . . . . . . . 192--202 Charles J. Colbourn and Kellogg S. Booth Linear time automorphism algorithms for trees, interval graphs, and planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--225
Lawrence Flon and Norihisa Suzuki The Total Correctness of Parallel Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--246 N. Katoh and T. Ibaraki and H. Mine An algorithm for finding $ {K} $ minimum spanning trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--255 M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson and B. B. Simons and R. E. Tarjan Scheduling unit-time tasks with arbitrary release times and deadlines 256--269 Greg N. Frederickson and Joseph Ja'Ja' Approximation algorithms for several graph augmentation problems . . . . . . 270--283 Luc Boasson and Bruno Courcelle and Maurice Nivat The rational index: a complexity measure for languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--296 Mihalis Yannakakis Edge-Deletion Problems . . . . . . . . . 297--309 M. Yannakakis Node-Deletion Problems on Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--327 N. Megiddo and A. Tamir and E. Zemel and R. Chandrasekaran An $ O(n \log^2 n) $ Algorithm for the $k$ th Longest Path in a Tree with Applications to Location Problems . . . 328--337 George S. Lueker Optimization problems on graphs with independent random edge weights . . . . 338--351 Catriel Beeri and Alberto O. Mendelzon and Yehoshua Sagiv and Jeffrey D. Ullman Equivalence of Relational Database Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--370 C. P. Schnorr An Extension of Strassen's Degree Bound 371--382 J. Hartmanis and S. Mahaney Languages simultaneously complete for one-way and two-way log-tape automata 383--390 Andrzej Proskurowski Recursive graphs, recursive labelings and shortest paths . . . . . . . . . . . 391--397 Andrew C. Yao An analysis of a memory allocation scheme for implementing stacks . . . . . 398--403
A. V. Aho and Y. Sagiv and T. G. Szymanski and J. D. Ullman Inferring a tree from lowest common ancestors with an application to the optimization of relational expressions 405--421 L. Gotlieb Optimal Multi-Way Search Trees . . . . . 422--433 A. Schönhage Partial and Total Matrix Multiplication 434--455 Richard Schroeppel and Adi Shamir A $ {T} = {O}(2^{n / 2}) $, $ {S} = {O}(2^{n / 4}) $ algorithm for certain NP-complete problems . . . . . . . . . . 456--464 Roland Häggkvist and Pavol Hell Parallel Sorting with Constant Time for Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--472 Franco P. Preparata A New Approach to Planar Point Location 473--482 H. A. Maurer and A. Salomaa and D. Wood Uniform Interpretations of Grammar Forms 483--502 Brian H. Mayoh Attribute Grammars and Mathematical Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--518 Amir Pnueli and Giora Slutzki Automatic programming of finite state linear programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--535 A. Ehrenfeucht and R. Parikh and G. Rozenberg Pumping Lemmas for Regular Sets . . . . 536--541 Christos H. Papadimitriou Worst-case and probabilistic analysis of a geometric location problem . . . . . . 542--557 James R. Bitner and Shou Hsuan Huang Key comparison optimal $ 2 - 3 $ trees with maximum utilization . . . . . . . . 558--570 Igal Golan Performance bounds for orthogonal oriented two-dimensional packing algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--582 Cynthia A. Brown and Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. An Average Time Analysis of Backtracking 583--593 Sam Toueg and Jeffrey D. Ullman Deadlock-Free Packet Switching Networks 594--611 Stephen A. Cook Corrigendum: ``Soundness and completeness of an axiom system for program verification'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 7 (1978), no. 1, 70--90, MR \bf 58 #13843] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--612 Gaston H. Gonnet and J. Ian Munro and Hendra Suwanda Exegesis of Self-Organizing Linear Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--637 Peter Downey and Benton Leong and Ravi Sethi Computing Sequences with Addition Chains 638--646 C. Beeri and P. Honeyman Preserving Functional Dependencies . . . 647--656
Eliezer Dekel and David Nassimi and Sartaj Sahni Parallel Matrix and Graph Algorithms . . 657--675 Edward M. Reingold and Robert E. Tarjan On a Greedy Heuristic for Complete Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676--681 Carla Savage and Joseph Ja'Ja' Fast, efficient parallel algorithms for some graph problems . . . . . . . . . . 682--691 P. J. Slater and E. J. Cockayne and S. T. Hedetniemi Information Dissemination in Trees . . . 692--701 Sam Toueg and Kenneth Steiglitz Some Complexity Results in the Design of Deadlock-Free Packet Switching Networks 702--712 Ian Holyer The NP-completeness of some edge-partition problems . . . . . . . . 713--717 Ian Holyer The NP-Completeness of Edge-Coloring . . 718--720 Azad Bolour Optimal retrieval algorithms for small region queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--741 Charles W. Rackoff and Joel I. Seiferas Limitations on separating nondeterministic complexity classes . . 742--745 Alon Itai and Richard J. Lipton and Christos H. Papadimitriou and M. Rodeh Covering Graphs by Simple Circuits . . . 746--750 Philip A. Bernstein and Nathan Goodman The Power of Natural Semijoins . . . . . 751--771 Kari-Jouko Räihä and Esko Ukkonen Minimizing the Number of Evaluation Passes for Attribute Grammars . . . . . 772--786 Ker-I Ko and Daniel Moore Completeness, Approximation and Density 787--796 Maciej M. Sys\lo An efficient cycle vector space algorithm for listing all cycles of a planar graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--808 Amnon B. Barak and Peter J. Downey Distributed processor scheduling and user countermeasures . . . . . . . . . . 809--819
Oscar H. Ibarra and Brian S. Leininger Straight-Line Programs with One Input Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 Oscar H. Ibarra and Brian S. Leininger The complexity of the equivalence problem for simple loop-free programs 15--27 J. H. Halton and R. Terada A fast algorithm for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem, optimal with probability one . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--46 Arnon Rosenthal Dynamic programming is optimal for nonserial optimization problems . . . . 47--59 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Micha Hofri On the Expected Performance of Scanning Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70 Robert P. Burton and David R. Smith A Hidden-Line Algorithm for Hyperspace 71--80 John H. Reif and Robert E. Tarjan Symbolic Program Analysis in Almost-Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93 D. Coppersmith and D. S. Parker and C. K. Wong Analysis of a General Mass Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--116 Harold N. Gabow and Oded Kariv Algorithms for edge coloring bipartite graphs and multigraphs . . . . . . . . . 117--129 Martin Tompa Two familiar transitive closure algorithms which admit no polynomial time, sublinear space implementations 130--137 Lawrence T. Kou Minimum Variance Huffman Codes . . . . . 138--148 Dan E. Willard Polygon Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . 149--165 E. P. Friedman and S. A. Greibach A polynomial time algorithm for deciding the equivalence problem for $2$-tape deterministic finite state acceptors . . 166--183 Per M. Jensen and Bernhard Korte Complexity of Matroid Property Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--190 Kellogg S. Booth and J. Howard Johnson Dominating Sets in Chordal Graphs . . . 191--199
M. R. Levy and T. S. E. Maibaum Continuous Data Types . . . . . . . . . 201--216 Douglas Comer and Michael J. O'Donnell Geometric Problems with Application to Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--226 Jia Wei Hong and Arnold L. Rosenberg Graphs That are Almost Binary Trees . . 227--242 James R. Bitner An asymptotically optimal algorithm for the Dutch National Flag problem . . . . 243--262 Francesco Romani Some properties of disjoint sums of tensors related to matrix multiplication 263--267 John Keohane and John C. Cherniavsky and Peter B. Henderson On Transforming Control Structures . . . 268--286 A. Borodin and S. Cook A time-space tradeoff for sorting on a general sequential model of computation 287--297 Jacobo Valdes and Robert E. Tarjan and Eugene L. Lawler The Recognition of Series Parallel Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--313 Joseph Ja'Ja' and Janos Simon Parallel algorithms in graph theory: planarity testing . . . . . . . . . . . 314--328 David Lichtenstein Planar Formulae and Their Uses . . . . . 329--343 Shlomo Moran On the Accepting Density Hierarchy in NP 344--349 L. G. Valiant A Scheme for Fast Parallel Communication 350--361 T. C. Hu and M. T. Shing Computation of Matrix Chain Products. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--373 Daniel J. Lehmann On Primality Tests . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375 Robert Sedgewick and Thomas G. Szymanski and Andrew C. Yao The complexity of finding cycles in periodic functions . . . . . . . . . . . 376--390 Mihalis Yannakakis Freedom from Deadlock of Safe Locking Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--408
Nathan Linial and Michael Tarsi The Counterfeit Coin Problem Revisited 409--415 Michael J. Fischer and Albert R. Meyer and Michael S. Paterson $ {\Omega } (n \log n) $ lower bounds on length of Boolean formulas . . . . . . . 416--427 Andrew C. Yao and F. Frances Yao On the average-case complexity of selecting the $k$ th best . . . . . . . 428--447 Eitan M. Gurari The equivalence problem for deterministic two-way sequential transducers is decidable . . . . . . . . 448--452 M. Hofri and P. Tzelnic The working set size distribution for the Markov chain model of program behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--466 D. Coppersmith Rapid Multiplication of Rectangular Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--471 D. Coppersmith and S. Winograd On the Asymptotic Complexity of Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--492 Barry K. Rosen A Lubricant for Data Flow Analysis . . . 493--511 K. Nakajima and S. L. Hakimi and J. K. Lenstra Complexity results for scheduling tasks in fixed intervals on two types of machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--520 Bernhard Banaschewski and Evelyn Nelson Completions of Partially Ordered Sets 521--528 D. Gouyou-Beauchamps The Hamiltonian circuit problem is polynomial for $4$-connected planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--539 Richard Cole and John Hopcroft On Edge Coloring Bipartite Graphs . . . 540--546 Henry W. Davis and Leon E. Winslow Computational Power in Query Languages 547--554 Dorit S. Hochbaum Approximation algorithms for the set covering and vertex cover problems . . . 555--556 Aaron M. Tenenbaum and Richard M. Nemes Two spectra of self-organizing sequential search algorithms . . . . . . 557--566 Mikhail J. Atallah Finding the cyclic index of an irreducible, nonnegative matrix . . . . 567--570 Ronald V. Book and Christopher B. Wilson and Mei-Rui Xu Relativizing Time, Space, and Time-Space 571--581 Udai Gupta and D. T. Lee and C. K. Wong Ranking and Unranking of $2$-$3$ Trees 582--590 Jia Wei Hong On Some Deterministic Space Complexity Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--601 Virgil Gligor and David Maier Finding Augmented-Set Bases . . . . . . 602--609
Kohei Noshita Predicting the number of distinct elements in a multiset . . . . . . . . . 611--619 Richard M. Karp and Christos H. Papadimitriou On linear characterizations of combinatorial optimization problems . . 620--632 Teofilo Gonzalez and Joseph Ja'Ja' Evaluation of arithmetic expressions with algebraic identities . . . . . . . 633--662 Norishige Chiba and Takao Nishizeki and Nobuji Saito An approximation algorithm for the maximum independent set problem on planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--675 Alon Itai and Christos H. Papadimitriou and Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter Hamilton Paths in Grid Graphs . . . . . 676--686 Tsu Wu J. Chou and George E. Collins Algorithms for the solution of systems of linear Diophantine equations . . . . 687--708 James O. Achugbue and Francis Y. Chin Scheduling the Open Shop to Minimize Mean Flow Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--720 Andrew Chi Chih Yao On constructing minimum spanning trees in $k$-dimensional spaces and related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--736 Richard P. Brent and Leslie M. Goldschlager Some Area-Time Tradeoffs for VLSI . . . 737--747 Kurt Mehlhorn A partial analysis of height-balanced trees under random insertions and deletions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--760 Michael B. Smyth and Gordon D. Plotkin The Category-theoretic Solution of Recursive Domain Equations . . . . . . . 761--783 C. Ronse Optimization of cost and delay in cellular permutation networks . . . . . 784--788 A. O. L. Atkin and R. G. Larson On a primality test of Solovay and Strassen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789--791
V. Strassen The Computational Complexity of Continued Fractions . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 David Kirkpatrick Optimal Search in Planar Subdivisions 28--35 Ronald Fagin and David Maier and Jeffrey D. Ullman and Mihalis Yannakakis Tools for Template Dependencies . . . . 36--59 D. K. Friesen and M. A. Langston Bounds for Multifit Scheduling on Uniform Processors . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70 John H. Reif Minimum $s$-$t$ cut of a planar undirected network in $ O(n \log^2 (n))$ time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81 Gerald E. Peterson A technique for establishing completeness results in theorem proving with equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--100 Hans F. de Groote Characterization of division algebras of minimal rank and the structure of their algorithm varieties . . . . . . . . . . 101--117 Kenneth J. Supowit and Edward M. Reingold Divide-and-conquer heuristics for minimum weighted Euclidean matching . . 118--143 Kenneth J. Supowit and Edward M. Reingold and David A. Plaisted The travelling salesman problem and minimum matching in the unit square . . 144--156 Dan Gusfield Simple constructions for multiterminal network flow synthesis . . . . . . . . . 157--165 A. C. Fleck and R. S. Limaye Formal semantics and abstract properties of string pattern operations and extended formal language description mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--188 J. V. Guttag and D. Kapur and D. R. Musser On Proving Uniform Termination and Restricted Termination of Rewriting Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--214
Christos H. Papadimitriou Concurrency Control by Locking . . . . . 215--226 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson Dynamic Bin Packing . . . . . . . . . . 227--258 Patrick C. Fischer and Don Min Tsou Whether a set of multivalued dependencies implies a join dependency is NP-hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--266 Avra Cohn The equivalence of two semantic definitions: a case study in LCF . . . . 267--285 Rüdiger Loos Computing rational zeros of integral polynomials by $p$-adic expansion . . . 286--293 Barbara Simons Multiprocessor scheduling of unit-time jobs with arbitrary release times and deadlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--299 Christian Choffrut and Karel Culik II Properties of Finite and Pushdown Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--315 Yehoshua Sagiv Quadratic algorithms for minimizing joins in restricted relational expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--328 V. Lifschitz and B. Pittel' The worst and the most probable performance of a class of set-covering algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--346 Nimrod Megiddo Towards a genuinely polynomial algorithm for linear programming . . . . . . . . . 347--353 Susanne E. Hambrusch VLSI algorithms for the connected component problem . . . . . . . . . . . 354--365 J. A. Bergstra and J. V. Tucker Initial and final algebra semantics for data type specifications: two characterization theorems . . . . . . . 366--387 Oscar H. Ibarra and Shlomo Moran Some time-space tradeoff results concerning single-tape and offline TMs 388--394 Markus Lauer Generalized $p$-Adic Constructions . . . 395--410
Yaacov Yesha On certain polynomial-time truth-table reducibilities of complete sets to sparse sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--425 David M. Choy and C. K. Wong Construction of optimal $ \alpha $-$ \beta $ leaf trees with applications to prefix code and information retrieval 426--446 Charles E. Leiserson and Ron Y. Pinter Optimal Placement for River Routing . . 447--462 Michael C. Loui Optimal Dynamic Embedding of Trees into Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472 Erich Kaltofen and David R. Musser and B. David Saunders A generalized class of polynomials that are hard to factor . . . . . . . . . . . 473--483 Jacob E. Goodman and Richard Pollack Multidimensional Sorting . . . . . . . . 484--507 Brenda S. Baker and Jerald S. Schwarz Shelf algorithms for two-dimensional packing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--525 John H. Rowland and Leslie E. Shader On the selection of test data for vector-valued recursive subroutines . . 526--538 Hisao Yamada and Masatosi Imori One step transformation of periodic sequences by cellular automata . . . . . 539--550 Trevor I. Fenner and Georghios Loizou Tree traversal related algorithms for generating integer partitions . . . . . 551--564 Alan L. Selman and Mei-Rui Xu and Ronald V. Book Positive Relativizations of Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--579 Esko Ukkonen Two results on polynomial time truth-table reductions to sparse sets 580--587 Peter A. Bloniarz A shortest-path algorithm with expected time $ O(n^2 \log n \log^* n) $ . . . . 588--600 D. G. Kirkpatrick and P. Hell On the Complexity of General Graph Factor Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--609
M. D. Atkinson and S. Lloyd The Ranks of $ m \times n \times (m n - 2) $ Tensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--615 D. S. Johnson and A. Klug Optimizing conjunctive queries that contain untyped variables . . . . . . . 616--640 L. G. Valiant and S. Skyum and S. Berkowitz and C. Rackoff Fast parallel computation of polynomials using few processors . . . . . . . . . . 641--644 Timothy Hickey and Jacques Cohen Uniform random generation of strings in a context-free language . . . . . . . . 645--655 D. Dolev and H. R. Strong Authenticated Algorithms for Byzantine Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--666 Wen Chin Chen and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Analysis of early-insertion standard coalesced hashing . . . . . . . . . . . 667--676 Stephen L. Bloom and Ralph Tindell Varieties of ``If--Then--Else'' . . . . 677--707 Tat Hung Chan and Oscar H. Ibarra On the space and time complexity of functions computable by simple programs 708--716 Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. and Cynthia A. Brown An analysis of backtracking with search rearrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--733 John L. Pfaltz Convex Clusters in a Discrete $m$-Dimensional Space . . . . . . . . . 734--750 Nimrod Megiddo and Arie Tamir New Results on the Complexity of $p$-Centre Problems . . . . . . . . . . 751--758 Nimrod Megiddo Linear-time algorithms for linear programming in $ {\bf R}^3 $ and related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759--776 J. Scott Provan and Michael O. Ball The Complexity of Counting Cuts and of Computing the Probability that a Graph is Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--788 Debasis Mitra and J. A. Morrison Asymptotic expansions of moments of the waiting time in a shared-processor of an interactive system . . . . . . . . . . . 789--802
Arie de Bruin On the Existence of Cook Semantics . . . 1--13 Greg N. Frederickson and Donald B. Johnson Generalized Selection and Ranking: Sorted Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--30 M. E. Dyer Linear time algorithms for two- and three-variable linear programs . . . . . 31--45 John H. Reif On synchronous parallel computations with independent probabilistic choice 46--56 Norman J. Pullman Clique covering of graphs. IV. Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75 C. Beeri and M. Y. Vardi Formal systems for tuple and equality generating dependencies . . . . . . . . 76--98 Stavros S. Cosmadakis and Christos H. Papadimitriou The traveling salesman problem with many visits to few cities . . . . . . . . . . 99--108 Udi Manber and Martin Tompa The effect of number of Hamiltonian paths on the complexity of a vertex-coloring problem . . . . . . . . 109--115 Dah Ming Chiu and Philip A. Bernstein and Yu Chi Ho Optimizing chain queries in a distributed database system . . . . . . 116--134 Richard E. Ladner and Richard J. Lipton and Larry J. Stockmeyer Alternating Pushdown and Stack Automata 135--155 Maria Klawe Limitations on explicit constructions of expanding graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--166 Prakash V. Ramanan Pushdown Permuter Characterization Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169 Donald K. Friesen Tighter bounds for the multifit processor scheduling algorithm . . . . . 170--181 Nimrod Megiddo and Kenneth J. Supowit On the complexity of some common geometric location problems . . . . . . 182--196 Thomas Ottmann and D. Stott Parker and Arnold L. Rosenberg and Hans W. Six and Derick Wood Minimal-Cost Brother Trees . . . . . . . 197--217
Pavol \vDuri\vs and Zvi Galil Two tapes are better than one for nondeterministic machines . . . . . . . 219--227 T. C. Hu and M. T. Shing Computation of Matrix Chain Products. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--251 J. M. Robson $ {N} $ by $ {N} $ Checkers is Exptime Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--267 Dario Bini Parallel solution of certain Toeplitz linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--276 Greg N. Frederickson Self-organizing heuristics for implicit data structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291 Micha Sharir and Amir Pnueli and Sergiu Hart Verification of Probabilistic Programs 292--314 Sunita Agarwal and A. K. Mittal and P. Sharma Constrained optimum communication trees and sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . 315--328 Uwe Schöning and Ronald V. Book Immunity, Relativizations, and Nondeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--337 Dov Harel and Robert Endre Tarjan Fast Algorithms for Finding Nearest Common Ancestors . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--355 Étienne Grandjean The spectra of first-order sentences and computational complexity . . . . . . . . 356--373 Robert Cartwright Recursive programs as definitions in first-order logic . . . . . . . . . . . 374--408 Larry Stockmeyer and Uzi Vishkin Simulation of parallel random access machines by circuits . . . . . . . . . . 409--422 Ashok K. Chandra and Larry Stockmeyer and Uzi Vishkin Constant Depth Reducibility . . . . . . 423--439
Ernst W. Mayr An algorithm for the general Petri net reachability problem . . . . . . . . . . 441--460 Ronald V. Book and Timothy J. Long and Alan L. Selman Quantitative Relativizations of Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 461--487 Bernard Chazelle Convex partitions of polyhedra: a lower bound and worst-case optimal algorithm 488--507 D. J. Rosenkrantz and R. E. Stearns and P. M. Lewis II Consistency and serializability in concurrent database systems . . . . . . 508--530 M. Keane and A. G. Konheim and I. Meilijson The Organ Pipe Permutation . . . . . . . 531--540 Rami G. Melhem and Werner C. Rheinboldt A mathematical model for the verification of systolic networks . . . 541--565 Robert E. Tarjan and Mihalis Yannakakis Simple linear-time algorithms to test chordality of graphs, test acyclicity of hypergraphs, and selectively reduce acyclic hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . . 566--579 Yung H. Tsin and Francis Y. Chin Efficient parallel algorithms for a class of graph theoretic problems . . . 580--599 B. S. Baker and E. G. Coffman, Jr. Insertion and compaction algorithms in sequentially allocated storage . . . . . 600--609 John E. Hopcroft and Deborah A. Joseph and Sue H. Whitesides Movement Problems for $2$-Dimensional Linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--629 Sam Toueg and Özalp Babao\uglu On the Optimum Checkpoint Selection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--649 Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Oliver Vornberger and James D. Witthoff On some variants of the bandwidth minimization problem . . . . . . . . . . 650--667
D. P. Heyman and S. Tsur Disk Performance in a Transaction-Oriented System . . . . . . 669--681 Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich Equivalence Relations, Invariants, and Normal Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--689 Ten Hwang Lai and Sartaj Sahni Preemptive scheduling of a multiprocessor system with memories to minimize maximum lateness . . . . . . . 690--704 Gregory Dobson Scheduling Independent Tasks on Uniform Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--716 Hans Heller On relativized polynomial and exponential computations . . . . . . . . 717--725 H. W. Barz The Power of Synchronization Mechanisms 726--749 Jean H. Gallier $n$-rational algebras. I. Basic properties and free algebras . . . . . . 750--775 Jean H. Gallier $n$-rational algebras. II. Varieties and logic of inequalities . . . . . . . . . 776--794 Nathan Linial The Information-Theoretic Bound is Good for Merging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--801 Joachim von zur Gathen Parallel Algorithms for Algebraic Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--824 R. Sherman and A. Pnueli and D. Harel Is the interesting part of process logic uninteresting? A translation from PL to PDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--839 J. Ja'Ja' and V. K. Prasanna Kumar and J. Simon Information transfer under different sets of protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 840--849 Manuel Blum and Silvio Micali How to generate cryptographically strong sequences of pseudorandom bits . . . . . 850--864 Dennis S. Arnon and George E. Collins and Scott McCallum Cylindrical algebraic decomposition. I. The basic algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 865--877 Dennis S. Arnon and George E. Collins and Scott McCallum Cylindrical algebraic decomposition. II. An adjacency algorithm for the plane . . 878--889
Paul M. B. Vitányi An Optimal Simulation of Counter Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--33 Paul M. B. Vitányi An optimal simulation of counter machines: the ACM case . . . . . . . . . 34--40 Ker-I Ko and Uwe Schöning On circuit-size complexity and the low hierarchy in NP . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51 Paris C. Kanellakis and Christos H. Papadimitriou The Complexity of Distributed Concurrency Control . . . . . . . . . . 52--74 John H. Reif and Paul G. Spirakis Unbounded speed variability in distributed communications systems . . . 75--92 Hiroshi Imai and Masao Iri and Kazuo Murota Vorono\uì Diagrams in the Laguerre Geometry and its Applications . . . . . 93--105 Charles M. Fiduccia An Efficient Formula for Linear Recurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--112 Stuart A. Kurtz Sparse sets in $ {\rm NP} - {\rm P} $: relativizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119 Andrew C. Yao and F. Frances Yao On Fault-Tolerant Networks for Sorting 120--128 Andrew C. Yao On the expected performance of path compression algorithms . . . . . . . . . 129--133 James E. Boyce and David P. Dobkin and Robert L. (Scot) Drysdale III and Leo J. Guibas Finding Extremal Polygons . . . . . . . 134--147 José L. Balcázar Simplicity, Relativizations and Nondeterminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--157 Moon Jung Chung and Fillia Makedon and Ivan Hal Sudborough and Jonathan Turner Polynomial time algorithms for the MIN CUT problem on degree restricted trees 158--177 J. J. Risler Additive Complexity and Zeros of Real Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--183 Susan Landau Factoring Polynomials over Algebraic Number Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--195 J. C. Lagarias The computational complexity of simultaneous Diophantine approximation problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--209 Norishige Chiba and Takao Nishizeki Arboricity and Subgraph Listing Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--223 Wen-Lian Hsu Maximum weight clique algorithms for circular-arc graphs and circle graphs 224--231 Dan E. Willard New Data Structures for Orthogonal Range Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--253 Robert E. Tarjan and Mihalis Yannakakis Addendum: ``Simple linear-time algorithms to test chordality of graphs, test acyclicity of hypergraphs, and selectively reduce acyclic hypergraphs'' 254--255
Edward M. McCreight Priority Search Trees . . . . . . . . . 257--276 Andrew C. Yao On the Complexity of Maintaining Partial Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--288 Kazuhiko Matsumoto and Takao Nishizeki and Nobuji Saito An efficient algorithm for finding multicommodity flows in planar networks 289--302 Uzi Vishkin and Avi Wigderson Trade-offs between depth and width in parallel computation . . . . . . . . . . 303--314 John E. Hopcroft and Deborah A. Joseph and Sue H. Whitesides On the movement of robot arms in $2$-dimensional bounded regions . . . . 315--333 Minoru Ito and Motoaki Iwasaki and Tadao Kasami Some results on the representative instance in relational databases . . . . 334--354 Gopalakrishnan Vijayan and Avi Wigderson Rectilinear Graphs and Their Embeddings 355--372 György Ré\'vesz Axioms for the Theory of Lambda-Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . 373--382 W. Hartmann On the multiplicative complexity of modules over associative algebras . . . 383--395 Rüdiger Reischuk Probabilistic parallel algorithms for sorting and selection . . . . . . . . . 396--409 William Ogden and Rockford J. Ross and Karl Winklmann An ``interchange lemma'' for context-free languages . . . . . . . . . 410--415 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and T. T. Kadota and L. A. Shepp A stochastic model of fragmentation in dynamic storage allocation . . . . . . . 416--425 Oscar H. Ibarra and Sam M. Kim and Shlomo Moran Sequential machine characterizations of trellis and cellular automata and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--447 Micha Sharir Intersection and closest-pair problems for a set of planar discs . . . . . . . 448--468 Erich Kaltofen Polynomial-time reductions from multivariate to bi- and univariate integral polynomial factorization . . . 469--489 Jeffrey Scott Vitter and Wen Chin Chen Optimum Algorithms for a Model of Direct Chaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--499 M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson Composing Functions to Minimize Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--503
J. A. Reeds and N. J. A. Sloane Shift Register Synthesis (Modulo $m$) 505--513 David G. Kirkpatrick and Maria M. Klawe Alphabetic Minimax Trees . . . . . . . . 514--526 Susanne E. Hambrusch and Janos Simon Solving Undirected Graph Problems on VLSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--544 Samuel W. Bent and Daniel D. Sleator and Robert E. Tarjan Biased Search Trees . . . . . . . . . . 545--568 Mohamed G. Gouda and Louis E. Rosier Priority networks of communicating finite state machines . . . . . . . . . 569--584 Timothy J. Long On restricting the size of oracles compared with restricting access to oracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--597 R. E. Stearns and H. B. Hunt, III On the equivalence and containment problems for unambiguous regular expressions, regular grammars and finite automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--611 Refael Hassin and Donald B. Johnson An $ O(n \log^2 n) $ algorithm for maximum flow in undirected planar networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--624 Eugene W. Myers An $ O(E \log E + I) $ expected time algorithm for the planar segment intersection problem . . . . . . . . . . 625--637 Danny Dolev and Manfred Warmuth Scheduling Flat Graphs . . . . . . . . . 638--657 Jeremy Spinrad On Comparability and Permutation Graphs 658--670 Ashok K. Chandra and Moshe Y. Vardi The implication problem for functional and inclusion dependencies is undecidable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--677 K. A. Kalorkoti A lower bound for the formula size of rational functions . . . . . . . . . . . 678--687 Marc Snir On Parallel Searching . . . . . . . . . 688--708 Marinus Veldhorst Approximation of the consecutive ones matrix augmentation problem . . . . . . 709--729 Zvi M. Kedem Optimal allocation of area for single-chip computations . . . . . . . . 730--743 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson and A. S. Lapaugh Scheduling File Transfers . . . . . . . 744--780
Greg N. Frederickson Data structures for on-line updating of minimum spanning trees, with applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--798 J. Mark Keil Decomposing a Polygon into Simpler Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--817 A. Satyanarayana and R. Kevin Wood A linear-time algorithm for computing $ {K}$-terminal reliability in series-parallel networks . . . . . . . . 818--832 Stephen A. Cook and H. James Hoover A Depth-Universal Circuit . . . . . . . 833--839 Helmut Alt and Kurt Mehlhorn Searching Semisorted Tables . . . . . . 840--848 Larry Stockmeyer On approximation algorithms for $ \# {\rm P} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--861 Robert E. Tarjan and Uzi Vishkin An Efficient Parallel Biconnectivity Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--874 Jeffrey M. Jaffe Distributed multidestination routing: the constraints of local information . . 875--888 Henk Alblas Finding minimal pass sequences for attribute grammars . . . . . . . . . . . 889--914 Ehab S. El-Mallah and Charles J. Colbourn Optimum communication spanning trees in series-parallel networks . . . . . . . . 915--925 D. G. Corneil and Y. Perl and L. K. Stewart A Linear Recognition Algorithm for Cographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--934 Rohit Parikh and Ashok Chandra and Joe Halpern and Albert Meyer Equations between regular terms and an application to process logic . . . . . . 935--942 Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. and Cynthia A. Brown The Pure Literal Rule and Polynomial Average Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--953 Ulrich Faigle and Gerhard Gierz and Rainer Schrader Algorithmic Approaches to Setup Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--965 M. F. Singer and B. D. Saunders and B. F. Caviness An extension of Liouville's theorem on integration in finite terms . . . . . . 966--990 Sergiu Hart and Micha Sharir Concurrent probabilistic programs, or: how to schedule if you must . . . . . . 991--1012 Dan E. Willard Searching unindexed and nonuniformly generated files in $ \log \log N $ time 1013--1029 Debasis Mitra Probabilistic models and asymptotic results for concurrent processing with exclusive and nonexclusive locks . . . . 1030--1051 Deepak Kapur and Paliath Narendran The Knuth--Bendix completion procedure and Thue systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1072
G. W. Cherry Integration in finite terms with special functions: the logarithmic integral . . 1--21 Kurt Mehlhorn and Athanasios Tsakalidis An Amortized Analysis of Insertions into AVL-Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--33 Joseph O'Rourke The Signature of a Plane Curve . . . . . 34--51 Daniel Dominic Sleator and Robert Endre Tarjan Self-Adjusting Heaps . . . . . . . . . . 52--69 Joost Engelfriet The complexity of languages generated by attribute grammars . . . . . . . . . . . 70--86 Stephen Cook and Cynthia Dwork and Rüdiger Reischuk Upper and lower time bounds for parallel random access machines without simultaneous writes . . . . . . . . . . 87--97 Alberto Apostolico and Raffaele Giancarlo The Boyer--Moore--Galil string searching strategies revisited . . . . . . . . . . 98--105 Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide Efficient simulations among several models of parallel computers . . . . . . 106--119 Zvi Galil and Silvio Micali and Harold Gabow An $ O(E V \log V) $ algorithm for finding a maximal weighted matching in general graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--130 Francis Chin and K. V. S. Ramarao Optimal termination protocols for network partitioning . . . . . . . . . . 131--144 M. Shub and S. Smale Computational complexity: on the geometry of polynomials and a theory of cost. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--161 Brenda S. Baker A Provably Good Algorithm for the Two Module Routing Problem . . . . . . . . . 162--188 D. Coppersmith and M. M. Klawe and N. J. Pippenger Alphabetic Minimax Trees of Degree at Most $t$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192 Micha Sharir and Amir Schorr On Shortest Paths in Polyhedral Spaces 193--215 T. Etzion and A. Lempel An Efficient Algorithm for Generating Linear Transformations in a Shuffle-Exchange Network . . . . . . . . 216--221 D. K. Friesen and M. A. Langston Variable Sized Bin Packing . . . . . . . 222--230 John H. Reif Logarithmic Depth Circuits for Algebraic Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--242 Stanley Cabay and Dong-Koo Choi Algebraic computations of scaled Padé fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--270 H. Edelsbrunner and E. Welzl Constructing belts in two-dimensional arrangements with applications . . . . . 271--284 Leonid A. Levin Average Case Complete Problems . . . . . 285--286 David G. Kirkpatrick and Raimund Seidel The Ultimate Planar Convex Hull Algorithm? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--299 B. Chazelle and R. L. Drysdale, III and D. T. Lee Computing the Largest Empty Rectangle 300--315
Herbert Edelsbrunner and Leonidas J. Guibas and Jorge Stolfi Optimal Point Location in a Monotone Subdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--340 H. Edelsbrunner and J. O'Rourke and R. Seidel Constructing Arrangements of Lines and Hyperplanes with Applications . . . . . 341--363 L. Blum and M. Blum and M. Shub A Simple Unpredictable Pseudo-Random Number Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--383 Lenore Blum and Michael Shub Evaluating rational functions: infinite precision is finite cost and tractable on average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--398 Pekka Orponen and David A. Russo and Uwe Schöning Optimal approximations and polynomially levelable sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--408 John L. Bruno and Peter J. Downey Probabilistic bounds on the performance of list scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . 409--417 G. Ausiello and A. D'Atri and D. Sacc\`a Minimal Representation of Directed Hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--431 Joachim von zur Gathen Representations and parallel computations for rational functions . . 432--452 Wolfgang Maass On the Complexity of Nonconvex Covering 453--467 Dan E. Willard Log-logarithmic selection resolution protocols in a multiple access channel 468--477 Hiroshi Imai and Takao Asano Efficient algorithms for geometric graph search problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--494 Kazuhiko Matsumoto and Takao Nishizeki and Nobuji Saito Planar multicommodity flows, maximum matchings and negative cycles . . . . . 495--510 John Geske and Joachim Grollmann Relativizations of unambiguous and random polynomial time classes . . . . . 511--519 Carl E. Langenhop and William E. Wright Probabilities related to father-son distances in binary search trees . . . . 520--530 L. G. Valiant Negation is Powerless for Boolean Slice Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--535 A. M. Frieze On the Lagarias--Odlyzko algorithm for the subset sum problem . . . . . . . . . 536--539 Robert Alan Wright and Bruce Richmond and Andrew Odlyzko and Brendan D. McKay Constant Time Generation of Free Trees 540--548 Allan Borodin and Danny Dolev and Faith E. Fich and Wolfgang Paul Bounds for Width Two Branching Programs 549--560 Jonathan S. Turner On the probable performance of heuristics for bandwidth minimization 561--580 D\~ung T. Hu\`ynh The complexity of the membership problem for two subclasses of polynomial ideals 581--594 Rodney W. Johnson and Aileen M. McLoughlin Noncommutative bilinear algorithms for $ 3 \times 3 $ matrix multiplication . . . 595--603 Francine Berman and Mary Ellen Bock and Eric Dittert and Michael J. O'Donnell and Darrell Plank Collections of Functions for Perfect Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604--618 Joan Feigenbaum and Alejandro A. Schäffer Recognizing composite graphs is equivalent to testing graph isomorphism 619--627
P. Flajolet and H. Prodinger Register Allocation for Unary--Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--640 Joel Friedman Constructing $ O(n \log n) $ size monotone formulae for the $k$ th threshold function of $n$ Boolean variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--654 Robert W. Irving and Paul Leather The Complexity of Counting Stable Marriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--667 Claudio Citrini and Stefano Crespi-Reghizzi and Dino Mandrioli On Deterministic Multi-Pass Analysis . . 668--693 J. Scott Provan The complexity of reliability computations in planar and acyclic graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694--702 Bernard Chazelle Filtering Search: a New Approach to Query-Answering . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--724 M. E. Dyer On a Multidimensional Search Technique and Its Application to the Euclidean One-Centre Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 725--738 José L. Balcázar and Ronald V. Book and Uwe Schöning Sparse Sets, Lowness and Highness . . . 739--747 Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick Digital Search Trees Revisited . . . . . 748--767 J. E. Hopcroft and G. T. Wilfong Reducing multiple object motion planning to graph searching . . . . . . . . . . . 768--785 Friedrich Otto Church--Rosser Thue systems that present free monoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--792 Frank Thomson Leighton and Arnold L. Rosenberg Three-Dimensional Circuit Layouts . . . 793--813 Justin R. Smith Parallel algorithms for depth-first searches. I. Planar graphs . . . . . . . 814--830 H. B. Hunt, III and D. J. Rosenkrantz Recursion schemes and recursive programs are exponentially hard to analyze . . . 831--850 Benjamin Arazi A Binary Search with a Parallel Recovery of the Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--855 Richard Hull Relative information capacity of simple relational database schemata . . . . . . 856--886 Jeffrey H. Kingston Analysis of Henriksen's algorithm for the simulation event set . . . . . . . . 887--902
J. H. Davenport The Risch Differential Equation Problem 903--918 Martin David Katz and Dennis J. Volper Data Structures for Retrieval on Square Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--931 King F. Pang and Abbas El Gamal Communication complexity of computing the Hamming distance . . . . . . . . . . 932--947 William H. Cunningham Improved bounds for matroid partition and intersection algorithms . . . . . . 948--957 Klaus Ambos-Spies An Inhomogeneity in the Structure of Karp Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--963 Gaston H. Gonnet and J. Ian Munro Heaps on Heaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--971 David Prill On Approximations and Incidence in Cylindrical Algebraic Decompositions . . 972--993 Paul W. Beame and Stephen A. Cook and H. James Hoover Log Depth Circuits for Division and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--1003 Joseph Ja'Ja' and Jean Takche On the Validity of the Direct Sum Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004--1020 Norbert Blum On the single-operation worst-case time complexity of the disjoint set union problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1024 Li Wu Li Ranking and Unranking of AVL-Trees . . . 1025--1035 Michael Luby A simple parallel algorithm for the maximal independent set problem . . . . 1036--1053 Egon Balas and Chang Sung Yu Finding a Maximum Clique in an Arbitrary Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054--1068 D. S. Hirschberg and L. L. Larmore Average Case Analysis of Marking Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069--1074 U. Faigle and L. Lovász and R. Schrader and Gy. Turán Searching in trees, series-parallel and interval orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1084 Donald P. Gaver and Patricia A. Jacobs Processor-shared time-sharing models in heavy traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1100 D\~ung T. Hu\`ynh Some observations about the randomness of hard problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1105 Ming-Te Chao and John Franco Probabilistic analysis of two heuristics for the $3$-satisfiability problem . . . 1106--1118 Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi and Seiki Kyan Worst case bound of an LRF schedule for the mean weighted flow-time problem . . 1119--1129 Udi Manber On maintaining dynamic information in a concurrent environment . . . . . . . . . 1130--1142 Eric Bach and Gary Lee Miller and Jeffrey O. Shallit Sums of Divisors, Perfect Numbers and Factoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1154 Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and Hél\`ene Kirchner Completion of a set of rules modulo a set of equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1194
Christos H. Papadimitriou and John N. Tsitsiklis On Stochastic Scheduling with In-Tree Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Ravindran Kannan and Gary Miller and Larry Rudolph Sublinear Parallel Algorithm for Computing the Greatest Common Divisor of Two Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16 Oded Shmueli and Alon Itai Complexity of Views: Tree and Cyclic Schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--37 Russ Miller and Quentin F. Stout Data Movement Techniques for the Pyramid Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--60 Richard Cole and Micha Sharir and Chee K. Yap On $k$-hulls and related problems . . . 61--77 F. Aurenhammer Power Diagrams: Properties, Algorithms, and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--96 A. Borodin and F. Fich and F. Meyer auf der Heide and E. Upfal and A. Wigderson A Time-Space Tradeoff for Element Distinctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99 Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Avi Wigderson The Complexity of Parallel Sorting . . . 100--107 Douglas W. Jones A Note on Bottom-Up Skew Heaps . . . . . 108--110 Dan Gusfield Three fast algorithms for four problems in stable marriage . . . . . . . . . . . 111--128 H. B. Hunt, III and D. J. Rosenkrantz and P. A. Bloniarz On the computational complexity of algebra on lattices . . . . . . . . . . 129--148 Frank D. Murgolo An efficient approximation scheme for variable-sized bin packing . . . . . . . 149--161 Hyeong-Ah Choi and S. Louis Hakimi Scheduling File Transfers for Trees and Odd Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--168 C. A. Courcoubetis and M. I. Reiman and B. Simon Stability of a queueing system with concurrent service and locking . . . . . 169--178 Peter D. Mosses and Gordon D. Plotkin On Proving Limiting Completeness . . . . 179--194 Wolfgang Maass and Amir Schorr Speed-up of Turing machines with one work tape and a two-way input tape . . . 195--202 Françoise Fogelman-Soulié and Gérard Weisbuch Random iterations of threshold networks and associative memory . . . . . . . . . 203--220
Karel Culik, II and Juhani Karhumäki The equivalence problem for single-valued two-way transducers (on NPDTOL languages) is decidable . . . . . 221--230 E. Korach and S. Moran and S. Zaks The optimality of distributive constructions of minimum weight and degree restricted spanning trees in a complete network of processors . . . . . 231--236 Dan Gusfield and Charles Martel and David Fernández-Baca Fast Algorithms for Bipartite Network Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251 D. Bini and M. Capovani Tensor rank and border rank of band Toeplitz matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 252--258 Jin-Yi Cai and Gabriele E. Meyer Graph Minimal Uncolorability is $ {\text {D}}^{\text {p}} $-Complete . . . . . . 259--277 Thomas Lickteig The computational complexity of division in quadratic extension fields . . . . . 278--311 Takao Asano An Application of Duality to Edge-Deletion Problems . . . . . . . . . 312--331 Ir\`ene Guessarian and José Meseguer On the Axiomatization of ``If--Then--Else'' . . . . . . . . . . . 332--357 J. D. Horton A polynomial-time algorithm to find the shortest cycle basis of a graph . . . . 358--366 Oscar H. Ibarra and Michael A. Palis On efficient simulations of systolic arrays by random-access machines . . . . 367--377 C. Knessl and B. J. Matkowsky and Z. Schuss and C. Tier Asymptotic expansions for a closed multiple access system . . . . . . . . . 378--398 Micha Hofri and Keith W. Ross On the optimal control of two queues with server setup times and its analysis 399--420
Roberto Tamassia On embedding a graph in the grid with the minimum number of bends . . . . . . 421--444 Sam Toueg and Kenneth J. Perry and T. K. Srikanth Fast Distributed Agreement . . . . . . . 445--457 Yossi Azar and Uzi Vishkin Tight comparison bounds on the complexity of parallel sorting . . . . . 458--464 Alan H. Mekler and Evelyn M. Nelson Equational Bases for If--Then--Else . . 465--485 Yuri Gurevich and Saharon Shelah Expected computation time for Hamiltonian path problem . . . . . . . . 486--502 Vijay K. Vaishnavi Weighted Leaf AVL-Trees . . . . . . . . 503--537 Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis The Complexity of Reliable Concurrency Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--553 Donald K. Friesen Tighter bounds for LPT scheduling on uniform processors . . . . . . . . . . . 554--560 Micha Sharir On Shortest Paths Amidst Convex Polyhedra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--572 T. C. Hu and Michelle L. Wachs Binary Search on a Tape . . . . . . . . 573--590 Arjen K. Lenstra Factoring multivariate polynomials over algebraic number fields . . . . . . . . 591--598
Dan Gusfield Optimal Mixed Graph Augmentation . . . . 599--612 William Gasarch Oracles for Deterministic Versus Alternating Classes . . . . . . . . . . 613--627 D. S. Hirschberg and L. L. Larmore The Least Weight Subsequence Problem . . 628--638 Christos H. Papadimitriou and Jeffrey D. Ullman A Communication-Time Tradeoff . . . . . 639--646 Joseph S. B. Mitchell and David M. Mount and Christos H. Papadimitriou The Discrete Geodesic Problem . . . . . 647--668 Teofilo F. Gonzalez and Sing-Ling Lee A $ 1.6 $ approximation algorithm for routing multiterminal nets . . . . . . . 669--704 B. John Oommen and E. R. Hansen List organizing strategies using stochastic move-to-front and stochastic move-to-rear operations . . . . . . . . 705--716 Nicholas C. Wormald Generating Random Unlabelled Graphs . . 717--727 P. Widmayer and Y. F. Wu and C. K. Wong On Some Distance Problems in Fixed Orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--746 David Helmbold and Ernst Mayr Two Processor Scheduling is in $ \mathcal {NC} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--759 Neil Immerman Languages that Capture Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--778
Louis E. Rosier and Hsu-Chun Yen Logspace hierarchies, polynomial time and the complexity of fairness problems concerning $ \omega $-machines . . . . . 779--807 Helmut Alt and Torben Hagerup and Kurt Mehlhorn and Franco P. Preparata Deterministic simulation of idealized parallel computers on more realistic ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808--835 Wen Qi Huang and Xiang Dong Yu A DNF without Regular Shortest Consensus Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--840 Edward P. F. Chan and Alberto O. Mendelzon Independent and Separable Database Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--851 Stuart A. Kurtz A Note on Randomized Polynomial Time . . 852--853 Anna Lubiw Doubly Lexical Orderings of Matrices . . 854--879 Pierre McKenzie and Stephen A. Cook The parallel complexity of Abelian permutation group problems . . . . . . . 880--909 H. B. Hunt, III and R. E. Stearns Nonlinear algebra and optimization on rings are ``hard'' . . . . . . . . . . . 910--929 Joachim von zur Gathen Computing Powers in Parallel . . . . . . 930--945 B. Becker and G. Hotz On the optimal layout of planar graphs with fixed boundary . . . . . . . . . . 946--972
Robert Paige and Robert E. Tarjan Three Partition Refinement Algorithms 973--989 Mark C. K. Yang and Jun S. Huang and Yuan-Chieh Chow Optimal Parallel Sorting Scheme by Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990--1003 Greg N. Federickson Fast algorithms for shortest paths in planar graphs, with applications . . . . 1004--1022 Alistair Moffat and Tadao Takaoka An all pairs shortest path algorithm with expected time $ O(n^2 \log n) $ . . 1023--1031 Nicholas Pippenger Sorting and Selecting in Rounds . . . . 1032--1038 Karl Abrahamson Generalized String Matching . . . . . . 1039--1051 A. M. Frieze On the exact solution of random travelling salesman problems with medium size integer coefficients . . . . . . . 1052--1072 Micha Hofri and Alan G. Konheim Padded Lists Revisited . . . . . . . . . 1073--1114 Lawrence L. Larmore Height Restricted Optimal Binary Trees 1115--1123 Edward R. Scheinerman Almost Sure Fault Tolerance in Random Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124--1134 Oscar H. Ibarra and Tao Jiang On One-Way Cellular Arrays . . . . . . . 1135--1154 John A. Morrison and Larry A. Shepp and Christopher J. Van Wyk A Queueing Analysis of Hashing with Lazy Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1164
Yehoshua Sagiv On Bounded Database Schemes and Bounded Horn-Clause Programs . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 D. K. Friesen and F. S. Kuhl Analysis of a hybrid algorithm for packing unequal bins . . . . . . . . . . 23--40 Sumio Masuda and Kazuo Nakajima An optimal algorithm for finding a maximum independent set of a circular-arc graph . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52 Daniel Bienstock and Clyde L. Monma On the complexity of covering vertices by faces in a planar graph . . . . . . . 53--76 Jyrki Katajainen and Jan van Leeuwen and Martti Penttonen Fast simulation of Turing machines by random access machines . . . . . . . . . 77--88 Masanori Fushimi Designing a uniform random number generator whose subsequences are $k$-distributed . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99 U. Faigle and Gy. Turán Sorting and Recognition Problems for Ordered Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--113 David M. Nicol Expected Performance of $m$-Solution Backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--127 Richard Cole and Uzi Vishkin Approximate Parallel Scheduling. Part I: The Basic Technique with Applications to Optimal Parallel List Ranking in Logarithmic Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--142 Robert E. Tarjan and Christopher J. Van Wyk An $ O(n \log \log n) $-time algorithm for triangulating a simple polygon . . . 143--178
Eric Bach How to Generate Factored Random Numbers 179--193 Werner Alexi and Benny Chor and Oded Goldreich and Claus-P. Schnorr RSA and Rabin functions: certain parts are as hard as the whole . . . . . . . . 194--209 Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard and Jean-Marc Robert Privacy Amplification by Public Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--229 Benny Chor and Oded Goldreich Unbiased bits from sources of weak randomness and probabilistic communication complexity . . . . . . . . 230--261 Alan M. Frieze and Johan Håstad and Ravi Kannan and Jeffrey C. Lagarias and Adi Shamir Reconstructing truncated integer variables satisfying linear congruences 262--280 Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali and Ronald L. Rivest A digital signature scheme secure against adaptive chosen-message attacks 281--308 Joachim Grollmann and Alan L. Selman Complexity Measures for Public-Key Cryptosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--335 Johan Håstad Solving Simultaneous Modular Equations of Low Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--341 Jeffrey C. Lagarias and James A. Reeds Unique Extrapolation of Polynomial Recurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--362 Douglas L. Long and Avi Wigderson The discrete logarithm hides $ O(\log n) $ bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372 Michael Luby and Charles Rackoff How to construct pseudorandom permutations from pseudorandom functions 373--386 Carl Pomerance and J. W. Smith and Randy Tuler A pipeline architecture for factoring large integers with the quadratic sieve algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--403 J. H. Reif and J. D. Tygar Efficient Parallel Pseudorandom Number Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--411 Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff and Bob Sloan The notion of security for probabilistic cryptosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--426 Zvi Galil Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
Bernard Chazelle A functional approach to data structures and its use in multidimensional searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--462 Philip N. Klein and John H. Reif Parallel time $ O(\log n) $ acceptance of deterministic CFLs on an exclusive-write P-RAM . . . . . . . . . 463--485 Xin He and Yaacov Yesha A nearly optimal parallel algorithm for constructing depth first spanning trees in planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--491 Boris Pittel and Jenn-Hwa Yu On search times for early-insertion coalesced hashing . . . . . . . . . . . 492--503 R. Book and P. Orponen and D. Russo and O. Watanabe Lowness properties of sets in the exponential-time hierarchy . . . . . . . 504--516 Andrew Chi Chih Yao Monotone Bipartite Graph Properties are Evasive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--520 Alessandro D'Atri and Marina Moscarini Distance-hereditary graphs, Steiner trees, and connected domination . . . . 521--538 Dorit S. Hochbaum and David B. Shmoys A polynomial approximation scheme for scheduling on uniform processors: using the dual approximation approach . . . . 539--551 Dan Gusfield A graph theoretic approach to statistical data security . . . . . . . 552--571 Pravin M. Vaidya Minimum Spanning Trees in $k$-Dimensional Space . . . . . . . . . 572--582 Alan Siegel and Danny Dolev Some Geometry for General River Routing 583--605 Faith E. Fich and Prabhakar Ragde and Avi Wigderson Relations between concurrent-write models of parallel computation . . . . . 606--627 Timothy J. Long Erratum: ``On restricting the size of oracles compared with restricting access to oracles'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 14 (1985), no. 3, 585--597, MR 87h:68053] 628--628
Nachum Dershowitz and Leo Marcus and Andrzej Tarlecki Existence, uniqueness, and construction of rewrite systems . . . . . . . . . . . 629--639 John Welliaveetil John A New Lower Bound for the Set-Partitioning Problem . . . . . . . . 640--647 R. Schaback On the expected sublinearity of the Boyer--Moore algorithm . . . . . . . . . 648--658 Paul M. B. Vitányi Locality, communication, and interconnect length in multicomputers 659--672 Lud\vek Ku\vcera and V\vera Trnková Isomorphism Testing of Unary Algebras 673--686 Gary L. Miller and Vijaya Ramachandran and Erich Kaltofen Efficient parallel evaluation of straight-line code and arithmetic circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--695 S. S. Ravi and Errol L. Lloyd The complexity of near-optimal programmable logic array folding . . . . 696--710 Cynthia Dwork and Paris C. Kanellakis and Larry Stockmeyer Parallel Algorithms for Term Matching 711--731 David Avis and C. W. Lai The probabilistic analysis of a heuristic for the assignment problem . . 732--741 Dan Gusfield The structure of the stable roommate problem: efficient representation and enumeration of all stable assignments 742--769 Richard Cole Parallel Merge Sort . . . . . . . . . . 770--785 Étienne Grandjean A natural NP-complete problem with a nontrivial lower bound . . . . . . . . . 786--809 Harold N. Gabow Scheduling UET systems on two uniform processors and length two pipelines . . 810--829 Kenneth L. Clarkson A Randomized Algorithm for Closest-Point Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--847
Mikhail J. Atallah and S. Rao Kosaraju Efficient solutions to some transportation problems with applications to minimizing robot arm travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--869 Herbert Edelsbrunner and Steven S. Skiena Probing convex polygons with $x$-rays 870--882 Richard M. Karp and Rajeev Motwani and Prabhakar Raghavan Deferred Data Structuring . . . . . . . 883--902 Ronald V. Book and Ker-I Ko On Sets Truth-Table Reducible to Sparse Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--919 J. Scott Provan An approximation scheme for finding Steiner trees with obstacles . . . . . . 920--934 Neil Immerman Nondeterministic space is closed under complementation . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--938 Stephen L. Bloom and Zoltán Ésik Varieties of Iteration Theories . . . . 939--966 M. E. Dyer and A. M. Frieze On the Complexity of Computing the Volume of a Polyhedron . . . . . . . . . 967--974 Cynthia Dwork and David Peleg and Nicholas Pippenger and Eli Upfal Fault Tolerance in Networks of Bounded Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975--988 Alan L. Selman Natural Self-Reducible Sets . . . . . . 989--996 Matthew Hennessy Axiomatising Finite Concurrent Processes 997--1017 Zevi Miller A linear algorithm for topological bandwidth in degree-three trees . . . . 1018--1035 Paolo Zellini Optimal bounds for solving tridiagonal systems with preconditioning . . . . . . 1036--1043 Colin McDiarmid Average-Case Lower Bounds for Searching 1044--1060 Robert E. Tarjan and Christopher J. Van Wyk Erratum: ``An $ O(n \log \log n)$-time algorithm for triangulating a simple polygon'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1061
Thomas Lengauer and Egon Wanke Efficient solution of connectivity problems on hierarchically defined graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1080 Michael Ben-Or and Ephraim Feig and Dexter Kozen and Prasoon Tiwari A fast parallel algorithm for determining all roots of a polynomial with real roots . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081--1092 Kurt Mehlhorn and Stefan Näher and Helmut Alt A lower bound on the complexity of the union-split-find problem . . . . . . . . 1093--1102 Robert J. T. Morris and Wing Shing Wong A Short-Term Neural Network Memory . . . 1103--1118 Béla Bollobás and Graham Brightwell Transitive Orientations of Graphs . . . 1119--1133 J. A. Bergstra and J. W. Klop and E. R. Olderog Readies and failures in the algebra of communicating processes . . . . . . . . 1134--1177 N. Alon and Y. Azar The average complexity of deterministic and randomized parallel comparison-sorting algorithms . . . . . 1178--1192 Eric W. Allender and Roy S. Rubinstein $ {\rm P} $-printable sets . . . . . . . 1193--1202 William J. Knight Search in an ordered array having variable probe cost . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1214 T. Y. Kong and David M. Mount and A. W. Roscoe The decomposition of a rectangle into rectangles of minimal perimeter . . . . 1215--1231 Jin-Yi Cai and Thomas Gundermann and Juris Hartmanis and Lane A. Hemachandra and Vivian Sewelson and Klaus Wagner and Gerd Wechsung The Boolean hierarchy. I. Structural properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1252 Baruch Schieber and Uzi Vishkin On finding lowest common ancestors: simplification and parallelization . . . 1253--1262 Jim Kadin The polynomial time hierarchy collapses if the Boolean hierarchy collapses . . . 1263--1282
Jeffery Westbrook and Robert E. Tarjan Amortized analysis of algorithms for set union with backtracking . . . . . . . . 1--11 Karl Abrahamson and Andrew Adler and Rachel Gelbart and Lisa Higham and David Kirkpatrick The bit complexity of randomized leader election on a ring . . . . . . . . . . . 12--29 Giorgio Gallo and Michael D. Grigoriadis and Robert E. Tarjan A fast parametric maximum flow algorithm and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--55 Robert Wilber Lower bounds for accessing binary search trees with rotations . . . . . . . . . . 56--67 Norbert Korte and Rolf H. Möhring An incremental linear-time algorithm for recognizing interval graphs . . . . . . 68--81 Lawrence L. Larmore Minimum Delay Codes . . . . . . . . . . 82--94 Jin-Yi Cai and Thomas Gundermann and Juris Hartmanis and Lane A. Hemachandra and Vivian Sewelson and Klaus Wagner and Gerd Wechsung The Boolean hierarchy. II. Applications 95--111 Greg N. Frederickson and Mandayam A. Srinivas Algorithms and data structures for an expanded family of matroid intersection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--138 Wansoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand Optimal bin packing with items of random sizes. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--151 Edward T. Ordman Minimal threshold separators and memory requirements for synchronization . . . . 152--165 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and J. C. Lagarias Algorithms for packing squares: a probabilistic analysis . . . . . . . . . 166--185 Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--208
Thomas Lickteig A lower bound on the complexity of division in finite extension fields and inversion in quadratic alternative algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--215 Gianfranco Bilardi and Alexandru Nicolau Adaptive bitonic sorting: an optimal parallel algorithm for shared-memory machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--228 David Peleg and Eli Upfal The Token Distribution Problem . . . . . 229--243 Jing Jang Hwang and Yuan-Chieh Chow and Frank D. Anger and Chung-Yee Lee Scheduling precedence graphs in systems with interprocessor communication times 244--257 N. Alon and Y. Azar Finding an Approximate Maximum . . . . . 258--267 Amotz Bar-Noy and Allan Borodin and Mauricio Karchmer and Nathan Linial and Michael Werman Bounds on Universal Sequences . . . . . 268--277 J. Michael Steele and Timothy Law Snyder Worst-case growth rates of some classical problems of combinatorial optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--287 Torben Hagerup and Marek Chrobak and Krzysztof Diks Optimal Parallel $5$-Colouring of Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--300 Riccardo Melen and Jonathan S. Turner Nonblocking Multirate Networks . . . . . 301--313 Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Gilbert H. Young Minimizing schedule length subject to minimum flow time . . . . . . . . . . . 314--326 Joseph Naor and Moni Naor and Alejandro A. Schäffer Fast Parallel Algorithms for Chordal Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--349 James Renegar On the worst-case arithmetic complexity of approximating zeros of systems of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--370 F. Frances Yao and David P. Dobkin and Herbert Edelsbrunner and Michael S. Paterson Partitioning Space for Range Queries . . 371--384 Kazuo Iwama CNF-satisfiability test by counting and polynomial average time . . . . . . . . 385--391 Ker-I Ko Relativized polynomial time hierarchies having exactly $k$ levels . . . . . . . 392--408 Khaled M. Bugrara and Youfang Pan and Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. Exponential Average Time for the Pure Literal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418 Mark Goldberg and Thomas Spencer A new parallel algorithm for the maximal independent set problem . . . . . . . . 419--427
Edward P. F. Chan A Design Theory for Solving the Anomalies Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 429--448 Shou Wen Tang and Osamu Watanabe On tally relativizations of $ {\rm BP} $-complexity classes . . . . . . . . . . 449--462 Shuo-Yen Robert Li Dynamic Programming by Exchangeability 463--472 WanSoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand Optimal bin packing with items of random sizes. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--486 WanSoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand Optimal Bin Covering with Items of Random Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--498 Mikhail J. Atallah and Richard Cole and Michael T. Goodrich Cascading divide-and-conquer: a technique for designing parallel algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--532 H. Venkateswaran and Martin Tompa A new pebble game that characterizes parallel complexity classes . . . . . . 533--549 Merrick L. Furst and Ravi Kannan Succinct certificates for almost all subset sum problems . . . . . . . . . . 550--558 Allan Borodin and Stephen A. Cook and Patrick W. Dymond and Walter L. Ruzzo and Martin Tompa Two applications of inductive counting for complementation problems . . . . . . 559--578 Francisco Barahona and éva Tardos Note on Weintraub's minimum-cost circulation algorithm . . . . . . . . . 579--583 Michael Clausen Fast Fourier Transforms for Metabelian Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--593 Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John H. Reif Optimal and sublogarithmic time randomized parallel sorting algorithms 594--607 G. H. Norton Precise analyses of the right- and left-shift greatest common divisor algorithms for $ {\rm GF}(q)[x] $ . . . 608--624 Neil Immerman Expressibility and Parallel Complexity 625--638
George Labahn and Stan Cabay Matrix Padé Fractions and Their Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--657 Costas S. Iliopoulos Worst-case complexity bounds on algorithms for computing the canonical structure of finite Abelian groups and the Hermite and Smith normal forms of an integer matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658--669 Costas S. Iliopoulos Worst-case complexity bounds on algorithms for computing the canonical structure of infinite Abelian groups and solving systems of linear Diophantine equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670--678 Andrew Chi Chih Yao On the Complexity of Partial Order Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--689 Barbara B. Simons and Manfred K. Warmuth A fast algorithm for multiprocessor scheduling of unit-length jobs . . . . . 690--710 Zvi Galil and Stuart Haber and Moti Yung Minimum-knowledge interactive proofs for decision problems . . . . . . . . . . . 711--739 David Peleg and Jeffrey D. Ullman An Optimal Synchronizer for the Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--747 Pravin M. Vaidya Space-Time Trade-Offs for Orthogonal Range Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--758 Nader H. Bshouty A Lower Bound for Matrix Multiplication 759--765 Charles H. Bennett Time/Space Trade-Offs for Reversible Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--776 Philippe Jacquet and Wojciech Szpankowski Ultimate characterizations of the burst response of an interval searching algorithm: a study of a functional equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--791 Richard Cole and Jeffrey S. Salowe and W. L. Steiger and Endre Szemerédi An Optimal-Time Algorithm for Slope Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--810 Franco P. Preparata and Roberto Tamassia Fully dynamic point location in a monotone subdivision . . . . . . . . . . 811--830 Karel Culik, II and Jan Pachl and Sheng Yu On the Limit Sets of Cellular Automata 831--842 Greg N. Frederickson and Ravi Janardan Efficient Message Routing in Planar Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--857
J. Håstad and B. Just and J. C. Lagarias and C.-P. Schnorr Polynomial time algorithms for finding integer relations among real numbers . . 859--881 S. Anily and R. Hassin Ranking the Best Binary Trees . . . . . 882--892 G. W. Cherry An Analysis of the Rational Exponential Integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--905 Rakesh M. Verma and Steven W. Reyner An analysis of a good algorithm for the subtree problem, corrected . . . . . . . 906--908 Wansoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand The Complete Convergence of Best Fit Decreasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--918 Wansoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand The Complete Convergence of First Fit Decreasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--938 Ravindra K. Ahuja and James B. Orlin and Robert E. Tarjan Improved Time Bounds for the Maximum Flow Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939--954 Wayne Eberly Very Fast Parallel Polynomial Arithmetic 955--976 Ernst-Erich Doberkat Topological completeness in an ideal model for polymorphic types . . . . . . 977--989 Brian A. Coan and Danny Dolev and Cynthia Dwork and Larry Stockmeyer The Distributed Firing Squad Problem . . 990--1012 Harold N. Gabow and Robert E. Tarjan Faster Scaling Algorithms for Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1036 Cynthia A. Brown and Larry Finkelstein and Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. A New Base Change Algorithm for Permutation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1047 Keith Humenik Ratio estimators are maximum-likelihood estimators for non-context-free grammars 1048--1055
J. Cheriyan and S. N. Maheshwari Analysis of preflow push algorithms for maximum network flow . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1086 Richard E. Ladner Polynomial Space Counting Problems . . . 1087--1097 David Bernstein and Jeffrey M. Jaffe and Michael Rodeh Scheduling arithmetic and load operations in parallel with no spilling 1098--1127 David Rappaport Computing simple circuits from a set of line segments is NP-complete . . . . . . 1128--1139 Umesh V. Vazirani and Vijay V. Vazirani The two-processor scheduling problem is in random $ {\rm NC} $ . . . . . . . . . 1140--1148 Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair Approximating the Permanent . . . . . . 1149--1178 Manfred Schimmler and Christoph Starke A Correction Network for $ {N}$-Sorters 1179--1187 Zhiyuan Li and Edward M. Reingold Solution of a Divide-and-Conquer Maximin Recurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188--1200 Pravin M. Vaidya Geometry Helps in Matching . . . . . . . 1201--1225 Ming-Syan Chen and Kang G. Shin On relaxed squashed embedding of graphs into a hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226--1244 Kaizhong Zhang and Dennis Shasha Simple fast algorithms for the editing distance between trees and related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1262 Bala Ravikumar and Oscar H. Ibarra Relating the type of ambiguity of finite automata to the succinctness of their representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263--1282 Allan Borodin and Stephen A. Cook and Patrick W. Dymond and Walter L. Ruzzo and Martin Tompa Erratum: ``Two applications of inductive counting for complementation problems'' 1283--1283
Michael A. Palis and Sunil Shende and David S. L. Wei An Optimal Linear Time Parallel Parser for Tree Adjoining Languages . . . . . . 1--31 I. R. Hentzel and D. Pokrass Jacobs Complexity and Unsolvability Properties of Nilpotency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--43 H. B. Hunt, III and R. E. Stearns The Complexity of Very Simple Boolean Formulas with Applications . . . . . . . 44--70 Cheng Ng and Daniel S. Hirschberg Lower Bounds for the Stable Marriage Problem and Its Variants . . . . . . . . 71--77 Hirofumi Yokouchi and Teruo Hikita A Rewriting System for Categorical Combinators with Multiple Arguments . . 78--97 George Labahn and Dong Koo Choi and Stan Cabay The Inverses of Block Hankel and Block Toeplitz Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 98--123 Joel Friedman A Density Theorem for Purely Iterative Zero Finding Methods . . . . . . . . . . 124--132 Michael L. Dowling A Fast Parallel Horner Algorithm . . . . 133--142 Dan Gusfield Very Simple Methods for all Pairs Network Flow Analysis . . . . . . . . . 143--155 Edward R. Scheinerman On the Expected Capacity of Binomial and Random Concentrators . . . . . . . . . . 156--163 Greg N. Frederickson and Ravi Janardan Space-efficient message routing in $c$-decomposable networks . . . . . . . 164--181 H. James Hoover Feasible Real Functions and Arithmetic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--204 Greg N. Frederickson and Donald B. Johnson Erratum: ``Generalized selection and ranking: sorted matrices'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 13 (1984), no. 1, 14--30, MR 85c:68025] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Miros\law Kuty\lowski and Maciej Li\'skiewicz and Krzysztof Lory\'s Reversal Complexity Classes for Alternating Turing Machines . . . . . . 207--221 Jennifer Whitehead The Complexity of File Transfer Scheduling with Forwarding . . . . . . . 222--245 G. Bilardi and F. P. Preparata Characterization of Associative Operations with Prefix Circuits of Constant Depth and Linear Size . . . . . 246--255 David Peleg and Eli Upfal A Time-Randomness Trade-Off for Oblivious Routing . . . . . . . . . . . 256--266 David A. Plaisted A Heuristic Algorithm for Small Separators in Arbitrary Graphs . . . . . 267--280 Laura A. Sanchis and Mark A. Fulk On the Efficient Generation of Language Instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--296 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Micha Sharir Red-Blue Intersection Detection Algorithms, with Applications to Motion Planning and Collision Detection . . . . 297--321 Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis Towards an Architecture-Independent Analysis of Parallel Algorithms . . . . 322--328 Robert W. Floyd and Donald E. Knuth Addition Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 329--340 J. J. M. M. Rutten Semantic Correctness for a Parallel Object-Oriented Language . . . . . . . . 341--383 Christopher B. Wilson On the Decomposability of $ {NC} $ and $ {AC} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--396 Alok Aggarwal and Richard J. Anderson and Ming-Yang Kao Parallel Depth-First Search in General Directed Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--409
B. Molzan Expressibility and Nonuniform Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--423 Helmut Seidl Deciding Equivalence of Finite Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--437 Étienne Grandjean A Nontrivial Lower Bound for an NP Problem on Automata . . . . . . . . . . 438--451 Nader H. Bshouty and Michael Kaminski Multiplication of Polynomials over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--456 Yin Yu Ye A Class of Projective Transformations for Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . 457--466 Nader H. Bshouty Maximal Rank of $ m \times n \times (m n - k) $ Tensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--471 Cynthia Dwork and David Shmoys and Larry Stockmeyer Flipping Persuasively in Constant Time 472--499 David Eppstein Reset Sequences for Monotonic Automata 500--510 Maciej Li\'skiewicz and Krzysztof Lory\'s Fast Simulations of Time-Bounded One-Tape Turing Machines by Space-Bounded Ones . . . . . . . . . . . 511--521 Richard Beigel Unbounded Searching Algorithms . . . . . 522--537 Takis Sakkalis The Euclidean Algorithm and the Degree of the Gauss Map . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--543 Fred Annexstein and Marc Baumslag and Arnold L. Rosenberg Group Action Graphs and Parallel Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544--569 A. Wagner and D. G. Corneil Embedding Trees in a Hypercube is NP-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--590 Vijay K. Vaishnavi Erratum: ``Weighted leaf AVL-trees'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 16 (1987), no. 3, 503--537, MR 88c:68012] . . . . . . . . 591--591
David M. Mount The Number of Shortest Paths on the Surface of a Polyhedron . . . . . . . . 593--611 F. Chin and H. F. Ting Improving the Time Complexity of Message-Optimal Distributed Algorithms for Minimum-Weight Spanning Trees . . . 612--626 J. M. Jover and T. Kailath and H. Lev-Ari and S. K. Rao On the Analysis of Synchronous Computing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--643 M. Dezani-Ciancaglini and B. Venneri Partial Types and Intervals . . . . . . 644--658 Bill Jackson Shortest Circuit Covers and Postman Tours in Graphs with a Nowhere Zero $4$-Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--665 Alan Frieze and Colin McDiarmid and Bruce Reed Greedy Matching on the Line . . . . . . 666--672 Robert Y. Levine and Alan T. Sherman A Note on Bennett's Time-Space Tradeoff for Reversible Computation . . . . . . . 673--677 Torben Hagerup Planar depth-first search in $ O(\log n) $ parallel time . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--704 WanSoo T. Rhee A Note on Optimal Bin Packing and Optimal Bin Covering with Items of Random Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705--710 D. R. Stinson Some Observations on Parallel Algorithms for Fast Exponentiation in $ \operatorname {GF}(2^n) $ . . . . . . . 711--717 Faith E. Fich and Avi Wigderson Toward Understanding Exclusive Read . . 718--727 Ashfaq A. Munshi and Barbara Simons Scheduling Sequential Loops on Parallel Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--741 Mark W. Krentel On Finding and Verifying Locally Optimal Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--749 Thomas W. Dubé The structure of polynomial ideals and Gröbner bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750--773
Jeanette P. Schmidt and Alan Siegel The spatial complexity of oblivious $k$-probe hash functions . . . . . . . . 775--786 Erich Grädel Domino Games and Complexity . . . . . . 787--804 R. E. Cypher and J. L. C. Sanz and L. Snyder The Hough transform has $ O(N) $ complexity on $ N \times N $ mesh connected computers . . . . . . . . . . 805--820 Luc Devroye and Louise Laforest An analysis of random $d$-dimensional quadtrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821--832 Klaus W. Wagner Bounded Query Classes . . . . . . . . . 833--846 Keqin Li and Kam-Hoi Cheng On Three-Dimensional Packing . . . . . . 847--867 Joan M. Lucas Postorder Disjoint Set Union is Linear 868--882 Kazuo Iwano and Kenneth Steiglitz A Semiring on Convex Polygons and Zero-Sum Cycle Problems . . . . . . . . 883--901 K. Mehlhorn and St. Näher and M. Rauch On the Complexity of a Game Related to the Dictionary Problem . . . . . . . . . 902--906 D. Bienstock Linear-Time Test for Small Face Covers in any Fixed Surface . . . . . . . . . . 907--911 John H. Reif and Stephen R. Tate Optimal Size Integer Division Circuits 912--924 John K. Johnstone and Chanderjit L. Bajaj Sorting Points Along an Algebraic Curve 925--967 Alberto Apostolico and Mikhail J. Atallah and Lawrence L. Larmore and Scott McFaddin Efficient Parallel Algorithms for String Editing and Related Problems . . . . . . 968--988
Zvi Galil and Kunsoo Park An Improved Algorithm for Approximate String Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--999 George S. Lueker and Nimrod Megiddo and Vijaya Ramachandran Linear Programming with Two Variables Per Inequality in Poly-Log Time . . . . 1000--1010 Cynthia Dwork and Larry Stockmeyer A Time Complexity Gap for Two-Way Probabilistic Finite-State Automata . . 1011--1023 Kazuo Sugihara and Ichiro Suzuki and Masafumi Yamashita The Searchlight Scheduling Problem . . . 1024--1040 D. T. Lee and M. Sarrafzadeh and Y. F. Wu Minimum Cuts for Circular-Arc Graphs . . 1041--1050 Dany Breslauer and Zvi Galil An optimal $ O(\log \log n) $ time parallel string matching algorithm . . . 1051--1058 Dima Yu. Grigoriev and Marek Karpi\'nski and Michael F. Singer Fast Parallel Algorithms for Sparse Multivariate Polynomial Interpolation Over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1063 Noga Alon and Mauricio Karchmer and Avi Wigderson Linear Circuits over $ \operatorname {GF}(2) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1067 Joel Friedman Random Polynomials and Approximate Zeros of Newton's Method . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1099 Jack H. Lutz Category and Measure in Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1131 Kazuo Murota Computing Puiseux-Series Solutions to Determinantal Equations via Combinatorial Relaxation . . . . . . . . 1132--1161
Dominique Duval Absolute Factorization of Polynomials: a Geometric Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 Uzi Vishkin Deterministic Sampling --- a New Technique for Fast Pattern Matching . . 22--40 Qian Ping Gu and Akira Maruoka Amplification of Bounded Depth Monotone Read-Once Boolean Formulae . . . . . . . 41--55 Alejandro A. Schäffer and Mihalis Yannakakis Simple Local Search Problems that are Hard to Solve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--87 Ian Parberry and Pei Yuan Yan Improved Upper and Lower Time Bounds for Parallel Random Access Machines without Simultaneous Writes . . . . . . . . . . 88--99 Jeffrey D. Ullman and Mihalis Yannakakis High-Probability Parallel Transitive-Closure Algorithms . . . . . 100--125 Shih Ping Tung Complexity of Sentences over Number Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--143 Marek Chrobak and Lawrence L. Larmore An optimal on-line algorithm for $k$ servers on trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--148 K. Sutner and A. Satyanarayana and C. Suffel The Complexity of the Residual Node Connectedness Reliability Problem . . . 149--155 Edward M. Reingold and Xiao Jun Shen More Nearly Optimal Algorithms for Unbounded Searching, Part I: The Finite Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--183 Edward M. Reingold and Xiao Jun Shen More nearly optimal algorithms for unbounded searching. II. The transfinite case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--208
Egon Balas and Jue Xue Minimum Weighted Coloring of Triangulated Graphs, with Application to Maximum Weight Vertex Packing and Clique Finding in Arbitrary Graphs . . . . . . 209--221 Ji\vrí Matou\vsek Approximate Levels in Line Arrangements 222--227 Joseph JáJá and Shing-Chong Chang Parallel Algorithms for Channel Routing in the Knock-Knee Model . . . . . . . . 228--245 Ronald V. Book Some Observations on Separating Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 246--258 Herbert Edelsbrunner and Weiping Shi An $ O(n \log^2 h) $ time algorithm for the three-dimensional convex hull problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--269 Paul Beame A General Sequential Time-Space Tradeoff for Finding Unique Elements . . . . . . 270--277 Oscar H. Ibarra and Tao Jiang The Power of Alternating One-Reversal Counters and Stacks . . . . . . . . . . 278--290 Ron M. Roth and Gyora M. Benedek Interpolation and Approximation of Sparse Multivariate Polynomials over $ {\rm GF}(2) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--314 Yishay Mansour and Baruch Schieber and Prasoon Tiwari Lower Bounds for Computations with the Floor Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--327 B. K. Natarajan Probably Approximate Learning of Sets and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--351 Samir Khuller and Baruch Schieber Efficient parallel algorithms for testing $k$-connectivity and finding disjoint $s$-$t$ paths in graphs . . . . 352--375 Yehuda Afek and Eli Gafni Time and Message Bounds for Election in Synchronous and Asynchronous Complete Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--394 Peter Gritzmann and Laurent Habsieger and Victor Klee Good and Bad Radii of Convex Polygons 395--403 Jim Kadin Erratum: ``The polynomial time hierarchy collapses if the Boolean hierarchy collapses'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 17 (1988), no. 6, 1263--1282, MR 90a:03060] 404--404
Odile Marcotte and Subhash Suri Fast Matching Algorithms for Points on a Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--422 Ouri Wolfson and Adrian Segall The Communication Complexity of Atomic Commitment and of Gossiping . . . . . . 423--450 Ulrich Baum and Michael Clausen Some Lower and Upper Complexity Bounds for Generalized Fourier Transforms and Their Inverses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--459 János Pach and Micha Sharir On Vertical Visibility in Arrangements of Segments and the Queue Size in the Bentley--Ottmann Line Sweeping Algorithm 460--470 Mitsunori Ogiwara and Osamu Watanabe On Polynomial-Time Bounded Truth-Table Reducibility of NP Sets to Sparse Sets 471--483 Viliam Geffert Nondeterministic, Computations in Sublogarithmic Space and Space Constructibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--498 Uri Zwick A $ 4 n $ lower bound on the combinational complexity of certain symmetric Boolean functions over the basis of unate dyadic Boolean functions 499--505 Judy Goldsmith and Lane A. Hemachandra and Deborah Joseph and Paul Young Near-Testable Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 506--523 Andrew V. Goldberg and Michael Sipser Compression and Ranking . . . . . . . . 524--536 Wei Kuan Shih and Jane W. S. Liu and Jen-Yao Chung Algorithms for Scheduling Imprecise Computations with Timing Constraints . . 537--552 Peter Colte and Evangelos Kranakis Boolean Functions, Invariance Groups, and Parallel Complexity . . . . . . . . 553--590 Joachim von zur Gathen Tests for Permutation Polynomials . . . 591--602
Kurt Mehlhorn and Chee-Keng Yap Constructive Whitney--Graustein theorem, or how to untangle closed planar curves 603--621 Jian-er Chen and Chee-Keng Yap Reversal Complexity . . . . . . . . . . 622--638 Dan Gusfield Computing the Strength of a Graph . . . 639--654 Andrew Chi Chih Yao Lower Bounds for Algebraic Computation Trees of Functions with Finite Domains 655--668 Christophe Reutenauer and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Minimization of Rational Word Functions 669--685 Erich E. Sutter The fast $m$-transform: a fast computation of cross-correlations with binary $m$-sequences . . . . . . . . . . 686--694 Martin Dyer On Counting Lattice Points in Polyhedra 695--707 Roberto Tamassia and Jeffrey S. Vitter Parallel Transitive Closure and Point Location in Planar Structures . . . . . 708--725 Shun-Ping Chung and Keith W. Ross On Nonblocking Multirate Interconnection Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--736 Michael T. Goodrich Intersecting Line Segments in Parallel with an Output- Sensitive Number of Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--755 George I. Davida and Bruce Litow Fast Parallel Arithmetic via Modular Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--765 Don Pigozzi Equality-Test and If--Then--Else Algebras: Axiomatization and Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766--805
Claire M. Kenyon-Mathieu and Jeffrey Scott Vitter The Maximum Size of Dynamic Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--823 Miros\law Kuty\lowski Time complexity of Boolean functions on CREW PRAMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--833 Mee Yee Chan Embedding of Grids into Optimal Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834--864 Seinosuke Toda PP Is as Hard as the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--877 Nicholas Pippenger Selection Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 878--887 Subir Kumar Ghosh and David M. Mount An Output-Sensitive Algorithm for Computing Visibility Graphs . . . . . . 888--910 Ming Li and Paul M. B. Vitányi Learning Simple Concepts under Simple Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--935 Zhi-Quan Luo and John N. Tsitsiklis On the Communication Complexity of Solving a Polynomial Equation . . . . . 936--950 Joel Friedman The Spectra of Infinite Hypertrees . . . 951--961 Ker-I Ko On the Complexity of Learning Minimum Time-Bounded Turing Machines . . . . . . 962--986 Jan-Ming Ho and D. T. Lee and Chia-Hsiang Chang and C. K. Wong Minimum Diameter Spanning Trees and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 987--997 Susan Landau Erratum: ``Factoring polynomials over algebraic number fields'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 14 (1985), no. 1, 184--195, MR 86d:11102] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998--998
Noam Nisan CREW PRAMs and Decision Trees . . . . . 999--1007 Zvi Galil and Raffaele Giancarlo On the Exact Complexity of String Matching: Lower Bounds . . . . . . . . . 1008--1020 Roy S. Rubinstein Self-P-Printability and Polynomial Time Turing Equivalence to a Tally Set . . . 1021--1033 Hillel Gazit New Upper Bounds in Klee's Measure Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1045 Hillel Gazit An Optimal Randomized Parallel Algorithm for Finding Connected Components in a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1067 James L. Hafner and Kevin S. McCurley Asymptotically Fast Triangularization of Matrices over Rings . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1083 Manuel Blum and Alfredo De Santis and Silvio Micali and Giuseppe Persiano Noninteractive Zero-Knowledge . . . . . 1084--1118 John Franco Elimination of Infrequent Variables Improves Average Case Performance of Satisfiability Algorithms . . . . . . . 1119--1127 Gary L. Miller and John H. Reif Parallel Tree Contraction Part 2: Further Applications . . . . . . . . . . 1128--1147 Lane A. Hemachandra and Albrecht Hoene On Sets with Efficient Implicit Membership Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148--1156 Zvi Galil and Oded Margalit An Almost Linear-Time Algorithm for the Dense Subset-Sum Problem . . . . . . . . 1157--1189
Dan Halperin and Mark H. Overmars and Micha Sharir Efficient Motion Planning for an $ {L}$-Shaped Object . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 R. Baeza-Yates and R. Casas and J. Díaz and C. Martínez On the Average Size of the Intersection of Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--32 Jehoshua Bruck and Roman Smolensky Polynomial threshold functions, $ {\rm AC}^0 $ functions, and spectral norms 33--42 Mihály Geréb-Graus and Danny Krizanc The Average Complexity of Parallel Comparison Merging . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47 Luc Devroye and Wojciech Szpankowski and Bonita Rais A Note on the Height of Suffix Trees . . 48--53 Michael Ben-Or and Richard Cleve Computing Algebraic Formulas Using a Constant Number of Registers . . . . . . 54--58 Li-Hui Tsai Asymptotic Analysis of an Algorithm for Balanced Parallel Processor Scheduling 59--64 Bruce Hendrickson Conditions for Unique Graph Realizations 65--84 Susan Landau Simplification of Nested Radicals . . . 85--110 David W. Krumme and George Cybenko and K. N. Venkataraman Gossiping in Minimal Time . . . . . . . 111--139 Andrew V. Goldberg and Serge A. Plotkin and David B. Shmoys and Éva Tardos Using Interior-Point Methods for Fast Parallel Algorithms for Bipartite Matching and Related Problems . . . . . 140--150 Sandeep N. Bhatt and Fan R. K. Chung and F. Thomson Leighton and Arnold L. Rosenberg Efficient Embeddings of Trees in Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162 Timothy Law Snyder On the Exact Location of Steiner Points in General Dimension . . . . . . . . . . 163--180 Paul Fischer and Hans Ulrich Simon On Learning Ring-Sum-Expansions . . . . 181--192 Nathan Linial Locality in Distributed Graph Algorithms 193--201
Thang Nguyen Bui and Andrew Peck Partitioning Planar Graphs . . . . . . . 203--215 Wen-Guey Tzeng A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for the Equivalence of Probabilistic Automata 216--227 A. J. Menezes and P. C. van Oorschot and S. A. Vanstone Subgroup Refinement Algorithms for Root Finding in $ {\rm GF}(q) $ . . . . . . . 228--239 David Helmbold and Robert Sloan and Manfred K. Warmuth Learning Integer Lattices . . . . . . . 240--266 Franco P. Preparata and Roberto Tamassia Efficient Point Location in a Convex Spatial Cell-Complex . . . . . . . . . . 267--280 Qingzhou Wang and Kam-Hoi Cheng A Heuristic of Scheduling Parallel Tasks and Its Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--294 Pang C. Chen Heuristic Sampling: a Method for Predicting the Performance of Tree Searching Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 295--315 Seinosuke Toda and Mitsunori Ogiwara Counting Classes Are at Least as Hard as the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy . . . . . 316--328 Yossi Azar Lower Bounds for Threshold and Symmetric Functions in Parallel Computation . . . 329--338 Chanderjit L. Bajaj and Tamal K. Dey Convex Decomposition of Polyhedra and Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--364 David W. Krumme Fast Gossiping for the Hypercube . . . . 365--380 Beverly Jamison and Stephan Olariu Recognizing $ {P}_4 $-Sparse Graphs in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--406
Zvi Galil and Raffaele Giancarlo On the Exact Complexity of String Matching: Upper Bounds . . . . . . . . . 407--437 B. K. Natarajan Probably Approximate Learning over Classes of Distributions . . . . . . . . 438--449 Christos H. Papadimitriou The Complexity of the Lin--Kernighan Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--465 John H. Reif and Sandeep Sen Optimal Parallel Randomized Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Convex Hulls and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--485 Samir Khuller and Stephen G. Mitchell and Vijay V. Vazirani Processor Efficient Parallel Algorithms for the Two Disjoint Paths Problem and for Finding a Kuratowski Homeomorph . . 486--506 R. W. Gatterdam Algorithms for Splicing Systems . . . . 507--520 Eric Allender and Lane A. Hemachandra and Mitsunori Ogiwara and Osamu Watanabe Relating Equivalence and Reducibility to Sparse Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--539 Pankaj K. Agarwal Ray Shooting and Other Applications of Spanning Trees with Low Stabbing Number 540--570 Jarkko Kari The Nilpotency Problem of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata . . . 571--586 Qian Ping Gu and Akira Maruoka Learning Monotone Boolean Functions by Uniformly Distributed Examples . . . . . 587--599
Elefterios A. Melissaratos and Diane L. Souvaine Shortest Paths Help Solve Geometric Optimization Problems in Planar Regions 601--638 F. T. Leighton and Mark J. Newman and Abhiram G. Ranade and Eric J. Schwabe Dynamic Tree Embeddings in Butterflies and Hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639--654 H. Venkateswaran Circuit Definitions of Nondeterministic Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 655--670 Bernard Chazelle An Optimal Algorithm for Intersecting Three-Dimensional Convex Polyhedra . . . 671--696 Ming Li and Luc Longpré and Paul Vitányi The Power of the Queue . . . . . . . . . 697--712 David Aldous and Micha Hofri and Wojciech Szpankowski Maximum Size of a Dynamic Data Structure: Hashing with Lazy Deletion Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--732 K. Ganesan and Steven Homer Complete Problems and Strong Polynomial Reducibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--742 Richard Chang On the Structure of Bounded Queries to Arbitrary NP Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 743--754 S. Buss and S. Cook and A. Gupta and V. Ramachandran An Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Formula Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . 755--780 Dario Bini and Luca Gemignani On the Complexity of Polynomial Zeros 781--799
Richard Koch Increasing the Size of a Network by a Constant Factor Can Increase Performance by More Than a Constant Factor . . . . . 801--823 Lin Yu and Daniel J. Rosenkrantz Representability of Design Objects by Ancestor-Controlled Hierarchical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--855 Dany Breslauer and Zvi Galil A Lower Bound for Parallel String Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856--862 Ichiro Suzuki and Masafumi Yamashita Searching for a Mobile Intruder in a Polygonal Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 863--888 Danny Dolev and Tomás Feder Determinism vs. Nondeterminism in Multiparty Communication Complexity . . 889--895 John H. Reif and Stephen R. Tate On Threshold Circuits and Polynomial Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--908 Bettina Just Generalizing the Continued Fraction Algorithm to Arbitrary Dimensions . . . 909--926 Lenwood S. Heath and Arnold L. Rosenberg Laying Out Graphs Using Queues . . . . . 927--958 Michael C. Loui and David R. Luginbuhl Optimal On-Line Simulations of Tree Machines by Random Access Machines . . . 959--971 Siu Wing Cheng and Ravi Janardan New Results on Dynamic Planar Point Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--999 Egon Balas and Jue Xue Addendum: ``Minimum weighted coloring of triangulated graphs, with application to maximum weight vertex packing and clique finding in arbitrary graphs'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 20 (1991), no. 2, 209--221, MR 92h:68069] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000--1000
D. Z. Du and F. K. Hwang Reducing the Steiner Problem in a Normed Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001--1007 James Renegar On the Computational Complexity of Approximating Solutions for Real Algebraic Formulae . . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1025 Wei Kuan Shih and T. C. Chern and Wen-Lian Hsu An $ O(n^2 \log n) $ algorithm for the Hamiltonian cycle problem on circular-arc graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1046 Zvi Galil and Giuseppe F. Italiano Fully Dynamic Algorithms for $2$-Edge Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047--1069 Charles Martel and Arvin Park and Ramesh Subramonian Work-Optimal Asynchronous Algorithms for Shared Memory Parallel Computers . . . . 1070--1099 Jie Wang Polynomial Time Productivity, Approximations, and Levelability . . . . 1100--1111 Wolfgang W. Bein and Jerzy Kamburowski and Matthias F. M. Stallmann Optimal Reduction of Two-Terminal Directed Acyclic Graphs . . . . . . . . 1112--1129 Greg N. Frederickson and D. J. Guan Preemptive Ensemble Motion Planning on a Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1152 Martin Tompa Lower Bounds on Universal Traversal Sequences for Cycles and Other Low Degree Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153--1160 Stephen Bellantoni and Toniann Pitassi and Alasdair Urquhart Approximation and Small-Depth Frege Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161--1179 Helmut Prodinger External Internal Nodes in Digital Search Trees via Mellin Transforms . . . 1180--1183 Brandon Dixon and Monika Rauch and Robert E. Tarjan Verification and Sensitivity Analysis of Minimum Spanning Trees in Linear Time 1184--1192 Mohammad Amin Shokrollahi Optimal Algorithms for Multiplication in Certain Finite Fields Using Elliptic Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1198
Amos Fiat and Moni Naor Implicit $ O(1) $ Probe Search . . . . . 1--10 Zvi Galil and Giuseppe F. Italiano Maintaining the $3$-Edge-Connected Components of a Graph On-Line . . . . . 11--28 Héctor J. Hernández and Ke Wang On the Boundedness of Constant-Time-Maintainable Database Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45 Weizhen Mao Tight worst-case performance bounds for Next-$k$-Fit bin packing . . . . . . . . 46--56 Greg N. Frederickson A Note on the Complexity of a Simple Transportation Problem . . . . . . . . . 57--61 Robert Cypher A Lower Bound on the Size of Shellsort Sorting Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--71 Joel Friedman A Note on Poset Geometries . . . . . . . 72--78 Sukhamay Kundu An $ O(n) $ algorithm for determining the subregion-tree representation of a rectangular dissection . . . . . . . . . 79--101 Viliam Geffert Tally versions of the Savitch and Immerman--Szelepcsényi theorems for sublogarithmic space . . . . . . . . . . 102--113 Michio Oyamaguchi NV-sequentiality: a decidable condition for call-by-need computations in term-rewriting systems . . . . . . . . . 114--135 Kazuo Iwama $ {\text {ASPACE}}(o(\log \log n)) $ is Regular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--146 Peter Bro Miltersen The Complexity of Malign Measures . . . 147--156 Joseph Cheriyan and Ming-Yang Kao and Ramakrishna Thurimella Scan-first search and sparse certificates: an improved parallel algorithm for $k$-vertex connectivity 157--174 Andreas Weber Decomposing Finite-Valued Transducers and Deciding Their Equivalence . . . . . 175--202 Jan Kratochvíl and Petr Savický and Zsolt Tuza One More Occurrence of Variables Makes Satisfiability Jump from Trivial to NP-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210 Noam Nisan and Avi Wigderson Rounds in Communication Complexity Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
Omer Berkman and Uzi Vishkin Recursive Star-Tree Parallel Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--242 Jorma Tarhio and Esko Ukkonen Approximate Boyer--Moore String Matching 243--260 Wenceslas Fernandez de la Vega and Sampath Kannan and Miklós Sántha Two Probabilistic Results on Merging . . 261--271 Wayne Goddard and Claire Kenyon and Valerie King and Leonard J. Schulman Optimal Randomized Algorithms for Local Sorting and Set-Maxima . . . . . . . . . 272--283 N. Karmarkar and R. Karp and R. Lipton and L. Lovász and M. Luby A Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Estimating the Permanent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--293 Miklós Sántha and Christopher Wilson Limiting Negations in Constant Depth Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--302 Khaled M. Bugrara and Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. Average Time Analysis of Clause Order Backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--317 Chanderjit Bajaj and John Canny and Thomas Garrity and Joe Warren Factoring Rational Polynomials over the Complex Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--331 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Leopold Flatto and Paul E. Wright Optimal Stochastic Allocation of Machines under Waiting-Time Constraints 332--348 Gábor Galambos and Gerhard J. Woeginger An On-Line Scheduling Heuristic with Better Worst Case Ratio Than Graham's List Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--355 Robert Cypher Theoretical Aspects of VLSI Pin Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--378 Shlomo Moran and Manfred K. Warmuth Gap Theorems for Distributed Computation 379--394 Ronald V. Book and Jack H. Lutz On Languages With Very High Space-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity . . 395--402 Noga Alon and Moni Naor Coin-Flipping Games Immune against Linear-Sized Coalitions . . . . . . . . 403--417 Herbert Edelsbrunner and Raimund Seidel and Micha Sharir On the Zone Theorem for Hyperplane Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--429
Ming-Yang Kao Linear-processor NC algorithms for planar directed graphs. I. Strongly connected components . . . . . . . . . . 431--459 Ming-Yang Kao and Gregory E. Shannon Linear-processor NC algorithms for planar directed graphs. II. Directed spanning trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--481 Daniel Bienstock and Nicole Diaz Blocking Small Cuts in a Network, and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--499 Kok-Hoo Yeap and Majid Sarrafzadeh Floor-Planning by Graph Dualization: $2$-Concave Rectilinear Modules . . . . 500--526 Herbert Edelsbrunner and Tiow Seng Tan A Quadratic Time Algorithm for the Minmax Length Triangulation . . . . . . 527--551 K. Kalorkoti Inverting Polynomials and Formal Power Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552--559 Jonathan F. Buss and Judy Goldsmith Nondeterminism within $ P^* $ . . . . . 560--572 Lefteris M. Kirousis and Maria Serna and Paul Spirakis Parallel Complexity of the Connected Subgraph Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--586 Donald Fussell and Vijaya Ramachandran and Ramakrishna Thurimella Finding Triconnected Components by Local Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--616 Dario Bini and Victor Pan Improved Parallel Polynomial Division 617--626 Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and Harry B. Hunt, III The Complexity of Processing Hierarchical Specifications . . . . . . 627--649 E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Leopold Flatto and Paul E. Wright A Stochastic Checkpoint Optimization Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--659
Andreas Goerdt Regular Resolution Versus Unrestricted Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--683 H. Niederreiter and C. P. Schnorr Local Randomness in Polynomial Random Number and Random Function Generators 684--694 A. Dür and J. Grabmeier Applying Coding Theory to Sparse Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--704 Sally A. Goldman and Michael J. Kearns and Robert E. Schapire Exact Identification of Read-Once Formulas Using Fixed Points of Amplification Functions . . . . . . . . 705--726 Louise E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith and Vivek Agrawala Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Total Ordering Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 727--750 Arthur S. Goldstein and Edward M. Reingold A Fibonacci Version of Kraft's Inequality Applied to Discrete Unimodal Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--777 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Marco Pellegrini and Micha Sharir Counting Circular Arc Intersections . . 778--793 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Ji\vrí Matou\vsek Ray Shooting and Parametric Search . . . 794--806 Michael Kearns and Ming Li Learning in the Presence of Malicious Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--837 Joseph Naor and Moni Naor Small-Bias Probability Spaces: Efficient Constructions and Applications . . . . . 838--856 David Harel and Danny Raz Deciding Properties of Nonregular Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--874 Reuven Bar-Yehuda and Amos Israeli and Alon Itai Multiple Communication in Multihop Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--887
Tsan-Sheng Hsu and Vijaya Ramachandran Finding a Smallest Augmentation to Biconnect a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . 889--912 Bernd Halstenberg and Rüdiger Reischuk Different Modes of Communication . . . . 913--934 Udi Manber and Gene Myers Suffix Arrays: a New Method for On-Line String Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--948 Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich Randomizing Reductions of Search Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--975 Ruey-Der Lou and Majid Sarrafzadeh An Optimal Algorithm for the Maximum Three-Chain Problem . . . . . . . . . . 976--993 Joan Feigenbaum and Lance Fortnow Random-Self-Reducibility of Complete Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--1005 Sally A. Goldman and Ronald L. Rivest and Robert E. Schapire Learning Binary Relations and Total Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1034 M. Formann and T. Hagerup and J. Haralambides and M. Kaufmann and F. T. Leighton and A. Symvonis and E. Welzl and G. Woeginger Drawing Graphs in the Plane with High Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1052 Béla Bollobás and Istvan Simon Probabilistic Analysis of Disjoint Set Union Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053--1074 Jack H. Lutz A Pseudorandom Oracle Characterization of $ {\text {BPP}} $ . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1086 Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithms for the Ising Model . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1116
Tao Jiang and B. Ravikumar Minimal NFA Problems Are Hard . . . . . 1117--1141 Jiazhen Cai and Xiaofeng Han and Robert E. Tarjan An $ O(m \log n) $-time algorithm for the maximal planar subgraph problem . . 1142--1162 Oded Goldreich and Hugo Krawczyk and Michael Luby On the Existence of Pseudorandom Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163--1175 Wojciech Szpankowski A Generalized Suffix Tree and Its (Un)Expected Asymptotic Behaviors . . . 1176--1198 David R. Karger and Daphne Koller and Steven J. Phillips Finding the Hidden Path: Time Bounds for All-Pairs Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . 1199--1217 Xin He On Finding the Rectangular Duals of Planar Triangular Graphs . . . . . . . . 1218--1226 Victor Pan and John Reif Fast and Efficient Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . 1227--1250 WanSoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand On-Line Bin Packing of Items of Random Sizes, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251--1256 Ricard Gavald\`a and Osamu Watanabe On the Computational Complexity of Small Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257--1275 Marek Karpi\'nski and Thorsten Werther VC Dimension and Uniform Learnability of Sparse Polynomials and Rational Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276--1285 Bernard Chazelle and Herbert Edelsbrunner and Leonidas Guibas and Micha Sharir and Jack Snoeyink Computing a Face in an Arrangement of Line Segments and Related Problems . . . 1286--1302 Bo Chen A Better Heuristic for Preemptive Parallel Machine Scheduling with Batch Setup Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303--1318 Jiang-Hsing Chu and Gary D. Knott A New Method for Computing Page-Fault Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1330 Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour Learning Decision Trees Using the Fourier Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1348 Richard Cole Correction: ``Parallel merge sort'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 17 (1988), no. 4, 770--785, MR 89m:68015] . . . . . . . . 1349--1349
Dima Grigoriev and Marek Karpinski and Michael F. Singer Computational Complexity of Sparse Rational Interpolation . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Alfredo De Santis and Giuseppe Persiano Tight Upper and Lower Bounds on the Path Length of Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . 12--23 Rajamani Sundar and Robert E. Tarjan Unique Binary-Search-Tree Representations and Equality Testing of Sets and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 24--44 E. Boros and Y. Crama and P. L. Hammer and M. Saks A Complexity Index for Satisfiability Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--49 Alberto Apostolico and Giuseppe F. Italiano and Giorgio Gambosi and Maurizio Talamo The Set Union Problem with Unlimited Backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--70 David Kuo and Gerard J. Chang The Profile Minimization Problem in Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81 D.-Z. Du and G.-L. Xue and S.-Z. Sun and S.-W. Cheng Modifications of Competitive Group Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--96 Mihir Bellare and Shafi Goldwasser The Complexity of Decision Versus Search 97--119 John Shawe-Taylor and Toma\vz Pisanski Homeomorphism of $2$-Complexes is Graph Isomorphism Complete . . . . . . . . . . 120--132 Marco Pellegrini On Collision-Free Placements of Simplices and the Closest Pair of Lines in $3$-Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--153 Ji\vrí Matou\vsek and János Pach and Micha Sharir and Shmuel Sifrony and Emo Welzl Fat Triangles Determine Linearly Many Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--169 Robert W. Irving and Mark R. Jerrum Three-dimensional Statistical Data Security Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 170--184 Greg N. Frederickson and Susan H. Rodger An NC Algorithm for Scheduling Unit-Time Jobs with Arbitrary Release Times and Deadlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--211 Jean-Claude Bermond and Pierre Fraigniaud Broadcasting and Gossiping in de Bruijn Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--225
Michael Kaufmann and Kurt Mehlhorn A Linear-Time Algorithm for the Homotopic Routing Problem in Grid Graphs 227--246 Eberhard Triesch Some Results on Elusive Graph Properties 247--254 Bin Fu and Hong Zhou Li Closeness of NP-Hard Sets to Other Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260 Johannes Köbler and Thomas Thierauf Complexity-Restricted Advice Functions 261--275 Kieran T. Herley and Gianfranco Bilardi Deterministic Simulations of PRAMs on Bounded Degree Networks . . . . . . . . 276--292 Howard Karloff and Yuval Rabani and Yiftach Ravid Lower bounds for randomized $k$-server and motion-planning algorithms . . . . . 293--312 Amihood Amir and Gary Benson and Martin Farach An Alphabet Independent Approach to Two-Dimensional Pattern Matching . . . . 313--323 Andrei Z. Broder and Anna R. Karlin and Prabhakar Raghavan and Eli Upfal Trading space for time in undirected $s$-$t$ connectivity . . . . . . . . . . 324--334 Soma Chaudhuri and Jennifer L. Welch Bounds on the Costs of Multivalued Register Implementations . . . . . . . . 335--354 A. Bagchi and E. F. Schmeichel and S. L. Hakimi Parallel Information Dissemination by Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--372 Gara Pruesse and Frank Ruskey Generating Linear Extensions Fast . . . 373--386 H. Narayanan and Huzur Saran and Vijay V. Vazirani Randomized Parallel Algorithms for Matroid Union and Intersection, with Applications to Arborescences and Edge-Disjoint Spanning Trees . . . . . . 387--397 R. Swaminathan and Donald K. Wagner On the Consecutive-Retrieval Problem . . 398--414 Myong-Hi Kim and Scott Sutherland Polynomial Root-Finding Algorithms and Branched Covers . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--436 Mark de Berg and Mark Overmars and Otfried Schwarzkopf Computing and Verifying Depth Orders . . 437--446 John H. Reif and Sandeep Sen Erratum: ``Optimal parallel randomized algorithms for three-dimensional convex hulls and related problems'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 21 (1992), no. 3, 466--485, MR 93f:68038] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Omer Berkman and Joseph Ja'Ja' and Sridhar Krishnamurthy and Ramakrishna Thurimella and Uzi Vishkin Top-Bottom Routing Around a Rectangle is as Easy as Computing Prefix Minima . . . 449--465 Philip Klein and Serge Plotkin and Clifford Stein and Éva Tardos Faster Approximation Algorithms for the Unit Capacity Concurrent Flow Problem With Applications to Routing and Finding Sparse Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--487 Ming-Jye Sheu and Timothy J. Long The Extended Low Hierarchy Is an Infinite Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . 488--509 Donald B. Johnson and Larry Raab Complexity of Network Reliability and Optimal Resource Placement Problems . . 510--519 Jitender S. Deogun and George Steiner Polynomial Algorithms for Hamiltonian Cycle in Cocomparability Graphs . . . . 520--552 Victor Pestien and S. Ramakrishnan and Dilip Sarkar Packet Transmission in a Noisy-Channel Ring Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--562 Jin-Yi Cai and Richard J. Lipton Subquadratic Simulations of Balanced Formulae by Branching Programs . . . . . 563--572 Étienne Grandjean Linear Time Algorithms and NP-Complete Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--597 Peter Kirschenhofer and Helmut Prodinger and Wojciech Szpankowski Digital Search Trees Again Revisited: The Internal Path Length Perspective . . 598--616 David B. Shmoys and Clifford Stein and Joel Wein Improved Approximation Algorithms for Shop Scheduling Problems . . . . . . . . 617--632 John H. Reif and Sandeep Sen Randomized Algorithms for Binary Search and Load Balancing on Fixed Connection Networks with Geometric Applications . . 633--651 Paul Beame and Martin Tompa and Peiyuan Yan Communication-Space Tradeoffs for Unrestricted Protocols . . . . . . . . . 652--661 Bertrand Braschi and Denis Trystram A New Insight into the Coffman--Graham Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--669
Ashok Subramanian A New Approach to Stable Matching Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--700 Benny Chor and Amos Israeli and Ming Li Wait-Free Consensus Using Asynchronous Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--712 Sampath K. Kannan and Tandy J. Warnow Inferring Evolutionary History From DNA Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--737 Martin Dietzfelbinger and Anna Karlin and Kurt Mehlhorn and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Hans Rohnert and Robert E. Tarjan Dynamic Perfect Hashing: Upper and Lower Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--761 Jack H. Lutz and Elvira Mayordomo Measure, Stochasticity, and the Density of Hard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 762--779 Alexander Schrijver Finding $k$ disjoint paths in a directed planar graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780--788 Karel Culik, II and Juhani Karhumäki Finite Automata Computing Real Functions 789--814 Nader H. Bshouty On the Complexity of Bilinear Forms Over Associative Algebras . . . . . . . . . . 815--833 Prakash Ramanan A New Lower Bound Technique and its Application: Tight Lower Bound for a Polygon Triangulation Problem . . . . . 834--851 Luca Aceto On ``Axiomatising Finite Concurrent Processes'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--863 E. Dahlhaus and D. S. Johnson and C. H. Papadimitriou and P. D. Seymour and M. Yannakakis The Complexity of Multiterminal Cuts . . 864--894
A. Das and K. Thulasiraman and V. K. Agarwal Diagnosis of $ t / (t + 1) $-Diagnosable Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--905 Ravindra K. Ahuja and James B. Orlin and Clifford Stein and Robert E. Tarjan Improved Algorithms for Bipartite Network Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--933 V. Y. Pan New Resultant Inequalities and Complex Polynomial Factorization . . . . . . . . 934--950 Jeffery Westbrook Randomized Algorithms for Multiprocessor Page Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--965 Andrew Chi Chih Yao Near-Optimal Time-Space Tradeoff for Element Distinctness . . . . . . . . . . 966--975 Andrei Z. Broder and Alan M. Frieze and Eli Upfal Existence and Construction of Edge-Disjoint Paths on Expander Graphs 976--989 Avrim L. Blum Separating Distribution-Free and Mistake-Bound Learning Models Over the Boolean Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 990--1000 Uriel Feige and Prabhakar Raghavan and David Peleg and Eli Upfal Computing with Noisy Information . . . . 1001--1018 Ding Zhu Du and Haesun Park On Competitive Group Testing . . . . . . 1019--1025 Eric Allender and Vivek Gore A Uniform Circuit Lower Bound For the Permanent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1049 William Lew and Hosam M. Mahmoud The Joint Distribution of Elastic Buckets in Multiway Search Trees . . . . 1050--1074 Richard Cole Tight Bounds on the Complexity of the Boyer--Moore String Matching Algorithm 1075--1091
Marc Gyssens and Jan Paredaens and Dirk Van Gucht A Grammar-Based Approach Towards Unifying Hierarchical Data Models . . . 1093--1137 Bernard Chazelle and Herbert Edelsbrunner and Leonidas J. Guibas and John E. Hershberger and Raimund Seidel and Micha Sharir Selecting Heavily Covered Points . . . . 1138--1151 Yehuda Afek and Eli Gafni Distributed Algorithms For Unidirectional Networks . . . . . . . . 1152--1178 Dorit S. Hochbaum and Joseph (Seffi) Naor Simple and Fast Algorithms for Linear and Integer Programs with Two Variables Per Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1192 Sam M. Kim and Robert McNaughton Computing the Order of a Locally Testable Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1215 Richa Agarwala and David Fernández-Baca A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for the Perfect Phylogeny Problem When the Number of Character States is Fixed . . 1216--1224 M. D. Atkinson and Robert Beals Priority Queues and Permutations . . . . 1225--1230 Naomi Nishimura A Model for Asynchronous Shared Memory Parallel Computation . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1252 Shiva Chaudhuri Tight Bounds on Oblivious Chaining . . . 1253--1265 Robert Cypher and Luis Gravano Requirements for Deadlock-Free, Adaptive Packet Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266--1274 Ronald V. Book On Languages Reducible to Algorithmically Random Languages . . . . 1275--1282 Lawrence L. Larmore and Teresa M. Przytycka A Fast Algorithm for Optimum Height-Limited Alphabetic Binary Trees 1283--1312 Edith Cohen and Nimrod Megiddo Improved Algorithms for Linear Inequalities with Two Variables Per Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313--1347
Anonymous In Memoriam: Eugene L. Lawler . . . . . 1--2 Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich Matrix Transformation Is Complete for the Average Case . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan and Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick Tighter Lower Bounds on the Exact Complexity of String Matching . . . . . 30--45 Ming-Yang Kao Planar Strong Connectivity Helps in Parallel Depth-First Search . . . . . . 46--62 Dario Bini and Luca Gemignani Fast Parallel Computation of the Polynomial Remainder Sequence Via Bézout and Hankel Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 63--77 Noga Alon and Richard M. Karp and David Peleg and Douglas West A graph-theoretic game and its application to the $k$-server problem 78--100 Huzur Saran and Vijay V. Vazirani Finding $k$ Cuts within Twice the Optimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108 Maria Luisa Bonet and Samuel R. Buss The Serial Transitive Closure Problem for Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--122 Oscar H. Ibarra and Tao Jiang and Nicholas Tran and Hui Wang New Decidability Results Concerning Two-Way Counter Machines . . . . . . . . 123--137 Yanjun Zhang On the optimality of randomized $ \alpha $-$ \beta $ search . . . . . . . . . . . 138--147 Israel Cidon and Shay Kutten and Yishay Mansour and David Peleg Greedy Packet Scheduling . . . . . . . . 148--157 Moni Naor and Ron M. Roth Optimal File Sharing in Distributed Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--183 Paul J. Heffernan and Joseph S. B. Mitchell An Optimal Algorithm for Computing Visibility in the Plane . . . . . . . . 184--201
Joseph Cheriyan and Torben Hagerup A Randomized Maximum-Flow Algorithm . . 203--226 B. K. Natarajan Sparse Approximate Solutions to Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234 Qingzhou Wang and Ernst L. Leiss A Heuristic Scheduling of Independent Tasks with Bottleneck Resource Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--241 Dima Grigoriev and Michael Singer and Andrew Yao On Computing Algebraic Functions Using Logarithms and Exponentials . . . . . . 242--246 Sanjiv Kapoor and H. Ramesh Algorithms for Enumerating All Spanning Trees of Undirected and Weighted Graphs 247--265 Faith E. Fich and J. Ian Munro and Patricio V. Poblete Permuting In Place . . . . . . . . . . . 266--278 David W. Juedes and Jack H. Lutz The Complexity and Distribution of Hard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295 Michel X. Goemans and David P. Williamson A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems . . . . . . 296--317 Gilad Koren and Dennis Shasha $ \text {D}^{\textit {over}} $: An Optimal On-Line Scheduling Algorithm for Overloaded Uniprocessor Real-Time Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--339 Pekka Kilpeläinen and Heikki Mannila Ordered and Unordered Tree Inclusion . . 340--356 Yishay Mansour Randomized Interpolation and Approximation of Sparse Polynomials . . 357--368 A. L. Delcher and S. Rao Kosaraju An $ \mathcal {NC} $ Algorithm for Evaluating Monotone Planar Circuits . . 369--375 Benny Chor and Mihály Geréb-Graus and Eyal Kushilevitz Private Computations Over the Integers 376--386 Y. N. Lakshman and B. David Saunders Sparse Polynomial Interpolation in Nonstandard Bases . . . . . . . . . . . 387--397 Ming Li and Paul Vitányi A New Approach to Formal Language Theory by Kolmogorov Complexity . . . . . . . . 398--410
Wen Lian Hsu $ O(M \cdot N) $ algorithms for the recognition and isomorphism problems on circular-arc graphs . . . . . . . . . . 411--439 Ajit Agrawal and Philip Klein and R. Ravi When trees collide: an approximation algorithm for the generalized Steiner problem on networks . . . . . . . . . . 440--456 Chung-Do Yang and D. T. Lee and C. K. Wong Rectilinear Path Problems among Rectilinear Obstacles Revisited . . . . 457--472 Jürg Ganz Evaluation of Polynomials Using the Structure of the Coefficients . . . . . 473--483 Alan Frieze and Richard M. Karp and Bruce Reed When Is the Assignment Bound Tight for the Asymmetric Traveling-Salesman Problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--493 Andrew V. Goldberg Scaling Algorithms for the Shortest Paths Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--504 András A. Benczúr Counterexamples for Directed and Node Capacitated Cut-Trees . . . . . . . . . 505--510 Sampath K. Kannan and Tandy J. Warnow Tree Reconstruction from Partial Orders 511--519 Raffaele Giancarlo A Generalization of the Suffix Tree to Square Matrices, with Applications . . . 520--562 Takeshi Tokuyama and Jun Nakano Efficient Algorithms for the Hitchcock Transportation Problem . . . . . . . . . 563--578 Edith Cohen Approximate Max-Flow on Small Depth Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--597 Richard A. Duke and Hanno Lefmann and Vojt\vech Rödl A Fast Approximation Algorithm for Computing the Frequencies of Subgraphs in a Given Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 598--620 Henri-M. Méjean and Henri Morel and Gérard Reynaud A Variational Method for Analysing Unit Clause Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--649 Ioannis Z. Emiris and John F. Canny A General Approach to Removing Degeneracies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650--664 Timothy Law Snyder and J. Michael Steele A Priori Bounds on the Euclidean Traveling Salesman . . . . . . . . . . . 665--671
Harry Buhrman and Edith Hemaspaandra and Luc Longpré SPARSE Reduces Conjunctively to TALLY 673--681 Nader H. Bshouty and Richard Cleve and Wayne Eberly Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Algebraic Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--705 Nader H. Bshouty and Thomas R. Hancock and Lisa Hellerstein Learning Arithmetic Read-Once Formulas 706--735 Tomás Feder and Eyal Kushilevitz and Moni Naor and Noam Nisan Amortized Communication Complexity . . . 736--750 Håkan Lennerstad and Lars Lundberg An Optimal Execution Time Estimate of Static Versus Dynamic Allocation in Multiprocessor Systems . . . . . . . . . 751--764 Kazuo Murota Computing the Degree of Determinants Via Combinatorial Relaxation . . . . . . . . 765--796 Donald W. Gillies and Jane W.-S. Liu Scheduling Tasks with AND/OR Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--810 Victor Y. Pan and Franco P. Preparata Work-Preserving Speed-Up of Parallel Matrix Computations . . . . . . . . . . 811--821 Svatopluk Poljak Integer Linear Programs and Local Search for Max-Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822--839 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Riccardo Silvestri Easily Checked Generalized Self-Reducibility . . . . . . . . . . . 840--858 Samir Khuller and Balaji Raghavachari and Neal Young Approximating the Minimum Equivalent Digraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--872 Rod G. Downey and Michael R. Fellows Fixed-parameter tractability and completeness. I. Basic results . . . . . 873--921
Arthur W. Chou and Ker-I Ko Computational Complexity of Two-Dimensional Regions . . . . . . . . 923--947 Mark Giesbrecht Nearly Optimal Algorithms For Canonical Matrix Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--969 Robert F. Cohen and Giuseppe Di Battista and Roberto Tamassia and Ioannis G. Tollis Dynamic Graph Drawings: Trees, Series-Parallel Digraphs, and Planar ST-Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970--1001 Gary L. Miller and Joseph (Seffi) Naor Flow in Planar Graphs with Multiple Sources and Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . 1002--1017 Bernd Gärtner A Subexponential Algorithm for Abstract Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . 1018--1035 Suresh Chari and Pankaj Rohatgi and Aravind Srinivasan Randomness-Optimal Unique Element Isolation with Applications to Perfect Matching and Related Problems . . . . . 1036--1050 Franz Höfting and Egon Wanke Minimum Cost Paths in Periodic Graphs 1051--1067 Mitsunori Ogihara Polynomial-Time Membership Comparable Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1081 Bin Fu With Quasilinear Queries EXP Is Not Polynomial Time Turing Reducible to Sparse Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1082--1090 Arne Andersson and Thomas Ottmann New Tight Bounds on Uniquely Represented Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1103 Ching-Chih Han and Kwei-Jay Lin and Jane W.-S. Liu Scheduling Jobs with Temporal Distance Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104--1121 Tao Jiang and Ming Li On the Approximation of Shortest Common Supersequences and Longest Common Subsequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1139
Luc Devroye and John Michael Robson On the Generation of Random Binary Search Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1156 Luc Devroye and Bruce Reed On the Variance of the Height of Random Binary Search Trees . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1162 Lawrence L. Larmore and Teresa M. Przytycka Constructing Huffman Trees in Parallel 1163--1169 Jack H. Lutz Weakly Hard Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1170--1189 Adam L. Buchsbaum and Rajamani Sundar and Robert E. Tarjan Data-Structural Bootstrapping, Linear Path Compression, and Catenable Heap-Ordered Double-Ended Queues . . . . 1190--1206 R. C. Sekar and R. Ramesh and I. V. Ramakrishnan Adaptive Pattern Matching . . . . . . . 1207--1234 Alberto O. Mendelzon and Peter T. Wood Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1258 Moni Naor and Larry Stockmeyer What Can Be Computed Locally? . . . . . 1259--1277 Thomas Eiter and Georg Gottlob Identifying the Minimal Transversals of a Hypergraph and Related Problems . . . 1278--1304 K. Kalorkoti On the Reuse of Additions in Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1312 David B. Shmoys and Joel Wein and David P. Williamson Scheduling Parallel Machines On-Line . . 1313--1331 Xiaofeng Han and Pierre Kelsen and Vijaya Ramachandran and Robert Tarjan Computing Minimal Spanning Subgraphs in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1358
Adam J. Grove and Joseph Y. Halpern and Daphne Koller Asymptotic Conditional Probabilities: The Unary Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--51 Yijie Han A Fast Derandomization Scheme and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--82 Richa Agarwala and David Fernández-Baca Weighted Multidimensional Search and Its Application to Convex Optimization . . . 83--99 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Micha Sharir Ray Shooting amidst Convex Polyhedra and Polyhedral Terrains in Three Dimensions 100--116 B. M. Kapron and S. A. Cook A new Characterization of Type-$2$ Feasibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132 Kenneth W. Regan Linear Time and Memory-Efficient Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--168 Oded Goldreich and Hugo Krawczyk On the Composition of Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--192 Stephen Fenner and Lance Fortnow and Stuart A. Kurtz The Isomorphism Conjecture Holds Relative to an Oracle . . . . . . . . . 193--206 Yi-Jen Chiang and Franco P. Preparata and Roberto Tamassia A Unified Approach to Dynamic Point Location, Ray Shooting, and Shortest Paths in Planar Maps . . . . . . . . . . 207--233
Naveen Garg and Vijay V. Vazirani and Mihalis Yannakakis Approximate Max-Flow Min-(Multi)Cut Theorems and Their Applications . . . . 235--251 Ronitt Rubinfeld and Madhu Sudan Robust Characterizations of Polynomials with Applications to Program Testing . . 252--271 Vineet Bafna and Pavel A. Pevzner Genome Rearrangements and Sorting by Reversals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--289 A. Satyanarayana and R. K. Wood and L. Camarinopoulos and G. Pampoukis Note on: ``A linear-time algorithm for computing $K$-terminal reliability in series-parallel networks'' [SIAM J. Comput. 14 (1985), no. 4, 818--832, MR 86m:90069] by Satyanarayana and Wood . . 290--290 Michael D. Hutton and Anna Lubiw Upward planar drawing of single-source acyclic digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--311 Vijaya Ramachandran and Honghua Yang An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for the General Planar Monotone Circuit Value Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--339 Richard Chang and Jim Kadin The Boolean Hierarchy and the Polynomial Hierarchy: a Closer Connection . . . . . 340--354 Samir Khuller and Balaji Raghavachari and Neal Young Low-Degree Spanning Trees of Small Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--368 Hagit Attiya and Amir Herzberg and Sergio Rajsbaum Optimal Clock Synchronization under Different Delay Assumptions . . . . . . 369--389 Xiaotie Deng and Pavol Hell and Jing Huang Linear-Time Representation Algorithms for Proper Circular-Arc Graphs and Proper Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . 390--403 C. Rhee and Y. D. Liang and S. K. Dhall and S. Lakshmivarahan An $ O(N + M) $-Time Algorithm for Finding a Minimum-Weight Dominating Set in a Permutation Graph . . . . . . . . . 404--419 Anmol Mathur and Edward M. Reingold Generalized Kraft's inequality and discrete $k$-modal search . . . . . . . 420--447 Richard E. Stearns and Harry B. Hunt, III An Algebraic Model for Combinatorial Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--476
Sandy Irani and Anna R. Karlin and Steven Phillips Strongly competitive algorithms for paging with locality of reference . . . 477--497 Sandy Irani and Yuval Rabani On the value of coordination in distributed decision making . . . . . . 498--519 Anne Condon and Richard Ladner and Jordan Lampe and Rakesh Sinha Complexity of Sub-Bus Mesh Computations 520--539 Haim Kaplan and Ron Shamir Pathwidth, bandwidth, and completion problems to proper interval graphs with small cliques . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--561 J. Friedman and J. Hershberger and J. Snoeyink Efficiently Planning Compliant Motion in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--599 Sanjeev Arora and F. T. Leighton and Bruce M. Maggs On-line algorithms for path selection in a nonblocking network . . . . . . . . . 600--625 Lefteris M. Kirousis and Dimitris M. Thilikos The Linkage of a Graph . . . . . . . . . 626--647 Sampath K. Kannan and Eugene W. Myers An algorithm for locating nonoverlapping regions of maximum alignment score . . . 648--662 Trevor Jim and Albert R. Meyer Full Abstraction and the Context Lemma 663--696
Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Ashish V. Naik and Mitsunori Ogihara and Alan L. Selman Computing Solutions Uniquely Collapses the Polynomial Hierarchy . . . . . . . . 697--708 S. Jimbo and A. Maruoka A method of constructing selection networks with $ O(\log n) $ depth . . . 709--739 Johan Håstad and Tom Leighton and Brian Rogoff Analysis of Backoff Protocols for Multiple Access Channels . . . . . . . . 740--774 Sanjiv Kapoor and Michiel Smid New Techniques for Exact and Approximate Dynamic Closest-Point Problems . . . . . 775--796 Philip N. Klein Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Chordal Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--827 Maciej Li\'skiewicz and Rüdiger Reischuk The Sublogarithmic Alternating Space World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--861 Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Tree-Adjoining Language Parsing in $ O(n^6) $ Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--873 Prakash Ramanan An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for the Matrix-Chain-Product Problem . . . . . . 874--893 Wansoo T. Rhee and Michel Talagrand Convergence in Distribution for Best-Fit Decreasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894--906
Zvi Galil and Kunsoo Park Alphabet-Independent Two-Dimensional Witness Computation . . . . . . . . . . 907--935 Joseph Gil and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Avi Wigderson The Tree Model for Hashing: Lower and Upper Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936--955 Giuseppe Di Battista and Roberto Tamassia On-Line Planarity Testing . . . . . . . 956--997 Zvi M. Kedem and Gad M. Landau and Krishna V. Palem Parallel Suffix-Prefix-Matching Algorithm and Applications . . . . . . . 998--1023 James Aspnes and Orli Waarts Randomized consensus in expected $ O(n \log^2 n) $ operations per processor . . 1024--1044 Satoshi Fujita and Masafumi Yamashita Optimal Group Gossiping in Hypercubes under a Circuit- Switching Model . . . . 1045--1060 Marco Pellegrini On Point Location and Motion Planning among Simplices . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1081 Robert Cypher and Smaragda Konstantinidou Bounds on the Efficiency of Message-Passing Protocols for Parallel Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1082--1104 Wei-Kuan Shih and Jane W. S. Liu On-Line Scheduling of Imprecise Computations to Minimize Error . . . . . 1105--1121
Martin Kummer Kolmogorov Complexity and Instance Complexity of Recursively Enumerable Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1143 Joseph Cheriyan and Torben Hagerup and Kurt Mehlhorn An $ o(n^3)$-Time Maximum-Flow Algorithm 1144--1170 Miklos Ajtai and Nimrod Megiddo A Deterministic $ {\operatorname {Poly}}(\log \log N) $-Time $ {N}$-Processor Algorithm for Linear Programming in Fixed Dimension . . . . . 1171--1195 Martin Dietzfelbinger and Miros\law Kuty\lowski and Rüdiger Reischuk Feasible Time-Optimal Algorithms for Boolean Functions on Exclusive-Write Parallel Random-Access Machines . . . . 1196--1230 Jürgen Sellen Lower Bounds for Geometrical and Physical Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1253 Nechama Allenberg-Navony and Alon Itai and Shlomo Moran Average and Randomized Complexity of Distributed Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1254--1267 Francesco Bergadano and Stefano Varricchio Learning Behaviors of Automata from Multiplicity and Equivalence Queries . . 1268--1280 Mordecai J. Golin and Neal Young Prefix Codes: Equiprobable Words, Unequal Letter Costs . . . . . . . . . . 1281--1292 David Zuckerman On Unapproximable Versions of NP-Complete Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1293--1304 Hans L. Bodlaender A Linear-Time Algorithm for Finding Tree-Decompositions of Small Treewidth 1305--1317 Alberto Apostolico and Dany Breslauer An optimal $ O(\log \log n) $-time parallel algorithm for detecting all squares in a string . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1331 Michael J. Fischer and Shlomo Moran and Steven Rudich and Gadi Taubenfeld The Wakeup Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1332--1357 Dario Bini and Luca Gemignani Erratum: ``Fast parallel computation of the polynomial remainder sequence via Bézout and Hankel matrices'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 24 (1995), no. 1, 63--77, MR 95j:65048] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358--1358
Laurent Alonso and Edward M. Reingold and René Schott The Average-Case Complexity of Determining the Majority . . . . . . . . 1--14 Moshe Dubiner and Uri Zwick Amplification by Read-Once Formulas . . 15--38 Maurice Nivat and Andreas Podelski Minimal Ascending and Descending Tree Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58 Yenjo Han and Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Thomas Thierauf Threshold Computation and Cryptographic Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--78 Zhengyu Ge and S. Louis Hakimi Disjoint Rooted Spanning Trees with Small Depths in deBruijn and Kautz Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--92 Endre Boros and Peter L. Hammer and Toshihide Ibaraki and Kazuhiko Kawakami Polynomial-Time Recognition of $2$-Monotonic Positive Boolean Functions Given by an Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109 Avrim Blum and Prabhakar Raghavan and Baruch Schieber Navigating in Unfamiliar Geometric Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--137 Martin Beaudry and Pierre McKenzie and Pierre Peladeau and Denis Therien Finite Monoids: From Word to Circuit Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--152 Louis Mak Parallelism Always Helps . . . . . . . . 153--172 Zhen Liu and Eric Sanlaville Stochastic Scheduling with Variable Profile and Precedence Constraints . . . 173--187 Richard Chang and William I. Gasarch and Carsten Lund On Bounded Queries and Approximation . . 188--209 Martin Farach and Mikkel Thorup Sparse Dynamic Programming for Evolutionary-Tree Comparison . . . . . . 210--230 Ming-Yang Kao Total Protection of Analytic-Invariant Information in Cross-Tabulated Tables 231--242 Felipe Cucker and Dima Grigoriev On the Power of Real Turing Machines Over Binary Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254 David R. Karger and Rajeev Motwani An $ {\rm NC} $ Algorithm for Minimum Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272 Shlomi Dolev and Amos Israeli and Shlomo Moran Resource Bounds for Self-Stabilizing Message-Driven Protocols . . . . . . . . 273--290
Torben Pryds Pedersen and Birgit Pfitzmann Fail-Stop Signatures . . . . . . . . . . 291--330 Heike Ripphausen-Lipa and Dorothea Wagner and Karsten Weihe The vertex-disjoint Menger problem in planar graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--349 Alessandro Panconesi and Aravind Srinivasan Randomized Distributed Edge Coloring via an Extension of the Chernoff--Hoeffding Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--368 Anne Condon and Joan Feigenbaum and Carsten Lund and Peter Shor Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions . . . 369--400 A. Steinberg A Strip-Packing Algorithm with Absolute Performance Bound $2$ . . . . . . . . . 401--409 Shang-Hua Teng and Frances F. Yao Approximating Shortest Superstrings . . 410--417 Danny Dolev and Nir Shavit Bounded Concurrent Time-Stamping . . . . 418--455 Paul Walton Purdom, Jr. and G. Neil Haven Probe Order Backtracking . . . . . . . . 456--483 Greg N. Frederickson Ambivalent Data Structures for Dynamic $2$-Edge-Connectivity and $k$ Smallest Spanning Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--538 Rajeev Alur and Hagit Attiya and Gadi Taubenfeld Time-Adaptive Algorithms for Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--556 Eric Allender and José Balcázar and Neil Immerman A First-Order Isomorphism Theorem . . . 557--567 Rakesh M. Verma General Techniques for Analyzing Recursive Algorithms with Applications 568--581 András Sebö Potentials in Undirected Graphs and Planar Multiflows . . . . . . . . . . . 582--603
Pavel Pudlák and Vojt\vech Rödl and Ji\vrí Sgall Boolean Circuits, Tensor Ranks, and Communication Complexity . . . . . . . . 605--633 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Jörg Rothe Unambiguous Computation: Boolean Hierarchies and Sparse Turing-Complete Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634--653 Shai Mohaban and Micha Sharir Ray Shooting Amidst Spheres in Three Dimensions and Related Problems . . . . 654--674 Carsten Thomassen On the Complexity of Finding a Minimum Cycle Cover of a Graph . . . . . . . . . 675--677 Akiyoshi Shioura and Akihisa Tamura and Takeaki Uno An Optimal Algorithm for Scanning All Spanning Trees of Undirected Graphs . . 678--692 Russell Impagliazzo and Ramamohan Paturi and Michael E. Saks Size--Depth Tradeoffs for Threshold Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--707 Wolfgang Maass Bounds for the Computational Power and Learning Complexity of Analog Neural Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--732 Liming Cai and Jianer Chen On the Amount of Nondeterminism and the Power of Verifying . . . . . . . . . . . 733--750 Hans Ulrich Simon Bounds on the Number of Examples Needed for Learning Functions . . . . . . . . . 751--763 Stefano Varricchio A Pumping Condition for Regular Sets . . 764--771 Gurdip Singh Leader Election in Complete Networks . . 772--785 Xiaotie Deng and Sanjeev Mahajan The Cost of Derandomization: Computability or Competitiveness . . . . 786--802 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan Tighter Upper Bounds on the Exact Complexity of String Matching . . . . . 803--856 Al Borchers and Ding-Zhu Du The $k$-Steiner Ratio in Graphs . . . . 857--869 R. Chandrasekaran and Bo Chen and Gábor Galambos and P. R. Narayanan and André Van Vliet and Gerhard J. Woeginger A note on: ``An on-line scheduling heuristic with better worst case ratio than Graham's list scheduling'' [SIAM J. Comput. \bf 22 (1993), no. 2, 349--355; MR 94b:90031] by Galambos and Woeginger 870--872
Pesech Feldman and Silvio Micali An Optimal Probabilistic Protocol for Synchronous Byzantine Agreement . . . . 873--933 James A. Storer and John H. Reif Error-Resilient Optimal Data Compression 934--949 Maxime Crochemore and Zvi Galil and Leszek G\casieniec and Kunsoo Park and Wojciech Rytter Constant-Time Randomized Parallel String Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950--960 Ganesh Baliga and Sanjay Jain and Arun Sharma Learning from Multiple Sources of Inaccurate Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--990 Michal Walicki and Sigurd Meldal Singular and Plural Nondeterministic Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1005 G. Louchard and Claire Kenyon and R. Schott Data Structures' Maxima . . . . . . . . 1006--1042 Stephen Fenner and Steven Homer and Mitsunori Ogihara and Alan Selman Oracles That Compute Values . . . . . . 1043--1065 J. R. Driscoll and D. M. Healy, Jr. and D. N. Rockmore Fast Discrete Polynomial Transforms with Applications to Data Analysis for Distance Transitive Graphs . . . . . . . 1066--1099 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum and Tom Leighton and Satish Rao Doubly Logarithmic Communication Algorithms for Optical-Communication Parallel Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 1100--1119 Leonidas J. Guibas and Rajeev Motwani and Prabhakar Raghavan The Robot Localization Problem . . . . . 1120--1138 Dalit Naor and Dan Gusfield and Charles Martel A Fast Algorithm for Optimally Increasing the Edge Connectivity . . . . 1139--1165 Dorit Dor and Michael Tarsi Graph Decomposition is NP-Complete: a Complete Proof of Holyer's Conjecture 1166--1187 Bonnie Berger The Fourth Moment Method . . . . . . . . 1188--1207 Phillip B. Gibbons and Ephraim Korach Testing Shared Memories . . . . . . . . 1208--1244 Alexander V. Karzanov and S. Thomas McCormick Polynomial Methods for Separable Convex Optimization in Unimodular Linear Spaces with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1245--1275
Richard J. Anderson and Heather Woll Algorithms for the Certified Write-All Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277--1283 Sam Myo Kim Computational Modeling for Genetic Splicing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284--1309 László Babai and Eugene M. Luks and Ákos Seress Fast management of permutation groups. I 1310--1342 Brenda S. Baker Parameterized Duplication in Strings: Algorithms and an Application to Software Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1362 Kazuhisa Makino and Toshihide Ibaraki The Maximum Latency and Identification of Positive Boolean Functions . . . . . 1363--1383 Matthew J. Katz and Micha Sharir An Expander-Based Approach to Geometric Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1384--1408 Umesh Vazirani Introduction to Special Section on Quantum Computation . . . . . . . . . . 1409--1410 Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani Quantum Complexity Theory . . . . . . . 1411--1473 Daniel R. Simon On the Power of Quantum Computation . . 1474--1483 Peter W. Shor Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer . . . . . . . . . . . 1484--1509 Charles H. Bennett and Ethan Bernstein and Gilles Brassard and Umesh Vazirani Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1510--1523 Leonard M. Adleman and Jonathan Demarrais and Ming-Deh A. Huang Quantum Computability . . . . . . . . . 1524--1540 Adriano Barenco and Andre Berthiaume and David Deutsch and Artur Ekert and Richard Jozsa and Chiara Macchiavello Stabilization of Quantum Computations by Symmetrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1541--1557
Philip D. MacKenzie The Random Adversary: a Lower-Bound Technique for Randomized Parallel Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559--1580 Richard J. Cole and Bruce M. Maggs and Ramesh K. Sitaraman Reconfiguring Arrays with Faults. Part I: Worst-Case Faults . . . . . . . . . . 1581--1611 John Hershberger and Subhash Suri Matrix Searching with the Shortest-Path Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1612--1634 Joseph Cheriyan Randomized $ \tilde {O}(M(|V|)) $ Algorithms for Problems in Matching Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635--1655 Amihood Amir and Dmitry Keselman Maximum Agreement Subtree in a Set of Evolutionary Trees: Metrics and Efficient Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 1656--1669 Boris Aronov and Micha Sharir and Boaz Tagansky The Union of Convex Polyhedra in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1670--1688 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Boris Aronov and Joseph O'Rourke and Catherine A. Schevon Star Unfolding of a Polytope with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689--1713 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Boris Aronov and Micha Sharir Computing Envelopes in Four Dimensions with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1714--1732 Noga Alon and Nabil Kahale A Spectral Technique for Coloring Random $3$-Colorable Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1733--1748 Sampath Kannan and Tandy Warnow A Fast Algorithm for the Computation and Enumeration of Perfect Phylogenies . . . 1749--1763 Jehoshua Bruck and Robert Cypher and Ching-Tien Ho Fault-Tolerant Meshes with Small Degree 1764--1784 Boris Aronov and Micha Sharir On Translational Motion Planning of a Convex Polyhedron in $3$-Space . . . . . 1785--1803
Tom Leighton and C. Greg Plaxton Hypercubic Sorting Networks . . . . . . 1--47 Johan Håstad The Shrinkage Exponent of de Morgan Formulas is $2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--64 Hagit Attiya and Soma Chaudhuri and Roy Friedman and Jennifer L. Welch Shared Memory Consistency Conditions for Nonsequential Execution: Definitions and Programming Strategies . . . . . . . . . 65--89 Amihood Amir and Gary Benson Two-Dimensional Periodicity in Rectangular Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . 90--106 Martin L. Brady A Fast Discrete Approximation Algorithm for the Radon Transform . . . . . . . . 107--119 Thomas W. Cusick Value Sets of Some Polynomials Over Finite Fields $ {\rm GF}(22 m) $ . . . . 120--131 Paola Bertolazzi and Giuseppe Di Battista and Carlo Mannino and Roberto Tamassia Optimal Upward Planarity Testing of Single-Source Digraphs . . . . . . . . . 132--169 Samuel R. Buss and Peter N. Yianilos Linear and $ O(n \log n) $ Time Minimum-Cost Matching Algorithms for Quasi-Convex Tours . . . . . . . . . . . 170--201 Robert D. Blumofe and Charles E. Leiserson Space-Efficient Scheduling of Multithreaded Computations . . . . . . . 202--229 Mikael Goldmann and Marek Karpinski Simulating Threshold Circuits by Majority Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . 230--246 Juan A. Garay and Yoram Moses Fully Polynomial Byzantine Agreement for $ n > 3 t $ Processors in $ t + 1 $ Rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--290 Yonatan Aumann and Yuval Rabani An $ O(\log k) $ Approximate Min-Cut Max-Flow Theorem and Approximation Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--301 Juan A. Garay and Shay Kutten and David Peleg A Sublinear Time Distributed Algorithm for Minimum-Weight Spanning Trees . . . 302--316 D. Stott Parker, Jr. Erratum: Conditions for Optimality of the Huffman Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Hagit Attiya and Ophir Rachman Atomic Snapshots in $ O(n \log n) $ Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--340 Liming Cai and Jianer Chen and Johan Håstad Circuit Bottom Fan-in and Computational Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--355 Martin Dyer and Peter Gritzmann and Alexander Hufnagel On The Complexity of Computing Mixed Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--400 Nader H. Bshouty and Richard Cleve Interpolating Arithmetic Read-Once Formulas in Parallel . . . . . . . . . . 401--413 Rongheng Li and Lijie Shi An On-Line Algorithm for Some Uniform Processor Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . 414--422 Moni Naor and Avishai Wool The Load, Capacity, and Availability of Quorum Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--447 Ioan I. Macarie Space-Efficient Deterministic Simulation of Probabilistic Automata . . . . . . . 448--465 Phillip G. Bradford and Gregory J. E. Rawlins and Gregory E. Shannon Efficient Matrix Chain Ordering in Polylog Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--490 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Ji\vrí Matousek and Otfried Schwarzkopf Computing Many Faces in Arrangements of Lines and Segments . . . . . . . . . . . 491--505 Oded Goldreich and Shafi Goldwasser and Nathan Linial Fault-tolerant Computation in the Full Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . 506--544 Bernard Chazelle A Spectral Approach to Lower Bounds with Applications to Geometric Searching . . 545--556 Gad M. Landau and Eugene W. Myers and Jeanette P. Schmidt Incremental String Comparison . . . . . 557--582 Gregory Dudek and Kathleen Romanik and Sue Whitesides Localizing a Robot with Minimum Travel 583--604
T. Kloks and D. Kratsch Listing all Minimal Separators of a Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--613 Hisao Tamaki Efficient Self-Embedding of Butterfly Networks with Random Faults . . . . . . 614--636 Harry Buhrman and Albrecht Hoene and Leen Torenvliet Splittings, Robustness, and Structure of Complete Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--653 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Mark de Berg and Ji\vrí Matousek and Otfried Schwarzkopf Constructing Levels in Arrangements and Higher Order Voronoi Diagrams . . . . . 654--667 Maxime Crochemore and Leszek Gasieniec and Ramesh Hariharan and S. Muthukrishnan and Wojciech Rytter A Constant Time Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Pattern Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668--681 Susanne Albers Improved Randomized On-Line Algorithms for the List Update Problem . . . . . . 682--693 Dima Grigoriev and Marek Karpinski Computing the Additive Complexity of Algebraic Circuits with Root Extracting 694--701 Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour An $ \Omega (D \log (N / D)) $ Lower Bound for Broadcast in Radio Networks 702--712 Paolo Ferragina and Roberto Grossi Optimal On-Line Search and Sublinear Time Update in String Matching . . . . . 713--736 Shafi Goldwasser Introduction to Special Section on Probabilistic Proof Systems . . . . . . 737--738 Anne Condon and Lisa Hellerstein and Samuel Pottle and Avi Wigderson On the Power of Finite Automata with both Nondeterministic and Probabilistic States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--762 Ran Raz A Parallel Repetition Theorem . . . . . 763--803 Mihir Bellare and Oded Goldreich and Madhu Sudan Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability --- Towards Tight Results . . . . . . . 804--915
Jean-Claude Bermond and Luisa Gargano and Adele A. Rescigno and Ugo Vaccaro Fast Gossiping by Short Messages . . . . 917--941 Reuven Bar-Yehuda and Dan Geiger and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Ron M. Roth Approximation Algorithms for the Feedback Vertex Set Problem with Applications to Constraint Satisfaction and Bayesian Inference . . . . . . . . . 942--959 D. F. Shallcross and V. Y. Pan and Y. Lin-Kriz Planar Integer Linear Programming is NC Equivalent to Euclidean GCD . . . . . . 960--971 Jeanette P. Schmidt All Highest Scoring Paths in Weighted Grid Graphs and Their Application to Finding All Approximate Repeats in Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--992 Ran Canetti and Sandy Irani Bounding the Power of Preemption in Randomized Scheduling . . . . . . . . . 993--1015 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Subhash Suri Surface Approximation and Geometric Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016--1035 Mordecai Golin and Rajeev Raman and Christian Schwarz and Michiel Smid Randomized Data Structures for the Dynamic Closest-Pair Problem . . . . . . 1036--1072 Hing Leung Separating Exponentially Ambiguous Finite Automata from Polynomially Ambiguous Finite Automata . . . . . . . 1073--1082 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum and Philip D. MacKenzie An $ {\Omega }(\sqrt { \log \log n}) $ Lower Bound for Routing in Optical Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1098 Dario Bini and Victor Y. Pan Computing Matrix Eigenvalues and Polynomial Zeros Where the Output is Real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1115 Oded Goldreich and Rafail Ostrovsky and Erez Petrank Computational Complexity and Knowledge Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1141 Harry B. Hunt, III and Madhav V. Marathe and Venkatesh Radhakrishnan and Richard E. Stearns The Complexity of Planar Counting Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142--1167 Amotz Bar-Noy and Alain Mayer and Baruch Schieber and Madhu Sudan Guaranteeing Fair Service to Persistent Dependent Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168--1189 Greg Barnes and Jeff A. Edmonds Time-Space Lower Bounds for Directed $ s t$-Connectivity on Graph Automata Models 1190--1202 David Gillman A Chernoff Bound for Random Walks on Expander Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203--1220
E. G. Coffman, Jr. and Nabil Kahale and F. T. Leighton Processor-Ring Communication: a Tight Asymptotic Bound on Packet Waiting Times 1221--1236 Madhav V. Marathe and Harry B. Hunt III and Richard E. Stearns and Venkatesh Radhakrishnan Approximation Algorithms for PSPACE-Hard Hierarchically and Periodically Specified Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1237--1261 Martin Dyer and Alan Frieze and Mark Jerrum Approximately Counting Hamilton Paths and Cycles in Dense Graphs . . . . . . . 1262--1272 Greg Barnes and Jonathan F. Buss and Walter L. Ruzzo and Baruch Schieber A Sublinear Space, Polynomial Time Algorithm for Directed $s$-$t$ Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273--1282 Mikael Goldmann and Johan Håstad Monotone Circuits for Connectivity Have Depth $ (\log n)^{2 - o(1)} $ . . . . . 1283--1294 C. Heckler and L. Thiele Complexity Analysis of a Parallel Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithm . . . 1295--1302 F. Thomson Leighton and Bruce M. Maggs and Ramesh K. Sitaraman On the Fault Tolerance of Some Popular Bounded-Degree Networks . . . . . . . . 1303--1333 Robert Beals and Tetsuro Nishino and Keisuke Tanaka On the Complexity of Negation-Limited Boolean Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334--1347 Joseph Gil and Yossi Matias Simple Fast Parallel Hashing by Oblivious Execution . . . . . . . . . . 1348--1375 Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and Ugo de'Liguoro and Adolfo Piperno A Filter Model for Concurrent $ \lambda $-Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1376--1419 R. Beigel and J. Goldsmith Downward Separation Fails Catastrophically for Limited Nondeterminism Classes . . . . . . . . . 1420--1429 Mitsunori Ogihara The PL Hierarchy Collapses . . . . . . . 1430--1437 Guy Kortsarz and David Peleg Generating Low-Degree $2$-Spanners . . . 1438--1456 Cynthia Dwork and Joseph Y. Halpern and Orli Waarts Performing Work Efficiently in the Presence of Faults . . . . . . . . . . . 1457--1491 Jeff A. Edmonds Time-Space Tradeoffs For Undirected $ s t$-Connectivity on a Graph Automata . . 1492--1513
Howard Aizenstein and Avrim Blum and Roni Khardon and Eyal Kushilevitz and Leonard Pitt and Dan Roth On Learning Read-$k$-Satisfy-$j$ DNF . . 1515--1530 Eyal Kushilevitz and Rafail Ostrovsky and Adi Rosén Log-Space Polynomial End-to-End Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1549 Eyal Kushilevitz and Yishay Mansour and Michael O. Rabin and David Zuckerman Lower Bounds for Randomized Mutual Exclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1550--1563 Tony W. Lai and Derick Wood Adaptive Heuristics for Binary Search Trees and Constant Linkage Cost . . . . 1564--1591 Ming-Yang Kao Tree Contractions and Evolutionary Trees 1592--1616 P. Krishnan and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Optimal Prediction for Prefetching in the Worst Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617--1636 Hagit Attiya and Roy Friedman A Correctness Condition for High-Performance Multiprocessors . . . . 1637--1670 Maw-Shang Chang Efficient Algorithms for the Domination Problems on Interval and Circular-Arc Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671--1694 Sampath Kannan and Tandy Warnow and Shibu Yooseph Computing the Local Consensus of Trees 1695--1724 Hans L. Bodlaender and Torben Hagerup Parallel Algorithms with Optimal Speedup for Bounded Treewidth . . . . . . . . . 1725--1746 Jan Paredaens and Jan Van den Bussche and Dirk Van Gucht First-Order Queries on Finite Structures Over the Reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1763 Giuseppe Di Battista and Giuseppe Liotta and Francesco Vargiu Spirality and Optimal Orthogonal Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1764--1811
Haripriyan Hampapuram and Michael L. Fredman Optimal Biweighted Binary Trees and the Complexity of Maintaining Partial Sums 1--9 Johannes A. La Poutré and Jeffery Westbrook Dynamic $2$-Connectivity with Backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--26 Gregorio Malajovich and Klaus Meer On the Structure of $ {\cal NP}_{\mathbb {C}} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35 Marius Zimand Weighted NP Optimization Problems: Logical Definability and Approximation Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--56 Tomás Feder and Moshe Y. Vardi The Computational Structure of Monotone Monadic SNP and Constraint Satisfaction: a Study through Datalog and Group Theory 57--104 Thomas H. Cormen and Thomas Sundquist and Leonard F. Wisniewski Asymptotically Tight Bounds for Performing BMMC Permutations on Parallel Disk Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--136 Lance Fortnow and Judy Goldsmith and Matthew A. Levy and Stephen Mahaney $L$-Printable Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151 Dimitris Kavvadias and Martha Sideri The Inverse Satisfiability Problem . . . 152--163 Sanjeev Khanna and Rajeev Motwani and Madhu Sudan and Umesh Vazirani On Syntactic versus Computational Views of Approximability . . . . . . . . . . . 164--191 Stefan Felsner and Lorenz Wernisch Maximum $k$-Chains in Planar Point Sets: Combinatorial Structure and Algorithms 192--209 Edith Cohen Fast algorithms for constructing $t$-spanners and paths with stretch $t$ 210--236 Uwe Schwiegelshohn and Walter Ludwig and Joel L. Wolf and John Turek and Philip S. Yu Smart SMART Bounds for Weighted Response Time Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--253 Baruch Awerbuch and Yossi Azar and Avrim Blum and Santosh Vempala New Approximation Guarantees for Minimum-Weight $k$-Trees and Prize-Collecting Salesmen . . . . . . . 254--262 Baruch Awerbuch and Bonnie Berger and Lenore Cowen and David Peleg Near-Linear Time Construction of Sparse Neighborhood Covers . . . . . . . . . . 263--277 David Avis and Bryan Beresford-Smith and Luc Devroye and Hossam Elgindy and Eric Guévremont and Ferran Hurtado and Binhai Zhu Unoriented \em Theta-Maxima in the Plane: Complexity and Algorithms . . . . 278--296 Jonathan E. Atkins and Erik G. Boman and Bruce Hendrickson A Spectral Algorithm for Seriation and the Consecutive Ones Problem . . . . . . 297--310 Johannes Köbler and Osamu Watanabe New Collapse Consequences of NP Having Small Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324 Viliam Geffert and Carlo Mereghetti and Giovanni Pighizzini Sublogarithmic Bounds on Space and Reversals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--340 David Eppstein and Zvi Galil and Giuseppe F. Italiano and Thomas H. Spencer Separator-Based Sparsification II: Edge and Vertex Connectivity . . . . . . . . 341--381
Edith Hemaspaandra and Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Harald Hempel A Downward Collapse within the Polynomial Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . 383--393 Yongge Wang Genericity, Randomness, and Polynomial-Time Approximations . . . . . 394--408 Luc Devroye Universal Limit Laws for Depths in Random Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--432 William Evans and Nicholas Pippenger Average-Case Lower Bounds for Noisy Boolean Decision Trees . . . . . . . . . 433--446 Amos Fiat and Dean P. Foster and Howard Karloff and Yuval Rabani and Yiftach Ravid and Sundar Vishwanathan Competitive Algorithms for Layered Graph Traversal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--462 D. Z. Du and B. Gao and F. K. Hwang and J. H. Kim On Multirate Rearrangeable Clos Networks 463--470 Francis Chin and Cao An Wang Finding the Constrained Delaunay Triangulation and Constrained Voronoi Diagram of a Simple Polygon in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--486 Sigal Ar and Richard J. Lipton and Ronitt Rubinfeld and Madhu Sudan Reconstructing Algebraic Functions from Mixed Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--510 Baruch Awerbuch and Israel Cidon and Shay Kutten and Yishay Mansour and David Peleg Optimal Broadcast with Partial Knowledge 511--524 Sridhar Rajagopalan and Vijay V. Vazirani Primal-Dual RNC Approximation Algorithms for Set Cover and Covering Integer Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--540 Andrei Z. Broder and Alan M. Frieze and Stephen Suen and Eli Upfal Optimal Construction of Edge-Disjoint Paths in Random Graphs . . . . . . . . . 541--573 Zoran Ivkovic and Errol L. Lloyd Fully Dynamic Algorithms for Bin Packing: Being (Mostly) Myopic Helps . . 574--611 Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia Dynamic Trees and Dynamic Point Location 612--636 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Harald Hempel and Gerd Wechsung Query Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--651 David Eppstein Finding the $k$ Shortest Paths . . . . . 652--673 Nader H. Bshouty and Paul W. Goldberg and Sally A. Goldman and H. David Mathias Exact Learning of Discretized Geometric Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--699 Yacov Yacobi Fast Exponentiation Using Data Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--703 P. G. Walsh A Polynomial Time Complexity Bound for Computations on Curves . . . . . . . . . 704--708 Prabhakar Raghavan and Eli Upfal Stochastic Contention Resolution With Short Delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--719 Lisa Higham and Teresa Przytycka Asymptotically Optimal Election on Weighted Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--732 Phillip B. Gibbons and Yossi Matias and Vijaya Ramachandran The Queue-Read Queue-Write PRAM Model: Accounting for Contention in Parallel Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--769
Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Avrim Blum and Prasad Chalasani and Santosh Vempala A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Geometric $k$-MST Problem in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . 771--781 Prasad Jayanti Solvability of Consensus: Composition Breaks Down for Nondeterministic Types 782--797 Stephen Ponzio A Lower Bound for Integer Multiplication with Read-Once Branching Programs . . . 798--815 Hugh Hind and Michael Molloy and Bruce Reed Total Coloring With $ {\Delta } + {\rm poly}(\log \Delta) $ Colors . . . . . . 816--821 Joachim von zur Gathen and Igor Shparlinski Computing components and projections of curves over finite fields . . . . . . . 822--840 Alexander Schrijver Bipartite Edge Coloring in $ O(\Delta m) $ Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--846 Jop F. Sibeyn Row-Major Sorting on Meshes . . . . . . 847--863 Giuseppe Liotta and Franco P. Preparata and Roberto Tamassia Robust Proximity Queries: An Illustration of Degree-Driven Algorithm Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--889 Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera and Sam Toueg Failure Detection and Randomization: a Hybrid Approach to Solve Consensus . . . 890--903 Guy Louchard and Wojciech Szpankowski and Jing Tang Average Profile of the Generalized Digital Search Tree and the Generalized Lempel--Ziv Algorithm . . . . . . . . . 904--934 Chi-Chang Chen and Jianer Chen The Maximum Partition Matching Problem with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 935--954 Ming-Yang Kao and Junfeng Qi and Lei Tan Optimal Bidding Algorithms Against Cheating in Multiple-Object Auctions . . 955--969 Eli Gafni and Elias Koutsoupias Three-Processor Tasks Are Undecidable 970--983 Bruce M. Maggs and Ramesh K. Sitaraman Simple Algorithms for Routing on Butterfly Networks with Bounded Queues 984--1003 Wen-Lian Hsu and Tze-Heng Ma Fast and Simple Algorithms for Recognizing Chordal Comparability Graphs and Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1004--1020 David R. Karger and Noam Nisan and Michal Parnas Fast Connected Components Algorithms for the EREW PRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021--1034 Noam Nisan and Steven Rudich and Michael Saks Products and Help Bits in Decision Trees 1035--1050 Paul Beame and Allan Borodin and Prabhakar Raghavan and Walter L. Ruzzo and Martin Tompa A Time-Space Tradeoff for Undirected Graph Traversal by Walking Automata . . 1051--1072 Richa Agarwala and Vineet Bafna and Martin Farach and Mike Paterson and Mikkel Thorup On the Approximability of Numerical Taxonomy (Fitting Distances by Tree Metrics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1085 Carsten Lund and Nick Reingold and Jeffery Westbrook and Dicky Yan Competitive On-Line Algorithms for Distributed Data Management . . . . . . 1086--1111 Riccardo Torlone and Paolo Atzeni Efficient Database Updates with Independent Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 1112--1135 Nader H. Bshouty and Jeffrey C. Jackson Learning DNF over the Uniform Distribution Using a Quantum Example Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1153
Hans Kellerer and T. Tautenhahn and G. Woeginger Approximability and Nonapproximability Results for Minimizing Total Flow Time on a Single Machine . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1166 D. Aingworth and C. Chekuri and P. Indyk and R. Motwani Fast Estimation of Diameter and Shortest Paths (Without Matrix Multiplication) 1167--1181 Sariel Har-Peled Constructing Approximate Shortest Path Maps in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . 1182--1197 Jeff Erickson New Lower Bounds for Convex Hull Problems in Odd Dimensions . . . . . . . 1198--1214 Luc Devroye The Height and Size of Random Hash Trees and Random Pebbled Hash Trees . . . . . 1215--1224 Guo-Hui Lin and Ding-Zhu Du and Xiao-Dong Hu and Guoliang Xue On Rearrangeability of Multirate Clos Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1225--1231 Prasad Tetali Design of On-Line Algorithms Using Hitting Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232--1246 Edward G. Thurber Efficient Generation of Minimal Length Addition Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1263 Jie Wang Distributional Word Problem for Groups 1264--1283 Derek G. Corneil and Stephan Olariu and Lorna Stewart Linear Time Algorithms for Dominating Pairs in Asteroidal Triple-free Graphs 1284--1297 Joseph S. B. Mitchell Guillotine Subdivisions Approximate Polygonal Subdivisions: a Simple Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Geometric TSP, $k$-MST, and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298--1309 Jin-Yi Cai and Alan L. Selman Fine Separation of Average-Time Complexity Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 1310--1325 Boris V. Cherkassky and Andrew V. Goldberg and Craig Silverstein Buckets, Heaps, Lists, and Monotone Priority Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326--1346 Ichiro Suzuki and Masafumi Yamashita Distributed Anonymous Mobile Robots: Formation of Geometric Patterns . . . . 1347--1363 Johan Håstad and Russell Impagliazzo and Leonid A. Levin and Michael Luby A Pseudorandom Generator from any One-way Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364--1396 Hagit Attiya and Hadas Shachnai and Tami Tamir Local Labeling and Resource Allocation Using Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1414 Harry Buhrman and Jaap-Henk Hoepman and Paul Vitányi Space-efficient Routing Tables for Almost All Networks and the Incompressibility Method . . . . . . . . 1414--1432 Aravind Srinivasan and David Zuckerman Computing with Very Weak Random Sources 1433--1459 Ketan Mulmuley Lower Bounds in a Parallel Model without Bit Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1460--1509 Lenwood S. Heath and Sriram V. Pemmaraju and Ann N. Trenk Stack and Queue Layouts of Directed Acyclic Graphs: Part I . . . . . . . . . 1510--1539
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Benny Chor and Lee-Bath Nelson Solvability in Asynchronous Environments II: Finite Interactive Tasks . . . . . . 351--377 Elaine Eschen and Ryan B. Hayward and Jeremy Spinrad and R. Sritharan Weakly Triangulated Comparability Graphs 378--386 Russ Bubley and Martin Dyer and Catherine Greenhill and Mark Jerrum On Approximately Counting Colorings of Small Degree Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 387--400 Stephen J. Bellantoni and Karl-Heinz Niggl Ranking Primitive Recursions: The Low Grzegorczyk Classes Revisited . . . . . 401--415 Michael T. Goodrich Communication-Efficient Parallel Sorting 416--432 J. H. Rieger Proximity in Arrangements of Algebraic Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--458 Susanne Albers Better Bounds for Online Scheduling . . 459--473 Sandeep Bhatt and David Greenberg and Tom Leighton and Pangfeng Liu Tight Bounds for On-Line Tree Embeddings 474--491 David R. Karger A Randomized Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for the All-Terminal Network Reliability Problem 492--514 Esther M. Arkin and Yi-Jen Chiang and Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Steven S. Skiena and Tae-Cheon Yang On the Maximum Scatter Traveling Salesperson Problem . . . . . . . . . . 515--544 Rod G. Downey and Michael R. Fellows and Alexander Vardy and Geoff Whittle The Parametrized Complexity of Some Fundamental Problems in Coding Theory 545--570 Juha Kärkkäinen and Esko Ukkonen Two- and Higher-Dimensional Pattern Matching in Optimal Expected Time . . . 571--589 Harry Buhrman and Ming Li and John Tromp and Paul Vitányi Kolmogorov Random Graphs and the Incompressibility Method . . . . . . . . 590--599 Steven C. Bruell and Sukumar Ghosh and Mehmet Hakan Karaata and Sriram V. Pemmaraju Self-Stabilizing Algorithms for Finding Centers and Medians of Trees . . . . . . 600--614 Matthew Andrews and Tom Leighton and P. Takis Metaxas and Lisa Zhang Automatic Methods for Hiding Latency in Parallel and Distributed Computation . . 615--647 Aravind Srinivasan Improved Approximation Guarantees for Packing and Covering Integer Programs 648--670 Frank Ruskey and Joe Sawada An Efficient Algorithm for Generating Necklaces with Fixed Density . . . . . . 671--684 Zhivko Prodanov Nedev Finding an Even Simple Path in a Directed Planar Graph . . . . . . . . . 685--695
Alok Aggarwal and Don Coppersmith and Sanjeev Khanna and Rajeev Motwani and Baruch Schieber The Angular-Metric Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697--711 B. Natarajan On Learning Functions from Noise-Free and Noisy Samples via Occam's Razor . . 712--727 Mark Levene and George Loizou Navigation in Hypertext Is Easy Only Sometimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--760 Bang Ye Wu and Giuseppe Lancia and Vineet Bafna and Kun-Mao Chao and R. Ravi and Chuan Yi Tang A Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Trees 761--778 Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna Complexity of Deciding Sense of Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--789 Amos Fiat and Moni Naor Rigorous Time/Space Trade-offs for Inverting Functions . . . . . . . . . . 790--803 Shlomi Dolev and Evangelos Kranakis and Danny Krizanc and David Peleg Bubbles: Adaptive Routing Scheme for High-Speed Dynamic Networks . . . . . . 804--833 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum Randomly Sampling Molecules . . . . . . 834--853 Scott E. Decatur and Oded Goldreich and Dana Ron Computational Sample Complexity . . . . 854--879 Haim Kaplan and Ron Shamir and Robert E. Tarjan A Faster and Simpler Algorithm for Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals 880--892 S. Rao Kosaraju and Giovanni Manzini Compression of Low Entropy Strings with Lempel--Ziv Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 893--911 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Alon Efrat and Micha Sharir Vertical Decomposition of Shallow Levels in $3$-Dimensional Arrangements and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912--953 Z. Sweedyk \boldmath $ A 2 \frac 12 $-Approximation Algorithm for Shortest Superstring . . . 954--986 Ioan I. Macarie On the Structure of Logspace Probabilistic Complexity Classes . . . . 987--1007 F. K. Miyazawa and Y. Wakabayashi Approximation Algorithms for the Orthogonal $Z$-Oriented Three-Dimensional Packing Problem . . . 1008--1029 Dan E. Willard Examining Computational Geometry, Van Emde Boas Trees, and Hashing from the Perspective of the Fusion Tree . . . . . 1030--1049
Tracy Kimbrel and Anna R. Karlin Near-Optimal Parallel Prefetching and Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1082 Leszek Pacholski and Wies\law Szwast and Lidia Tendera Complexity Results for First-Order Two-Variable Logic with Counting . . . . 1083--1117 Klaus Reinhardt and Eric Allender Making Nondeterminism Unambiguous . . . 1118--1131 Oded Goldreich and Shmuel Safra A Combinatorial Consistency Lemma with Application to Proving the PCP Theorem 1132--1154 Sridhar Rajagopalan and Leonard J. Schulman Verification of Identities . . . . . . . 1155--1163 Susanne Albers and Monika R. Henzinger Exploring Unknown Environments . . . . . 1164--1188 Joe Kilian and Eyal Kushilevitz and Silvio Micali and Rafail Ostrovsky Reducibility and Completeness in Private Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1208 Vince Grolmusz and Gábor Tardos Lower Bounds for $ ({\rm MOD} p - {\rm MOD} m) $ Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . 1209--1222 Danny Z. Chen and Kevin S. Klenk and Hung-Yi T. Tu Shortest Path Queries Among Weighted Obstacles in the Rectilinear Plane . . . 1223--1246 Zhi-Zhong Chen and Ming-Yang Kao Reducing Randomness via Irrational Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247--1256 Wei-Liang Lin and Amir H. Farrahi and M. Sarrafzadeh On the Power of Logic Resynthesis . . . 1257--1289 Rakesh D. Barve and Edward F. Grove and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Application-Controlled Paging for a Shared Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290--1303 Ravi B. Boppana and Babu O. Narayanan Perfect-Information Leader Election with Optimal Resilience . . . . . . . . . . . 1304--1320 Alok Aggarwal and Jon Kleinberg and David P. Williamson Node-Disjoint Paths on the Mesh and a New Trade-Off in VLSI Layout . . . . . . 1321--1333 Scott A. Mitchell and Stephen A. Vavasis Quality Mesh Generation in Higher Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334--1370 Edward P. F. Chan and Ron van der Meyden Containment and Optimization of Object-Preserving Conjunctive Queries 1371--1400
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Franco P. Preparata Robust Plane Sweep for Intersecting Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401--1421 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Edward F. Grove and T. M. Murali and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Binary Space Partitions for Fat Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1422--1448 Michael Saks and Fotios Zaharoglou Wait-Free $k$-Set Agreement is Impossible: The Topology of Public Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449--1483 Paul Dagum and Richard Karp and Michael Luby and Sheldon Ross An Optimal Algorithm for Monte Carlo Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1484--1496 Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Dieter van Melkebeek and Leen Torenvliet Separating Complexity Classes Using Autoreducibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497--1520 Han La Poutré Maintenance of $2$- and $3$-Edge-Connected Components of Graphs II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521--1549 Millist W. Vincent and Mark Levene Restructuring Partitioned Normal Form Relations without Information Loss . . . 1550--1567 Ming-Yang Kao and Jie Wang Linear-Time Approximation Algorithms for Computing Numerical Summation with Provably Small Errors . . . . . . . . . 1568--1576 Jürgen Sellen and Joonsoo Choi and Chee-Keng Yap Precision-Sensitive Euclidean Shortest Path in $3$-Space . . . . . . . . . . . 1577--1595 Oren Etzioni and Steve Hanks and Tao Jiang and Omid Madani Optimal Information Gathering on the Internet with Time and Cost Constraints 1596--1620 Ladislav Stacho and Imrich Vrto Virtual Path Layouts in ATM Networks . . 1621--1629 Funda Ergün and S. Ravi Kumar and D. Sivakumar Self-Testing without the Generator Bottleneck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630--1651 Michael Benedikt and Leonid Libkin Safe Constraint Queries . . . . . . . . 1652--1682 Sanjeev Khanna and Vincenzo Liberatore On Broadcast Disk Paging . . . . . . . . 1683--1702 Artur Czumaj and Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide and Volker Stemann Contention Resolution in Hashing Based Shared Memory Simulations . . . . . . . 1703--1739 Dorit Dor and Shay Halperin and Uri Zwick All-Pairs Almost Shortest Paths . . . . 1740--1759
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Richard Cole and Bud Mishra and Jeanette Schmidt and Alan Siegel On the Dynamic Finger Conjecture for Splay Trees. Part I: Splay Sorting $ \log n$-Block Sequences . . . . . . . . 1--43 Richard Cole On the Dynamic Finger Conjecture for Splay Trees. Part II: The Proof . . . . 44--85 Mikkel Thorup On RAM Priority Queues . . . . . . . . . 86--109 Dana Angluin and Jeffery Westbrook and Wenhong Zhu Robot Navigation with Distance Queries 110--144 Xiaotie Deng and Nian Gu and Tim Brecht and KaiCheng Lu Preemptive Scheduling of Parallel Jobs on Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . 145--160 John H. Reif and Hongyan Wang Nonuniform Discretization for Kinodynamic Motion Planning and its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--190 Jon Kleinberg and Yuval Rabani and Éva Tardos Allocating Bandwidth for Bursty Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--217 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Olivier Devillers and Sylvain Lazard Motion Planning of Legged Robots . . . . 218--246 Shay Kutten and David Peleg Tight Fault Locality . . . . . . . . . . 247--268 David Greenhalgh and Stephen Marshall Convergence Criteria for Genetic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--282 Lusheng Wang and Tao Jiang and Dan Gusfield A More Efficient Approximation Scheme for Tree Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 283--299 Elias Koutsoupias and Christos H. Papadimitriou Beyond Competitive Analysis . . . . . . 300--317 Michelangelo Grigni and Vincent Mirelli and Christos H. Papadimitriou On the Difficulty of Designing Good Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--323 Uriel Feige and Joe Kilian Two-Prover Protocols --- Low Error at Affordable Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--346
Amotz Bar-Noy and Sudipto Guha and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Baruch Schieber Message Multicasting in Heterogeneous Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358 Clifford Bergman and Giora Slutzki Complexity of Some Problems Concerning Varieties and Quasi-Varieties of Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--382 Claudia Bertram--Kretzberg and Thomas Hofmeister and Hanno Lefmann An Algorithm for Heilbronn's Problem . . 383--390 Danny Dolev and Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor Nonmalleable Cryptography . . . . . . . 391--437 Prasad Jayanti and King Tan and Sam Toueg Time and Space Lower Bounds for Nonblocking Implementations . . . . . . 438--456 Eyal Kushilevitz and Rafail Ostrovsky and Yuval Rabani Efficient Search for Approximate Nearest Neighbor in High Dimensional Spaces . . 457--474 Luca Trevisan When Hamming Meets Euclid: The Approximability of Geometric TSP and Steiner Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--485 George Varghese Self-Stabilization by Counter Flushing 486--510 Gilad Koren and Emanuel Dar and Amihood Amir The Power of Migration in Multiprocessor Scheduling of Real-Time Systems . . . . 511--527 Joseph Cheriyan and Ramakrishna Thurimella Approximating Minimum-Size $k$-Connected Spanning Subgraphs via Matching . . . . 528--560 Timothy M. Chan Random Sampling, Halfspace Range Reporting, and Construction of $ (\leq k)$-Levels in Three Dimensions . . . . . 561--575 Harry Buhrman and Dieter van Melkebeek and Kenneth W. Regan and D. Sivakumar and Martin Strauss A Generalization of Resource-Bounded Measure, with Application to the BPP vs. EXP Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--601 Ming-Yang Kao and Tak-Wah Lam and Wing-Kin Sung and Hing-Fung Ting Cavity Matchings, Label Compressions, and Unrooted Evolutionary Trees . . . . 602--624 Andrea Pietracaprina and Geppino Pucci and Jop F. Sibeyn Constructive, Deterministic Implementation of Shared Memory on Meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--648 Harold N. Gabow and Tibor Jordán How to Make a Square Grid Framework with Cables Rigid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649--680 Nah-Oak Song and Demosthenis Teneketzis On a Conjecture by Coffman, Flatto, and Wright on Stochastic Machine Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--687
Wai-Kau Lo and Vassos Hadzilacos All of Us Are Smarter than Any of Us: Nondeterministic Wait-Free Hierarchies Are Not Robust . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--728 Bin Ma and Ming Li and Louxin Zhang From Gene Trees to Species Trees . . . . 729--752 Yefim Dinitz and Alek Vainshtein The General Structure of Edge-Connectivity of a Vertex Subset in a Graph and its Incremental Maintenance. Odd Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--808 Chris Barrett and Riko Jacob and Madhav Marathe Formal-Language-Constrained Path Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--837 Xin He and Ming-Yang Kao and Hsueh-I Lu A Fast General Methodology for Information-Theoretically Optimal Encodings of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 838--846 Sanjiv Kapoor and S. N. Maheshwari Efficiently Constructing the Visibility Graph of a Simple Polygon with Obstacles 847--871 Håkan Lennerstad and Lars Lundberg Optimal Worst Case Formulas Comparing Cache Memory Associativity . . . . . . . 872--905 Anna R. Karlin and Steven J. Phillips and Prabhakar Raghavan Markov Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--922 Charles Knessl and Wojciech Szpankowski Asymptotic Behavior of the Height in a Digital Search Tree and the Longest Phrase of the Lempel--Ziv Scheme . . . . 923--964 Haim Kaplan and Chris Okasaki and Robert E. Tarjan Simple Confluently Persistent Catenable Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--977 Giri Narasimhan and Michiel Smid Approximating the Stretch Factor of Euclidean Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 978--989 Manindra Agrawal and Thomas Thierauf The Formula Isomorphism Problem . . . . 990--1009 Peter Bürgisser The Computational Complexity to Evaluate Representations of General Linear Groups 1010--1022 Peter Bürgisser The Computational Complexity of Immanants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1040
Andrzej Czygrinow and Vojtech Rödl An Algorithmic Regularity Lemma for Hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1041--1066 Assaf Natanzon and Ron Shamir and Roded Sharan A Polynomial Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum Fill-In Problem . . . . . . 1067--1079 Victor Y. Pan Parallel Complexity of Computations with General and Toeplitz-Like Matrices Filled with Integers and Extensions . . 1080--1125 Christian Scheideler and Berthold Vöcking From Static to Dynamic Routing: Efficient Transformations of Store-and-Forward Protocols . . . . . . 1126--1155 Eric Ruppert Determining Consensus Numbers . . . . . 1156--1168 Amir Herzberg and Shay Kutten Early Detection of Message Forwarding Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1169--1196 Jack H. Lutz and Yong Zhao The Density of Weakly Complete Problems under Adaptive Reductions . . . . . . . 1197--1210 Frédérique Bassino and Marie-Pierre Béal and Dominique Perrin A Finite State Version of the Kraft--McMillan Theorem . . . . . . . . 1211--1230 Guy Even and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Leonid Zosin An $8$-Approximation Algorithm for the Subset Feedback Vertex Set Problem . . . 1231--1252 Silvio Micali Computationally Sound Proofs . . . . . . 1253--1298 V. Arvind and R. Beigel and A. Lozano The Complexity of Modular Graph Automorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1320 Kasturi R. Varadarajan and Pankaj K. Agarwal Approximating Shortest Paths on a Nonconvex Polyhedron . . . . . . . . . . 1321--1340 Sariel Har-Peled Taking a Walk in a Planar Arrangement 1341--1367 Xiaoxu Han and Suely Oliveira and David Stewart Finding Sets Covering a Point with Application to Mesh-Free Galerkin Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1368--1383
Richard Cole and Martin Farach-Colton and Ramesh Hariharan and Teresa Przytycka and Mikkel Thorup An $ O(n \log n) $ Algorithm for the Maximum Agreement Subtree Problem for Binary Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385--1404 Ruy Luiz Milidiú and Eduardo Sany Laber The WARM-UP Algorithm: a Lagrangian Construction of Length Restricted Huffman Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1426 David Peleg and Vitaly Rubinovich A Near-Tight Lower Bound on the Time Complexity of Distributed Minimum-Weight Spanning Tree Construction . . . . . . . 1427--1442 Martin E. Dyer and Sandeep Sen Fast and Optimal Parallel Multidimensional Search in PRAMs with Applications to Linear Programming and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443--1461 Maria Luisa Bonet and Juan Luis Esteban and Nicola Galesi and Jan Johannsen On the Relative Complexity of Resolution Refinements and Cutting Planes Proof Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1462--1484 Harry Buhrman and Leen Torenvliet Randomness is Hard . . . . . . . . . . . 1485--1501 Adam L. Buchsbaum and Raffaele Giancarlo and Jeffery R. Westbrook On the Determinization of Weighted Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1502--1531 Giorgio Gambosi and Alberto Postiglione and Maurizio Talamo Algorithms for the Relaxed Online Bin-Packing Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1532--1551 Arne Andersson and Torben Hagerup and Johan Håstad and Ola Petersson Tight Bounds for Searching a Sorted Array of Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . 1552--1578 M. Brazil and D. A. Thomas and J. F. Weng Minimum Networks in Uniform Orientation Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579--1593 Matthew Andrews and Antonio Fernández and Mor Harchol-Balter and Tom Leighton and Lisa Zhang General Dynamic Routing with Per-Packet Delay Guarantees of $ O({\rm Distance} + 1 / {\rm Session Rate}) $ . . . . . . . 1594--1623 Avrim Blum and Howard Karloff and Yuval Rabani and Michael Saks A Decomposition Theorem for Task Systems and Bounds for Randomized Server Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624--1661 Andreas Brandstädt and Feodor F. Dragan and Ekkehard Köhler Linear Time Algorithms for Hamiltonian Problems on (Claw,Net)-Free Graphs . . . 1662--1677 Luc Devroye and Jean Jabbour and Carlos Zamora-Cura Squarish $k$--$d$ Trees . . . . . . . . 1678--1700 Bruno Gaujal and Alain Jean-Marie and Jean Mairesse Computations of Uniform Recurrence Equations Using Minimal Memory Size . . 1701--1738
Pankaj K. Agarwal and Hongyan Wang Approximation Algorithms for Curvature-Constrained Shortest Paths . . 1739--1772 Farhad Shahrokhi and Ondrej Sýkora and László A. Székely and Imrich Vrto On Bipartite Drawings and the Linear Arrangement Problem . . . . . . . . . . 1773--1789
Jianer Chen and Antonio Miranda A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for General Multiprocessor Job Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17 Ming-Yang Kao and Tak-Wah Lam and Wing-Kin Sung and Hing-Fung Ting A Decomposition Theorem for Maximum Weight Bipartite Matchings . . . . . . . 18--26 Ernst Althaus and Kurt Mehlhorn Traveling Salesman-Based Curve Reconstruction in Polynomial Time . . . 27--66 Pangfeng Liu and William Aiello and Sandeep Bhatt Tree Search on an Atomic Model for Message Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85 Stefano Leonardi and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Alessio Presciutti and Adi Rosén On-line Randomized Call Control Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--112 Jörg Flum and Martin Grohe Fixed-Parameter Tractability, Definability, and Model-Checking . . . . 113--145 C. Chekuri and R. Motwani and B. Natarajan and C. Stein Approximation Techniques for Average Completion Time Scheduling . . . . . . . 146--166 Michael Luby and Dana Randall and Alistair Sinclair Markov Chain Algorithms for Planar Lattice Structures . . . . . . . . . . . 167--192 Felipe Cucker and Dima Grigoriev There are No Sparse NP$_w$-Hard Sets . . 193--198 Antonín Kucera and T. Slaman Randomness and Recursive Enumerability 199--211 Vincent Bouchitté and Ioan Todinca Treewidth and Minimum Fill-in: Grouping the Minimal Separators . . . . . . . . . 212--232 Joan Boyar and Kim S. Larsen and Morten N. Nielsen The Accommodating Function: a Generalization of the Competitive Ratio 233--258 Joe Sawada Generating Bracelets in Constant Amortized Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--268 Thomas Eiter and Toshihide Ibaraki and Kazuhisa Makino Disjunctions of Horn Theories and Their Cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--288 Pavol Hell and Ron Shamir and Roded Sharan A Fully Dynamic Algorithm for Recognizing and Representing Proper Interval Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--305 Miklós Csurös and Ming-Yang Kao Provably Fast and Accurate Recovery of Evolutionary Trees through Harmonic Greedy Triplets . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--322 Jing-Chao Chen Proportion Extend Sort . . . . . . . . . 323--330
Amotz Bar-Noy and Sudipto Guha and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Baruch Schieber Approximating the Throughput of Multiple Machines in Real-Time Scheduling . . . . 331--352 Rasmus Pagh Low Redundancy in Static Dictionaries with Constant Query Time . . . . . . . . 353--363 Monika R. Henzinger and Valerie King Maintaining Minimum Spanning Forests in Dynamic Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--374 Mary Cryan and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Paul W. Goldberg Evolutionary Trees Can be Learned in Polynomial Time in the Two-State General Markov Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--397 Salil P. Vadhan The Complexity of Counting in Sparse, Regular, and Planar Graphs . . . . . . . 398--427 Vojtech Rödl and Andrzej Rucinski and Michelle Wagner Matchings Meeting Quotas and Their Impact on the Blow-Up Lemma . . . . . . 428--446 Gen-Huey Chen and Ming-Yang Kao and Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and Hsing-Kuo Wong Optimal Buy-and-Hold Strategies for Financial Markets with Bounded Daily Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--459 Vwani P. Roychowdhury and Farrokh Vatan Quantum Formulas: a Lower Bound and Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--476 Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Leonid Zosin A $2$-Approximation Algorithm for the Directed Multiway Cut Problem . . . . . 477--482 Wolfgang Merkle The Global Power of Additional Queries to $ {P}$-Random Oracles . . . . . . . . 483--495 Ketan D. Mulmuley and Milind Sohoni Geometric Complexity Theory I: An Approach to the \em P vs. \em NP and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--526 Amotz Bar-Noy and Ari Freund and Joseph (Seffi) Naor On-Line Load Balancing in a Hierarchical Server Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--549 Funda Ergün and S. Ravi Kumar and Ronitt Rubinfeld Checking Approximate Computations of Polynomials and Functional Equations . . 550--576 Frank Hoffmann and Christian Icking and Rolf Klein and Klaus Kriegel The Polygon Exploration Problem . . . . 577--600 Ashim Garg and Roberto Tamassia On the Computational Complexity of Upward and Rectilinear Planarity Testing 601--625 Tom Leighton and Chi-Jen Lu and Satish Rao and Aravind Srinivasan New Algorithmic Aspects of the Local Lemma with Applications to Routing and Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--641 Hagit Attiya and Arie Fouren Adaptive and Efficient Algorithms for Lattice Agreement and Renaming . . . . . 642--664
Moses Charikar and Samir Khuller and Balaji Raghavachari Algorithms for Capacitated Vehicle Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--682 Conrado Martínez and Salvador Roura Optimal Sampling Strategies in Quicksort and Quickselect . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--705 Cyril Gavoille and David Peleg The Compactness of Interval Routing for Almost All Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 706--721 Amir M. Ben-Amram and Zvi Galil Topological Lower Bounds on Algebraic Random Access Machines . . . . . . . . . 722--761 J. Ian Munro and Venkatesh Raman Succinct Representation of Balanced Parentheses and Static Trees . . . . . . 762--776 Denis Thérien and Thomas Temporal Logic and Semidirect Products: An Effective Characterization of the Until Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--798 Cristopher Moore and Martin Nilsson Parallel Quantum Computation and Quantum Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--815 Eli Gafni and Michael Mitzenmacher Analysis of Timing-Based Mutual Exclusion with Random Times . . . . . . 816--837 Joseph Y. Halpern and Yoram Moses and Orli Waarts A Characterization of Eventual Byzantine Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838--865 Amit Chakrabarti and Subhash Khot and Yaoyun Shi Evasiveness of Subgraph Containment and Related Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 866--875 Harry Buhrman and Luc Longpré Compressibility and Resource Bounded Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876--886 Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Sophie Laplante Resource-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--905 A. Pavan and Alan L. Selman Separation of NP-Completeness Notions 906--918 Stavros G. Kolliopoulos and Clifford Stein Approximation Algorithms for Single-Source Unsplittable Flow . . . . 919--946 Michele Boreale and Rocco De Nicola and Rosario Pugliese Proof Techniques for Cryptographic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--986 J. H. Rieger Corrigendum: Proximity in Arrangements of Algebraic Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 987--987 Alan Frieze Corrigendum: Edge-Disjoint Paths in Expander Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 988--988
Yoram Moses and Sergio Rajsbaum A Layered Analysis of Consensus . . . . 989--1021 Eduardo S. Laber and Ruy L. Milidiú and Artur A. Pessoa On Binary Searching with Nonuniform Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1047 Paul Beame and Richard Karp and Toniann Pitassi and Michael Saks The Efficiency of Resolution and Davis--Putnam Procedures . . . . . . . . 1048--1075 Christoph Dürr and Miklos Santha A Decision Procedure for Unitary Linear Quantum Cellular Automata . . . . . . . 1076--1089 Uriel Feige and Robert Krauthgamer A Polylogarithmic Approximation of the Minimum Bisection . . . . . . . . . . . 1090--1118 Wolfgang Merkle Lattice Embeddings for Abstract Bounded Reducibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1155 Alfons Geser Decidability of Termination of Grid String Rewriting Rules . . . . . . . . . 1156--1168 Rod G. Downey and Denis R. Hirschfeldt and André Nies Randomness, Computability, and Density 1169--1183 Michael Alekhnovich and Eli Ben-Sasson and Alexander A. Razborov and Avi Wigderson Space Complexity in Propositional Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1211 Thorsten Theobald An Enumerative Geometry Framework for Algorithmic Line Problems in $ \mathbb {R}^3 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1228 Leslie G. Valiant Quantum Circuits That Can Be Simulated Classically in Polynomial Time . . . . . 1229--1254 Zhi-Zhong Chen and Xin He and Chun-Hsi Huang Finding Double Euler Trails of Planar Graphs in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . 1255--1285 Hagit Attiya and Sergio Rajsbaum The Combinatorial Structure of Wait-Free Solvable Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286--1313
V. Chvátal and J. Fonlupt and L. Sun and A. Zemirline Recognizing Dart-Free Perfect Graphs . . 1315--1338 Yunhong Zhou and Subhash Suri Algorithms for a Minimum Volume Enclosing Simplex in Three Dimensions 1339--1357 Rocco A. Servedio Perceptron, Winnow, and PAC Learning . . 1358--1369 Baruch Awerbuch and Yossi Azar and Stefano Leonardi and Oded Regev Minimizing the Flow Time Without Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1370--1382 Moni Naor and Omer Reingold and Alon Rosen Pseudorandom Functions and Factoring . . 1383--1404 R. Hiptmair and J. Ostrowski Generators of $ H_1 (\Gamma_h, \mathbb {Z}) $ for Triangulated Surfaces: Construction and Classification . . . . 1405--1423 Anna Gál and Adi Rosén A Theorem on Sensitivity and Applications in Private Computation . . 1424--1437 F. M. Malvestuto and M. Mezzini A Linear Algorithm for Finding the Invariant Edges of an Edge-Weighted Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1438--1455 Alex Brodsky and Nicholas Pippenger Characterizations of $1$-Way Quantum Finite Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456--1478 Joachim Gudmundsson and Christos Levcopoulos and Giri Narasimhan Fast Greedy Algorithms for Constructing Sparse Geometric Spanners . . . . . . . 1479--1500 Adam R. Klivans and Dieter van Melkebeek Graph Nonisomorphism Has Subexponential Size Proofs Unless the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy Collapses . . . . . . . . . . 1501--1526 Martin Dyer and Alan Frieze and Mark Jerrum On Counting Independent Sets in Sparse Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1527--1541 Dieter Spreen Safe Weak Minimization Revisited . . . . 1542--1556 Ilan Newman Testing Membership in Languages that Have Small Width Branching Programs . . 1557--1570 Alain Mayer and Rafail Ostrovsky and Yoram Ofek and Moti Yung Self-Stabilizing Symmetry Breaking in Constant Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1571--1595 Tomás Feder and Rajeev Motwani and Carlos Subi Approximating the Longest Cycle Problem in Sparse Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596--1607 Eran Halperin Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Vertex Cover Problem in Graphs and Hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1608--1623 E. Boros and K. Elbassioni and V. Gurvich and L. Khachiyan and K. Makino Dual-Bounded Generating Problems: All Minimal Integer Solutions for a Monotone System of Linear Inequalities . . . . . 1624--1643
Alexander Russell and Michael Saks and David Zuckerman Lower Bounds for Leader Election and Collective Coin-Flipping in the Perfect Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1645--1662 Venkatesan Guruswami and Johan Håstad and Madhu Sudan Hardness of Approximate Hypergraph Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1663--1686 Hsien-Kuei Hwang and Ralph Neininger Phase Change of Limit Laws in the Quicksort Recurrence under Varying Toll Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687--1722 H. Buhrman and P. B. Miltersen and J. Radhakrishnan and S. Venkatesh Are Bitvectors Optimal? . . . . . . . . 1723--1744 János Pach and Gábor Tardos On the Boundary Complexity of the Union of Fat Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1760 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan Approximate String Matching: a Simpler Faster Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 1761--1782 J. Könemann and R. Ravi A Matter of Degree: Improved Approximation Algorithms for Degree-Bounded Minimum Spanning Trees 1783--1793 Mayur Datar and Aristides Gionis and Piotr Indyk and Rajeev Motwani Maintaining Stream Statistics over Sliding Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 1794--1813 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Therese Biedl and Sylvain Lazard and Steve Robbins and Subhash Suri and Sue Whitesides Curvature-Constrained Shortest Paths in a Convex Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . 1814--1851 Yijie Han and Xiaojun Shen Parallel Integer Sorting Is More Efficient Than Parallel Comparison Sorting on Exclusive Write PRAMs . . . . 1852--1878 Seth Pettie and Vijaya Ramachandran A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879--1895 Martin Kutz Lower Bounds for Lucas Chains . . . . . 1896--1908 Nader H. Bshouty and Yishay Mansour Simple Learning Algorithms for Decision Trees and Multivariate Polynomials . . . 1909--1925 Hanno Lefmann and Niels Schmitt A Deterministic Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Heilbronn's Problem in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 1926--1947 Edith Hemaspaandra and Gerd Wechsung The Minimization Problem for Boolean Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1948--1958
Ran Canetti and Joe Kilian and Erez Petrank and Alon Rosen Black-Box Concurrent Zero-Knowledge Requires (Almost) Logarithmically Many Rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--47 Peter Auer and Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi and Yoav Freund and Robert E. Schapire The Nonstochastic Multiarmed Bandit Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--77 Idit Keidar and Roger Khazan A Virtually Synchronous Group Multicast Algorithm for WANs: Formal Approach . . 78--130 Joan Feigenbaum and Sampath Kannan and Martin J. Strauss and Mahesh Viswanathan An Approximate $ L^1 $-Difference Algorithm for Massive Data Streams . . . 131--151 Luc Devroye Limit Laws for Sums of Functions of Subtrees of Random Binary Search Trees 152--171 Uriel Feige and Magnús M. Halldórsson and Guy Kortsarz and Aravind Srinivasan Approximating the Domatic Number . . . . 172--195 Etienne Grandjean and Thomas Schwentick Machine-Independent Characterizations and Complete Problems for Deterministic Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--230 Guy Even and Sudipto Guha and Baruch Schieber Improved Approximations of Crossings in Graph Drawings and VLSI Layout Areas . . 231--252 Narayan Vikas Computational Complexity of Compaction to Reflexive Cycles . . . . . . . . . . 253--280
P. Flocchini and A. Roncato and N. Santoro Backward Consistency and Sense of Direction in Advanced Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--306 Csaba D. Tóth Binary Space Partitions for Line Segments with a Limited Number of Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--325 Tom Bohman and Alan Frieze Arc-Disjoint Paths in Expander Digraphs 326--344 Uriel Feige and Robert Krauthgamer The Probable Value of the Lovász--Schrijver Relaxations for Maximum Independent Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--370 David Gamarnik Stability of Adaptive and Nonadaptive Packet Routing Policies in Adversarial Queueing Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 371--385 John Ellis and Stirling Chow and Dennis Manke Many to One Embeddings from Grids into Cylinders, Tori, and Hypercubes . . . . 386--407 Zhi-Zhong Chen and Xin He and Ming-Yang Kao Common-Face Embeddings of Planar Graphs 408--434 B. Mourrain and V. Y. Pan and O. Ruatta Accelerated Solution of Multivariate Polynomial Systems of Equations . . . . 435--454 Steven S. Seiden and Rob van Stee and Leah Epstein New Bounds for Variable-Sized Online Bin Packing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--469 Samir Khuller and Randeep Bhatia and Robert Pless On Local Search and Placement of Meters in Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--487 Ran Raz and Amir Shpilka Lower Bounds for Matrix Product in Bounded Depth Circuits with Arbitrary Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--513 Thomas Eiter and Georg Gottlob and Kazuhisa Makino New Results on Monotone Dualization and Generating Hypergraph Transversals . . . 514--537 Tomás Feder and Rajeev Motwani and Rina Panigrahy and Chris Olston and Jennifer Widom Computing the Median with Uncertainty 538--547 Xinmao Wang and Victor Y. Pan Acceleration of Euclidean Algorithm and Rational Number Reconstruction . . . . . 548--556
Hasan Çam Rearrangeability of $ (2 n - 1)$-Stage Shuffle-Exchange Networks . . . . . . . 557--585 Dan Boneh and Matthew Franklin Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--615 Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir 3-Dimensional Euclidean Voronoi Diagrams of Lines with a Fixed Number of Orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--642 David Eppstein Setting Parameters by Example . . . . . 643--653 Stephan J. Eidenbenz and Peter Widmayer An Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Convex Cover with Logarithmic Performance Guarantee . . . . . . . . . 654--670 Oliver Braun and Günter Schmidt Parallel Processor Scheduling with Limited Number of Preemptions . . . . . 671--680 Ronald de Wolf Nondeterministic Quantum Query and Communication Complexities . . . . . . . 681--699 Timothy M. Chan Semi-Online Maintenance of Geometric Optima and Measures . . . . . . . . . . 700--716 John F. Rudin III and R. Chandrasekaran Improved Bounds for the Online Scheduling Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 717--735 Thore Husfeldt and Theis Rauhe New Lower Bound Techniques for Dynamic Partial Sums and Related Problems . . . 736--753 Nadia El-Mabrouk and David Sankoff The Reconstruction of Doubled Genomes 754--792 Sunil Arya and Ho-Yam Addy Fu Expected-Case Complexity of Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching . . . . . . . 793--815 Ramgopal R. Mettu and C. Greg Plaxton The Online Median Problem . . . . . . . 816--832
Satoru Iwata A Faster Scaling Algorithm for Minimizing Submodular Functions . . . . 833--840 Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir The Partition Technique for Overlays of Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--863 Zhi-Zhong Chen and Tao Jiang and Guohui Lin Computing Phylogenetic Roots with Bounded Degrees and Errors . . . . . . . 864--879 Jens Liebehenschel Lexicographical Generation of a Generalized Dyck Language . . . . . . . 880--903 Hua-Huai Chern and Hsien-Kuei Hwang Partial Match Queries in Random Quadtrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--915 Sean Hallgren and Alexander Russell and Amnon Ta-Shma The Hidden Subgroup Problem and Quantum Computation Using Group Representations 916--934 Michael Molloy Models for Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 935--949 Joost Engelfriet and Sebastian Maneth Macro Tree Translations of Linear Size Increase are MSO Definable . . . . . . . 950--1006 Injong Rhee and Jennifer L. Welch The Impact of Timing Knowledge on the Session Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1039 Hung Q. Ngo and Van H. Vu Multirate Rearrangeable Clos Networks and a Generalized Edge-Coloring Problem on Bipartite Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1040--1049 Joseph Cheriyan and Santosh Vempala and Adrian Vetta An Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum-Cost $k$-Vertex Connected Subgraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050--1055 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan Tree Pattern Matching to Subset Matching in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1066 Mario Valencia-Pabon Revisiting Tucker's Algorithm to Color Circular Arc Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1067--1072 Xiaotie Deng and Guojun Li and Zimao Li and Bin Ma and Lusheng Wang Genetic Design of Drugs Without Side-Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1090 Amotz Bar-Noy and Richard E. Ladner Windows Scheduling Problems for Broadcast Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1113
David Fernández-Baca and Jens Lagergren A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Near-Perfect Phylogeny . . . . . . . . . 1115--1127 Martin Kochol and Vadim Lozin and Bert Randerath The 3-Colorability Problem on Graphs with Maximum Degree Four . . . . . . . . 1128--1139 Scott Aaronson Algorithms for Boolean Function Query Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140--1157 Michal Parnas and Dana Ron and Ronitt Rubinfeld On Testing Convexity and Submodularity 1158--1184 Amir Shpilka Lower Bounds for Matrix Product . . . . 1185--1200 Jian Shen and Li Sheng and Jie Wu Searching for Sorted Sequences of Kings in Tournaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1209 Y. Kohayakawa and V. Rödl and L. Thoma An Optimal Algorithm for Checking Regularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210--1235 Jack H. Lutz Dimension in Complexity Classes . . . . 1236--1259 Petra Berenbrink and Tom Friedetzky and Leslie Ann Goldberg The Natural Work-Stealing Algorithm is Stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260--1279 Markus Püschel and José M. F. Moura The Algebraic Approach to the Discrete Cosine and Sine Transforms and Their Fast Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280--1316 Sanjeev Arora and George Karakostas Approximation Schemes for Minimum Latency Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317--1337 Edith Cohen and Eran Halperin and Haim Kaplan and Uri Zwick Reachability and Distance Queries via $2$-Hop Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338--1355 Ran Raz On the Complexity of Matrix Product . . 1356--1369 Joseph Y.-T. Leung and Michael Pinedo Minimizing Total Completion Time on Parallel Machines with Deadline Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1370--1388 Oliver Glier Kolmogorov Complexity and Deterministic Context-Free Languages . . . . . . . . . 1389--1394
Andreas Björklund and Thore Husfeldt Finding a Path of Superlogarithmic Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395--1402 Amos Fiat and Manor Mendel Better Algorithms for Unfair Metrical Task Systems and Applications . . . . . 1403--1422 Tetsuo Asano and Naoki Katoh and Koji Obokata and Takeshi Tokuyama Matrix Rounding under the $ L_p $-Discrepancy Measure and Its Application to Digital Halftoning . . . 1423--1435 Joachim von zur Gathen and Igor Shparlinski and Alistair Sinclair Finding Points on Curves over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436--1448 John H. Reif and Zheng Sun On Frictional Mechanical Systems and Their Computational Power . . . . . . . 1449--1474 Vince Grolmusz Computing Elementary Symmetric Polynomials with a Subpolynomial Number of Multiplications . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1487 Lars Arge and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Optimal External Memory Interval Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1488--1508
Fabián A. Chudak and David B. Shmoys Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan Faster Suffix Tree Construction with Missing Suffix Links . . . . . . . . . . 26--42 Juraj Hromkovic and Georg Schnitger Nondeterministic Communication with a Limited Number of Advice Bits . . . . . 43--68 Siu-Wing Cheng and Tamal K. Dey Quality Meshing with Weighted Delaunay Refinement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--93 Guy Even and Zvi Lotker and Dana Ron and Shakhar Smorodinsky Conflict-Free Colorings of Simple Geometric Regions with Applications to Frequency Assignment in Cellular Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--136 László Babai and Anna Gál and Peter G. Kimmel and Satyanarayana V. Lokam Communication Complexity of Simultaneous Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--166 Ronald Cramer and Victor Shoup Design and Analysis of Practical Public-Key Encryption Schemes Secure against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--226 Peter Bürgisser and Felipe Cucker Counting Complexity Classes for Numeric Computations I: Semilinear Sets . . . . 227--260
Refael Hassin and Asaf Levin An Efficient Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for the Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem Using Matroid Intersection . . . . . . . . . . 261--268 Sariel Har-Peled and Yusu Wang Shape Fitting with Outliers . . . . . . 269--285 Zvi Lotker and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Adi Rosén New Stability Results for Adversarial Queuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--303 Iiro Honkala and Tero Laihonen On Identifying Codes in the Triangular and Square Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--312 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum and Sampath Kannan and Mike Paterson A Bound on the Capacity of Backoff and Acknowledgment-Based Protocols . . . . . 313--331 Tim Roughgarden Stackelberg Scheduling Strategies . . . 332--350 Georg Gottlob and Reinhard Pichler Hypergraphs in Model Checking: Acyclicity and Hypertree-Width versus Clique-Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--378 William Y. C. Chen and Xueliang Li and Chao Wang and Xiaoyan Zhang The Minimum All-Ones Problem for Trees 379--392 Rolf H. Möhring and Martin Skutella and Frederik Stork Scheduling with AND/OR Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--415 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Steven Kelk and Mike Paterson The Complexity of Choosing an $ {H}$-Coloring (Nearly) Uniformly at Random . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416--432 Kazuyuki Amano and Akira Maruoka The Potential of the Approximation Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--447 Samir Khuller and Yoo-Ah Kim and Yung-Chun (Justin) Wan Algorithms for Data Migration with Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--461 Christian Icking and Rolf Klein and Elmar Langetepe and Sven Schuierer and Ines Semrau An Optimal Competitive Strategy for Walking in Streets . . . . . . . . . . . 462--486 Noga Alon and Richard Beigel and Simon Kasif and Steven Rudich and Benny Sudakov Learning a Hidden Matching . . . . . . . 487--501 Victor Y. Pan and Xinmao Wang On Rational Number Reconstruction and Approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--503
Alan Siegel On Universal Classes of Extremely Random Constant-Time Hash Functions . . . . . . 505--543 Vijay Arya and Naveen Garg and Rohit Khandekar and Adam Meyerson and Kamesh Munagala and Vinayaka Pandit Local Search Heuristics for $k$-Median and Facility Location Problems . . . . . 544--562 Alexander Kesselman and Zvi Lotker and Yishay Mansour and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Baruch Schieber and Maxim Sviridenko Buffer Overflow Management in QoS Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--583 Xiao Chen and Jian Shen On the Frame--Stewart Conjecture about the Towers of Hanoi . . . . . . . . . . 584--589 Itsik Pe'er and Tal Pupko and Ron Shamir and Roded Sharan Incomplete Directed Perfect Phylogeny 590--607 Michael Elkin and David Peleg $ (1 + \epsilon, \beta)$-Spanner Constructions for General Graphs . . . . 608--631 Adam L. Buchsbaum and Howard Karloff and Claire Kenyon and Nick Reingold and Mikkel Thorup \em OPT Versus \em LOAD in Dynamic Storage Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . 632--646 Luc Devroye and Ralph Neininger Distances and Finger Search in Random Binary Search Trees . . . . . . . . . . 647--658 Matthew Andrews and Lisa Zhang The Effects of Temporary Sessions on Network Performance . . . . . . . . . . 659--673 Joseph Y. Halpern and Ron van der Meyden and Moshe Y. Vardi Complete Axiomatizations for Reasoning about Knowledge and Time . . . . . . . . 674--703 Guy Kortsarz and Robert Krauthgamer and James R. Lee Hardness of Approximation for Vertex-Connectivity Network Design Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704--720 Michael Molloy The Glauber Dynamics on Colorings of a Graph with High Girth and Maximum Degree 721--737 Oded Regev Quantum Computation and Lattice Problems 738--760
Narayan Vikas Compaction, Retraction, and Constraint Satisfaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--782 Boaz Barak and Yehuda Lindell Strict Polynomial-Time in Simulation and Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--818 Jesus De Loera and Shmuel Onn The Complexity of Three-Way Statistical Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819--836 Chandra Chekuri and Sanjeev Khanna On Multidimensional Packing Problems . . 837--851 N. V. Vinodchandran Counting Complexity of Solvable Black-Box Group Problems . . . . . . . . 852--869 Dariusz R. Kowalski and Andrzej Pelc Time of Deterministic Broadcasting in Radio Networks with Local Knowledge . . 870--891 Jörg Flum and Martin Grohe The Parameterized Complexity of Counting Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892--922 Luc Devroye and Pat Morin and Alfredo Viola On Worst-Case Robin Hood Hashing . . . . 923--936 Prosenjit Bose and Pat Morin Online Routing in Triangulations . . . . 937--951 Werner Schachinger Distributional Results for Costs of Partial Match Queries in Asymmetric $ {K}$-Dimensional Tries . . . . . . . . . 952--983 Jin-Yi Cai and Osamu Watanabe On Proving Circuit Lower Bounds against the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy . . . . . 984--1009
Amotz Bar-Noy and Richard E. Ladner Efficient Algorithms for Optimal Stream Merging for Media-on-Demand . . . . . . 1011--1034 György Dósa and Yong He Better Online Algorithms for Scheduling with Machine Cost . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1051 Joachim Biskup and Jan Paredaens and Thomas Schwentick and Jan Van den Bussche Solving Equations in the Relational Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1066 Rocco A. Servedio and Steven J. Gortler Equivalences and Separations Between Quantum and Classical Learnability . . . 1067--1092 Jacobo Torán On the Hardness of Graph Isomorphism . . 1093--1108 André van Tonder A Lambda Calculus for Quantum Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1135 Guantao Chen and Jun Xu and Xingxing Yu Circumference of Graphs with Bounded Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136--1170 Nathan Segerlind and Sam Buss and Russell Impagliazzo A Switching Lemma for Small Restrictions and Lower Bounds for $k$-DNF Resolution 1171--1200 James B. Orlin and Abraham P. Punnen and Andreas S. Schulz Approximate Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization . . . . . . . 1201--1214 John Havlicek A Note on the Homotopy Type of Wait-Free Atomic Snapshot Protocol Complexes . . . 1215--1222 Paul W. Purdom and Dirk Van Gucht and Dennis P. Groth Average-Case Performance of the Apriori Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1260
Yair Bartal and John W. Byers and Danny Raz Fast, Distributed Approximation Algorithms for Positive Linear Programming with Applications to Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1279 Uwe Schwiegelshohn Preemptive Weighted Completion Time Scheduling of Parallel Jobs . . . . . . 1280--1308 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Harald Hempel and Arfst Nickelsen Algebraic Properties for Selector Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309--1337 Uriel Feige and Michael Langberg and Gideon Schechtman Graphs with Tiny Vector Chromatic Numbers and Huge Chromatic Numbers . . . 1338--1368 Christian Glasser and Alan L. Selman and Samik Sengupta and Liyu Zhang Disjoint NP-Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1416 Moses Charikar and Chandra Chekuri and Tomas Feder and Rajeev Motwani Incremental Clustering and Dynamic Information Retrieval . . . . . . . . . 1417--1440 Tali Kaufman and Michael Krivelevich and Dana Ron Tight Bounds for Testing Bipartiteness in General Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 1441--1483 Marek Piotrów Depth Optimal Sorting Networks Resistant to $k$ Passive Faults . . . . . . . . . 1484--1512 Pierre McKenzie and Heribert Vollmer and Klaus W. Wagner Arithmetic Circuits and Polynomial Replacement Systems . . . . . . . . . . 1513--1531
Karhan Akcoglu and Petros Drineas and Ming-Yang Kao Fast Universalization of Investment Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22 Michal Katz and Nir A. Katz and Amos Korman and David Peleg Labeling Schemes for Flow and Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--40 Carme \`Alvarez and Maria Blesa and Maria Serna A Characterization of Universal Stability in the Adversarial Queuing Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--66 Michael Alekhnovich and Eli Ben-Sasson and Alexander A. Razborov and Avi Wigderson Pseudorandom Generators in Propositional Proof Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--88 Lars Ivansson and Jens Lagergren Algorithms for RH Mapping: New Ideas and Improved Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 89--108 Stefan Hougardy and Annegret Wagler Perfectness is an Elusive Graph Property 109--117 Daniele Micciancio Almost Perfect Lattices, the Covering Radius Problem, and Applications to Ajtai's Connection Factor . . . . . . . 118--169 John M. Hitchcock Small Spans in Scaled Dimension . . . . 170--194 Ben Morris and Alistair Sinclair Random Walks on Truncated Cubes and Sampling $0$-$1$ Knapsack Solutions . . 195--226 Edith Cohen and Haim Kaplan Balanced-Replication Algorithms for Distribution Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 227--247 Yair Bartal and Manor Mendel Multiembedding of Metric Spaces . . . . 248--259
Joshua Buresh-Oppenheim and Paul Beame and Toniann Pitassi and Ran Raz and Ashish Sabharwal Bounded-Depth Frege Lower Bounds for Weaker Pigeonhole Principles . . . . . . 261--276 Markus Bläser A Complete Characterization of the Algebras of Minimal Bilinear Complexity 277--298 Benjamin Doerr Nonindependent Randomized Rounding and an Application to Digital Halftoning . . 299--317 Rajat Bhattacharjee and Ashish Goel and Zvi Lotker Instability of FIFO at Arbitrarily Low Rates in the Adversarial Queueing Model 318--332 Tushar Chandra and Vassos Hadzilacos and Prasad Jayanti and Sam Toueg Generalized Irreducibility of Consensus and the Equivalence of $t$-Resilient and Wait-Free Implementations of Consensus 333--357 Gruia Calinescu and Howard Karloff and Yuval Rabani Approximation Algorithms for the $0$-Extension Problem . . . . . . . . . 358--372 Kai-min Chung and Hsueh-I Lu An Optimal Algorithm for the Maximum-Density Segment Problem . . . . 373--387 Satish Rao and Andréa W. Richa New Approximation Techniques for Some Linear Ordering Problems . . . . . . . . 388--404 Mikkel Thorup Quick $k$-Median, $k$-Center, and Facility Location for Sparse Graphs . . 405--432 S. Muthukrishnan and Rajmohan Rajaraman and Anthony Shaheen and Johannes E. Gehrke Online Scheduling to Minimize Average Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--452 Anupam Gupta and Amit Kumar and Rajeev Rastogi Traveling with a Pez Dispenser (or, Routing Issues in MPLS) . . . . . . . . 453--474 Volker Kaibel and Rafael Mechtel and Micha Sharir and Günter M. Ziegler The Simplex Algorithm in Dimension Three 475--497 Yasunori Ishihara and Shin Ishii and Hiroyuki Seki and Minoru Ito Temporal Reasoning about Two Concurrent Sequences of Events . . . . . . . . . . 498--513
Raimund Seidel and Micha Sharir Top-Down Analysis of Path Compression 515--525 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Micha Sharir Pseudo-Line Arrangements: Duality, Algorithms, and Applications . . . . . . 526--552 Vida Dujmovic and Pat Morin and David R. Wood Layout of Graphs with Bounded Tree-Width 553--579 Artur Czumaj and Christian Sohler Abstract Combinatorial Programs and Efficient Property Testers . . . . . . . 580--615 Aris Anagnostopoulos and Adam Kirsch and Eli Upfal Load Balancing in Arbitrary Network Topologies with Stochastic Adversarial Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--639 Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi and Alex Conconi and Claudio Gentile A Second-Order Perceptron Algorithm . . 640--668 Ho-Leung Chan and Tak-Wah Lam and Kar-Keung To Nonmigratory Online Deadline Scheduling on Multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . 669--682 Huaming Zhang and Xin He On Even Triangulations of $2$-Connected Embedded Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 683--696 Bala Kalyanasundaram and Kirk R. Pruhs Fault-Tolerant Scheduling . . . . . . . 697--719 Andrei Bulatov and Peter Jeavons and Andrei Krokhin Classifying the Complexity of Constraints Using Finite Algebras . . . 720--742 Yumei Huo and Joseph Y.-T. Leung Online Scheduling of Precedence Constrained Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 743--762 J. Könemann and R. Ravi Primal-Dual Meets Local Search: Approximating MSTs With Nonuniform Degree Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--773
Alon Efrat The Complexity of the Union of $ (\alpha, \beta)$-Covered Objects . . . . 775--787 Martin Skutella and Marc Uetz Stochastic Machine Scheduling with Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . 788--802 Moses Charikar and Sudipto Guha Improved Combinatorial Algorithms for Facility Location Problems . . . . . . . 803--824 Derek G. Corneil and Udi Rotics On the Relationship Between Clique-Width and Treewidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--847 Chryssis Georgiou and Alexander Russell and Alexander A. Shvartsman Work-Competitive Scheduling for Cooperative Computing with Dynamic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848--862 Vladlen Koltun and Micha Sharir Curve-Sensitive Cuttings . . . . . . . . 863--878 Timothy M. Chan Low-Dimensional Linear Programming with Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--893 Richard Cole and Ramesh Hariharan Dynamic LCA Queries on Trees . . . . . . 894--923 Yi-Ting Chiang and Ching-Chi Lin and Hsueh-I Lu Orderly Spanning Trees with Applications 924--945 Anna Gál and Adi Rosén $ \Omega (\log n) $ Lower Bounds on the Amount of Randomness in $2$-Private Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946--959 Michael Kaminski A Lower Bound on the Complexity of Polynomial Multiplication over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--992 Grzegorz Malewicz A Work-Optimal Deterministic Algorithm for the Certified Write-All Problem with a Nontrivial Number of Asynchronous Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993--1024
Géraud Sénizergues The Bisimulation Problem for Equational Graphs of Finite Out-Degree . . . . . . 1025--1106 Jeffrey C. Jackson and Rocco A. Servedio Learning Random Log-Depth Decision Trees under Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . 1107--1128 Irit Dinur and Venkatesan Guruswami and Subhash Khot and Oded Regev A New Multilayered PCP and the Hardness of Hypergraph Vertex Cover . . . . . . . 1129--1146 Eldar Fischer The Difficulty of Testing for Isomorphism against a Graph That Is Given in Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1158 Kousha Etessami and Thomas Wilke and Rebecca A. Schuller Fair Simulation Relations, Parity Games, and State Space Reduction for Büchi Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159--1175 Arfst Nickelsen and Till Tantau The Complexity of Finding Paths in Graphs with Bounded Independence Number 1176--1195 Amos Beimel and Enav Weinreb Separating the Power of Monotone Span Programs over Different Fields . . . . . 1196--1215 Panagiota Fatourou and Marios Mavronicolas and Paul Spirakis Efficiency of Oblivious versus Nonoblivious Schedulers for Optimistic, Rate-based Flow Control . . . . . . . . 1216--1252 Annalisa De Bonis and Leszek Gasieniec and Ugo Vaccaro Optimal Two-Stage Algorithms for Group Testing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253--1270 Frank K. Hwang and Yong He and Yang Wang Strictly Nonblocking Multirate $ \log_d(N, m, p) $ Networks . . . . . . . 1271--1278
Mark McCann and Nicholas Pippenger SRT Division Algorithms as Dynamical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279--1301 Thomas Erlebach and Klaus Jansen and Eike Seidel Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes for Geometric Intersection Graphs . . . 1302--1323 Harry Buhrman and Christoph Dürr and Mark Heiligman and Peter Hòyer and Frédéric Magniez and Miklos Santha and Ronald de Wolf Quantum Algorithms for Element Distinctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324--1330 Esther Ezra and Micha Sharir Output-Sensitive Construction of the Union of Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . 1331--1351 Edith Hemaspaandra and Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Harald Hempel Extending Downward Collapse from $1$-versus-$2$ Queries to $m$-versus-$ m + 1$ Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352--1369 Bernard Chazelle and Ronitt Rubinfeld and Luca Trevisan Approximating the Minimum Spanning Tree Weight in Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . 1370--1379 John Hershberger and Subhash Suri and Csaba D. Tóth Binary Space Partitions of Orthogonal Subdivisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1380--1397 Seth Pettie and Vijaya Ramachandran A Shortest Path Algorithm for Real-Weighted Undirected Graphs . . . . 1398--1431 Qi Cheng On the Bounded Sum-of-Digits Discrete Logarithm Problem in Finite Fields . . . 1432--1442 David A. Hutchinson and Peter Sanders and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Duality Between Prefetching and Queued Writing with Parallel Disks . . . . . . 1443--1463 Vincent D. Blondel and Emmanuel Jeandel and Pascal Koiran and Natacha Portier Decidable and Undecidable Problems about Quantum Automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1464--1473 Qingmin Shi and Joseph JaJa Novel Transformation Techniques Using Q-Heaps with Applications to Computational Geometry . . . . . . . . . 1474--1492 Gagan Aggarwal and Qi Cheng and Michael H. Goldwasser and Ming-Yang Kao and Pablo Moisset de Espanes and Robert T. Schweller Complexities for Generalized Models of Self-Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493--1515 Reuven Cohen and David Peleg Convergence Properties of the Gravitational Algorithm in Asynchronous Robot Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1528
Eli Ben-Sasson and Prahladh Harsha and Sofya Raskhodnikova Some 3CNF Properties Are Hard to Test 1--21 Michael Lindenbaum and Hanan Samet and Gisli R. Hjaltason A Probabilistic Analysis of Trie-Based Sorting of Large Collections of Line Segments in Spatial Databases . . . . . 22--58 Dieter van Melkebeek and Rahul Santhanam Holographic Proofs and Derandomization 59--90 Artur Czumaj and Funda Ergün and Lance Fortnow and Avner Magen and Ilan Newman and Ronitt Rubinfeld and Christian Sohler Approximating the Weight of the Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree in Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--109 Klaus Jansen and Marek Karpinski and Andrzej Lingas and Eike Seidel Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for MAX-BISECTION on Planar and Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119 Zvi Lotker and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Elan Pavlov and David Peleg Minimum-Weight Spanning Tree Construction in $ O(\log \log n) $ Communication Rounds . . . . . . . . . . 120--131 Tugkan Batu and Sanjoy Dasgupta and Ravi Kumar and Ronitt Rubinfeld The Complexity of Approximating the Entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--150 Jie Gao and Li Zhang Well-Separated Pair Decomposition for the Unit-Disk Graph Metric and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--169 Greg Kuperberg A Subexponential-Time Quantum Algorithm for the Dihedral Hidden Subgroup Problem 170--188 Refael Hassin and Asaf Levin A Better-Than-Greedy Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum Set Cover Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200 Kazuyuki Amano and Akira Maruoka A Superpolynomial Lower Bound for a Circuit Computing the Clique Function with at most (1/6)log log n Negation Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--216 Rosario Gennaro and Yael Gertner and Jonathan Katz and Luca Trevisan Bounds on the Efficiency of Generic Cryptographic Constructions . . . . . . 217--246 Guy Kortsarz and Zeev Nutov Approximating $k$-node Connected Subgraphs via Critical Graphs . . . . . 247--257
Petr Hlinený A Parametrized Algorithm for Matroid Branch-Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--277 Susanne Albers and Markus Schmidt On the Performance of Greedy Algorithms in Packet Buffering . . . . . . . . . . 278--304 Costas Busch and Srikanta Tirthapura Analysis of Link Reversal Routing Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--326 Ketan Dalal and Luc Devroye and Ebrahim Malalla and Erin McLeish Two-Way Chaining with Reassignment . . . 327--340 Michael A. Bender and Erik D. Demaine and Martin Farach-Colton Cache-Oblivious B-Trees . . . . . . . . 341--358 Gyung-Ok Lee and Kwang-Moo Choe A Powerful LL(k) Covering Transformation 359--377 Roberto Grossi and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Compressed Suffix Arrays and Suffix Trees with Applications to Text Indexing and String Matching . . . . . . . . . . 378--407 Joel Friedman and Andreas Goerdt and Michael Krivelevich Recognizing More Unsatisfiable Random $k$-SAT Instances Efficiently . . . . . 408--430 Leah Epstein and Rob van Stee Optimal Online Algorithms for Multidimensional Packing Problems . . . 431--448 April Rasala and Gordon Wilfong Strictly Nonblocking WDM Cross-connects 449--485 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Russell Martin and Mike Paterson Strong Spatial Mixing with Fewer Colors for Lattice Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 486--517
Klaus Jansen and Lorant Porkolab General Multiprocessor Task Scheduling: Approximate Solutions in Linear Time . . 519--530 Esther M. Arkin and Michael A. Bender and Erik D. Demaine and Sándor P. Fekete and Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Saurabh Sethia Optimal Covering Tours with Turn Costs 531--566 Darin Goldstein and Kojiro Kobayashi On the Complexity of Network Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--589 Ernst-Erich Doberkat Stochastic Relations: Congruences, Bisimulations and the Hennessy--Milner Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--626 Bernard Chazelle and Ding Liu and Avner Magen Sublinear Geometric Algorithms . . . . . 627--646 Bjorn Kjos-Hanssen and André Nies and Frank Stephan Lowness for the Class of Schnorr Random Reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--657 Minming Li and Frances F. Yao An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Optimal Discrete Voltage Schedules . . . 658--671 Michael Elkin and Guy Kortsarz A Combinatorial Logarithmic Approximation Algorithm for the Directed Telephone Broadcast Problem . . . . . . 672--689 Dirk Vertigan The Computational Complexity of Tutte Invariants for Planar Graphs . . . . . . 690--712 Chandra Chekuri and Sanjeev Khanna A Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for the Multiple Knapsack Problem . . . 713--728 Weiping Shi and Chen Su The Rectilinear Steiner Arborescence Problem Is NP-Complete . . . . . . . . . 729--740 Meghanad D. Wagh and Osman Guzide Mapping Cycles and Trees on Wrap-Around Butterfly Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 741--765 Hung Q. Ngo WDM Switching Networks, Rearrangeable and Nonblocking [w,f]-connectors . . . . 766--785
Noga Alon and Assaf Naor Approximating the Cut-Norm via Grothendieck's Inequality . . . . . . . 787--803 Scott Aaronson Lower Bounds for Local Search by Quantum Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--824 D. Bienstock and G. Iyengar Approximating Fractional Packings and Coverings in $ O(1 / \epsilon) $ Iterations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--854 Rene Beier and Berthold Vöcking Typical Properties of Winners and Losers [0.2ex] in Discrete Optimization . . . . 855--881 Jonathan A. Kelner Spectral Partitioning, Eigenvalue Bounds, and Circle Packings for Graphs of Bounded Genus . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--902 Alexander Healy and Salil Vadhan and Emanuele Viola Using Nondeterminism to Amplify Hardness 903--931 Mihai Patrascu and Erik D. Demaine Logarithmic Lower Bounds in the Cell-Probe Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 932--963 Uriel Feige On Sums of Independent Random Variables with Unbounded Variance and Estimating the Average Degree in a Graph . . . . . 964--984 László Lovász and Santosh Vempala Hit-and-Run from a Corner . . . . . . . 985--1005 László Babai Special Issue Dedicated to the Thirty-Sixth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2004) . . . . ix--x
Amihood Amir and Yonatan Aumann and Moshe Lewenstein and Ely Porat Function Matching . . . . . . . . . . . 1007--1022 Sean Curran and Orlando Lee and Xingxing Yu Finding Four Independent Trees . . . . . 1023--1058 Holger Petersen and John Michael Robson Efficient Simulations by Queue Machines 1059--1069 Julia Kempe and Alexei Kitaev and Oded Regev The Complexity of the Local Hamiltonian Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070--1097 Jesper Jansson and Nguyen Bao Nguyen and Wing-Kin Sung Algorithms for Combining Rooted Triplets into a Galled Phylogenetic Network . . . 1098--1121 Karl-Heinz Niggl and Henning Wunderlich Certifying Polynomial Time and Linear/Polynomial Space for Imperative Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1147 Sariel Har-Peled and Manor Mendel Fast Construction of Nets in Low-Dimensional Metrics and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148--1184 Omer Reingold and Ronen Shaltiel and Avi Wigderson Extracting Randomness via Repeated Condensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185--1209 Markus Lohrey Word Problems and Membership Problems on Compressed Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210--1240 Maurice Queyranne and Andreas S. Schulz Approximation Bounds for a General Class of Precedence Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems . . . . . . 1241--1253 Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas Oblivious Polynomial Evaluation . . . . 1254--1281
Klaus Weihrauch and Ning Zhong An Algorithm for Computing Fundamental Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283--1294 Serge Abiteboul and Stephen Alstrup and Haim Kaplan and Tova Milo and Theis Rauhe Compact Labeling Scheme for Ancestor Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295--1309 Christoph Dürr and Mark Heiligman and Peter HOyer and Mehdi Mhalla Quantum Query Complexity of Some Graph Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310--1328 Peter Jonsson and Mikael Klasson and Andrei Krokhin The Approximability of Three-valued MAX CSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329--1349 Petra Berenbrink and Artur Czumaj and Angelika Steger and Berthold Vöcking Balanced Allocations: The Heavily Loaded Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350--1385 Floris Geerts and Bart Kuijpers and Jan Van den Bussche Linearization and Completeness Results for Terminating Transitive Closure Queries on Spatial Databases . . . . . . 1386--1439 Hua-Huai Chern and Hsien-Kuei Hwang Partial Match Queries in Random $k$-$d$ Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440--1466 Eric Allender and Harry Buhrman and Michal Koucký and Dieter van Melkebeek and Detlef Ronneburger Power from Random Strings . . . . . . . 1467--1493 Christian Worm Mortensen Fully Dynamic Orthogonal Range Reporting on RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1494--1525
R. Bar-Yehuda and M. M. Halldórsson and J. (S. ) Naor and H. Shachnai and I. Shapira Scheduling Split Intervals . . . . . . . 1--15 Andrei Bulatov and Víctor Dalmau A Simple Algorithm for Mal'tsev Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--27 John Case and Sanjay Jain and Eric Martin and Arun Sharma and Frank Stephan Identifying Clusters from Positive Data 28--55 Noa Agmon and David Peleg Fault-Tolerant Gathering Algorithms for Autonomous Mobile Robots . . . . . . . . 56--82 Stasys Jukna Disproving the Single Level Conjecture 83--98 Li-San Wang and Tandy Warnow Reconstructing Chromosomal Evolution . . 99--131 Petros Drineas and Ravi Kannan and Michael W. Mahoney Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices I: Approximating Matrix Multiplication 132--157 Petros Drineas and Ravi Kannan and Michael W. Mahoney Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices II: Computing a Low-Rank Approximation to a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--183 Petros Drineas and Ravi Kannan and Michael W. Mahoney Fast Monte Carlo Algorithms for Matrices III: Computing a Compressed Approximate Matrix Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . 184--206 Nadia Creignou and Bruno Zanuttini A Complete Classification of the Complexity of Propositional Abduction 207--229 Tomás Feder and Pavol Hell Full Constraint Satisfaction Problems 230--246 Mary Cryan and Martin Dyer and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum and Russell Martin Rapidly Mixing Markov Chains for Sampling Contingency Tables with a Constant Number of Rows . . . . . . . . 247--278 Ichiro Suzuki and Masafumi Yamashita Erratum: Distributed Anonymous Mobile Robots: Formation of Geometric Patterns 279--280
Fedor V. Fomin and Dimitrios M. Thilikos Dominating Sets in Planar Graphs: Branch-Width and Exponential Speed-Up 281--309 Dieter Kratsch and Jeremy Spinrad Between $ O(n m) $ and $ O(n \alpha) $ 310--325 Dieter Kratsch and Ross M. McConnell and Kurt Mehlhorn and Jeremy P. Spinrad Certifying Algorithms for Recognizing Interval Graphs and Permutation Graphs 326--353 Yair Bartal and Amos Fiat and Stefano Leonardi Lower Bounds for On-line Graph Problems with Application to On-line Circuit and Optical Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--393 Yossi Matias and Eran Segal and Jeffrey Scott Vitter Efficient Bundle Sorting . . . . . . . . 394--410 Mohammad Mahdian and Yinyu Ye and Jiawei Zhang Approximation Algorithms for Metric Facility Location Problems . . . . . . . 411--432 Michael Elkin An Unconditional Lower Bound on the Time-Approximation Trade-off for the Distributed Minimum Spanning Tree Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--456 Gunnar Hoest and Nir Shavit Toward a Topological Characterization of Asynchronous Complexity . . . . . . . . 457--497 Julia Chuzhoy and Joseph (Seffi) Naor Covering Problems with Hard Capacities 498--515 Christian Glaßer and A. Pavan and Alan L. Selman and Samik Sengupta Properties of NP-Complete Sets . . . . . 516--542 Jon Feldman and Matthias Ruhl The Directed Steiner Network Problem is Tractable for a Constant Number of Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--561
Scott Diehl and Dieter van Melkebeek Time-Space Lower Bounds for the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy on Randomized Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--594 Richard Beigel and Lance Fortnow and Frank Stephan Infinitely-Often Autoreducible Sets . . 595--608 Aravind Srinivasan An Extension of the Lovász Local Lemma, and its Applications to Integer Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--634 Guantao Chen and Zhicheng Gao and Xingxing Yu and Wenan Zang Approximating Longest Cycles in Graphs with Bounded Degrees . . . . . . . . . . 635--656 Amit Kumar and Jon Kleinberg Fairness Measures for Resource Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--680 Timothy M. Chan Dynamic Subgraph Connectivity with Geometric Applications . . . . . . . . . 681--694 Micha Sharir and Emo Welzl On the Number of Crossing-Free Matchings, Cycles, and Partitions . . . 695--720 Hervé Brönnimann and Lutz Kettner and Michel Pocchiola and Jack Snoeyink Counting and Enumerating Pointed Pseudotriangulations with the Greedy Flip Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--739 Dimitris Achlioptas and Cristopher Moore Random $k$-SAT: Two Moments Suffice to Cross a Sharp Threshold . . . . . . . . 740--762 Wim van Dam and Sean Hallgren and Lawrence Ip Quantum Algorithms for Some Hidden Shift Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--778 Tali Kaufman and Dana Ron Testing Polynomials over General Fields 779--802 Shmuel Safra Exponential Determinization for $ \omega $-Automata with a Strong Fairness Acceptance Condition . . . . . . . . . . 803--814 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Mark Overmars and Micha Sharir Computing Maximally Separated Sets in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--834 Tomasz \Luczak and Jaroslav Ne\vset\vril A Probabilistic Approach to the Dichotomy Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 835--843
Benny Applebaum and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz Cryptography in $ {NC}^0 $ . . . . . . . 845--888 Eli Ben-Sasson and Oded Goldreich and Prahladh Harsha and Madhu Sudan and Salil Vadhan Robust PCPs of Proximity, Shorter PCPs, and Applications to Coding . . . . . . . 889--974 Irit Dinur and Omer Reingold Assignment Testers: Towards a Combinatorial Proof of the PCP Theorem 975--1024 Subhash Khot Ruling Out PTAS for Graph Min-Bisection, Dense $k$-Subgraph, and Bipartite Clique 1025--1071 Ariel Gabizon and Ran Raz and Ronen Shaltiel Deterministic Extractors for Bit-Fixing Sources by Obtaining an Independent Seed 1072--1094 Boaz Barak and Russell Impagliazzo and Avi Wigderson Extracting Randomness Using Few Independent Sources . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1118 Andrej Bogdanov and Luca Trevisan On Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for NP Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119--1159 Salil P. Vadhan An Unconditional Study of Computational Zero Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1160--1214 Amir Shpilka and Avi Wigderson Derandomizing Homomorphism Testing in General Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215--1230 Oded Goldreich and Madhu Sudan Special Issue on Randomness and Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--xi
Jesse Kamp and David Zuckerman Deterministic Extractors for Bit-Fixing Sources and Exposure-Resilient Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1247 Mikhail Alekhnovich and Eli Ben-Sasson Linear Upper Bounds for Random Walk on Small Density Random $3$-CNFs . . . . . 1248--1263 Lane A. Hemaspaandra and Christopher M. Homan and Sven Kosub and Klaus W. Wagner The Complexity of Computing the Size of an Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264--1300 Dan Boneh and Ran Canetti and Shai Halevi and Jonathan Katz Chosen-Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption . . . . . . . 1301--1328 Yoko Kamidoi and Noriyoshi Yoshida and Hiroshi Nagamochi A Deterministic Algorithm for Finding All Minimum $k$-Way Cuts . . . . . . . . 1329--1341 Ke Chen and Amos Fiat and Haim Kaplan and Meital Levy and Ji í Matou\vsek and Elchanan Mossel and János Pach and Micha Sharir and Shakhar Smorodinsky and Uli Wagner and Emo Welzl Online Conflict-Free Coloring for Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1342--1359 David Eppstein and Michael T. Goodrich and Daniel S. Hirschberg Improved Combinatorial Group Testing Algorithms for Real-World Problem Sizes 1360--1375 Julia Chuzhoy and Joseph (Seffi) Naor The Hardness of Metric Labeling . . . . 1376--1386 Emanuele Viola Pseudorandom Bits for Constant-Depth Circuits with Few Arbitrary Symmetric Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387--1403 Zeev Dvir and Amir Shpilka Locally Decodable Codes with Two Queries and Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404--1434 Alan Frieze and Gregory B. Sorkin The Probabilistic Relationship Between the Assignment and Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1435--1452 Marek Chrobak and Leszek G\kasieniec and Dariusz R. Kowalski The Wake-Up Problem in Multihop Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453--1471 Hartmut Klauck and Robert \vSpalek and Ronald de Wolf Quantum and Classical Strong Direct Product Theorems and Optimal Time-Space Tradeoffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1472--1493 Eran Halperin and Guy Kortsarz and Robert Krauthgamer and Aravind Srinivasan and Nan Wang Integrality Ratio for Group Steiner Trees and Directed Steiner Trees . . . . 1494--1511
Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor Zaps and Their Applications . . . . . . 1513--1543 David Soloveichik and Erik Winfree Complexity of Self-Assembled Shapes . . 1544--1569 Bart Kuijpers and Gabriel Kuper and Jan Paredaens and Luc Vandeurzen First-Order Languages Expressing Constructible Spatial Database Queries 1570--1599 Lisa Fleischer and Martin Skutella Quickest Flows Over Time . . . . . . . . 1600--1630 Boaz Ben-Moshe and Matthew J. Katz and Joseph S. B. Mitchell A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Optimal $ 1.5 $D Terrain Guarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1631--1647 Harold N. Gabow Finding Paths and Cycles of Superpolylogarithmic Length . . . . . . 1648--1671 Lars Arge and Michael A. Bender and Erik D. Demaine and Bryan Holland-Minkley and J. Ian Munro An Optimal Cache-Oblivious Priority Queue and Its Application to Graph Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1672--1695 John M. Hitchcock Online Learning and Resource-Bounded Dimension: Winnow Yields New Lower Bounds for Hard Sets . . . . . . . . . . 1696--1708 Marek Chrobak and Wojciech Jawor and Ji\vrí Sgall and Tomá\vs Tichý Online Scheduling of Equal-Length Jobs: Randomization and Restarts Help . . . . 1709--1728 Leonard J. Schulman and Tal Mor and Yossi Weinstein Physical Limits of Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1729--1747 Max A. Alekseyev and Pavel A. Pevzner Whole Genome Duplications and Contracted Breakpoint Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 1748--1763 Kasturi Varadarajan and S. Venkatesh and Yinyu Ye and Jiawei Zhang Approximating the Radii of Point Sets 1764--1776 Alin Bostan and Pierrick Gaudry and Éric Schost Linear Recurrences with Polynomial Coefficients and Application to Integer Factorization and Cartier--Manin Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1777--1806
Frank Harary and Wolfgang Slany and Oleg Verbitsky On the Computational Complexity of the Forcing Chromatic Number . . . . . . . . 1--19 Hartmut Klauck Lower Bounds for Quantum Communication Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--46 Dorit Aharonov and Amnon Ta-Shma Adiabatic Quantum State Generation . . . 47--82 Phillip G. Bradford and Michael N. Katehakis A Probabilistic Study on Combinatorial Expanders and Hashing . . . . . . . . . 83--111 Matthew Andrews and Lisa Zhang Hardness of the Undirected Congestion Minimization Problem . . . . . . . . . . 112--131 Florent Madelaine and Iain A. Stewart Constraint Satisfaction, Logic and Forbidden Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 132--163 Dimitris Achlioptas and Vladlen Koltun Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--165 Dorit Aharonov and Wim van Dam and Julia Kempe and Zeph Landau and Seth Lloyd and Oded Regev Adiabatic Quantum Computation is Equivalent to Standard Quantum Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--194 Qi Cheng and Daqing Wan On the List and Bounded Distance Decodability of Reed--Solomon Codes . . 195--209 Andris Ambainis Quantum Walk Algorithm for Element Distinctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--239 Erik D. Demaine and Dion Harmon and John Iacono and Mihai P\uatra\cscu Dynamic Optimality --- Almost . . . . . 240--251 Steve Chien and Alistair Sinclair Algebras with Polynomial Identities and Computing the Determinant . . . . . . . 252--266 Daniele Micciancio and Oded Regev Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions Based on Gaussian Measures . . . . . . . 267--302 Kamal Jain A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Computing an Arrow--Debreu Market Equilibrium for Linear Utilities . . . . 303--318 Subhash Khot and Guy Kindler and Elchanan Mossel and Ryan O'Donnell Optimal Inapproximability Results for MAX-CUT and Other 2-Variable CSPs? . . . 319--357
A. Pavan and Srikanta Tirthapura Range-Efficient Counting of Distinct Elements in a Massive Data Stream . . . 359--379 Boaz Barak and Shien Jin Ong and Salil Vadhan Derandomization in Cryptography . . . . 380--400 Gregory Mounie and Christophe Rapine and Denis Trystram A $ \frac 32$-Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Independent Monotonic Malleable Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412 Frédéric Magniez and Miklos Santha and Mario Szegedy Quantum Algorithms for the Triangle Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--424 Yuri Gurevich and Paul Schupp Membership Problem for the Modular Group 425--459 A. Moss and Y. Rabani Approximation Algorithms for Constrained Node Weighted Steiner Tree Problems . . 460--481 Eldar Fischer and Ilan Newman Testing versus Estimation of Graph Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--501 Amitabha Roy and Howard Straubing Definability of Languages by Generalized First-Order Formulas over $ (\mathbb {N}, +) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--521 Hervé Brönnimann and Olivier Devillers and Vida Dujmovi\'c and Hazel Everett and Marc Glisse and Xavier Goaoc and Sylvain Lazard and Hyeon-Suk Na and Sue Whitesides Lines and Free Line Segments Tangent to Arbitrary Three-Dimensional Convex Polyhedra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--551 Hartmut Klauck One-Way Communication Complexity and the Ne\vciporuk Lower Bound on Formula Size 552--583 Sunil Arya and Theocharis Malamatos and David M. Mount and Ka Chun Wong Optimal Expected-Case Planar Point Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--610 Wim van Dam and Frédéric Magniez and Michele Mosca and Miklos Santha Self-Testing of Universal and Fault-Tolerant Sets of Quantum Gates . . 611--629 Naveen Garg and Jochen Könemann Faster and Simpler Algorithms for Multicommodity Flow and Other Fractional Packing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--652 Avrim Blum and Shuchi Chawla and David R. Karger and Terran Lane and Adam Meyerson and Maria Minkoff Approximation Algorithms for Orienteering and Discounted-Reward TSP 653--670
Krishna B. Athreya and John M. Hitchcock and Jack H. Lutz and Elvira Mayordomo Effective Strong Dimension in Algorithmic Information and Computational Complexity . . . . . . . . 671--705 Friedrich Eisenbrand and Fabrizio Grandoni and Gianpaolo Oriolo and Martin Skutella New Approaches for Virtual Private Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--721 Partha Dutta and Rachid Guerraoui and Bastian Pochon The Time-Complexity of Local Decision in Distributed Agreement . . . . . . . . . 722--756 Stavros G. Kolliopoulos and Satish Rao A Nearly Linear-Time Approximation Scheme for the Euclidean $k$-Median Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--782 William Aiello and F. T. Leighton Hamming Codes, Hypercube Embeddings, and Fault Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--803 Assaf Naor and Gideon Schechtman Planar Earthmover Is Not in $ L_1 $ . . 804--826 Ryan O'Donnell and Rocco A. Servedio Learning Monotone Decision Trees in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--844 Paul Beame and Toniann Pitassi and Nathan Segerlind Lower Bounds for Lovász--Schrijver Systems and Beyond Follow from Multiparty Communication Complexity . . 845--869 José R. Correa and Michel X. Goemans Improved Bounds on Nonblocking 3-Stage Clos Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--894 Michael Molloy and Mohammad R. Salavatipour The Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . 895--922 Xujin Chen and Xiaodong Hu and Wenan Zang A Min-Max Theorem on Tournaments . . . . 923--937 Cristopher Moore and Daniel Rockmore and Alexander Russell and Leonard J. Schulman The Power of Strong Fourier Sampling: Quantum Algorithms for Affine Groups and Hidden Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938--958 Noga Alon and Eldar Fischer and Ilan Newman Efficient Testing of Bipartite Graphs for Forbidden Induced Subgraphs . . . . 959--976
Nancy Lynch and Roberto Segala and Frits Vaandrager Observing Branching Structure through Probabilistic Contexts . . . . . . . . . 977--1013 Bin Fu and Wei Wang Geometric Separators and Their Applications to Protein Folding in the HP-Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014--1029 David J. Abraham and Robert W. Irving and Telikepalli Kavitha and Kurt Mehlhorn Popular Matchings . . . . . . . . . . . 1030--1045 David Woodruff and Sergey Yekhanin A Geometric Approach to Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval . . . . . . . . . 1046--1056 Lior Davidovitch and Shlomi Dolev and Sergio Rajsbaum Stability of Multivalued Continuous Consensus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1076 Jianer Chen and Henning Fernau and Iyad A. Kanj and Ge Xia Parametric Duality and Kernelization: Lower Bounds and Upper Bounds on Kernel Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1106 Shirley Halevy and Eyal Kushilevitz Distribution-Free Property-Testing . . . 1107--1138 Costas Busch and Malik Magdon-Ismail and Marios Mavronicolas Universal Bufferless Packet Switching 1139--1162 Petra Berenbrink and Tom Friedetzky and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Paul W. Goldberg and Zengjian Hu and Russell Martin Distributed Selfish Load Balancing . . . 1163--1181 Tetsuo Asano and Ji\vrÍ Matou\vsek and Takeshi Tokuyama Zone Diagrams: Existence, Uniqueness, and Algorithmic Challenge . . . . . . . 1182--1198 Siu-Wing Cheng and Tamal K. Dey and Edgar A. Ramos and Tathagata Ray Sampling and Meshing a Surface with Guaranteed Topology and Geometry . . . . 1199--1227 Yijia Chen and Martin Grohe An Isomorphism Between Subexponential and Parameterized Complexity Theory . . 1228--1258 Baruch Awerbuch and Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi and Robert Kleinberg and Tom Leighton Localized Client-Server Load Balancing without Global Information . . . . . . . 1259--1279 Guey-Yun Chang and Gen-Huey Chen ($t$,$k$)-Diagnosability of Multiprocessor Systems with Applications to Grids and Tori . . . . . . . . . . . 1280--1298
Camil Demetrescu and Mikkel Thorup and Rezaul Alam Chowdhury and Vijaya Ramachandran Oracles for Distances Avoiding a Failed Node or Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1318 Jochen Könemann and Stefano Leonardi and Guido Schäfer and Stefan H. M. van Zwam A Group-Strategyproof Cost Sharing Mechanism for the Steiner Forest Game 1319--1341 Ofer Dekel and Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Yoram Singer The Forgetron: a Kernel-Based Perceptron on a Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1342--1372 Bradford G. Nickerson and Qingxiu Shi On $k$-d Range Search with Patricia Tries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1386 Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Ilan Newman and Hein Röhrig Quantum Property Testing . . . . . . . . 1387--1400 K. Rubin and A. Silverberg Compression in Finite Fields and Torus-Based Cryptography . . . . . . . . 1401--1428 Ivona Bezáková and Daniel \vStefankovi\vc and Vijay V. Vazirani and Eric Vigoda Accelerating Simulated Annealing for the Permanent and Combinatorial Counting Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429--1454 Liam Roditty and Uri Zwick Improved Dynamic Reachability Algorithms for Directed Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1455--1471 Aaron Archer and Asaf Levin and David P. Williamson A Faster, Better Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum Latency Problem . . . . 1472--1498 John Augustine and Sandy Irani and Chaitanya Swamy Optimal Power-Down Strategies . . . . . 1499--1516 Christian Glaßer and A. Pavan and Alan L. Selman and Liyu Zhang Splitting NP-Complete Sets . . . . . . . 1517--1535 Jon Feldman and Ryan O'Donnell and Rocco A. Servedio Learning Mixtures of Product Distributions over Discrete Domains . . 1536--1564 Leslie G. Valiant Holographic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 1565--1594 Ho-Leung Chan and Tak-Wah Lam and Kin-Shing Liu Extra Unit-Speed Machines Are Almost as Powerful as Speedy Machines for Flow Time Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . 1595--1612 Hagit Attiya and David Hay Randomization Does Not Reduce the Average Delay in Parallel Packet Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613--1636 Andrew V. Goldberg A Practical Shortest Path Algorithm with Linear Expected Time . . . . . . . . . . 1637--1655 Elliot Anshelevich and David Kempe and Jon Kleinberg Stability of Load Balancing Algorithms in Dynamic Adversarial Systems . . . . . 1656--1673 Hubie Chen The Complexity of Quantified Constraint Satisfaction: Collapsibility, Sink Algebras, and the Three-Element Case . . 1674--1701
Noga Alon and Asaf Shapira A Characterization of the (Natural) Graph Properties Testable with One-Sided Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1727 P. E. Haxell and B. Nagle and V. Rödl An Algorithmic Version of the Hypergraph Regularity Method . . . . . . . . . . . 1728--1776 Adam Tauman Kalai and Adam R. Klivans and Yishay Mansour and Rocco A. Servedio Agnostically Learning Halfspaces . . . . 1777--1805 Navin Goyal and Guy Kindler and Michael Saks Lower Bounds for the Noisy Broadcast Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1806--1841 Cristopher Moore and Alexander Russell and Leonard J. Schulman The Symmetric Group Defies Strong Fourier Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842--1864 Ivan B. Damgård and Serge Fehr and Louis Salvail and Christian Schaffner Cryptography in the Bounded-Quantum-Storage Model . . . . . 1865--1890 Rafael Pass and Alon Rosen Concurrent Nonmalleable Commitments . . 1891--1925 Philip N. Klein A Linear-Time Approximation Scheme for TSP in Undirected Planar Graphs with Edge-Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1926--1952 Irit Dinur and Eva Tardos Special Issue on Foundations of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
Nir Halman On the Algorithmic Aspects of Discrete and Lexicographic Helly-Type Theorems and the Discrete LP-Type Model . . . . . 1--45 Sophie Laplante and Frédéric Magniez Lower Bounds for Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity Using Kolmogorov Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--62 Eric Allender and Lisa Hellerstein and Paul McCabe and Toniann Pitassi and Michael Saks Minimizing Disjunctive Normal Form Formulas and $ {AC}^0 $ Circuits Given a Truth Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--84 Anna Pagh and Rasmus Pagh Uniform Hashing in Constant Time and Optimal Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96 Yevgeniy Dodis and Rafail Ostrovsky and Leonid Reyzin and Adam Smith Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--139 Dana Moshkovitz and Ran Raz Sub-Constant Error Low Degree Test of Almost-Linear Size . . . . . . . . . . . 140--180 Bodo Manthey On Approximating Restricted Cycle Covers 181--206 Eldar Fischer and Arie Matsliah Testing Graph Isomorphism . . . . . . . 207--225 Mohammad Farshi and Panos Giannopoulos and Joachim Gudmundsson Improving the Stretch Factor of a Geometric Network by Edge Augmentation 226--240 Kamal Jain and Vijay V. Vazirani Equitable Cost Allocations via Primal--Dual-Type Algorithms . . . . . . 241--256 Mark de Berg and Chris Gray Vertical Ray Shooting and Computing Depth Orders for Fat Objects . . . . . . 257--275 Reuven Cohen and David Peleg Convergence of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Inaccurate Sensors and Movements 276--302 Vasco Brattka Plottable Real Number Functions and the Computable Graph Theorem . . . . . . . . 303--328 Peter Jonsson and Fredrik Kuivinen and Gustav Nordh MAX ONES Generalized to Larger Domains 329--365 Ziv Bar-Yossef and T. S. Jayram and Iordanis Kerenidis Exponential Separation of Quantum and Classical One-Way Communication Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--384 Ke Chen and Sariel Har-Peled The Euclidean Orienteering Problem Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397 János Balogh and József Békési and Gábor Galambos and Gerhard Reinelt Lower Bound for the Online Bin Packing Problem with Restricted Repacking . . . 398--410 Leah Epstein and Asaf Levin An APTAS for Generalized Cost Variable-Sized Bin Packing . . . . . . . 411--428 Csaba D. Tóth Binary Space Partitions for Axis-Aligned Fat Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447
Vladimir Trifonov An $ O(\log n \log \log n) $ Space Algorithm for Undirected $ s t$-Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--483 Ben Morris The Mixing Time of the Thorp Shuffle . . 484--504 Noga Alon and Asaf Shapira Every Monotone Graph Property Is Testable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--522 Saurabh Sanghvi and Salil Vadhan The Round Complexity of Two-Party Random Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--550 Eli Ben-Sasson and Madhu Sudan Short PCPs with Polylog Query Complexity 551--607 Michael Elkin and Yuval Emek and Daniel A. Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng Lower-Stretch Spanning Trees . . . . . . 608--628 Uriel Feige and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and James R. Lee Improved Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Weight Vertex Separators . . . . 629--657 Miko aj Boja\'nczyk and Thomas Colcombet Tree-Walking Automata Do Not Recognize All Regular Languages . . . . . . . . . 658--701 Rafael Pass and Alon Rosen New and Improved Constructions of Nonmalleable Cryptographic Protocols . . 702--752 Ronald Fagin and Anupam Gupta and Ravi Kumar and Ryan O'Donnell Special Issue Dedicated to the Thirty-Seventh Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2005) . . . . vii--vii
Yaoyun Shi and Yufan Zhu Tensor Norms and the Classical Communication Complexity of Nonlocal Quantum Measurement . . . . . . . . . . 753--766 Anil Maheshwari and Norbert Zeh I/O-Efficient Planar Separators . . . . 767--801 Siu-Wing Cheng and Hyeon-Suk Na and Antoine Vigneron and Yajun Wang Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions . . . . . . . . . . 802--824 F. Grandoni and J. Könemann and A. Panconesi and M. Sozio A Primal-Dual Bicriteria Distributed Algorithm for Capacitated Vertex Cover 825--840 Marcelo Arenas and Wenfei Fan and Leonid Libkin On the Complexity of Verifying Consistency of XML Specifications . . . 841--880 Rudolf Fleischer and Tom Kamphans and Rolf Klein and Elmar Langetepe and Gerhard Trippen Competitive Online Approximation of the Optimal Search Ratio . . . . . . . . . . 881--898 Boris Aronov and Sariel Har-Peled On Approximating the Depth and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--921 Ángel J. Gil and Miki Hermann and Gernot Salzer and Bruno Zanuttini Efficient Algorithms for Description Problems over Finite Totally Ordered Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922--945 C. Thach Nguyen and Jian Shen and Minmei Hou and Li Sheng and Webb Miller and Louxin Zhang Approximating the Spanning Star Forest Problem and Its Application to Genomic Sequence Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 946--962 Igor L. Markov and Yaoyun Shi Simulating Quantum Computation by Contracting Tensor Networks . . . . . . 963--981 Haim Kaplan and Natan Rubin and Micha Sharir and Elad Verbin Efficient Colored Orthogonal Range Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982--1011 Petr Hlin\uený and Sang-il Oum Finding Branch-Decompositions and Rank-Decompositions . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1032 Parikshit Gopalan Query-Efficient Algorithms for Polynomial Interpolation over Composites 1033--1057 Fedor V. Fomin and Dieter Kratsch and Ioan Todinca and Yngve Villanger Exact Algorithms for Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In . . . . . . . . . . . . 1058--1079 Jack H. Lutz and Elvira Mayordomo Dimensions of Points in Self-Similar Fractals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1080--1112 Jordi Levy and Manfred Schmidt-Schauß and Mateu Villaret The Complexity of Monadic Second-Order Unification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1140 Ravindran Kannan and Hadi Salmasian and Santosh Vempala The Spectral Method for General Mixture Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141--1156 Nikhil Bansal and Don Coppersmith and Maxim Sviridenko Improved Approximation Algorithms for Broadcast Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1174 Ketan D. Mulmuley and Milind Sohoni Geometric Complexity Theory II: Towards Explicit Obstructions for Embeddings among Class Varieties . . . . . . . . . 1175--1206
Dorit Aharonov and Michael Ben-Or Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Constant Error Rate . . . . . . . . . . 1207--1282 Sanjay Jain and Frank Stephan Mitotic Classes in Inductive Inference 1283--1299 Alfredo De Santis and Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Giuseppe Persiano and Moti Yung On Monotone Formula Composition of Perfect Zero-Knowledge Languages . . . . 1300--1329 Jon Kleinberg and Mark Sandler and Aleksandrs Slivkins Network Failure Detection and Graph Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1330--1346 Michael Alekhnovich and Alexander A. Razborov Resolution Is Not Automatizable Unless $ W[P] $ Is Tractable . . . . . . . . . . 1347--1363 Albert Atserias and Anuj Dawar and Martin Grohe Preservation under Extensions on Well-Behaved Finite Structures . . . . . 1364--1381 Dániel Marx Closest Substring Problems with Small Distances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1382--1410 Ivan Baev and Rajmohan Rajaraman and Chaitanya Swamy Approximation Algorithms for Data Placement Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 1411--1429 Ramesh Hariharan and Telikepalli Kavitha and Kurt Mehlhorn Faster Algorithms for Minimum Cycle Basis in Directed Graphs . . . . . . . . 1430--1447 Subhash Khot and Assaf Naor Linear Equations Modulo $2$ and the $ L_1$ Diameter of Convex Bodies . . . . . 1448--1463 Erik D. Demaine and Uriel Feige and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Mohammad R. Salavatipour Combination Can Be Hard: Approximability of the Unique Coverage Problem . . . . . 1464--1483 S. Kijima and T. Matsui Approximation Algorithm and Perfect Sampler for Closed Jackson Networks with Single Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1484--1503 Lusheng Wang and Yu Lin and Xiaowen Liu Approximation Algorithms for Biclustering Problems . . . . . . . . . 1504--1518 Marcin Jurdzi\'nski and Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick A Deterministic Subexponential Algorithm for Solving Parity Games . . . . . . . . 1519--1532 Adam L. Buchsbaum and Loukas Georgiadis and Haim Kaplan and Anne Rogers and Robert E. Tarjan and Jeffery R. Westbrook Linear-Time Algorithms for Dominators and Other Path-Evaluation Problems . . . 1533--1573 Achour Mostefaoui and Sergio Rajsbaum and Michel Raynal and Corentin Travers The Combined Power of Conditions and Information on Failures to Solve Asynchronous Set Agreement . . . . . . . 1574--1601 Elliot Anshelevich and Anirban Dasgupta and Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos and Tom Wexler and Tim Roughgarden The Price of Stability for Network Design with Fair Cost Allocation . . . . 1602--1623 Ran Raz and Amir Shpilka and Amir Yehudayoff A Lower Bound for the Size of Syntactically Multilinear Arithmetic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624--1647 Adam Meyerson and Kamesh Munagala and Serge Plotkin Cost-Distance: Two Metric Network Design 1648--1659
Boaz Barak and Oded Goldreich Universal Arguments and their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1661--1694 Dmitry Gavinsky and Julia Kempe and Iordanis Kerenidis and Ran Raz and Ronald de Wolf Exponential Separation for One-Way Quantum Communication Complexity, with Applications to Cryptography . . . . . . 1695--1708 Joan Feigenbaum and Sampath Kannan and Andrew McGregor and Siddharth Suri and Jian Zhang Graph Distances in the Data-Stream Model 1709--1727 Amos Beimel and Paz Carmi and Kobbi Nissim and Enav Weinreb Private Approximation of Search Problems 1728--1760 Yuval Emek and David Peleg Approximating Minimum Max-Stretch Spanning Trees on Unweighted Graphs . . 1761--1781 Libor Barto and Marcin Kozik and Todd Niven The CSP Dichotomy Holds for Digraphs with No Sources and No Sinks (a Positive Answer to a Conjecture of Bang-Jensen and Hell) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1782--1802 Prosenjit Bose and Paz Carmi and Mathieu Couture and Anil Maheshwari and Pat Morin and Michiel Smid Spanners of Complete $k$-Partite Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1820 Gahyun Park and Hsien-Kuei Hwang and Pierre Nicod\`eme and Wojciech Szpankowski Profiles of Tries . . . . . . . . . . . 1821--1880 Umberto Straccia and Manuel Ojeda-Aciego and Carlos V. Damásio On Fixed-Points of Multivalued Functions on Complete Lattices and Their Application to Generalized Logic Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1881--1911 Ulrich Schmid and Bettina Weiss and Idit Keidar Impossibility Results and Lower Bounds for Consensus under Link Failures . . . 1912--1951 Kiran S. Kedlaya and Sergey Yekhanin Locally Decodable Codes from Nice Subsets of Finite Fields and Prime Factors of Mersenne Numbers . . . . . . 1952--1969 Martin Dyer and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum The Complexity of Weighted Boolean CSP 1970--1986 Eric Allender and Peter Bürgisser and Johan Kjeldgaard-Pedersen and Peter Bro Miltersen On the Complexity of Numerical Analysis 1987--2006 Yngve Villanger and Pinar Heggernes and Christophe Paul and Jan Arne Telle Interval Completion Is Fixed Parameter Tractable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007--2020 Wouter Gelade and Wim Martens and Frank Neven Optimizing Schema Languages for XML: Numerical Constraints and Interleaving 2021--2043 Sudipto Guha and Andrew McGregor Stream Order and Order Statistics: Quantile Estimation in Random-Order Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2044--2059 Anirban Dasgupta and Petros Drineas and Boulos Harb and Ravi Kumar and Michael W. Mahoney Sampling Algorithms and Coresets for $ \ell_p $ Regression . . . . . . . . . . 2060--2078 Holger Spakowski and Rahul Tripathi Hierarchical Unambiguity . . . . . . . . 2079--2112
Alexander A. Sherstov Separating $ {AC}^0 $ from Depth-2 Majority Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . 2113--2129 Amir Shpilka Interpolation of Depth-3 Arithmetic Circuits with Two Multiplication Gates 2130--2161 Wing-Kai Hon and Kunihiko Sadakane and Wing-Kin Sung Breaking a Time-and-Space Barrier in Constructing Full-Text Indices . . . . . 2162--2178 Mee Yee Chan and Wun-Tat Chan and Francis Y. L. Chin and Stanley P. Y. Fung and Ming-Yang Kao Linear-Time Haplotype Inference on Pedigrees without Recombinations and Mating Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2179--2197 Jing Xiao and Lan Liu and Lirong Xia and Tao Jiang Efficient Algorithms for Reconstructing Zero-Recombinant Haplotypes on a Pedigree Based on Fast Elimination of Redundant Linear Equations . . . . . . . 2198--2219 Louay M. J. Bazzi Polylogarithmic Independence Can Fool DNF Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2220--2272 Susanne Albers On the Value of Coordination in Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2273--2302 T.-H. Hubert Chan and Kedar Dhamdhere and Anupam Gupta and Jon Kleinberg and Aleksandrs Slivkins Metric Embeddings with Relaxed Guarantees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303--2329 Parikshit Gopalan and Phokion G. Kolaitis and Elitza Maneva and Christos H. Papadimitriou The Connectivity of Boolean Satisfiability: Computational and Structural Dichotomies . . . . . . . . . 2330--2355 Leonard Adleman and Jarkko Kari and Lila Kari and Dustin Reishus and Petr Sosik The Undecidability of the Infinite Ribbon Problem: Implications for Computing by Self-Assembly . . . . . . . 2356--2381 David J. Aldous and Charles Bordenave and Marc Lelarge Dynamic Programming Optimization over Random Data: The Scaling Exponent for Near-Optimal Solutions . . . . . . . . . 2382--2410 Luc Devroye and James King and Colin McDiarmid Random Hyperplane Search Trees . . . . . 2411--2425 Sudipto Guha and Adam Meyerson and Kamesh Munagala A Constant Factor Approximation for the Single Sink Edge Installation Problem 2426--2442 Marcin Kozik A 2EXPTIME Complete Varietal Membership Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2443--2467 Baruch Awerbuch and Rohit Khandekar Stateless Distributed Gradient Descent for Positive Linear Programs . . . . . . 2468--2486 Robert Krauthgamer and Yuval Rabani Improved Lower Bounds for Embeddings into $ L_1 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2498 Artur Czumaj and Asaf Shapira and Christian Sohler Testing Hereditary Properties of Nonexpanding Bounded-Degree Graphs . . . 2499--2510 Eli Ben-Sasson Size-Space Tradeoffs for Resolution . . 2511--2525 Jianer Chen and Joachim Kneis and Songjian Lu and Daniel Mölle and Stefan Richter and Peter Rossmanith and Sing-Hoi Sze and Fenghui Zhang Randomized Divide-and-Conquer: Improved Path, Matching, and Packing Algorithms 2526--2547
Dmitry Gavinsky and Julia Kempe and Oded Regev and Ronald de Wolf Bounded-Error Quantum State Identification and Exponential Separations in Communication Complexity 1--24 John Watrous Zero-Knowledge against Quantum Attacks 25--58 Jakob Nordström Narrow Proofs May Be Spacious: Separating Space and Width in Resolution 59--121 Uriel Feige On Maximizing Welfare When Utility Functions Are Subadditive . . . . . . . 122--142 Noga Alon and Eldar Fischer and Ilan Newman and Asaf Shapira A Combinatorial Characterization of the Testable Graph Properties: It's All About Regularity . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--167 Anup Rao Extractors for a Constant Number of Polynomially Small Min-Entropy Independent Sources . . . . . . . . . . 168--194 Constantinos Daskalakis and Paul W. Goldberg and Christos H. Papadimitriou The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--259 Dimitris Achlioptas and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi Random Formulas Have Frozen Variables 260--280 Chandra Chekuri and Sanjeev Khanna and F. Bruce Shepherd Edge-Disjoint Paths in Planar Graphs with Constant Congestion . . . . . . . . 281--301 Nir Ailon and Bernard Chazelle The Fast Johnson--Lindenstrauss Transform and Approximate Nearest Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--322 Alex Samorodnitsky and Luca Trevisan Gowers Uniformity, Influence of Variables, and PCPs . . . . . . . . . . 323--360 Scott Aaronson and Sudipto Guha and Jon Kleinberg and Frank McSherry and Dieter van Melkebeek and Amit Sahai Special Issue on the Thirty-Eighth Annual ACM Symposium On Theory Of Computing (STOC 2006) . . . . . . . . . vii--vii
Noga Alon and Baruch Awerbuch and Yossi Azar and Niv Buchbinder and Joseph (Seffi) Naor The Online Set Cover Problem . . . . . . 361--370 Howard Karloff and Subhash Khot and Aranyak Mehta and Yuval Rabani On Earthmover Distance, Metric Labeling, and $0$-Extension . . . . . . . . . . . 371--387 Igor Semaev Sparse Algebraic Equations over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--409 Andreas Maletti and Jonathan Graehl and Mark Hopkins and Kevin Knight The Power of Extended Top-Down Tree Transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410--430 Artur Czumaj and Andrzej Lingas Finding a Heaviest Vertex-Weighted Triangle Is not Harder than Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--444 Zvi Lotker and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Adi Rosén Distributed Approximate Matching . . . . 445--460 Sven Koenig and Joseph S. B. Mitchell and Apurva Mudgal and Craig Tovey A Near-Tight Approximation Algorithm for the Robot Localization Problem . . . . . 461--490 Or Meir Combinatorial Construction of Locally Testable Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--544 Matthew Andrew and Ashwin Nayak and Rajmohan Rajaraman Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--545 Andreas Björklund and Thore Husfeldt and Mikko Koivisto Set Partitioning via Inclusion-Exclusion 546--563 Russell Impagliazzo and Ragesh Jaiswal and Valentine Kabanets Approximate List-Decoding of Direct Product Codes and Uniform Hardness Amplification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--605 Vitaly Feldman and Parikshit Gopalan and Subhash Khot and Ashok Kumar Ponnuswami On Agnostic Learning of Parities, Monomials, and Halfspaces . . . . . . . 606--645 Roman Vershynin Beyond Hirsch Conjecture: Walks on Random Polytopes and Smoothed Complexity of the Simplex Method . . . . . . . . . 646--678 Nicholas J. A. Harvey Algebraic Algorithms for Matching and Matroid Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--702 Timothy M. Chan and Mihai P\uatra\cscu Transdichotomous Results in Computational Geometry, I: Point Location in Sublogarithmic Time . . . . 703--729 Mihai P\uatra\cscu and Mikkel Thorup Higher Lower Bounds for Near-Neighbor and Further Rich Problems . . . . . . . 730--741 Venkatesan Guruswami and Prasad Raghavendra Hardness of Learning Halfspaces with Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742--765 David Arthur and Sergei Vassilvitskii Worst-Case and Smoothed Analysis of the ICP Algorithm, with an Application to the $k$-Means Method . . . . . . . . . . 766--782
Kevin L. Chang and Ravi Kannan Pass-Efficient Algorithms for Learning Mixtures of Uniform Distributions . . . 783--812 Sofya Raskhodnikova and Dana Ron and Amir Shpilka and Adam Smith Strong Lower Bounds for Approximating Distribution Support Size and the Distinct Elements Problem . . . . . . . 813--842 Irit Dinur and Elchanan Mossel and Oded Regev Conditional Hardness for Approximate Coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--873 Phong Q. Nguyen and Damien Stehlé An LLL Algorithm with Quadratic Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--903 Artur Czumaj and Christian Sohler Estimating the Weight of Metric Minimum Spanning Trees in Sublinear Time . . . . 904--922 Ke Chen On Coresets for $k$-Median and $k$-Means Clustering in Metric and Euclidean Spaces and Their Applications . . . . . 923--947 Shengyu Zhang Tight Bounds for Randomized and Quantum Local Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948--977 Eric Allender and Vladlen Koltun and Maxim Sviridenko Special Section On The Thirty-Ninth Annual ACM Symposium On Theory Of Computing (STOC 2007) . . . . . . . . . 978--978 Martin Fürer Faster Integer Multiplication . . . . . 979--1005 Ronen Shaltiel and Christopher Umans Low-End Uniform Hardness versus Randomness Tradeoffs for AM . . . . . . 1006--1037 Rahul Santhanam Circuit Lower Bounds for Merlin--Arthur Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038--1061 Lap Chi Lau and Joseph (Seffi) Naor and Mohammad R. Salavatipour and Mohit Singh Survivable Network Design with Degree or Order Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 1062--1087 Sham M. Kakade and Adam Tauman Kalai and Katrina Ligett Playing Games with Approximation Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1106 Anna Pagh and Rasmus Pagh and Milan Ru\vzi\'c Linear Probing with Constant Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1120 Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz and Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Secure Multiparty Computation . . . . . . . . . 1121--1152 Iftach Haitner and Minh-Huyen Nguyen and Shien Jin Ong and Omer Reingold and Salil Vadhan Statistically Hiding Commitments and Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Any One-Way Function . . . . . . . 1153--1218
Mohammad Ali Abam and Mark de Berg and Bettina Speckmann Kinetic $ k d$-Trees and Longest-Side $ k d$-Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1219--1232 Andrei Z. Broder and Adam Kirsch and Ravi Kumar and Michael Mitzenmacher and Eli Upfal and Sergei Vassilvitskii The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233--1255 Nikhil Bansal and Alberto Caprara and Maxim Sviridenko A New Approximation Method for Set Covering Problems, with Applications to Multidimensional Bin Packing . . . . . . 1256--1278 Zeev Dvir and Amir Shpilka and Amir Yehudayoff Hardness-Randomness Tradeoffs for Bounded Depth Arithmetic Circuits . . . 1279--1293 Nikhil Bansal and Kirk Pruhs and Cliff Stein Speed Scaling for Weighted Flow Time . . 1294--1308 Graham Cormode and Srikanta Tirthapura and Bojian Xu Time-decaying Sketches for Robust Aggregation of Sensor Data . . . . . . . 1309--1339 Ilias Diakonikolas and Mihalis Yannakakis Small Approximate Pareto Sets for Biobjective Shortest Paths and Other Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1371 Liad Blumrosen and Noam Nisan On the Computational Power of Demand Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1372--1391 Klaus Jansen Parameterized Approximation Scheme for the Multiple Knapsack Problem . . . . . 1392--1412 Nikhil Bansal and Rohit Khandekar and Viswanath Nagarajan Additive Guarantees for Degree-Bounded Directed Network Design . . . . . . . . 1413--1431 Bin Ma and Xiaoming Sun More Efficient Algorithms for Closest String and Substring Problems . . . . . 1432--1443 Amihood Amir and Tzvika Hartman and Oren Kapah and Avivit Levy and Ely Porat On the Cost of Interchange Rearrangement in Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1444--1461 Sergey Bravyi and Barbara Terhal Complexity of Stoquastic Frustration-Free Hamiltonians . . . . . 1462--1485 Wim Martens and Frank Neven and Thomas Schwentick Complexity of Decision Problems for XML Schemas and Chain Regular Expressions 1486--1530 Libor Barto and Marcin Kozik Congruence Distributivity Implies Bounded Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1531--1542 Adam Kirsch and Michael Mitzenmacher and Udi Wieder More Robust Hashing: Cuckoo Hashing with a Stash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1543--1561 Oded Regev and Ben Toner Simulating Quantum Correlations with Finite Communication . . . . . . . . . . 1562--1580 Rebecca Schulman and Erik Winfree Programmable Control of Nucleation for Algorithmic Self-Assembly . . . . . . . 1581--1616 Claire Kenyon and Yuval Rabani and Alistair Sinclair Low Distortion Maps Between Point Sets 1617--1636 Russell Impagliazzo and Ragesh Jaiswal and Valentine Kabanets and Avi Wigderson Uniform Direct Product Theorems: Simplified, Optimized, and Derandomized 1637--1665
Danny Harnik and Moni Naor On the Compressibility of $ \mathcal {NP} $ Instances and Cryptographic Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1713 Markus Kirschmer and John Voight Algorithmic Enumeration of Ideal Classes for Quaternion Orders . . . . . . . . . 1714--1747 Sanjeev Arora and Elad Hazan and Satyen Kale $ O(\sqrt {\log n}) $ Approximation to SPARSEST CUT in $ \tilde {O}(n^2) $ Time 1748--1771 C. Chekuri and M. T. Hajiaghayi and G. Kortsarz and M. R. Salavatipour Approximation Algorithms for Nonuniform Buy-at-Bulk Network Design . . . . . . . 1772--1798 Ho-Lin Chen and Tim Roughgarden and Gregory Valiant Designing Network Protocols for Good Equilibria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1799--1832 Alexander A. Razborov and Alexander A. Sherstov The Sign-Rank of AC$^0$ . . . . . . . . 1833--1855 Satish Rao and Shuheng Zhou Edge Disjoint Paths in Moderately Connected Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856--1887 Siu-Wing Cheng and Hyeon-Suk Na and Antoine Vigneron and Yajun Wang Querying Approximate Shortest Paths in Anisotropic Regions . . . . . . . . . . 1888--1918 Amit Chakrabarti and Oded Regev An Optimal Randomized Cell Probe Lower Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919--1940 Fedor V. Fomin and Petr A. Golovach and Daniel Lokshtanov and Saket Saurabh Intractability of Clique-Width Parameterizations . . . . . . . . . . . 1941--1956 Artur Czumaj and Piotr Krysta and Berthold Vöcking Selfish Traffic Allocation for Server Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957--1987 Tali Kaufman and Simon Litsyn and Ning Xie Breaking the $ \epsilon $-Soundness Bound of the Linearity Test over GF(2) 1988--2003 Kevin Matulef and Ryan O'Donnell and Ronitt Rubinfeld and Rocco A. Servedio Testing Halfspaces . . . . . . . . . . . 2004--2047 Edith Cohen and Haim Kaplan and Tova Milo Labeling Dynamic XML Trees . . . . . . . 2048--2074 Timothy M. Chan More Algorithms for All-Pairs Shortest Paths in Weighted Graphs . . . . . . . . 2075--2089 Eyal Kushilevitz and Yehuda Lindell and Tal Rabin Information-Theoretically Secure Protocols and Security under Composition 2090--2112
Vladimir Braverman and Rafail Ostrovsky Effective Computations on Sliding Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113--2131 Iyad A. Kanj and Ljubomir Perkovi\'c and Ge Xia On Spanners and Lightweight Spanners of Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2132--2161 Gianluca De Marco Distributed Broadcast in Unknown Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2162--2175 Elchanan Mossel and Sebastien Roch Submodularity of Influence in Social Networks: From Local to Global . . . . . 2176--2188 Deeparnab Chakrabarty and Gagan Goel On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189--2211 Jaroslaw Byrka and Karen Aardal An Optimal Bifactor Approximation Algorithm for the Metric Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem . . . . . . . 2212--2231 Flavio Chierichetti and Andrea Vattani The Local Nature of List Colorings for Graphs of High Girth . . . . . . . . . . 2232--2250 Eldar Fischer and Frédéric Magniez and Michel de Rougemont Approximate Satisfiability and Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251--2281 Javier Esparza and Stefan Kiefer and Michael Luttenberger Computing the Least Fixed Point of Positive Polynomial Systems . . . . . . 2282--2335 Noga Alon and Amin Coja-Oghlan and Hiêp H\`an and Mihyun Kang and Vojt\uech Rödl and Mathias Schacht Quasi-Randomness and Algorithmic Regularity for Graphs with General Degree Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 2336--2362 Liam Roditty On the $k$ Shortest Simple Paths Problem in Weighted Directed Graphs . . . . . . 2363--2376 Cristopher Moore and Alexander Russell and Piotr \'Sniady On the Impossibility of a Quantum Sieve Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism . . . . 2377--2396 James R. Lee and Chris Umans Special Section On Foundations of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 2397--2397 Alexandr Andoni and Robert Krauthgamer The Computational Hardness of Estimating Edit Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2398--2429 Per Austrin Towards Sharp Inapproximability for Any 2-CSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2430--2463 Andrej Bogdanov and Emanuele Viola Pseudorandom Bits for Polynomials . . . 2464--2486 Moses Charikar and Konstantin Makarychev and Yury Makarychev Local Global Tradeoffs in Metric Embeddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2512 A. Ambainis and A. M. Childs and B. W. Reichardt and R. \vSpalek and S. Zhang Any AND-OR Formula of Size $N$ Can Be Evaluated in Time $ N^{1 / 2 + o(1)}$ on a Quantum Computer . . . . . . . . . . . 2513--2530 Kousha Etessami and Mihalis Yannakakis On the Complexity of Nash Equilibria and Other Fixed Points . . . . . . . . . . . 2531--2597 Parikshit Gopalan and Subhash Khot and Rishi Saket Hardness of Reconstructing Multivariate Polynomials over Finite Fields . . . . . 2598--2621 Philipp Hertel and Toniann Pitassi The PSPACE-Completeness of Black-White Pebbling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2622--2682
Mary Cryan and Martin Dyer and Dana Randall Approximately Counting Integral Flows and Cell-Bounded Contingency Tables . . 2683--2703 Boris Aronov and Micha Sharir Approximate Halfspace Range Counting . . 2704--2725 Wojciech Golab and Danny Hendler and Philipp Woelfel An $ O(1) $ RMRs Leader Election Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2726--2760 Oded Goldreich and Shafi Goldwasser and Asaf Nussboim On the Implementation of Huge Random Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2761--2822 Amin Coja-Oghlan A Better Algorithm for Random $k$-SAT 2823--2864 Surender Baswana and Telikepalli Kavitha Faster Algorithms for All-pairs Approximate Shortest Paths in Undirected Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2865--2896 Michael Saks and C. Seshadhri Local Monotonicity Reconstruction . . . 2897--2926 Jean Cardinal and Samuel Fiorini and Gwenaël Joret and Raphaël M. Jungers and J. Ian Munro An Efficient Algorithm for Partial Order Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927--2940 Akinori Kawachi and Tomoyuki Yamakami Quantum Hardcore Functions by Complexity-Theoretical Quantum List Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2941--2969 Arash Asadpour and Amin Saberi An Approximation Algorithm for Max-Min Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods . . 2970--2989 Marc van Kreveld and Maarten Löffler and Joseph S. B. Mitchell Preprocessing Imprecise Points and Splitting Triangulations . . . . . . . . 2990--3000 Zeev Nutov Approximating Steiner Networks with Node-Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3001--3022 Pawe Idziak and Petar Markovi\'c and Ralph McKenzie and Matthew Valeriote and Ross Willard Tractability and Learnability Arising from Algebras with Few Subpowers . . . . 3023--3037 Julián Mestre Adaptive Local Ratio . . . . . . . . . . 3038--3057 Alon Rosen and Gil Segev Chosen-Ciphertext Security via Correlated Products . . . . . . . . . . 3058--3088 Itai Arad and Zeph Landau Quantum Computation and the Evaluation of Tensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 3089--3121 Ronen Shaltiel and Emanuele Viola Hardness Amplification Proofs Require Majority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3122--3154 Eldar Fischer and Arie Matsliah and Asaf Shapira Approximate Hypergraph Partitioning and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3155--3185 Pierre McKenzie and Michael Thomas and Heribert Vollmer Extensional Uniformity for Boolean Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3186--3206 Julia Kempe and Oded Regev and Ben Toner Unique Games with Entangled Provers Are Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3207--3229 Eli Ben-Sasson and Venkatesan Guruswami and Tali Kaufman and Madhu Sudan and Michael Viderman Locally Testable Codes Require Redundant Testers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3230--3247 Boris Aronov and Esther Ezra and Micha Sharir Small-Size $ \epsilon $-Nets for Axis-Parallel Rectangles and Boxes . . . 3248--3282 Haim Kaplan and Natan Rubin and Micha Sharir Line Transversals of Convex Polyhedra in $ \mathbb {R}^3 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 3283--3310 Nikhil Bansal and Kirk R. Pruhs Server Scheduling to Balance Priorities, Fairness, and Average Quality of Service 3311--3335 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Martin Grohe and Mark Jerrum and Marc Thurley A Complexity Dichotomy for Partition Functions with Mixed Signs . . . . . . . 3336--3402 S. Chechik and M. Langberg and D. Peleg and L. Roditty Fault Tolerant Spanners for General Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403--3423 Endre Boros and Khaled Elbassioni and Kazuhisa Makino Left-to-Right Multiplication for Monotone Boolean Dualization . . . . . . 3424--3439
Ilias Diakonikolas and Parikshit Gopalan and Ragesh Jaiswal and Rocco A. Servedio and Emanuele Viola Bounded Independence Fools Halfspaces 3441--3462 Anna Gál and Parikshit Gopalan Lower Bounds on Streaming Algorithms for Approximating the Length of the Longest Increasing Subsequence . . . . . . . . . 3463--3479 Robert M. Hierons Reaching and Distinguishing States of Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 3480--3500 Yuval Rabani and Amir Shpilka Explicit Construction of a Small $ \epsilon $-Net for Linear Threshold Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501--3520 David Doty Randomized Self-Assembly for Exact Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3521--3552 Konstantinos Georgiou and Avner Magen and Toniann Pitassi and Iannis Tourlakis Integrality Gaps of $ 2 - o(1) $ for Vertex Cover SDPs in the Lovász--Schrijver Hierarchy . . . . . . . 3553--3570 Klaus Jansen and Ralf Thöle Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling Parallel Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3571--3615 Lisa Fleischer and Jochen Könemann and Stefano Leonardi and Guido Schäfer Strict Cost Sharing Schemes for Steiner Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3632 Guolong Lin and Chandrashekhar Nagarajan and Rajmohan Rajaraman and David P. Williamson A General Approach for Incremental Approximation and Hierarchical Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3633--3669 David Duris Extension Preservation Theorems on Classes of Acyclic Finite Structures . . 3670--3681 Manuel Bodirsky and Hubie Chen Quantified Equality Constraints . . . . 3682--3699 Simon Fischer and Harald Räcke and Berthold Vöcking Fast Convergence to Wardrop Equilibria by Adaptive Sampling Methods . . . . . . 3700--3735 Gábor Ivanyos and Marek Karpinski and Nitin Saxena Deterministic Polynomial Time Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems . . . . . 3736--3751 Partha Dutta and Rachid Guerraoui and Ron R. Levy and Marko Vukoli\'c Fast Access to Distributed Atomic Memory 3752--3783 Éric Colin de Verdi\`ere and Jeff Erickson Tightening Nonsimple Paths and Cycles on Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3784--3813 David Eppstein and Michael T. Goodrich and Darren Strash Linear-Time Algorithms for Geometric Graphs with Sublinearly Many Edge Crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3814--3829 Maxim Gurevich and Idit Keidar Correctness of Gossip-Based Membership under Message Loss . . . . . . . . . . . 3830--3859 Julia Lipman and Quentin F. Stout Analysis of Delays Caused by Local Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . 3860--3884 Hagit Attiya and Keren Censor-Hillel Lower Bounds for Randomized Consensus under a Weak Adversary . . . . . . . . . 3885--3904
Per Austrin and Johan Håstad Randomly Supported Independence and Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 Cheng Shao and Jennifer L. Welch and Evelyn Pierce and Hyunyoung Lee Multiwriter Consistency Conditions for Shared Memory Registers . . . . . . . . 28--62 Eli Gafni and Rachid Guerraoui and Bastian Pochon The Complexity of Early Deciding Set Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--78 Elad Hazan and Robert Krauthgamer How Hard Is It to Approximate the Best Nash Equilibrium? . . . . . . . . . . . 79--91 Heiner Ackermann and Paul W. Goldberg and Vahab S. Mirrokni and Heiko Röglin and Berthold Vöcking Uncoordinated Two-Sided Matching Markets 92--106 Alasdair Urquhart A Near-Optimal Separation of Regular and General Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121 Yuval Ishai and Jonathan Katz and Eyal Kushilevitz and Yehuda Lindell and Erez Petrank On Achieving the ``Best of Both Worlds'' in Secure Multiparty Computation . . . . 122--141 Frédéric Magniez and Ashwin Nayak and Jérémie Roland and Miklos Santha Search via Quantum Walk . . . . . . . . 142--164 Ryan O'Donnell and Rocco A. Servedio The Chow Parameters Problem . . . . . . 165--199 Nitin Saxena and C. Seshadhri An Almost Optimal Rank Bound for Depth-3 Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--224
Iftach Haitner and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz and Yehuda Lindell and Erez Petrank Black-Box Constructions of Protocols for Secure Computation . . . . . . . . . . . 225--266 Avraham Ben-Aroya and Amnon Ta-Shma A Combinatorial Construction of Almost-Ramanujan Graphs Using the Zig-Zag Product . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--290 Alan Frieze and Páll Melsted and Michael Mitzenmacher An Analysis of Random-Walk Cuckoo Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--308 Aaron Archer and MohammadHossein Bateni and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Howard Karloff Improved Approximation Algorithms for Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree and TSP 309--332 Timothy M. Chan and Mihai P\vatrascu and Liam Roditty Dynamic Connectivity: Connecting to Networks and Geometry . . . . . . . . . 333--349 Nir Ailon and Bernard Chazelle and Kenneth L. Clarkson and Ding Liu and Wolfgang Mulzer and C. Seshadhri Self-Improving Algorithms . . . . . . . 350--375 Oded Goldreich and Dana Ron Algorithmic Aspects of Property Testing in the Dense Graphs Model . . . . . . . 376--445 Omer Giménez and Guillem Godoy and Sebastian Maneth Deciding Regularity of the Set of Instances of a Set of Terms with Regular Constraints is EXPTIME-Complete . . . . 446--464 Johannes Fischer and Volker Heun Space-Efficient Preprocessing Schemes for Range Minimum Queries on Static Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--492 Christian Cachin and Idit Keidar and Alexander Shraer Fail-Aware Untrusted Storage . . . . . . 493--533 Oded Goldreich and Dana Ron On Proximity-Oblivious Testing . . . . . 534--566 Christoph Ambühl and Monaldo Mastrolilli and Ola Svensson Inapproximability Results for Maximum Edge Biclique, Minimum Linear Arrangement, and Sparsest Cut . . . . . 567--596
Constantinos Daskalakis and Richard M. Karp and Elchanan Mossel and Samantha J. Riesenfeld and Elad Verbin Sorting and Selection in Posets . . . . 597--622 Ning Chen and Arpita Ghosh and Sergei Vassilvitskii Optimal Envy-Free Pricing with Metric Substitutability . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--645 P. Niyogi and S. Smale and S. Weinberger A Topological View of Unsupervised Learning from Noisy Data . . . . . . . . 646--663 Amnon Ta-Shma Short Seed Extractors against Quantum Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664--677 Elliot Anshelevich and Adriana Karagiozova Terminal Backup, $3$D Matching, and Covering Cubic Graphs . . . . . . . . . 678--708 Satyen Kale and C. Seshadhri An Expansion Tester for Bounded Degree Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--720 Manuel Bodirsky and Éric Fusy and Mihyun Kang and Stefan Vigerske Boltzmann Samplers, Pólya Theory, and Cycle Pointing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--769 Scott Aaronson and Jeff Erickson and Mohammad Mahdian and R. Ravi and Emanuele Viola Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--770 Ran Raz A Counterexample to Strong Parallel Repetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--777 Zeev Dvir and Avi Wigderson Kakeya Sets, New Mergers, and Old Extractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--792 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan and Homin K. Lee and Kobbi Nissim and Sofya Raskhodnikova and Adam Smith What Can We Learn Privately? . . . . . . 793--826 Mihai P\uatra\cscu Unifying the Landscape of Cell-Probe Lower Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827--847 Julia Kempe and Hirotada Kobayashi and Keiji Matsumoto and Ben Toner and Thomas Vidick Entangled Games Are Hard to Approximate 848--877 Venkatesan Guruswami and Johan Håstad and Rajsekar Manokaran and Prasad Raghavendra and Moses Charikar Beating the Random Ordering Is Hard: Every Ordering CSP Is Approximation Resistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--914 Peerapong Dhangwatnotai and Shahar Dobzinski and Shaddin Dughmi and Tim Roughgarden Truthful Approximation Schemes for Single-Parameter Agents . . . . . . . . 915--933 Ehud Friedgut and Gil Kalai and Nathan Keller and Noam Nisan A Quantitative Version of the Gibbard--Satterthwaite Theorem for Three Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934--952
Yuk Hei Chan and Wai Shing Fung and Lap Chi Lau and Chun Kong Yung Degree Bounded Network Design with Metric Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953--980 Daniel A. Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng Spectral Sparsification of Graphs . . . 981--1025 Tamal K. Dey and Anil N. Hirani and Bala Krishnamoorthy Optimal Homologous Cycles, Total Unimodularity, and Linear Programming 1026--1044 Micha Sharir and Hayim Shaul Semialgebraic Range Reporting and Emptiness Searching with Applications 1045--1074 Parikshit Gopalan and Ryan O'Donnell and Rocco A. Servedio and Amir Shpilka and Karl Wimmer Testing Fourier Dimensionality and Sparsity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1100 Jin-Yi Cai and Pinyan Lu and Mingji Xia Computational Complexity of Holant Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101--1132 Uriel Feige and Vahab S. Mirrokni and Jan Vondrák Maximizing Non-monotone Submodular Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133--1153 Zeev Dvir and Parikshit Gopalan and Sergey Yekhanin Matching Vector Codes . . . . . . . . . 1154--1178 Peter Bürgisser and J. M. Landsberg and Laurent Manivel and Jerzy Weyman An Overview of Mathematical Issues Arising in the Geometric Complexity Theory Approach to $ \mathbf {VP} \neq \mathbf {VNP} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1209
Sebastian Aland and Dominic Dumrauf and Martin Gairing and Burkhard Monien and Florian Schoppmann Exact Price of Anarchy for Polynomial Congestion Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 1211--1233 George B. Mertzios and Ignasi Sau and Shmuel Zaks The Recognition of Tolerance and Bounded Tolerance Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234--1257 Ola Svensson Hardness of Precedence Constrained Scheduling on Identical Machines . . . . 1258--1274 Nir Ailon and Moses Charikar Fitting Tree Metrics: Hierarchical Clustering and Phylogeny . . . . . . . . 1275--1291 Johannes Köbler and Sebastian Kuhnert and Bastian Laubner and Oleg Verbitsky Interval Graphs: Canonical Representations in Logspace . . . . . . 1292--1315 James King and Erik Krohn Terrain Guarding is NP-Hard . . . . . . 1316--1339 Tao Jiang and Zevi Miller and Dan Pritikin Near Optimal Bounds for Steiner Trees in the Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340--1360 Anupam Gupta and Martin Pál and R. Ravi and Amitabh Sinha Sampling and Cost-Sharing: Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361--1401 Edith Cohen and Nick Duffield and Haim Kaplan and Carsten Lund and Mikkel Thorup Efficient Stream Sampling for Variance-Optimal Estimation of Subset Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1402--1431 Parikshit Gopalan and Venkatesan Guruswami and Prasad Raghavendra List Decoding Tensor Products and Interleaved Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 1432--1462
Bernhard Haeupler and Siddhartha Sen and Robert E. Tarjan Rank-Pairing Heaps . . . . . . . . . . . 1463--1485 Iftach Haitner and Danny Harnik and Omer Reingold On the Power of the Randomized Iterate 1486--1528 Rafael Pass and Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng and Douglas Wikström On the Composition of Public-Coin Zero-Knowledge Protocols . . . . . . . . 1529--1553 Patrick Briest and Piotr Krysta Buying Cheap Is Expensive: Approximability of Combinatorial Pricing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554--1586 Patrick Briest and Piotr Krysta and Berthold Vöcking Approximation Techniques for Utilitarian Mechanism Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 1587--1622 Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Ohad Shamir and Karthik Sridharan Learning Kernel-Based Halfspaces with the $0$-$1$ Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623--1646 Haim Kaplan and Matthew J. Katz and Gila Morgenstern and Micha Sharir Optimal Cover of Points by Disks in a Simple Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647--1661 Norm Ferns and Prakash Panangaden and Doina Precup Bisimulation Metrics for Continuous Markov Decision Processes . . . . . . . 1662--1714 Zoya Svitkina and Lisa Fleischer Submodular Approximation: Sampling-based Algorithms and Lower Bounds . . . . . . 1715--1737 Shuchi Chawla and Cynthia Dwork and Venkat Guruswami Special Section on the Fortieth Annual ACM Symposium On Theory Of Computing (STOC 2008) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1738--1738 Gruia Calinescu and Chandra Chekuri and Martin Pál and Jan Vondrák Maximizing a Monotone Submodular Function Subject to a Matroid Constraint 1740--1766 Kiran S. Kedlaya and Christopher Umans Fast Polynomial Factorization and Modular Composition . . . . . . . . . . 1767--1802 Chris Peikert and Brent Waters Lossy Trapdoor Functions and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803--1844 Ilya Mironov and Moni Naor and Gil Segev Sketching in Adversarial Environments 1845--1870 Anup Rao Parallel Repetition in Projection Games and a Concentration Bound . . . . . . . 1871--1891 Hagay Levin and Michael Schapira and Aviv Zohar Interdomain Routing and Games . . . . . 1892--1912 Daniel A. Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava Graph Sparsification by Effective Resistances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1913--1926 Paul Valiant Testing Symmetric Properties of Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1927--1968 Alexander A. Sherstov The Pattern Matrix Method . . . . . . . 1969--2000
Luc Devroye Simulating Size-constrained Galton--Watson Trees . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Edith Cohen and Michal Feldman and Amos Fiat and Haim Kaplan and Svetlana Olonetsky Envy-Free Makespan Approximation . . . . 12--25 Taisuke Izumi and Samia Souissi and Yoshiaki Katayama and Nobuhiro Inuzuka and Xavier Défago and Koichi Wada and Masafumi Yamashita The Gathering Problem for Two Oblivious Robots with Unreliable Compasses . . . . 26--46 Matt Gibson and Gaurav Kanade and Erik Krohn and Imran A. Pirwani and Kasturi Varadarajan On Clustering to Minimize the Sum of Radii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--60 Harold N. Gabow and Suzanne R. Gallagher Iterated Rounding Algorithms for the Smallest $k$-Edge Connected Spanning Subgraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--103 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Lars Arge and Haim Kaplan and Eyal Molad and Robert E. Tarjan and Ke Yi An Optimal Dynamic Data Structure for Stabbing-Semigroup Queries . . . . . . . 104--127 Toniann Pitassi and Nathan Segerlind Exponential Lower Bounds and Integrality Gaps for Tree-Like Lovász--Schrijver Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--159 Wouter Gelade and Marc Gyssens and Wim Martens Regular Expressions with Counting: Weak versus Strong Determinism . . . . . . . 160--190 Emanuele Viola The Complexity of Distributions . . . . 191--218 Zohar S. Karnin and Yuval Rabani and Amir Shpilka Explicit Dimension Reduction and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--249 Sanjeev Arora and László Lovász and Ilan Newman and Yuval Rabani and Yuri Rabinovich and Santosh Vempala Local Versus Global Properties of Metric Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--271 Jesper Jansson and Richard S. Lemence and Andrzej Lingas The Complexity of Inferring a Minimally Resolved Phylogenetic Supertree . . . . 272--291
Mikkel Thorup and Yin Zhang Tabulation-Based 5-Independent Hashing with Applications to Linear Probing and Second Moment Estimation . . . . . . . . 293--331 Cristopher Moore and Alexander Russell Approximating the Permanent via Nonabelian Determinants . . . . . . . . 332--355 Daniel Stefankovic and Santosh Vempala and Eric Vigoda A Deterministic Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Counting Knapsack Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 356--366 Natan Rubin and Haim Kaplan and Micha Sharir Improved Bounds for Geometric Permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--390 Nikhil Bansal and Niv Buchbinder and Joseph (Seffi) Naor Randomized Competitive Algorithms for Generalized Caching . . . . . . . . . . 391--414 Danny Dolev and Ezra N. Hoch and Yoram Moses An Optimal Self-Stabilizing Firing Squad 415--435 Anna C. Gilbert and Yi Li and Ely Porat and Martin J. Strauss Approximate Sparse Recovery: Optimizing Time and Measurements . . . . . . . . . 436--453
Jen-Yeu Chen and Gopal Pandurangan Almost-Optimal Gossip-Based Aggregate Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--483 Paul Beame and Trinh Huynh Multiparty Communication Complexity and Threshold Circuit Size of $ o{\sf AC}^0 $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--518 Faith Ellen and Danny Hendler and Nir Shavit On the Inherent Sequentiality of Concurrent Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536 David Eppstein and Elena Mumford and Bettina Speckmann and Kevin Verbeek Area-Universal and Constrained Rectangular Layouts . . . . . . . . . . 537--564 Leah Epstein and Asaf Levin and Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Nicole Megow and Julián Mestre and Martin Skutella and Leen Stougie Universal Sequencing on an Unreliable Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--586 T.-H. Hubert Chan and Anupam Gupta Approximating TSP on Metrics with Bounded Global Growth . . . . . . . . . 587--617 Darin Goldstein and Kojiro Kobayashi On Minimal-Time Solutions of Firing Squad Synchronization Problems for Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618--669 Liam Roditty and Uri Zwick Dynamic Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths in Undirected Graphs . . . . . . . 670--683 Mordecai J. Golin and Claire Mathieu and Neal E. Young Huffman Coding with Letter Costs: a Linear-Time Approximation Scheme . . . . 684--713 Markus Kirschmer and John Voight Corrigendum: Algorithmic Enumeration of Ideal Classes for Quaternion Orders . . 714--714
Victor Chepoi Nice Labeling Problem for Event Structures: a Counterexample . . . . . . 715--727 Yuval Emek and Magnús M. Halldórsson and Yishay Mansour and Boaz Patt-Shamir and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and Dror Rawitz Online Set Packing . . . . . . . . . . . 728--746 Tobias Friedrich and Martin Gairing and Thomas Sauerwald Quasirandom Load Balancing . . . . . . . 747--771 Moni Naor and Gil Segev Public-Key Cryptosystems Resilient to Key Leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--814 Marek Cygan and Marcin Pilipczuk and Michal Pilipczuk and Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk A Polynomial Algorithm for $3$-Compatible Coloring and the Stubborn List Partition Problem (The Stubborn Problem Is Stubborn No More) . . . . . . 815--828 Mark Cieliebak and Paola Flocchini and Giuseppe Prencipe and Nicola Santoro Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots: Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--879 Eli Ben-Sasson and Swastik Kopparty Affine Dispersers from Subspace Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--914 Anindya De and Christopher Portmann and Thomas Vidick and Renato Renner Trevisan's Extractor in the Presence of Quantum Side Information . . . . . . . . 915--940 Maarten Löffler and Wolfgang Mulzer Triangulating the Square and Squaring the Triangle: Quadtrees and Delaunay Triangulations are Equivalent . . . . . 941--974 Chaitanya Swamy and David B. Shmoys Sampling-Based Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization 975--1004 Mashhood Ishaque and Bettina Speckmann and Csaba D. Tóth Shooting Permanent Rays among Disjoint Polygons in the Plane . . . . . . . . . 1005--1027 Sevag Gharibian and Julia Kempe Approximation Algorithms for QMA-Complete Problems . . . . . . . . . 1028--1050 Harish Chandran and Nikhil Gopalkrishnan and John Reif Tile Complexity of Linear Assemblies . . 1051--1073 Yuichi Yoshida and Masaki Yamamoto and Hiro Ito Improved Constant-Time Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Matchings and Other Optimization Problems . . . . . . 1074--1093
Jittat Fakcharoenphol and Bundit Laekhanukit An $ O(\log^2 {k}) $-Approximation Algorithm for the $k$-Vertex Connected Spanning Subgraph Problem . . . . . . . 1095--1109 Nir Ailon and Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli and Edo Liberty and Anke van Zuylen Improved Approximation Algorithms for Bipartite Correlation Clustering . . . . 1110--1121 Alexander A. Sherstov Strong Direct Product Theorems for Quantum Communication and Query Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122--1165 Matthias Englert and Matthias Westermann Considering Suppressed Packets Improves Buffer Management in Quality of Service Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1166--1192 Jens Groth and Amit Sahai Efficient Noninteractive Proof Systems for Bilinear Groups . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1232 Kousha Etessami and Dieter van Melkebeek and Seth Pettie and John Watrous and Salil Vadhan Special Section on the Forty-Third Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2011) . . . . . . . . . 1233--1234 Atish Das Sarma and Stephan Holzer and Liah Kor and Amos Korman and Danupon Nanongkai and Gopal Pandurangan and David Peleg and Roger Wattenhofer Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation . . . . . . . 1235--1265 Ankur Moitra and Ryan O'Donnell Pareto Optimal Solutions for Smoothed Analysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266--1284 Nitin Saxena and C. Seshadhri Blackbox Identity Testing for Bounded Top-Fanin Depth-$3$ Circuits: The Field Doesn't Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285--1298 Amit Chakrabarti and Oded Regev An Optimal Lower Bound on the Communication Complexity of Gap-Hamming-Distance . . . . . . . . . . 1299--1317 Ola Svensson Santa Claus Schedules Jobs on Unrelated Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318--1341
Rachid Guerraoui and Vassos Hadzilacos and Petr Kuznetsov and Sam Toueg The Weakest Failure Detectors to Solve Quittable Consensus and Nonblocking Atomic Commit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343--1379 Arnab Bhattacharyya and Elena Grigorescu and Kyomin Jung and Sofya Raskhodnikova and David P. Woodruff Transitive-Closure Spanners . . . . . . 1380--1425 Andrew M. Childs and Robin Kothari Quantum Query Complexity of Minor-Closed Graph Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 1426--1450 Keren Censor-Hillel and Hadas Shachnai Fast Information Spreading in Graphs with Large Weak Conductance . . . . . . 1451--1465 Sagi Snir and Raphael Yuster Reconstructing Approximate Phylogenetic Trees from Quartet Samples . . . . . . . 1466--1480 Matthew Anderson and Dieter van Melkebeek and Nicole Schweikardt and Luc Segoufin Locality from Circuit Lower Bounds . . . 1481--1523 Jean Bourgain and Moubariz Z. Garaev and Sergei V. Konyagin and Igor E. Shparlinski On the Hidden Shifted Power Problem . . 1524--1557 Vitaly Feldman and Venkatesan Guruswami and Prasad Raghavendra and Yi Wu Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces Is Hard . . . . . . . . . . . 1558--1590 Nicole Immorlica and Jonathan Katz and Michael Mitzenmacher and Rocco Servedio and Chris Umans Special Section on the Forty-First Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2009) . . . . . . . . . 1591--1592 Emanuele Viola Bit-Probe Lower Bounds for Succinct Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593--1604 Erin W. Chambers and Jeff Erickson and Amir Nayyeri Homology Flows, Cohomology Cuts . . . . 1605--1634 Alexandr Andoni and Krzysztof Onak Approximating Edit Distance in Near-Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635--1648 Anupam Gupta and Ravishankar Krishnaswamy and R. Ravi Online and Stochastic Survivable Network Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1649--1672 Arpita Ghosh and Tim Roughgarden and Mukund Sundararajan Universally Utility-maximizing Privacy Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673--1693 Klim Efremenko $3$-Query Locally Decodable Codes of Subexponential Length . . . . . . . . . 1694--1703 Joshua Batson and Daniel A. Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava Twice-Ramanujan Sparsifiers . . . . . . 1704--1721 Russell Impagliazzo and Valentine Kabanets and Avi Wigderson New Direct-Product Testers and $2$-Query PCPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1722--1768 Luca Trevisan Max Cut and the Smallest Eigenvalue . . 1769--1786
Daniel A. Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng A Local Clustering Algorithm for Massive Graphs and Its Application to Nearly Linear Time Graph Partitioning . . . . . 1--26 Siu On Chan and Michael Molloy A Dichotomy Theorem for the Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 27--60 Amit Chakrabarti and Graham Cormode and Ranganath Kondapally and Andrew McGregor Information Cost Tradeoffs for Augmented Index and Streaming Language Recognition 61--83 Victor Chen and Elena Grigorescu and Ronald de Wolf Error-Correcting Data Structures . . . . 84--111 Albert Atserias and Elitza Maneva Sherali--Adams Relaxations and Indistinguishability in Counting Logics 112--137 Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search for Low-Dimensional Queries . . . . . . . . 138--159 Baruch Awerbuch and Yossi Azar and Amir Epstein The Price of Routing Unsplittable Flow 160--177 José A. Soto Matroid Secretary Problem in the Random-Assignment Model . . . . . . . . 178--211 Elad Verbin and Qin Zhang The Limits of Buffering: a Tight Lower Bound for Dynamic Membership in the External Memory Model . . . . . . . . . 212--229 Maria-Florina Balcan and Avrim Blum and Yishay Mansour Circumventing the Price of Anarchy: Leading Dynamics to Good Behavior . . . 230--264 Jan Vondrák Symmetry and Approximability of Submodular Maximization Problems . . . . 265--304 Satyen Kale and Yuval Peres and C. Seshadhri Noise Tolerance of Expanders and Sublinear Expansion Reconstruction . . . 305--323 Heng Guo and Pinyan Lu and Leslie G. Valiant The Complexity of Symmetric Boolean Parity Holant Problems . . . . . . . . . 324--356 Jon Lee and Maxim Sviridenko and Jan Vondrák Matroid Matching: The Power of Local Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--379 Or Meir IP = PSPACE Using Error-Correcting Codes 380--403
Hsien-Kuei Hwang and Tsung-Hsi Tsai and Wei-Mei Chen Threshold Phenomena in $k$-Dominant Skylines of Random Samples . . . . . . . 405--441 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Sariel Har-Peled and Hai Yu Embeddings of Surfaces, Curves, and Moving Points in Euclidean Space . . . . 442--458 Noga Alon and Eric Blais and Sourav Chakraborty and David García-Soriano and Arie Matsliah Nearly Tight Bounds for Testing Function Isomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--493 Jens M. Schmidt Contractions, Removals, and Certifying $3$-Connectivity in Linear Time . . . . 494--535 Elad Haramaty and Amir Shpilka and Madhu Sudan Optimal Testing of Multivariate Polynomials over Small Prime Fields . . 536--562 Guy Bresler and Elchanan Mossel and Allan Sly Reconstruction of Markov Random Fields from Samples: Some Observations and Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--578 Nikhil Bansal and Xin Han and Kazuo Iwama and Maxim Sviridenko and Guochuan Zhang A Harmonic Algorithm for the $3$D Strip Packing Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--592 R. D. Somma and S. Boixo Spectral Gap Amplification . . . . . . . 593--610 Ayelet Butman and Peter Clifford and Raphaël Clifford and Markus Jalsenius and Noa Lewenstein and Benny Porat and Ely Porat and Benjamin Sach Pattern Matching under Polynomial Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--633 Bernadette Charron-Bost and Antoine Gaillard and Jennifer L. Welch and Josef Widder Link Reversal Routing with Binary Link Labels: Work Complexity . . . . . . . . 634--661 Xavier Goaoc and Hyo-Sil Kim and Sylvain Lazard Bounded-Curvature Shortest Paths through a Sequence of Points Using Convex Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--684 Anindya De and Piyush P. Kurur and Chandan Saha and Ramprasad Saptharishi Fast Integer Multiplication Using Modular Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . 685--699 Madhav Jha and Sofya Raskhodnikova Testing and Reconstruction of Lipschitz Functions with Applications to Data Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700--731
Ho Yee Cheung and Lap Chi Lau and Kai Man Leung Graph Connectivities, Network Coding, and Expander Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 733--751 Subhash Khot and Dana Moshkovitz $ \mathcal {NP} $-Hardness of Approximately Solving Linear Equations over Reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--791 Derek G. Corneil and Barnaby Dalton and Michel Habib LDFS-Based Certifying Algorithm for the Minimum Path Cover Problem on Cocomparability Graphs . . . . . . . . . 792--807 Fabrizio Grandoni and Anupam Gupta and Stefano Leonardi and Pauli Miettinen and Piotr Sankowski and Mohit Singh Set Covering with Our Eyes Closed . . . 808--830 Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Ryan Williams Finding, Minimizing, and Counting Weighted Subgraphs . . . . . . . . . . . 831--854 Ilan Newman and Yuri Rabinovich On Multiplicative $ \lambda $-Approximations and Some Geometric Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--883 Stefan Göller and Markus Lohrey Branching-Time Model Checking of One-Counter Processes and Timed Automata 884--923 Jin-Yi Cai and Xi Chen and Pinyan Lu Graph Homomorphisms with Complex Values: a Dichotomy Theorem . . . . . . . . . . 924--1029 L. Elisa Celis and Omer Reingold and Gil Segev and Udi Wieder Balls and Bins: Smaller Hash Families and Faster Evaluation . . . . . . . . . 1030--1050 Parikshit Gopalan and Raghu Meka and Omer Reingold and David Zuckerman Pseudorandom Generators for Combinatorial Shapes . . . . . . . . . . 1051--1076 Hsien-Chih Chang and Hsueh-I Lu Computing the Girth of a Planar Graph in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1094 Ilan Newman and Christian Sohler Every Property of Hyperfinite Graphs Is Testable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1112 Viresh Patel Determining Edge Expansion and Other Connectivity Measures of Graphs of Bounded Genus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1131 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Estimating the Partition Function of the Ferromagnetic Ising Model on a Regular Matroid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132--1157 Danny Z. Chen and John Hershberger and Haitao Wang Computing Shortest Paths amid Convex Pseudodisks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1158--1184 Lap Chi Lau and Chun Kong Yung Efficient Edge Splitting-Off Algorithms Maintaining All-Pairs Edge-Connectivities . . . . . . . . . . 1185--1200 Benjamin A. Burton and Mathias Hiron Locating Regions in a Sequence under Density Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 1201--1215 Chris Peikert and Robert Kleinberg and Aravind Srinivasan and Alan Frieze and Alexander Russell and Leonard Schulman Special Section on the Forty-Second Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2010) . . . . . . . . . 1216--1217 Ryan Williams Improving Exhaustive Search Implies Superpolynomial Lower Bounds . . . . . . 1218--1244 Martin Dyer and David Richerby An Effective Dichotomy for the Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem . . . . 1245--1274 Raghu Meka and David Zuckerman Pseudorandom Generators for Polynomial Threshold Functions . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1301 Swastik Kopparty and Shubhangi Saraf Local List-Decoding and Testing of Random Linear Codes from High Error . . 1302--1326 Boaz Barak and Mark Braverman and Xi Chen and Anup Rao How to Compress Interactive Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327--1363 Daniele Micciancio and Panagiotis Voulgaris A Deterministic Single Exponential Time Algorithm for Most Lattice Problems Based on Voronoi Cell Computations . . . 1364--1391 Ashish Goel and Michael Kapralov and Sanjeev Khanna Perfect Matchings in $ O(n \log n) $ Time in Regular Bipartite Graphs . . . . 1392--1404 Iftach Haitner and Omer Reingold and Salil Vadhan Efficiency Improvements in Constructing Pseudorandom Generators from One-Way Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405--1430
Chris Whidden and Robert G. Beiko and Norbert Zeh Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Maximum Agreement Forests . . . . . . . . . . . 1431--1466 Chandra Chekuri and Sanjeev Khanna and F. Bruce Shepherd The All-or-Nothing Multicommodity Flow Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467--1493 Anupam Gupta and Moritz Hardt and Aaron Roth and Jonathan Ullman Privately Releasing Conjunctions and the Statistical Query Barrier . . . . . . . 1494--1520 Paolo Ferragina and Igor Nitto and Rossano Venturini On the Bit-Complexity of Lempel--Ziv Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1521--1541 Sergio Cabello and Erin W. Chambers and Jeff Erickson Multiple-Source Shortest Paths in Embedded Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1542--1571 George Christodoulou and Annamária Kovács A Deterministic Truthful PTAS for Scheduling Related Machines . . . . . . 1572--1595 Zachary Friggstad and Mohammad R. Salavatipour and Zoya Svitkina Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Path and Directed Latency Problems . . . . . . . 1596--1619 Ge Xia The Stretch Factor of the Delaunay Triangulation Is Less than $ 1.998 $ . . 1620--1659 Haim Kaplan and Robert E. Tarjan and Uri Zwick Soft Heaps Simplified . . . . . . . . . 1660--1673 Rajesh Chitnis and MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Dániel Marx Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Directed Multiway Cut Parameterized by the Size of the Cutset . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1674--1696 Martin Tancer and Dmitry Tonkonog Nerves of Good Covers Are Algorithmically Unrecognizable . . . . . 1697--1719 Prosenjit Bose and Vida Dujmovi\'c and Pat Morin and Michiel Smid Robust Geometric Spanners . . . . . . . 1720--1736 Albert Atserias and Martin Grohe and Dániel Marx Size Bounds and Query Plans for Relational Joins . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737--1767 Simone Linz and Katherine St. John and Charles Semple Counting Trees in a Phylogenetic Network Is #P-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1768--1776
Flavio Chierichetti and Ravi Kumar and Silvio Lattanzi and Alessandro Panconesi and Prabhakar Raghavan Models for the Compressible Web . . . . 1777--1802 Sergio Cabello and Bojan Mohar Adding One Edge to Planar Graphs Makes Crossing Number and $1$-Planarity Hard 1803--1829 Anne Driemel and Sariel Har-Peled Jaywalking Your Dog: Computing the Fréchet Distance with Shortcuts . . . . . 1830--1866 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Boris Aronov and Marc van Kreveld and Maarten Löffler and Rodrigo I. Silveira Computing Correlation between Piecewise-Linear Functions . . . . . . . 1867--1887 Mahdi Cheraghchi and Venkatesan Guruswami and Ameya Velingker Restricted Isometry of Fourier Matrices and List Decodability of Random Linear Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1888--1914 David A. Cohen and Martin C. Cooper and Páidí Creed and Peter G. Jeavons and Stanislav Zivný An Algebraic Theory of Complexity for Discrete Optimization . . . . . . . . . 1915--1939 Ting Deng and Wenfei Fan and Floris Geerts On the Complexity of Package Recommendation Problems . . . . . . . . 1940--1986 Thomas Decker and Gábor Ivanyos and Miklos Santha and Pawel Wocjan Hidden Symmetry Subgroup Problems . . . 1987--2007 Benny Applebaum Pseudorandom Generators with Long Stretch and Low Locality from Random Local One-Way Functions . . . . . . . . 2008--2037
Pankaj K. Agarwal and Jirí Matousek and Micha Sharir On Range Searching with Semialgebraic Sets. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039--2062 Shiva Kintali and Laura J. Poplawski and Rajmohan Rajaraman and Ravi Sundaram and Shang-Hua Teng Reducibility among Fractional Stability Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063--2113 Zohar S. Karnin and Partha Mukhopadhyay and Amir Shpilka and Ilya Volkovich Deterministic Identity Testing of Depth-$4$ Multilinear Circuits with Bounded Top Fan-in . . . . . . . . . . . 2114--2131 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran and Navin Goyal and Bernhard Haeupler Deterministic Algorithms for the Lovász Local Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2132--2155 Nikolaos Fountoulakis and Konstantinos Panagiotou and Angelika Steger On the Insertion Time of Cuckoo Hashing 2156--2181 Shachar Lovett and Ely Porat A Space Lower Bound for Dynamic Approximate Membership Data Structures 2182--2196 Fedor V. Fomin and Yngve Villanger Subexponential Parameterized Algorithm for Minimum Fill-In . . . . . . . . . . 2197--2216 Lap Chi Lau and Mohit Singh Additive Approximation for Bounded Degree Survivable Network Design . . . . 2217--2242 Giuseppe Di Battista and Fabrizio Frati and János Pach On the Queue Number of Planar Graphs . . 2243--2285 Maria Florina Balcan and Mark Braverman and Daniel A. Spielman Special Section on the Fiftieth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2009) . . . . . . 2286--2286 Shahar Dobzinski and Shaddin Dughmi On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design . . . . . . 2287--2304 Zeev Dvir and Swastik Kopparty and Shubhangi Saraf and Madhu Sudan Extensions to the Method of Multiplicities, with Applications to Kakeya Sets and Mergers . . . . . . . . 2305--2328 Alexander A. Sherstov The Intersection of Two Halfspaces Has High Threshold Degree . . . . . . . . . 2329--2374 Ryan O'Donnell and Karl Wimmer KKL, Kruskal--Katona, and Monotone Nets 2375--2399 Ankur Moitra Vertex Sparsification and Oblivious Reductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2400--2423 Tanmoy Chakraborty and Zhiyi Huang and Sanjeev Khanna Dynamic and Nonuniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization . . 2424--2451 Irit Dinur and Prahladh Harsha Composition of Low-Error $2$-Query PCPs Using Decodable PCPs . . . . . . . . . . 2452--2486 Iftach Haitner A Parallel Repetition Theorem for Any Interactive Argument . . . . . . . . . . 2487--2501
Katalin Friedl and Gábor Ivanyos and Frédéric Magniez and Miklos Santha and Pranab Sen Hidden Translation and Translating Coset in Quantum Computing . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 Arman Yousefi and Neal E. Young On a Linear Program for Minimum-Weight Triangulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51 Telikepalli Kavitha A Size-Popularity Tradeoff in the Stable Marriage Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--71 Leonid Barenboim and Michael Elkin and Fabian Kuhn Distributed $ (\Delta + 1) $-Coloring in Linear (in $ \Delta $) Time . . . . . . 72--95 René Sitters The Generalized Work Function Algorithm Is Competitive for the Generalized $2$-Server Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 96--125 Sungjin Im and Benjamin Moseley and Kirk Pruhs Online Scheduling with General Cost Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--143 J. M. Landsberg New Lower Bounds for the Rank of Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--149 Harry Buhrman and Nishanth Chandran and Serge Fehr and Ran Gelles and Vipul Goyal and Rafail Ostrovsky and Christian Schaffner Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: Impossibility and Constructions . . . . 150--178 Johan Håstad On the NP-Hardness of Max-Not-$2$ . . . 179--193 Moshe Babaioff and Yogeshwer Sharma and Aleksandrs Slivkins Characterizing Truthful Multi-armed Bandit Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . 194--230 Ilias Diakonikolas and Prasad Raghavendra and Rocco A. Servedio and Li-Yang Tan Average Sensitivity and Noise Sensitivity of Polynomial Threshold Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--253 J. Håstad and B. Just and J. C. Lagarias and C. P. Schnorr Erratum: Polynomial Time Algorithms for Finding Integer Relations Among Real Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254 Lap Chi Lau and Tal Malkin and Ryan O'Donnell and Luca Trevisan Special Section on the Fifty-First Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2010) . . . . . . 255--255 Benjamin Rossman The Monotone Complexity of $k$-Clique on Random Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--279 Andreas Björklund Determinant Sums for Undirected Hamiltonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--299 Mihai P\uatrascu and Liam Roditty Distance Oracles beyond the Thorup--Zwick Bound . . . . . . . . . . 300--311 Shaddin Dughmi and Tim Roughgarden Black-Box Randomized Reductions in Algorithmic Mechanism Design . . . . . . 312--336 Ioannis Koutis and Gary L. Miller and Richard Peng Approaching Optimality for Solving SDD Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--354
Dániel Marx and Igor Razgon Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Multicut Parameterized by the Size of the Cutset 355--388 Iftach Haitner and Eran Omri Coin Flipping with Constant Bias Implies One-Way Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 389--409 Siu-Wing Cheng and Jiongxin Jin Approximate Shortest Descending Paths 410--428 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Rinat Ben Avraham and Haim Kaplan and Micha Sharir Computing the Discrete Fréchet Distance in Subquadratic Time . . . . . . . . . . 429--449 Gil Cohen and Ran Raz and Gil Segev Nonmalleable Extractors with Short Seeds and Applications to Privacy Amplification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--476 Hsueh-I Lu Linear-Time Compression of Bounded-Genus Graphs into Information-Theoretically Optimal Number of Bits . . . . . . . . . 477--496 Alan Frieze and Navin Goyal and Luis Rademacher and Santosh Vempala Expanders via Random Spanning Trees . . 497--513 Yuval Filmus and Justin Ward Monotone Submodular Maximization over a Matroid via Non-Oblivious Local Search 514--542 Boris Aronov and Mark de Berg and Esther Ezra and Micha Sharir Improved Bounds for the Union of Locally Fat Objects in the Plane . . . . . . . . 543--572 Andrei A. Bulatov and Dániel Marx Constraint Satisfaction Parameterized by Solution Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--616 Kenneth L. Clarkson and Wolfgang Mulzer and C. Seshadhri Self-Improving Algorithms for Coordinatewise Maxima and Convex Hulls 617--653 Eli Ben-Sasson and Rafail Ostrovsky Special Section on the Fifty-Second IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2011) . . . . . . 654--654 Emanuele Viola Extractors for Circuit Sources . . . . . 655--672 Kasper Green Larsen On Range Searching in the Group Model and Combinatorial Discrepancy . . . . . 673--686 Christos Boutsidis and Petros Drineas and Malik Magdon-Ismail Near-Optimal Column-Based Matrix Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--717 Timon Hertli $3$-SAT Faster and Simpler --- Unique-SAT Bounds for PPSZ Hold in General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--729 Madhur Tulsiani and Julia Wolf Quadratic Goldreich--Levin Theorems . . 730--766 Paul Bonsma and Jens Schulz and Andreas Wiese A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Unsplittable Flow on Paths 767--799 Yevgeniy Dodis and Xin Li and Trevor D. Wooley and David Zuckerman Privacy Amplification and Nonmalleable Extractors Via Character Sums . . . . . 800--830 Zvika Brakerski and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Efficient Fully Homomorphic Encryption from (Standard) $ \mathsf {LWE} $ . . . 831--871 Nikhil Bansal and Uriel Feige and Robert Krauthgamer and Konstantin Makarychev and Viswanath Nagarajan and Joseph Seffi Naor and Roy Schwartz Min-Max Graph Partitioning and Small Set Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872--904 Benny Applebaum and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz How to Garble Arithmetic Circuits . . . 905--929 Saeed Alaei Bayesian Combinatorial Auctions: Expanding Single Buyer Mechanisms to Many Buyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930--972
Mark Braverman and Anup Rao and Ran Raz and Amir Yehudayoff Pseudorandom Generators for Regular Branching Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 973--986 Michael Ben-Or and Avinatan Hassidim and Haran Pilpel Quantum Multiprover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers . . . . . . . 987--1011 Emanuel Kiero\'nski and Jakub Michaliszyn and Ian Pratt-Hartmann and Lidia Tendera Two-Variable First-Order Logic with Equivalence Closure . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1063 Anna Huber and Andrei Krokhin and Robert Powell Skew Bisubmodularity and Valued CSPs . . 1064--1084 Pablo Barceló and Leonid Libkin and Miguel Romero Efficient Approximations of Conjunctive Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1130 Scott Aaronson and Andrew Drucker A Full Characterization of Quantum Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131--1183 Subhash A. Khot and Preyas Popat and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi Almost Polynomial Factor Hardness for Closest Vector Problem with Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184--1205 Ben W. Reichardt Span Programs are Equivalent to Quantum Query Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206--1219 Matthias Englert and Deniz Özmen and Matthias Westermann The Power of Reordering for Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling . . . . . . 1220--1237
Matthias Englert and Anupam Gupta and Robert Krauthgamer and Harald Räcke and Inbal Talgam-Cohen and Kunal Talwar Vertex Sparsifiers: New Results from Old Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239--1262 Fabrizio Grandoni and Piotr Krysta and Stefano Leonardi and Carmine Ventre Utilitarian Mechanism Design for Multiobjective Optimization . . . . . . 1263--1290 Nishanth Chandran and Vipul Goyal and Ryan Moriarty and Rafail Ostrovsky Position-Based Cryptography . . . . . . 1291--1341 Joseph Cheriyan and László A. Végh Approximating Minimum-Cost $k$-Node Connected Subgraphs via Independence-Free Graphs . . . . . . . . 1342--1362 Dror Aiger and Haim Kaplan and Micha Sharir Reporting Neighbors in High-Dimensional Euclidean Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363--1395 Amihood Amir and Gianni Franceschini and Roberto Grossi and Tsvi Kopelowitz and Moshe Lewenstein and Noa Lewenstein Managing Unbounded-Length Keys in Comparison-Driven Data Structures with Applications to Online Indexing . . . . 1396--1416 Hamed Hatami and Shachar Lovett Correlation Testing for Affine Invariant Properties on $ \mathbb {F}_p^n $ in the High Error Regime . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1455 Amin Coja-Oghlan and Alan Frieze Analyzing \tt Walksat on Random Formulas 1456--1485 Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar Down the Rabbit Hole: Robust Proximity Search and Density Estimation in Sublinear Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486--1511
Hai Brenner and Kobbi Nissim Impossibility of Differentially Private Universally Optimal Mechanisms . . . . . 1513--1540 Fedor V. Fomin and Petr A. Golovach and Daniel Lokshtanov and Saket Saurabh Almost Optimal Lower Bounds for Problems Parameterized by Clique-Width . . . . . 1541--1563 Sebastian Faust and Tal Rabin and Leonid Reyzin and Eran Tromer and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Protecting Circuits from Computationally Bounded and Noisy Leakage . . . . . . . 1564--1614 Flavio Chierichetti and Jon Kleinberg Voting with Limited Information and Many Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1615--1653 Abhishek Bhowmick and Zeev Dvir and Shachar Lovett New Bounds for Matching Vector Families 1654--1683 Nikhil Bansal and Kirk Pruhs The Geometry of Scheduling . . . . . . . 1684--1698 Johan Håstad On the Correlation of Parity and Small-Depth Circuits . . . . . . . . . . 1699--1708 Thomas Watson Time Hierarchies for Sampling Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1709--1727 Martin Cadek and Marek Krcál and Jirí Matousek and Lukás Vokrínek and Uli Wagner Polynomial-Time Computation of Homotopy Groups and Postnikov Systems in Fixed Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1728--1780 Gonzalo Navarro and Yakov Nekrich Optimal Dynamic Sequence Representations 1781--1806 Michael Dinitz and Guy Kortsarz Matroid Secretary for Regular and Decomposable Matroids . . . . . . . . . 1807--1830
Chandra Chekuri and Jan Vondrák and Rico Zenklusen Submodular Function Maximization via the Multilinear Relaxation and Contention Resolution Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 1831--1879 Frédéric Magniez and Claire Mathieu and Ashwin Nayak Recognizing Well-Parenthesized Expressions in the Streaming Model . . . 1880--1905 Flavio Chierichetti and Jon Kleinberg and Alessandro Panconesi How to Schedule a Cascade in an Arbitrary Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 1906--1920 Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum The Complexity of Computing the Sign of the Tutte Polynomial . . . . . . . . . . 1921--1952
Vladimir Kolmogorov and Johan Thapper and Stanislav Zivný The Power of Linear Programming for General-Valued CSPs . . . . . . . . . . 1--36 T.-H. Hubert Chan and Mingfei Li and Li Ning and Shay Solomon New Doubling Spanners: Better and Simpler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--53 Fedor V. Fomin and Ioan Todinca and Yngve Villanger Large Induced Subgraphs via Triangulations and CMSO . . . . . . . . 54--87 Surender Baswana and Manoj Gupta and Sandeep Sen Fully Dynamic Maximal Matching in $ O(\log n) $ Update Time . . . . . . . . 88--113 Martin Grohe and Dániel Marx Structure Theorem and Isomorphism Test for Graphs with Excluded Topological Subgraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--159 Ittai Abraham and Yair Bartal and Ofer Neiman Embedding Metrics into Ultrametrics and Graphs into Spanning Trees with Constant Average Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . 160--192 Iftach Haitner and Jonathan J. Hoch and Omer Reingold and Gil Segev Finding Collisions in Interactive Protocols --- Tight Lower Bounds on the Round and Communication Complexities of Statistically Hiding Commitments . . . . 193--242
Hirotada Kobayashi and François Le Gall and Harumichi Nishimura Stronger Methods of Making Quantum Interactive Proofs Perfectly Complete 243--289 András A. Benczúr and David R. Karger Randomized Approximation Schemes for Cuts and Flows in Capacitated Graphs . . 290--319 David R. Karger and Matthew S. Levine Fast Augmenting Paths by Random Sampling from Residual Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 320--339 Pavel Hrubes and Iddo Tzameret Short Proofs for the Determinant Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--383 David Fernández-Baca and Sylvain Guillemot and Brad Shutters and Sudheer Vakati Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Finding Agreement Supertrees . . . . . . . . . . 384--410 Eric Blais and Amit Weinstein and Yuichi Yoshida Partially Symmetric Functions Are Efficiently Isomorphism Testable . . . . 411--432 Benny Applebaum and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz and Brent Waters Encoding Functions with Constant Online Rate, or How to Compress Garbled Circuit Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--466 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Camille Wormser and Mariette Yvinec Anisotropic Delaunay Mesh Generation . . 467--512
Philip Bille and Gad M. Landau and Rajeev Raman and Kunihiko Sadakane and Srinivasa Rao Satti and Oren Weimann Random Access to Grammar-Compressed Strings and Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 513--539 Clément L. Canonne and Dana Ron and Rocco A. Servedio Testing Probability Distributions using Conditional Samples . . . . . . . . . . 540--616 Ittai Abraham and Shiri Chechik and David Kempe and Aleksandrs Slivkins Low-Distortion Inference of Latent Similarities from a Multiplex Social Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--668 Manindra Agrawal and Rohit Gurjar and Arpita Korwar and Nitin Saxena Hitting-Sets for ROABP and Sum of Set-Multilinear Circuits . . . . . . . . 669--697 David B. Wilson and Uri Zwick A Forward-Backward Single-Source Shortest Paths Algorithm . . . . . . . . 698--739 Nao Fujinaga and Yukiko Yamauchi and Hirotaka Ono and Shuji Kijima and Masafumi Yamashita Pattern Formation by Oblivious Asynchronous Mobile Robots . . . . . . . 740--785 Eryk Kopczy\'nski and Tony Tan Regular Graphs and the Spectra of Two-Variable Logic with Counting . . . . 786--818 Nikhil Bansal and Kang-Won Lee and Viswanath Nagarajan and Murtaza Zafer Minimum Congestion Mapping in a Cloud 819--843 Yoann Dieudonné and Andrzej Pelc and Vincent Villain How to Meet Asynchronously at Polynomial Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844--867 Gianluca De Marco and Dariusz R. Kowalski Fast Nonadaptive Deterministic Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in a Dynamic Multiple-Access Channel . . . . . . . . 868--888
Mikhail Belkin and Kaushik Sinha Polynomial Learning of Distribution Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--911 Chandra Chekuri and Sreeram Kannan and Adnan Raja and Pramod Viswanath Multicommodity Flows and Cuts in Polymatroidal Networks . . . . . . . . . 912--943 Sariel Har-Peled and Nirman Kumar Approximating Minimization Diagrams and Generalized Proximity Search . . . . . . 944--974 Lior Kamma and Robert Krauthgamer and Huy L. Nguy\~ên Cutting Corners Cheaply, or How to Remove Steiner Points . . . . . . . . . 975--995 Michael Elkin and Shay Solomon Steiner Shallow-Light Trees Are Exponentially Lighter than Spanning Ones 996--1025 Violetta Lonati and Dino Mandrioli and Federica Panella and Matteo Pradella Operator Precedence Languages: Their Automata-Theoretic and Logic Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026--1088 Andreas Göbel and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Colin McQuillan and David Richerby and Tomoyuki Yamakami Counting List Matrix Partitions of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089--1118 Yuval Filmus and Massimo Lauria and Jakob Nordström and Noga Ron-Zewi and Neil Thapen Space Complexity in Polynomial Calculus 1119--1153 Philip Klein and Neal E. Young On the Number of Iterations for Dantzig--Wolfe Optimization and Packing-Covering Approximation Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154--1172
Hervé Fournier and Nutan Limaye and Guillaume Malod and Srikanth Srinivasan Lower Bounds for Depth-$4$ Formulas Computing Iterated Matrix Multiplication 1173--1201 Takuro Fukunaga and Zeev Nutov and R. Ravi Iterative Rounding Approximation Algorithms for Degree-Bounded Node-Connectivity Network Design . . . . 1202--1229 Dorit Aharonov and Lior Eldar Quantum Locally Testable Codes . . . . . 1230--1262 Felix Fischer and Max Klimm Optimal Impartial Selection . . . . . . 1263--1285 Tim Roughgarden Special Section on the Fifty-Third IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2012) . . . . . . 1286--1286 Boaz Barak and Parikshit Gopalan and Johan Håstad and Raghu Meka and Prasad Raghavendra and David Steurer Making the Long Code Shorter . . . . . . 1287--1324 Nir Bitansky and Omer Paneth On Non-Black-Box Simulation and the Impossibility of Approximate Obfuscation 1325--1383 Niv Buchbinder and Moran Feldman and Joseph Seffi Naor and Roy Schwartz A Tight Linear Time ($ 1 / 2$)-Approximation for Unconstrained Submodular Maximization . . . . . . . . 1384--1402 Bernard Chazelle Diffusive Influence Systems . . . . . . 1403--1442 Andrew Drucker New Limits to Classical and Quantum Instance Compression . . . . . . . . . . 1443--1479 Shafi Goldwasser and Guy N. Rothblum How to Compute in the Presence of Leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1480--1549 Iordanis Kerenidis and Sophie Laplante and Virginie Lerays and Jérémie Roland and David Xiao Lower Bounds on Information Complexity via Zero-Communication Protocols and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1550--1572 Shachar Lovett and Raghu Meka Constructive Discrepancy Minimization by Walking on the Edges . . . . . . . . . . 1573--1582
Eric Blais and Li-Yang Tan Approximating Boolean Functions with Depth-2 Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1600 Mrinal Kumar and Shubhangi Saraf The Limits of Depth Reduction for Arithmetic Formulas: It's All About the Top Fan-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1601--1625 Prosenjit Bose and Rolf Fagerberg and André van Renssen and Sander Verdonschot Optimal Local Routing on Delaunay Triangulations Defined by Empty Equilateral Triangles . . . . . . . . . 1626--1649 Nabil H. Mustafa and Rajiv Raman and Saurabh Ray Quasi-Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Weighted Geometric Set Cover on Pseudodisks and Halfspaces . . . . . 1650--1669 Eli Ben-Sasson and Noga Ron-Zewi From Affine to Two-Source Extractors via Approximate Duality . . . . . . . . . . 1670--1697 Mark Braverman Interactive Information Complexity . . . 1698--1739 Vitaly Feldman and David Xiao Sample Complexity Bounds on Differentially Private Learning via Communication Complexity . . . . . . . . 1740--1764 Jan Bulánek and Michal Koucký and Michael Saks Tight Lower Bounds for the Online Labeling Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1797 Tobias Brunsch and Kamiel Cornelissen and Bodo Manthey and Heiko Röglin and Clemens Rösner Smoothed Analysis of the Successive Shortest Path Algorithm . . . . . . . . 1798--1819 Jugal Garg and Ruta Mehta and Milind Sohoni and Vijay V. Vazirani A Complementary Pivot Algorithm for Market Equilibrium under Separable, Piecewise-Linear Concave Utilities . . . 1820--1847
Albert Gu and Anupam Gupta and Amit Kumar The Power of Deferral: Maintaining a Constant-Competitive Steiner Tree Online 1--28 Michal Feldman and Nick Gravin and Brendan Lucier Combinatorial Walrasian Equilibrium . . 29--48 Matthew Andrews and Spyridon Antonakopoulos and Lisa Zhang Minimum-Cost Network Design with (Dis)economies of Scale . . . . . . . . 49--66 Marek Cygan and Marcin Pilipczuk and Michal Pilipczuk Known Algorithms for Edge Clique Cover are Probably Optimal . . . . . . . . . . 67--83 Esther Ezra A Size-Sensitive Discrepancy Bound for Set Systems of Bounded Primal Shatter Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--101 Maria Florina Balcan and Yingyu Liang Clustering under Perturbation Resilience 102--155 Ankur Moitra An Almost Optimal Algorithm for Computing Nonnegative Rank . . . . . . . 156--173 Jeff M. Phillips and Elad Verbin and Qin Zhang Lower Bounds for Number-in-Hand Multiparty Communication Complexity, Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--196
Rishi Gupta and Tim Roughgarden and C. Seshadhri Decompositions of Triangle-Dense Graphs 197--215 Fabrizio Grandoni and Thomas Rothvoß Pricing on Paths: a PTAS for the Highway Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--231 Roee Engelberg and Joseph Seffi Naor Equilibria in Online Games . . . . . . . 232--267 Toby Cubitt and Ashley Montanaro Complexity Classification of Local Hamiltonian Problems . . . . . . . . . . 268--316 Hans L. Bodlaender and Pål Grònås Drange and Markus S. Dregi and Fedor V. Fomin and Daniel Lokshtanov and Michal Pilipczuk A $ c^k n $ $5$-Approximation Algorithm for Treewidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--378 Armando Castanñeda and Damien Imbs and Sergio Rajsbaum and Michel Raynal Generalized Symmetry Breaking Tasks and Nondeterminism in Concurrent Objects . . 379--414 Kai-Min Chung and Rafael Pass and Karn Seth Non-Black-Box Simulation from One-Way Functions and Applications to Resettable Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--458 James Aspnes and Yuval Ishai and Peter Bro Miltersen Special Section on the Forty-Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2013) . . . . . . . . . 459--460 D. Chakrabarty and C. Seshadhri An $ o(n) $ Monotonicity Tester for Boolean Functions over the Hypercube . . 461--472 Jonathan Ullman Answering $ n^2 + o(1) $ Counting Queries with Differential Privacy is Hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--496 R. Ryan Williams Natural Proofs versus Derandomization 497--529 Shi Li and Ola Svensson Approximating $k$-Median via Pseudo-Approximation . . . . . . . . . . 530--547 Aaron Bernstein Maintaining Shortest Paths Under Deletions in Weighted Directed Graphs 548--574 Aleksandar Nikolov and Kunal Talwar and Li Zhang The Geometry of Differential Privacy: The Small Database and Approximate Cases 575--616 Andris Ambainis Superlinear Advantage for Exact Quantum Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--631
Dorit Aharonov and André Chailloux and Maor Ganz and Iordanis Kerenidis and Lo\"\ick Magnin A Simpler Proof of the Existence of Quantum Weak Coin Flipping with Arbitrarily Small Bias . . . . . . . . . 633--679 Andreas Galanis and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Mark Jerrum Approximately Counting $H$-Colorings is $ \# \mathrm {BIS}$-Hard . . . . . . . . 680--711 Liam Roditty and Uri Zwick A Fully Dynamic Reachability Algorithm for Directed Graphs with an Almost Linear Update Time . . . . . . . . . . . 712--733 James Aspnes and Keren Censor-Hillel and Hagit Attiya and Danny Hendler Lower Bounds for Restricted-Use Objects 734--762 Kenneth L. Clarkson and Petros Drineas and Malik Magdon-Ismail and Michael W. Mahoney and Xiangrui Meng and David P. Woodruff The Fast Cauchy Transform and Faster Robust Linear Regression . . . . . . . . 763--810 Constantinos Daskalakis and Ilias Diakonikolas and Mihalis Yannakakis How Good is the Chord Algorithm? . . . . 811--858 Nicole Megow and Martin Skutella and José Verschae and Andreas Wiese The Power of Recourse for Online MST and TSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--880 Moritz Hardt and Yuval Ishai and Raghu Meka and Virginia Vassilevska Williams Special Section on the Fifty-Fourth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2013) . . . . . . 881--881 Sanjam Garg and Craig Gentry and Shai Halevi and Mariana Raykova and Amit Sahai and Brent Waters Candidate Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption for All Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . 882--929 Thomas Rothvoss Better Bin Packing Approximations via Discrepancy Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 930--946 Monika Henzinger and Sebastian Krinninger and Danupon Nanongkai Dynamic Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths: Breaking the $ O(m n) $ Barrier and Derandomization . . . . . . . . . . 947--1006 Thomas Vidick Three-Player Entangled XOR Games are NP-Hard to Approximate . . . . . . . . . 1007--1063 Ankit Gupta and Pritish Kamath and Neeraj Kayal and Ramprasad Saptharishi Arithmetic Circuits: a Chasm at Depth $3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1079 David Gosset and Daniel Nagaj Quantum $3$-SAT Is QMA$_1$-Complete . . 1080--1128 Vitaly Feldman and Jan Vondrák Optimal Bounds on Approximation of Submodular and XOS Functions by Juntas 1129--1170
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Jin-Yi Cai and Heng Guo and Tyson Williams A Complete Dichotomy Rises from the Capture of Vanishing Signatures . . . . 1671--1728 László A. Végh A Strongly Polynomial Algorithm for a Class of Minimum-Cost Flow Problems with Separable Convex Objectives . . . . . . 1729--1761 Mina Ghashami and Edo Liberty and Jeff M. Phillips and David P. Woodruff Frequent Directions: Simple and Deterministic Matrix Sketching . . . . . 1762--1792 Ran Canetti and Huijia Lin and Rafael Pass Adaptive Hardness and Composable Security in the Plain Model from Standard Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . 1793--1834 Mika Göös and Shachar Lovett and Raghu Meka and Thomas Watson and David Zuckerman Rectangles Are Nonnegative Juntas . . . 1835--1869 William Evans and David Kirkpatrick and Maarten Löffler and Frank Staals Minimizing Co-location Potential of Moving Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . 1870--1893 Ilario Bonacina and Nicola Galesi and Neil Thapen Total Space in Resolution . . . . . . . 1894--1909 Nir Bitansky and Ran Canetti and Omer Paneth and Alon Rosen On the Existence of Extractable One-Way Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1910--1952
Justin Hsu and Zhiyi Huang and Aaron Roth and Tim Roughgarden and Zhiwei Steven Wu Private Matchings and Allocations . . . 1953--1984 Jens M. Schmidt Mondshein Sequences (a.k.a. $ (2, 1)$-Orders) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985--2003 Andreas Galanis and Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda and Linji Yang Ferromagnetic Potts Model: Refined #BIS-hardness and Related Results . . . 2004--2065 Hubie Chen and Víctor Dalmau Decomposing Quantified Conjunctive (or Disjunctive) Formulas . . . . . . . . . 2066--2086 Charilaos Efthymiou A Simple Algorithm for Sampling Colorings of $ G(n, d / n) $ Up to The Gibbs Uniqueness Threshold . . . . . . . 2087--2116 Gilad Asharov and Gil Segev Limits on the Power of Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption . . . . . . . . . 2117--2176 Jin-Yi Cai and Xi Chen and Pinyan Lu Nonnegative Weighted #CSP: an Effective Complexity Dichotomy . . . . . . . . . . 2177--2198 Jacob Fox and János Pach and Andrew Suk A Polynomial Regularity Lemma for Semialgebraic Hypergraphs and Its Applications in Geometry and Property Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2199--2223
Salman Beigi and Omid Etesami and Amin Gohari Deterministic Randomness Extraction from Generalized and Distributed Santha--Vazirani Sources . . . . . . . . 1--36 Ilan Komargodski and Ran Raz and Avishay Tal Improved Average-Case Lower Bounds for De Morgan Formula Size: Matching Worst-Case Lower Bound . . . . . . . . . 37--57 Keren Censor-Hillel and Bernhard Haeupler and Jonathan Kelner and Petar Maymounkov Rumor Spreading with No Dependence on Conductance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--79 Gonzalo Navarro and Yakov Nekrich Time-Optimal Top-$k$ Document Retrieval 80--113 Dmitry Gavinsky and Or Meir and Omri Weinstein and Avi Wigderson Toward Better Formula Lower Bounds: The Composition of a Function and a Universal Relation . . . . . . . . . . . 114--131 Venkatesan Guruswami and Prahladh Harsha and Johan Håstad and Srikanth Srinivasan and Girish Varma Super-Polylogarithmic Hypergraph Coloring Hardness via Low-Degree Long Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--159 Julia Chuzhoy and Alexander Russell Special Section on the Fifty-Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2014) . . . . . . 160--160 Daniel Lokshtanov and Marcin Pilipczuk and Michal Pilipczuk and Saket Saurabh Fixed-Parameter Tractable Canonization and Isomorphism Test for Graphs of Bounded Treewidth . . . . . . . . . . . 161--189 Uriel Feige and Tomer Koren and Moshe Tennenholtz Chasing Ghosts: Competing with Stateful Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--223 Thomas Rothvoss Constructive Discrepancy Minimization for Convex Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--234 Subhash Khot and Rishi Saket Hardness of Coloring $2$-Colorable $ 12$-Uniform Hypergraphs with $ 2^{(\log {n})^{\Omega (1)}}$ Colors . . . . . . . 235--271 Hyung-Chan An and Mohit Singh and Ola Svensson LP-Based Algorithms for Capacitated Facility Location . . . . . . . . . . . 272--306 Neeraj Kayal and Nutan Limaye and Chandan Saha and Srikanth Srinivasan An Exponential Lower Bound for Homogeneous Depth Four Arithmetic Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--335 Mrinal Kumar and Shubhangi Saraf On the Power of Homogeneous Depth $4$ Arithmetic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . 336--387 Mark Braverman and Klim Efremenko List and Unique Coding for Interactive Communication in the Presence of Adversarial Noise . . . . . . . . . . . 388--428 Gregory Valiant and Paul Valiant An Automatic Inequality Prover and Instance Optimal Identity Testing . . . 429--455 M. Kapralov and Y. T. Lee and C. N. Musco and C. P. Musco and A. Sidford Single Pass Spectral Sparsification in Dynamic Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--477
Iftach Haitner and Eliad Tsfadia An Almost-Optimally Fair Three-Party Coin-Flipping Protocol . . . . . . . . . 479--542 Christos Boutsidis and David P. Woodruff Optimal CUR Matrix Decompositions . . . 543--589 David Gamarnik and Madhu Sudan Performance of Sequential Local Algorithms for the Random NAE-$K$-SAT Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590--619 Brendan Lucier and Allan Borodin Equilibria of Greedy Combinatorial Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620--660 Ho-Lin Chen and David Doty Parallelism and Time in Hierarchical Self-Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661--709 Richard Peng and He Sun and Luca Zanetti Partitioning Well-Clustered Graphs: Spectral Clustering Works! . . . . . . . 710--743 Elad Hazan and Satyen Kale and Shai Shalev-Shwartz Near-Optimal Algorithms for Online Matrix Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 744--773 M. Saks and C. Seshadhri Estimating the Longest Increasing Sequence in Polylogarithmic Time . . . . 774--823 Soroush Alamdari and Patrizio Angelini and Fidel Barrera-Cruz and Timothy M. Chan and Giordano Da Lozzo and Giuseppe Di Battista and Fabrizio Frati and Penny Haxell and Anna Lubiw and Maurizio Patrignani and Vincenzo Roselli and Sahil Singla and Bryan T. Wilkinson How to Morph Planar Graph Drawings . . . 824--852
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Hideo Bannai and Tomohiro I and Shunsuke Inenaga and Yuto Nakashima and Masayuki Takeda and Kazuya Tsuruta The ``Runs'' Theorem . . . . . . . . . . 1501--1514 Kousha Etessami and Alistair Stewart and Mihalis Yannakakis A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Computing Extinction Probabilities of Multitype Branching Processes . . . . . 1515--1553 Per Austrin and Venkatesan Guruswami and Johan Håstad $ (2 + \varepsilon)$-Sat Is NP-hard . . 1554--1573 Sergio Cabello and Josef Cibulka and Jan Kyncl and Maria Saumell and Pavel Valtr Peeling Potatoes Near-Optimally in Near-Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574--1602 Talya Eden and Amit Levi and Dana Ron and C. Seshadhri Approximately Counting Triangles in Sublinear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1603--1646 André Chailloux and Iordanis Kerenidis Physical Limitations of Quantum Cryptographic Primitives or Optimal Bounds for Quantum Coin Flipping and Bit Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1647--1677
Danny Z. Chen and Ziyun Huang and Yangwei Liu and Jinhui Xu On Clustering Induced Voronoi Diagrams 1679--1711 Sariel Har-Peled and Kent Quanrud Approximation Algorithms for Polynomial-Expansion and Low-Density Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1712--1744 Alina Ene and Sariel Har-Peled and Benjamin Raichel Geometric Packing under Nonuniform Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1745--1784 Noga Alon and Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi and Claudio Gentile and Shie Mannor and Yishay Mansour and Ohad Shamir Nonstochastic Multi-Armed Bandits with Graph-Structured Feedback . . . . . . . 1785--1826 Adriana López-Alt and Eran Tromer and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Multikey Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827--1892 Viresh Patel and Guus Regts Deterministic Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithms for Partition Functions and Graph Polynomials . . . . 1893--1919 Andrew M. Childs and Robin Kothari and Rolando D. Somma Quantum Algorithm for Systems of Linear Equations with Exponentially Improved Dependence on Precision . . . . . . . . 1920--1950
Sunil Arya and Guilherme D. da Fonseca and David M. Mount Approximate Polytope Membership Queries 1--51 Benny Applebaum and Shachar Lovett Algebraic Attacks against Random Local Functions and Their Countermeasures . . 52--79 Surender Baswana and Keerti Choudhary and Liam Roditty Fault-Tolerant Subgraph for Single-Source Reachability: General and Optimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--95 Amit Daniely and Michael Schapira and Gal Shahaf Inapproximability of Truthful Mechanisms via Generalizations of the Vapnik--Chervonenkis Dimension . . . . . 96--120 Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Elias Koutsoupias Duality and Optimality of Auctions for Uniform Distributions . . . . . . . . . 121--165 Nicolas Bousquet and Jean Daligault and Stéphan Thomassé Multicut Is FPT . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--207 Hamed Hatami and Kaave Hosseini and Shachar Lovett Structure of Protocols for XOR Functions 208--217 Artur Czumaj and Peter Davies Deterministic Communication in Radio Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--240 Mika Göös and Rahul Jain and Thomas Watson Extension Complexity of Independent Set Polytopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--269 Mohit Singh and László A. Végh Approximating Minimum Cost Connectivity Orientation and Augmentation . . . . . . 270--293
Kashyap Dixit and Sofya Raskhodnikova and Abhradeep Thakurta and Nithin Varma Erasure-Resilient Property Testing . . . 295--329 Moran Feldman and Rico Zenklusen The Submodular Secretary Problem Goes Linear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--366 Alexander A. Sherstov Compressing Interactive Communication Under Product Distributions . . . . . . 367--419 Wojciech Golab and Xiaozhou Steve Li and Alejandro López-Ortiz and Naomi Nishimura Computing $k$-Atomicity in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--455 Georg Gottlob and Enrico Malizia Achieving New Upper Bounds for the Hypergraph Duality Problem through Logic 456--492 Elad Haramaty and Chin Ho Lee and Emanuele Viola Bounded Independence Plus Noise Fools Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--523 Divesh Aggarwal and Yevgeniy Dodis and Shachar Lovett Non-Malleable Codes from Additive Combinatorics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--546 Mikhail Belkin and Luis Rademacher and James Voss Eigenvectors of Orthogonally Decomposable Functions . . . . . . . . . 547--615
Surender Baswana and Manoj Gupta and Sandeep Sen Fully Dynamic Maximal Matching in $ O(\log n) $ Update Time (Corrected Version) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--650 Zhiyi Huang and Yishay Mansour and Tim Roughgarden Making the Most of Your Samples . . . . 651--674 Daniel Lokshtanov and Dániel Marx and Saket Saurabh Slightly Superexponential Parameterized Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675--702 Maria-Florina Balcan and Nicholas J. A. Harvey Submodular Functions: Learnability, Structure, and Optimization . . . . . . 703--754 Roee David and Uriel Feige Random Walks with the Minimum Degree Local Rule Have $ O(n^2) $ Cover Time 755--768 Florent R. Madelaine and Barnaby D. Martin On the Complexity of the Model Checking Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769--797 Jiabao Lin and Hanpin Wang The Complexity of Boolean Holant Problems with Nonnegative Weights . . . 798--828 Michael Elkin and Arnold Filtser and Ofer Neiman Prioritized Metric Structures and Embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--858 Sayan Bhattacharya and Monika Henzinger and Giuseppe F. Italiano Deterministic Fully Dynamic Data Structures for Vertex Cover and Matching 859--887 Costis Daskalakis and Yael Kalai and Sandy Irani Special Section on the Forty-Seventh Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2015) . . . . . . . . . 888--889 Alexandr Andoni and Robert Krauthgamer and Ilya Razenshteyn Sketching and Embedding are Equivalent for Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890--916 Aviad Rubinstein Inapproximability of Nash Equilibrium 917--959 Siddharth Barman Approximating Nash Equilibria and Dense Subgraphs via an Approximate Version of Carathéodory's Theorem . . . . . . . . . 960--981 Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis Forrelation: a Problem That Optimally Separates Quantum from Classical Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982--1038 Nikhil Bansal and Anupam Gupta and Guru Guruganesh On the Lovász Theta Function for Independent Sets in Sparse Graphs . . . 1039--1055 Nitish Korula and Vahab Mirrokni and Morteza Zadimoghaddam Online Submodular Welfare Maximization: Greedy Beats $ 1 / 2 $ in Random Order 1056--1086 Arturs Backurs and Piotr Indyk Edit Distance Cannot Be Computed in Strongly Subquadratic Time (Unless SETH is False) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087--1097 Amir Abboud and Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Huacheng Yu Matching Triangles and Basing Hardness on an Extremely Popular Conjecture . . . 1098--1122 Nir Bitansky and Ran Canetti and Sanjam Garg and Justin Holmgren and Abhishek Jain and Huijia Lin and Rafael Pass and Sidharth Telang and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Indistinguishability Obfuscation for RAM Programs and Succinct Randomized Encodings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123--1210 Richard Cole and Vasilis Gkatzelis Approximating the Nash Social Welfare with Indivisible Items . . . . . . . . . 1211--1236 Ben Cousins and Santosh Vempala Gaussian Cooling and $ O^*(n^3) $ Algorithms for Volume and Gaussian Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237--1273
Mohammad Hossein Bateni and Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi and Vahid Liaghat Improved Approximation Algorithms for (Budgeted) Node-weighted Steiner Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1293 Vitaly Feldman and Will Perkins and Santosh Vempala On the Complexity of Random Satisfiability Problems with Planted Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294--1338 Eric Allender and Joshua A. Grochow and Dieter van Melkebeek and Cristopher Moore and Andrew Morgan Minimum Circuit Size, Graph Isomorphism, and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1339--1372 Clément L. Canonne and Themis Gouleakis and Ronitt Rubinfeld Sampling Correctors . . . . . . . . . . 1373--1423 Fu Li and Iddo Tzameret and Zhengyu Wang Characterizing Propositional Proofs as Noncommutative Formulas . . . . . . . . 1424--1462 Niv Buchbinder and Joseph Seffi Naor and Roy Schwartz Simplex Partitioning via Exponential Clocks and the Multiway-Cut Problem . . 1463--1482 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi and Yusuke Kobayashi All-or-Nothing Multicommodity Flow Problem with Bounded Fractionality in Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483--1504 Deeparnab Chakrabarty and Alina Ene and Ravishankar Krishnaswamy and Debmalya Panigrahi Online Buy-at-Bulk Network Design . . . 1505--1528 T-H. Hubert Chan and Fei Chen and Xiaowei Wu and Zhichao Zhao Ranking on Arbitrary Graphs: Rematch via Continuous Linear Programming . . . . . 1529--1546 Venkata Gandikota and Badih Ghazi and Elena Grigorescu NP-Hardness of Reed--Solomon Decoding, and the Prouhet--Tarry--Escott Problem 1547--1584 Haim Kaplan and Wolfgang Mulzer and Liam Roditty and Paul Seiferth Spanners for Directed Transmission Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1585--1609 Chandra Chekuri and Anastasios Sidiropoulos Approximation Algorithms for Euler Genus and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . 1610--1643 Sagnik Mukhopadhyay and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and Swagato Sanyal Separation Between Deterministic and Randomized Query Complexity . . . . . . 1644--1666 Andreas Emil Feldmann and Wai Shing Fung and Jochen Könemann and Ian Post A $ (1 + \varepsilon)$-Embedding of Low Highway Dimension Graphs into Bounded Treewidth Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667--1704 T-H. Hubert Chan and Shuguang Hu and Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang A PTAS for the Steiner Forest Problem in Doubling Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1705--1734
Michael A. Bender and Tsvi Kopelowitz and Seth Pettie and Maxwell Young Contention Resolution with Constant Throughput and Log-Logstar Channel Accesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1735--1754 Nikhil Bansal and Shashwat Garg and Jesper Nederlof and Nikhil Vyas Faster Space-Efficient Algorithms for Subset Sum, $k$-Sum, and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755--1777 Mika Göös and Toniann Pitassi Communication Lower Bounds via Critical Block Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . 1778--1806 Adam Smith and Jochen Könemann Special Section on the Forty-Sixth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2014) . . . . . . . . . 1807--1808 Alexander A. Sherstov Breaking the Minsky--Papert Barrier for Constant-Depth Circuits . . . . . . . . 1809--1857 Ruta Mehta Constant Rank Two-Player Games are PPAD-hard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858--1887 Mark Bun and Jonathan Ullman and Salil Vadhan Fingerprinting Codes and the Price of Approximate Differential Privacy . . . . 1888--1938 Thomas Kesselheim and Klaus Radke and Andreas Tönnis and Berthold Vöcking Primal Beats Dual on Online Packing LPs in the Random-Order Model . . . . . . . 1939--1964 R. Ryan Williams Faster All-Pairs Shortest Paths via Circuit Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . 1965--1985 Benjamin Rossman Formulas versus Circuits for Small Distance Connectivity . . . . . . . . . 1986--2028
Vladimir Kolmogorov Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovász Local Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2029--2056 Lin Chen and Nicole Megow and Kevin Schewior An $ \mathcal {O}(\log m) $-Competitive Algorithm for Online Machine Minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2057--2077 Mohsen Ghaffari and Andreas Karrenbauer and Fabian Kuhn and Christoph Lenzen and Boaz Patt-Shamir Near-Optimal Distributed Maximum Flow 2078--2117 Chandra Chekuri and Chao Xu Minimum Cuts and Sparsification in Hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2118--2156 Aloni Cohen and Justin Holmgren and Ryo Nishimaki and Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Daniel Wichs Watermarking Cryptographic Capabilities 2157--2202 Amir Abboud and Greg Bodwin and Seth Pettie A Hierarchy of Lower Bounds for Sublinear Additive Spanners . . . . . . 2203--2236 Cris Moore and Santosh Vempala Special Section on the Fifty-Sixth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2015) . . . . . . 2237--2237 Subhash Khot and Dor Minzer and Muli Safra On Monotonicity Testing and Boolean Isoperimetric-type Theorems . . . . . . 2238--2276 Mark Braverman and Ankit Garg and Young Kun Ko and Jieming Mao and Dave Touchette Near-Optimal Bounds on the Bounded-Round Quantum Communication Complexity of Disjointness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2277--2314 Yin Tat Lee and He Sun Constructing Linear-Sized Spectral Sparsification in Almost-Linear Time . . 2315--2336 Timothy M. Chan and Yakov Nekrich Towards an Optimal Method for Dynamic Planar Point Location . . . . . . . . . 2337--2361 Alexander A. Sherstov The Power of Asymmetry in Constant-Depth Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362--2434 Mika Göös and Toniann Pitassi and Thomas Watson Deterministic Communication vs. Partition Number . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435--2450 Parikshit Gopalan and Daniel M. Kane and Raghu Meka Pseudorandomness via the Discrete Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . 2451--2487 Adam W. Marcus and Daniel A. Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava Interlacing Families IV: Bipartite Ramanujan Graphs of All Sizes . . . . . 2488--2509 Mikkel Thorup $ {\rm Sample}(x) = (a*x \leq t) $ Is a Distinguisher with Probability $ 1 / 8 $ 2510--2526 Amir Abboud and Arturs Backurs and Virginia Vassilevska Williams If the Current Clique Algorithms Are Optimal, so Is Valiant's Parser . . . . 2527--2555
Hagit Attiya and Armando Castañeda and Maurice Herlihy and Ami Paz Bounds on the Step and Namespace Complexity of Renaming . . . . . . . . . 1--32 Yi-Jun Chang and Seth Pettie A Time Hierarchy Theorem for the LOCAL Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--69 Suryajith Chillara and Nutan Limaye and Srikanth Srinivasan Small-Depth Multilinear Formula Lower Bounds for Iterated Matrix Multiplication with Applications . . . . 70--92 Sungjin Im and Nathaniel Kell and Janardhan Kulkarni and Debmalya Panigrahi Tight Bounds for Online Vector Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--121 Yi-Jun Chang and Tsvi Kopelowitz and Seth Pettie An Exponential Separation between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model . . . . . . . . . . . 122--143 Mrinal Kumar and Ramprasad Saptharishi The Computational Power of Depth Five Arithmetic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . 144--180 Rotem Arnon-Friedman and Renato Renner and Thomas Vidick Simple and Tight Device-Independent Security Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--225
Ittai Abraham and Ofer Neiman Using Petal-Decompositions to Build a Low Stretch Spanning Tree . . . . . . . 227--248 Arnold Filtser Steiner Point Removal with Distortion $ O(\log k) $ using the Relaxed-Voronoi Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--278 Ivona Bezáková and Andreas Galanis and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Heng Guo and Daniel Stefankovic Approximation via Correlation Decay When Strong Spatial Mixing Fails . . . . . . 279--349 Flavio Chierichetti and Ravi Kumar and Alessandro Panconesi and Erisa Terolli On the Distortion of Locality Sensitive Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--372 Jing Chen and Bo Li and Yingkai Li Efficient Approximations for the Online Dispersion Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 373--416 Marek Cygan and Daniel Lokshtanov and Marcin Pilipczuk and Micha\l Pilipczuk and Saket Saurabh Minimum Bisection Is Fixed-Parameter Tractable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--450 Irit Dinur and Or Meir and Swastik Kopparty Special Section on the Fifty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2016) . . . . . . 451--451 Zachary Friggstad and Mohsen Rezapour and Mohammad R. Salavatipour Local Search Yields a PTAS for $k$-Means in Doubling Metrics . . . . . . . . . . 452--480 Karl Bringmann and Fabrizio Grandoni and Barna Saha and Virginia Vassilevska Williams Truly Subcubic Algorithms for Language Edit Distance and RNA Folding via Fast Bounded-Difference Min-Plus Product . . 481--512 Yijia Chen and Bingkai Lin The Constant Inapproximability of the Parameterized Dominating Set Problem . . 513--533 Nikhil Bansal and Daniel Dadush and Shashwat Garg An Algorithm for Komlós Conjecture Matching Banaszczyk's Bound . . . . . . 534--553 W. T. Gowers and Emanuele Viola Interleaved Group Products . . . . . . . 554--580 Charilaos Efthymiou and Thomas P. Hayes and Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda and Yitong Yin Convergence of MCMC and Loopy BP in the Tree Uniqueness Region for the Hard-Core Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--643 Vincent Cohen-Addad and Philip N. Klein and Claire Mathieu Local Search Yields Approximation Schemes for $k$-Means and $k$-Median in Euclidean and Minor-Free Metrics . . . . 644--667 Shiteng Chen and Periklis A. Papakonstantinou Depth Reduction for Composites . . . . . 668--686 Boaz Barak and Samuel Hopkins and Jonathan Kelner and Pravesh K. Kothari and Ankur Moitra and Aaron Potechin A Nearly Tight Sum-of-Squares Lower Bound for the Planted Clique Problem . . 687--735 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen Linear Hashing Is Awesome . . . . . . . 736--741 Ilias Diakonikolas and Gautam Kamath and Daniel Kane and Jerry Li and Ankur Moitra and Alistair Stewart Robust Estimators in High-Dimensions Without the Computational Intractability 742--864
Hirotada Kobayashi and François Le Gall and Harumichi Nishimura Generalized Quantum Arthur--Merlin Games 865--902 Srinivasan Arunachalam and Jop Briët and Carlos Palazuelos Quantum Query Algorithms Are Completely Bounded Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--925 Gábor Ivanyos and Youming Qiao Algorithms Based on *-Algebras, and Their Applications to Isomorphism of Polynomials with One Secret, Group Isomorphism, and Polynomial Identity Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--963 Heng Guo and Mark Jerrum A Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithm for All-Terminal Network Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964--978 Dieter van Melkebeek and Gautam Prakriya Derandomizing Isolation in Space-Bounded Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--1021 Hubie Chen and Matt Valeriote and Yuichi Yoshida Constant-Query Testability of Assignments to Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1045 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Mael Rouxel-Labbé and Mathijs H. M. J. Wintraecken Anisotropic Triangulations via Discrete Riemannian Voronoi Diagrams . . . . . . 1046--1097 Jess Banks and Robert Kleinberg and Cristopher Moore The Lovász Theta Function for Random Regular Graphs and Community Detection in the Hard Regime . . . . . . . . . . . 1098--1119 Ittai Abraham and Cyril Gavoille and Anupam Gupta and Ofer Neiman and Kunal Talwar Cops, Robbers, and Threatening Skeletons: Padded Decomposition for Minor-Free Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 1120--1145
Gilles Brassard and Ashwin Nayak and Alain Tapp and Dave Touchette and Falk Unger Noisy Interactive Quantum Communication 1147--1195 Wai-Shing Fung and Ramesh Hariharan and Nicholas J. A. Harvey and Debmalya Panigrahi A General Framework for Graph Sparsification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196--1223 Manuel Bodirsky and Barnaby Martin and Michael Pinsker and András Pongrácz Constraint Satisfaction Problems for Reducts of Homogeneous Graphs . . . . . 1224--1264 Amit Chakrabarti and Graham Cormode and Andrew McGregor and Justin Thaler and Suresh Venkatasubramanian Verifiable Stream Computation and Arthur--Merlin Communication . . . . . . 1265--1299 Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr. and Alice Silverberg Testing Isomorphism of Lattices over CM-Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300--1334 Surender Baswana and Shreejit Ray Chaudhury and Keerti Choudhary and Shahbaz Khan Dynamic DFS in Undirected Graphs: Breaking the $ O(m) $ Barrier . . . . . 1335--1363 George Christodoulou and Alkmini Sgouritsa Designing Networks with Good Equilibria under Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . 1364--1396 Heng Guo and Chao Liao and Pinyan Lu and Chihao Zhang Counting Hypergraph Colorings in the Local Lemma Regime . . . . . . . . . . . 1397--1424 Daniel Kane and Shachar Lovett and Sankeerth Rao The Independence Number of the Birkhoff Polytope Graph, and Applications to Maximally Recoverable Codes . . . . . . 1425--1435 Michael Elkin and Ofer Neiman Hopsets with Constant Hopbound, and Applications to Approximate Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436--1480
Oded Schwartz and Elad Weiss Revisiting ``Computation of Matrix Chain Products'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481--1486 Michael A. Bekos and Henry Förster and Martin Gronemann and Tamara Mchedlidze and Fabrizio Montecchiani and Chrysanthi Raftopoulou and Torsten Ueckerdt Planar Graphs of Bounded Degree Have Bounded Queue Number . . . . . . . . . . 1487--1502 Chidambaram Annamalai Lazy Local Search Meets Machine Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503--1543 George Christodoulou and Martin Gairing and Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Paul G. Spirakis The Price of Stability of Weighted Congestion Games . . . . . . . . . . . . 1544--1582 Dimitris Achlioptas and Fotis Iliopoulos and Vladimir Kolmogorov A Local Lemma for Focused Stochastic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583--1602 Andrea Farruggia and Paolo Ferragina and Antonio Frangioni and Rossano Venturini Bicriteria Data Compression . . . . . . 1603--1642
Yi Li and Huy L. Nguy\~ên and David P. Woodruff On Approximating Matrix Norms in Data Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643--1697 Andreas Björklund and Thore Husfeldt Shortest Two Disjoint Paths in Polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 1698--1710 David Zuckerman Certifiably Pseudorandom Financial Derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1711--1726 Erik D. Demaine and Sándor P. Fekete and Phillip Keldenich and Henk Meijer and Christian Scheffer Coordinated Motion Planning: Reconfiguring a Swarm of Labeled Robots with Bounded Stretch . . . . . . . . . . 1727--1762 Víctor Dalmau and Marcin Kozik and Andrei Krokhin and Konstantin Makarychev and Yury Makarychev and Jakub Oprsal Robust Algorithms with Polynomial Loss for Near-Unanimity CSPs . . . . . . . . 1763--1795 Mohammad Ali Abam and Mark de Berg and Mohammad Javad Rezaei Seraji Geodesic Spanners for Points on a Polyhedral Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1810
Monika Henzinger and Satish Rao and Di Wang Local Flow Partitioning for Faster Edge Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36 Antonios Antoniadis and Sungjin Im and Ravishankar Krishnaswamy and Benjamin Moseley and Viswanath Nagarajan and Kirk Pruhs and Clifford Stein Hallucination Helps: Energy Efficient Virtual Circuit Routing . . . . . . . . 37--66 Uriel Feige and Michal Feldman and Inbal Talgam-Cohen Approximate Modularity Revisited . . . . 67--97 Christoph Berkholz and Jakob Nordström Supercritical Space-Width Trade-offs for Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--118 Emanuele Viola Sampling Lower Bounds: Boolean Average-Case and Permutations . . . . . 119--137 Jesús A. De Loera and Jamie Haddock and Luis Rademacher The Minimum Euclidean-Norm Point in a Convex Polytope: Wolfe's Combinatorial Algorithm is Exponential . . . . . . . . 138--169 Stasys Jukna and Hannes Seiwert Approximation Limitations of Pure Dynamic Programming . . . . . . . . . . 170--205 Benjamin Plaut and Tim Roughgarden Communication Complexity of Discrete Fair Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--243
Anne Broadbent and Zhengfeng Ji and Fang Song and John Watrous Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems for QMA . . 245--283 Yeow Meng Chee and Duc Tu Dao and Han Mao Kiah and San Ling and Hengjia Wei Robust Positioning Patterns with Low Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--317 Rajesh H. Chitnis and Andreas E. Feldmann and MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi and Daniel Marx Tight Bounds for Planar Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraph with Fixed Number of Terminals (and Extensions) . . 318--364 Libor Barto and Michael Pinsker Topology Is Irrelevant (In a Dichotomy Conjecture for Infinite Domain Constraint Satisfaction Problems) . . . 365--393 Nicholas J. A. Harvey and Jan Vondrák An Algorithmic Proof of the Lovász Local Lemma via Resampling Oracles . . . . . . 394--428 Arnold Filtser and Shay Solomon The Greedy Spanner Is Existentially Optimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447 Jacob Fox and Tim Roughgarden and C. Seshadhri and Fan Wei and Nicole Wein Finding Cliques in Social Networks: a New Distribution-Free Model . . . . . . 448--464
Zeev Dvir and Sivakanth Gopi and Yuzhou Gu and Avi Wigderson Spanoids --- An Abstraction of Spanning Structures, and a Barrier for LCCs . . . 465--496 Yi-Jun Chang and Wenzheng Li and Seth Pettie Distributed $ (\Delta + 1) $-Coloring via Ultrafast Graph Shattering . . . . . 497--539 Paul Dütting and Michal Feldman and Thomas Kesselheim and Brendan Lucier Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Nonstochastic Inputs . . . . . . . . . . 540--582 Timothy M. Chan and Sariel Har-Peled and Mitchell Jones On Locality-Sensitive Orderings and Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 583--600 Dan Feldman and Melanie Schmidt and Christian Sohler Turning Big Data Into Tiny Data: Constant-Size Coresets for $k$-Means, PCA, and Projective Clustering . . . . . 601--657 Sungjin Im and Benjamin Moseley Fair Scheduling via Iterative Quasi-Uniform Sampling . . . . . . . . . 658--680
Matthew Jenssen and Peter Keevash and Will Perkins Algorithms for #BIS-Hard Problems on Expander Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--710 David G. Harris Distributed Local Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Matching in Graphs and Hypergraphs . . . . . . . . . 711--746 Talya Eden and Dana Ron and C. Seshadhri On Approximating the Number of $k$-Cliques in Sublinear Time . . . . . 747--771 Parinya Chalermsook and Marek Cygan and Guy Kortsarz and Bundit Laekhanukit and Pasin Manurangsi and Danupon Nanongkai and Luca Trevisan From Gap-Exponential Time Hypothesis to Fixed Parameter Tractable Inapproximability: Clique, Dominating Set, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--810 William M. Hoza and David Zuckerman Simple Optimal Hitting Sets for Small-Success RL . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--820 Luca Becchetti and Andrea E. Clementi and Emanuele Natale and Francesco Pasquale and Luca Trevisan Find Your Place: Simple Distributed Algorithms for Community Detection . . . 821--864 Valentine Kabanets and Sofya Raskhodnikova and Chaitanya Swamy Special Section on the Fifty-Eighth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2017) . . . . . . FOCS17--i--FOCS17--i Adam Bouland and Lijie Chen and Dhiraj Holden and Justin Thaler and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan On the Power of Statistical Zero Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--1--FOCS17--58 Mark Bun and Justin Thaler A Nearly Optimal Lower Bound on the Approximate Degree of AC$^0$ . . . . . . FOCS17--59--FOCS17--96 Sara Ahmadian and Ashkan Norouzi-Fard and Ola Svensson and Justin Ward Better Guarantees for $k$-Means and Euclidean $k$-Median by Primal-Dual Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--97--FOCS17--156 Brett Hemenway and Noga Ron-Zewi and Mary Wootters Local List Recovery of High-Rate Tensor Codes and Applications . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--157--FOCS17--195 Huijia Lin and Rafael Pass and Pratik Soni Two-Round and Non-Interactive Concurrent Non-Malleable Commitments from Time-Lock Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--196--FOCS17--279 Rasmus Kyng and Peng Zhang Hardness Results for Structured Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--280--FOCS17--349 David Durfee and John Peebles and Richard Peng and Anup B. Rao Determinant-Preserving Sparsification of SDDM Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS17--350--FOCS17--408 Shi Li Scheduling to Minimize Total Weighted Completion Time via Time-Indexed Linear Programming Relaxations . . . . . . . . FOCS17--409--FOCS17--440 Mika Göös and Toniann Pitassi and Thomas Watson Query-to-Communication Lifting for BPP FOCS17--441--FOCS17--461
Loukas Georgiadis and Giuseppe F. Italiano and Nikos Parotsidis Strong Connectivity in Directed Graphs under Failures, with Applications . . . 865--926 Yaonan Jin and Pinyan Lu and Zhihao Gavin Tang and Tao Xiao Tight Revenue Gaps Among Simple Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--958 Ofer Grossman and Dana Moshkovitz Amplification and Derandomization without Slowdown . . . . . . . . . . . . 959--998 Eshan Chattopadhyay and Vipul Goyal and Xin Li Nonmalleable Extractors and Codes, with Their Many Tampered Extensions . . . . . 999--1040 Thomas Vidick and Danupon Nanongkai and Dimitris Achlioptas Special Section on the Fiftieth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2018) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--i--STOC18--ii Artur Czumaj and Jakub L\kacki and Aleksander M\kadry and Slobodan Mitrovi\'c and Krzysztof Onak and Piotr Sankowski Round Compression for Parallel Matching Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--1--STOC18--44 László Kozma and Thatchaphol Saranurak Smooth Heaps and a Dual View of Self-Adjusting Data Structures . . . . . STOC18--45--STOC18--93 Rishab Goyal and Venkata Koppula and Brent Waters Collusion Resistant Traitor Tracing from Learning with Errors . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--94--STOC18--241 Mark Braverman and Gil Cohen and Sumegha Garg Pseudorandom Pseudo-distributions with Near-Optimal Error for Read-Once Branching Programs . . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--242--STOC18--299 Cody D. Murray and R. Ryan Williams Circuit Lower Bounds for Nondeterministic Quasi-polytime from a New Easy Witness Lemma . . . . . . . . . STOC18--300--STOC18--322 Kasper Green Larsen and Omri Weinstein and Huacheng Yu Crossing the Logarithmic Barrier for Dynamic Boolean Data Structure Lower Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--323--STOC18--367 Scott Aaronson Shadow Tomography of Quantum States . . STOC18--368--STOC18--394 Ivona Bezáková and Andreas Galanis and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Daniel Stefankovic Inapproximability of the Independent Set Polynomial in the Complex Plane . . . . STOC18--395--STOC18--448 Daniel Dadush and Sophie Huiberts A Friendly Smoothed Analysis of the Simplex Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC18--449--STOC18--499 Jeremy T. Fineman Nearly Work-Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Digraph Reachability . . . . . . . . STOC18--500--STOC18--539
Iftach Haitner and Kobbi Nissim and Eran Omri and Ronen Shaltiel and Jad Silbak Computational Two-Party Correlation: a Dichotomy for Key-Agreement Protocols 1041--1082 Klaus Jansen and Lars Rohwedder A Quasi-Polynomial Approximation for the Restricted Assignment Problem . . . . . 1083--1108 Boris Aronov and Esther Ezra and Joshua Zahl Constructive Polynomial Partitioning for Algebraic Curves in $ \mathbb {R}^3 $ with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1127 Pavel Hubácek and Eylon Yogev Hardness of Continuous Local Search: Query Complexity and Cryptographic Lower Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128--1172 Alexander A. Sherstov Algorithmic Polynomials . . . . . . . . 1173--1231 Joshua Brakensiek and Venkatesan Guruswami and Marcin Wrochna and Stanislav Zivný The Power of the Combined Basic Linear Programming and Affine Relaxation for Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems 1232--1248 Javad Ebrahimi and Damian Straszak and Nisheeth Vishnoi Subdeterminant Maximization via Nonconvex Relaxations and Anti-Concentration . . . . . . . . . . . 1249--1270 Boris Aronov and Gali Bar-On and Matthew J. Katz Resolving SINR Queries in a Dynamic Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271--1290 Mark de Berg and Hans L. Bodlaender and Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak and Dániel Marx and Tom C. van der Zanden A Framework for Exponential-Time-Hypothesis--Tight Algorithms and Lower Bounds in Geometric Intersection Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 1291--1331 Joel Klassen and Milad Marvian and Stephen Piddock and Marios Ioannou and Itay Hen and Barbara M. Terhal Hardness and Ease of Curing the Sign Problem for Two-Local Qubit Hamiltonians 1332--1362 Ran Duan and Seth Pettie Connectivity Oracles for Graphs Subject to Vertex Failures . . . . . . . . . . . 1363--1396 Fedor V. Fomin and Daniel Lokshtanov and Saket Saurabh and Dimitrios M. Thilikos Bidimensionality and Kernels . . . . . . 1397--1422 Thomas Vidick Erratum: Three-Player Entangled XOR Games are NP-hard to Approximate . . . . 1423--1427
Vincent Cohen-Addad and Éric Colin de Verdi\`ere and Arnaud de Mesmay A Near-Linear Approximation Scheme for Multicuts of Embedded Graphs With a Fixed Number of Terminals . . . . . . . 1--31 Benny Applebaum and Barak Arkis and Pavel Raykov and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan Conditional Disclosure of Secrets: Amplification, Closure, Amortization, Lower-bounds, and Separations . . . . . 32--67 Benny Applebaum and Zvika Brakerski and Rotem Tsabary Perfect Secure Computation in Two Rounds 68--97 Nir Bitansky and Akshay Degwekar and Vinod Vaikuntanathan Structure Versus Hardness Through the Obfuscation Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--144 Hernán González-Aguilar and David Orden and Pablo Pérez-Lantero and David Rappaport and Carlos Seara and Javier Tejel and Jorge Urrutia Maximum Rectilinear Convex Subsets . . . 145--170 Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Yuval Filmus and Sajin Koroth and Or Meir and Toniann Pitassi Query-to-Communication Lifting Using Low-Discrepancy Gadgets . . . . . . . . 171--210 P. Dütting and T. Roughgarden and I. Talgam-Cohen The Complexity of Contracts . . . . . . 211--254
Moran Feldman and Ola Svensson and Rico Zenklusen Online Contention Resolution Schemes with Applications to Bayesian Selection Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--300 Irit Dinur and Prahladh Harsha and Tali Kaufman and Inbal Livni Navon and Amnon Ta-Shma List-Decoding with Double Samplers . . . 301--349 Weiming Feng and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi and Yitong Yin Dynamic Sampling from Graphical Models 350--381 Rajesh Jayaram and David Woodruff Perfect $ L_p $ Sampling in a Data Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--439 Harold N. Gabow and Piotr Sankowski Algorithms for Weighted Matching Generalizations I: Bipartite Graphs, $b$-matching, and Unweighted $f$-factors 440--486 Karolina Okrasa and Pawe\l Rz\kazewski Fine-Grained Complexity of the Graph Homomorphism Problem for Bounded-Treewidth Graphs . . . . . . . . 487--508 Pawe\l Gawrychowski and Haim Kaplan and Shay Mozes and Micha Sharir and Oren Weimann Voronoi Diagrams on Planar Graphs, and Computing the Diameter in Deterministic $ \tilde {O}(n^{5 / 3}) $ Time . . . . . 509--554 Harold N. Gabow and Piotr Sankowski Algorithms for Weighted Matching Generalizations II: $f$ -factors and the Special Case of Shortest Paths . . . . . 555--601 Haitao Wang and Jingru Zhang An $ O(n \log n) $-Time Algorithm for the $k$-Center Problem in Trees . . . . 602--635 Rohit Gurjar and Thomas Thierauf and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi Isolating a Vertex via Lattices: Polytopes with Totally Unimodular Faces 636--661 Greg Bodwin New Results on Linear Size Distance Preservers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--673 Dawei Huang and Seth Pettie and Yixiang Zhang and Zhijun Zhang The Communication Complexity of Set Intersection and Multiple Equality Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--717 Magnús M. Halldórsson and Tigran Tonoyan Effective Wireless Scheduling via Hypergraph Sketches . . . . . . . . . . 718--759 Pankaj K. Agarwal and Boris Aronov and Esther Ezra and Joshua Zahl Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Polynomial Partitioning and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--787 Tom Gur and Oded Lachish On the Power of Relaxed Local Decoding Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--813
Ruben Becker and Sebastian Forster and Andreas Karrenbauer and Christoph Lenzen Near-Optimal Approximate Shortest Paths and Transshipment in Distributed and Streaming Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--856 Amit Sahai and Brent Waters How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation: Deniable Encryption, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--908 Sébastien Bubeck and Michael B. Cohen and James R. Lee and Yin Tat Lee Metrical Task Systems on Trees via Mirror Descent and Unfair Gluing . . . . 909--923 Xiaohui Bei and Shiteng Chen and Ji Guan and Youming Qiao and Xiaoming Sun From Independent Sets and Vertex Colorings to Isotropic Spaces and Isotropic Decompositions: Another Bridge between Graphs and Alternating Matrix Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--971 Srinivasan Arunachalam and Alex Bredariol Grilo and Aarthi Sundaram Quantum Hardness of Learning Shallow Classical Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . 972--1013 David Eppstein and Vijay V. Vazirani NC Algorithms for Computing a Perfect Matching and a Maximum Flow in One-Crossing-Minor-Free Graphs . . . . . 1014--1033 Tsz Chiu Kwok and Lap Chi Lau and Akshay Ramachandran Spectral Analysis of Matrix Scaling and Operator Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . 1034--1102 Keren Censor-Hillel and Michal Dory Distributed Spanner Approximation . . . 1103--1147 Jérémie Dusart and Derek G. Corneil and Michel Habib Corrigendum: LDFS-Based Certifying Algorithm for the Minimum Path Cover Problem on Cocomparability Graphs . . . 1148--1153 Alexandr Andoni and Keren Censor-Hillel and Jing Chen and Debmalya Panigrahi Special Section on the 48th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2016) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--i--STOC16--iii Shahar Dobzinski Breaking the Logarithmic Barrier for Truthful Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Bidders . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--1--STOC16--17 Leqi Zhu A Tight Space Bound for Consensus . . . STOC16--18--STOC16--29 Gil Cohen Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--30--STOC16--67 Shaddin Dughmi and Haifeng Xu Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion . . . . STOC16--68--STOC16--97 Monika Henzinger and Sebastian Krinninger and Danupon Nanongkai A Deterministic Almost-Tight Distributed Algorithm for Approximating Single-Source Shortest Paths . . . . . . STOC16--98--STOC16--137 Nikhil Bansal and Aravind Srinivasan and Ola Svensson Lift-and-Round to Improve Weighted Completion Time on Unrelated Machines STOC16--138--STOC16--159 Yang Cai and Nikhil R. Devanur and S. Matthew Weinberg A Duality-Based Unified Approach to Bayesian Mechanism Design . . . . . . . STOC16--160--STOC16--200 Elaine Levey and Thomas Rothvo A (1+epsilon)-Approximation for Makespan Scheduling with Precedence Constraints Using LP Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--201--STOC16--217 Stephen Fenner and Rohit Gurjar and Thomas Thierauf Bipartite Perfect Matching is in Quasi-NC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--218--STOC16--235 Anat Ganor and Gillat Kol and Ran Raz Exponential Separation of Communication and External Information . . . . . . . . STOC16--236--STOC16--254 Omer Reingold and Guy N. Rothblum and Ron D. Rothblum Constant-Round Interactive Proofs for Delegating Computation . . . . . . . . . STOC16--255--STOC16--340 Sepehr Assadi and Sanjeev Khanna and Yang Li Tight Bounds for Single-Pass Streaming Complexity of the Set Cover Problem . . STOC16--341--STOC16--376 Raef Bassily and Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith and Thomas Steinke and Uri Stemmer and Jonathan Ullman Algorithmic Stability for Adaptive Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--377--STOC16--405 Aleksandrs Belovs and Eric Blais A Polynomial Lower Bound for Testing Monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC16--406--STOC16--433
Arturs Backurs and Liam Roditty and Gilad Segal and Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Nicole Wein Toward Tight Approximation Bounds for Graph Diameter and Eccentricities . . . 1155--1199 Siu-Wing Cheng and Man-Kit Lau Adaptive Planar Point Location . . . . . 1200--1247 Shachar Lovett Sparse MDS Matrices over Small Fields: a Proof of the GM-MDS Conjecture . . . . . 1248--1262 Marcin Kozik Solving CSPs Using Weak Local Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263--1286 Yi Li and Ruosong Wang and David P. Woodruff Tight Bounds for the Subspace Sketch Problem with Applications . . . . . . . 1287--1335 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury and Telikepalli Kavitha and Kurt Mehlhorn and Alkmini Sgouritsa A Little Charity Guarantees Almost Envy-Freeness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336--1358 Manuel Bodirsky and Florent Madelaine and Antoine Mottet A Proof of the Algebraic Tractability Conjecture for Monotone Monadic SNP . . 1359--1409 Johannes Bausch and Felix Leditzky Error Thresholds for Arbitrary Pauli Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410--1460 Nutan Limaye and Karteek Sreenivasaiah and Srikanth Srinivasan and Utkarsh Tripathi and S. Venkitesh A Fixed-Depth Size-Hierarchy Theorem for $ \mathrm {AC}^0 [\oplus] $ via the Coin Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461--1499
Gilad Asharov and Moni Naor and Gil Segev and Ido Shahaf Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Optimal Locality in Linear Space via Two-Dimensional Balanced Allocations . . 1501--1536 Vipul Goyal and Silas Richelson and Alon Rosen and Margarita Vald An Algebraic Approach to Nonmalleability 1537--1579 René Sitters Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for the Traveling Repairman and Other Minimum Latency Problems . . . . . . . . 1580--1602 Artur Czumaj and Peter Davies and Merav Parter Simple, Deterministic, Constant-Round Coloring in Congested Clique and MPC . . 1603--1626 Mina Dalirrooyfard and Thuy Duong Vuong and Virginia Vassilevska Williams Graph Pattern Detection: Hardness for all Induced Patterns and Faster Noninduced Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . 1627--1662
Joshua Brakensiek and Venkatesan Guruswami Promise Constraint Satisfaction: Algebraic Structure and a Symmetric Boolean Dichotomy . . . . . . . . . . . 1663--1700 Andreas Galanis and Leslie Ann Goldberg and Heng Guo and Kuan Yang Counting Solutions to Random CNF Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1701--1738 Miriam Backens A Full Dichotomy for $ \hol^c $, Inspired by Quantum Computation . . . . 1739--1799 Minglong Qin and Penghui Yao Nonlocal Games with Noisy Maximally Entangled States are Decidable . . . . . 1800--1891 Jack Murtagh and Omer Reingold and Aaron Sidford and Salil Vadhan Derandomization beyond Connectivity: Undirected Laplacian Systems in Nearly Logarithmic Space . . . . . . . . . . . 1892--1922
Dirk Nowotka and Aleksi Saarela An Optimal Bound on the Solution Sets of One-Variable Word Equations and its Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Clément Carbonnel and Miguel Romero and Stanislav Zivný The Complexity of General-Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems Seen from the Other Side . . . . . . . . . . 19--69 Alkida Balliu and Sebastian Brandt and Dennis Olivetti Distributed Lower Bounds for Ruling Sets 70--115 Kristóf Bérczi and Endre Boros and Ondrej Cepek and Petr Kucera and Kazuhisa Makino Approximating Minimum Representations of Key Horn Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 116--138 Vera Traub and Jens Vygen An Improved Approximation Algorithm for The Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--173
Pierre Gillibert and Julius Jonusas and Michael Kompatscher and Antoine Mottet and Michael Pinsker When Symmetries Are Not Enough: a Hierarchy of Hard Constraint Satisfaction Problems . . . . . . . . . 175--213 Mohammad Bavarian and Thomas Vidick and Henry Yuen Anchored Parallel Repetition for Nonlocal Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--253 Dániel Marx and Marcin Pilipczuk and Michal Pilipczuk A Subexponential Parameterized Algorithm for Directed Subset Traveling Salesman Problem on Planar Graphs . . . . . . . . 254--289 Ittai Abraham and Arnold Filtser and Anupam Gupta and Ofer Neiman Metric Embedding via Shortest Path Decompositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--314 Zeyu Guo and Mrinal Kumar and Ramprasad Saptharishi and Noam Solomon Derandomization from Algebraic Hardness 315--335 Andy Drucker and Ravi Kumar and Amit Sahai and Mohit Singh Special Section on the Forty-Ninth Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2017) . . . . . . . . . STOC17--i--STOC17--ii Danny Nguyen and Igor Pak Short Presburger Arithmetic Is Hard . . STOC17--1--STOC17--30 Avraham Ben-Aroya and Dean Doron and Amnon Ta-Shma An Efficient Reduction from Two-Source to Nonmalleable Extractors: Achieving Near-Logarithmic Min-Entropy . . . . . . STOC17--31--STOC17--49 Jin-Yi Cai and Zhiguo Fu Holographic Algorithm with Matchgates Is Universal for Planar #CSP over Boolean Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC17--50--STOC17--151 Cristian S. Calude and Sanjay Jain and Bakhadyr Khoussainov and Wei Li and Frank Stephan Deciding Parity Games in Quasi-polynomial Time . . . . . . . . . STOC17--152--STOC17--188 Julia Chuzhoy and David H. K. Kim and Rachit Nimavat New Hardness Results for Routing on Disjoint Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC17--189--STOC17--237 Satoru Iwata and Yusuke Kobayashi A Weighted Linear Matroid Parity Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC17--238--STOC17--280 William M. Hoza and Chris Umans Targeted Pseudorandom Generators, Simulation Advice Generators, and Derandomizing Logspace . . . . . . . . . STOC17--281--STOC17--304 Pravesh K. Kothari and Raghu Meka and Prasad Raghavendra Approximating Rectangles by Juntas and Weakly Exponential Lower Bounds for LP Relaxations of CSPs . . . . . . . . . . STOC17--305--STOC17--332 Ran Canetti and Oxana Poburinnaya and Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam Equivocating Yao: Constant-Round Adaptively Secure Multiparty Computation in the Plain Model . . . . . . . . . . . STOC17--333--STOC17--399 Yin Tat Lee and Santosh Vempala Geodesic Walks in Polytopes . . . . . . STOC17--400--STOC17--488
Pawe\l M. Idziak and Jacek Krzaczkowski Satisfiability in MultiValued Circuits 337--378 Arturo Merino and Ondrej Micka and Torsten Mütze On a Combinatorial Generation Problem of Knuth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--423 Gilad Asharov and Wei-Kai Lin and Elaine Shi Sorting Short Keys in Circuits of Size $ o(n \log n) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--466 Piotr Indyk and Tal Wagner Optimal (Euclidean) Metric Compression 467--491 Xi Chen and Ilias Diakonikolas and Anthi Orfanou and Dimitris Paparas and Xiaorui Sun and Mihalis Yannakakis On the Complexity of Optimal Lottery Pricing and Randomized Mechanisms for a Unit-Demand Buyer . . . . . . . . . . . 492--548 Giulia Bernardini and Pawe\l Gawrychowski and Nadia Pisanti and Solon P. Pissis and Giovanna Rosone Elastic-Degenerate String Matching via Fast Matrix Multiplication . . . . . . . 549--576 Joshua Brakensiek and Sivakanth Gopi and Venkatesan Guruswami Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Global Modular Constraints: Algorithms and Hardness via Polynomial Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--626 Timothy M. Chan and Sariel Har-Peled and Mitchell Jones Optimal Algorithms for Geometric Centers and Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--663 Timothy F. Chan and Jacob W. Cooper and Martin Koutecký and Daniel Král and Kristýna Pekárková Matrices of Optimal Tree-Depth and a Row-Invariant Parameterized Algorithm for Integer Programming . . . . . . . . 664--700 Anna Adamaszek and Artur Czumaj and Matthias Englert and Harald Räcke Almost Tight Bounds for Reordering Buffer Management . . . . . . . . . . . 701--722 Chih-Hung Liu Nearly Optimal Planar $k$ Nearest Neighbors Queries under General Distance Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723--765 Moran Feldman and Ola Svensson and Rico Zenklusen A Framework for the Secretary Problem on the Intersection of Matroids . . . . . . 766--819 Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Nikhil S. Mande A Short List of Equalities Induces Large Sign-Rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--848 Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Marek Cygan and Noga Ron-Zewi and Christian Wulff-Nilsen Special Section on the Fifty-Second Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2020) . . . . . . . . . STOC20--i--STOC20--i Sidhanth Mohanty and Ryan O'Donnell and Pedro Paredes Explicit Near-Ramanujan Graphs of Every Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC20--1--STOC20--23 Vera Traub and Jens Vygen and Rico Zenklusen Reducing Path TSP to TSP . . . . . . . . STOC20--24--STOC20--53 Siddharth Bhandari and Sayantan Chakraborty Improved Bounds for Perfect Sampling of $k$-Colorings in Graphs . . . . . . . . STOC20--54--STOC20--74 Sepehr Assadi and Hrishikesh Khandeparkar and Raghuvansh R. Saxena and S. Matthew Weinberg Separating the Communication Complexity of Truthful and Nontruthful Algorithms for Combinatorial Auctions . . . . . . . STOC20--75--STOC20--114 Lijie Chen and Hanlin Ren Strong Average-Case Circuit Lower Bounds from Nontrivial Derandomization . . . . STOC20--115--STOC20--173 Huacheng Yu Nearly Optimal Static Las Vegas Succinct Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STOC20--174--STOC20--249
Holger Dell and John Lapinskas and Kitty Meeks Approximately Counting and Sampling Small Witnesses Using a Colorful Decision Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . 849--899 Lap Chi Lau and Hong Zhou A Local Search Framework for Experimental Design . . . . . . . . . . 900--951 Haim Kaplan and Yishay Mansour and Yossi Matias and Uri Stemmer Differentially Private Learning of Geometric Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 952--974 Anupam Gupta and Amit Kumar and Debmalya Panigrahi Caching with Time Windows and Delays . . 975--1017 Lap Chi Lau and Hong Zhou A Spectral Approach to Network Design 1018--1064 Esther Ezra and Micha Sharir On Ray Shooting for Triangles in $3$-Space and Related Problems . . . . . 1065--1095 Renato Paes Leme and Jon Schneider Contextual Search via Intrinsic Volumes 1096--1125 Amos Beimel and Iftach Haitner and Nikolaos Makriyannis and Eran Omri Tighter Bounds on MultiParty Coin Flipping via Augmented Weak Martingales and Differentially Private Sampling . . 1126--1171 Urmila Mahadev Classical Verification of Quantum Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172--1229 Jonathan Tidor and Yufei Zhao Testing Linear-Invariant Properties . . 1230--1279 Konrad Anand and Mark Jerrum Perfect Sampling in Infinite Spin Systems Via Strong Spatial Mixing . . . 1280--1295 John Hershberger and Subhash Suri and Hakan Yildiz A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Shortest Paths Among Curved Obstacles in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296--1340 MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi and Masoud Seddighin and Saeedreza Seddighin and Xiaorui Sun Approximating Longest Common Subsequence in Linear Time: Beating the $ \sqrt {n} $ Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341--1367 Nathan Mull and Shuo Pang and Alexander Razborov On CDCL-Based Proof Systems with the Ordered Decision Strategy . . . . . . . 1368--1399 Anne Broadbent and Alex Bredariol Grilo QMA-Hardness of Consistency of Local Density Matrices with Applications to Quantum Zero-Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 1400--1450
Jonathan Leake and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi On the Computability of Continuous Maximum Entropy Distributions with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451--1505 Guillaume Ducoffe and Michel Habib and Laurent Viennot Diameter, Eccentricities and Distance Oracle Computations on $H$-Minor Free Graphs and Graphs of Bounded (Distance) Vapnik--Chervonenkis Dimension . . . . . 1506--1534 Yaonan Jin and Shunhua Jiang and Pinyan Lu and Hengjie Zhang Tight Revenue Gaps among Multiunit Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535--1579 Alessio Conte and Roberto Grossi and Andrea Marino and Takeaki Uno and Luca Versari Proximity Search for Maximal Subgraph Enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1580--1625 Pavel Veselý and Marek Chrobak and Lukasz Jez and Jirí Sgall A $ \phi $-Competitive Algorithm for Scheduling Packets with Deadlines . . . 1626--1691 Yuval Rabani and Amir Shpilka Corrigendum: Explicit Construction of a Small Epsilon-Net for Linear Threshold Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1692--1702
Simon Apers and Ronald de Wolf Quantum Speedup for Graph Sparsification, Cut Approximation, and Laplacian Solving . . . . . . . . . . . 1703--1742 John Augustine and William K. Moses and Amanda Redlich and Eli Upfal Balanced Allocation: Patience Is Not a Virtue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743--1768 Ilan Komargodski and Tal Moran and Moni Naor and Rafael Pass and Alon Rosen and Eylon Yogev One-Way Functions and (Im)perfect Obfuscation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1769--1795 Constantinos Daskalakis and Maxwell Fishelson and Brendan Lucier and Vasilis Syrgkanis and Santhoshini Velusamy Multi-Item Nontruthful Auctions Achieve Good Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1796--1838 Alessandro Chiesa and Tom Gur and Igor Shinkar Relaxed Locally Correctable Codes with Nearly-Linear Block Length and Constant Query Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839--1865 Fedor V. Fomin and Daniel Lokshtanov and Dániel Marx and Marcin Pilipczuk and Micha\l Pilipczuk and Saket Saurabh Subexponential Parameterized Algorithms for Planar and Apex-Minor-Free Graphs via Low Treewidth Pattern Covering . . . 1866--1930
Lorenzo Ciardo and Stanislav Zivný CLAP: A New Algorithm for Promise CSPs 1--37 Andrei Krokhin and Jakub Oprsal and Marcin Wrochna and Stanislav Zivný Topology and Adjunction in Promise Constraint Satisfaction . . . . . . . . 38--79 Aris Filos-Ratsikas and Yiannis Giannakopoulos and Alexandros Hollender and Philip Lazos and Diogo Poças On the Complexity of Equilibrium Computation in First-Price Auctions . . 80--131 Vijay Bhattiprolu and Mrinal Kanti Ghosh and Venkatesan Guruswami and Euiwoong Lee and Madhur Tulsiani Inapproximability of Matrix $ p \rightarrow q $ Norms . . . . . . . . . 132--155 Erin W. Chambers and Jeff Erickson and Kyle Fox and Amir Nayyeri Minimum Cuts in Surface Graphs . . . . . 156--195 Zongchen Chen and Kuikui Liu and Eric Vigoda Rapid Mixing of Glauber Dynamics up to Uniqueness via Contraction . . . . . . . 196--237 Martin Grohe and Daniel Neuen and Daniel Wiebking Isomorphism Testing for Graphs Excluding Small Minors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--272 Deepanshu Kush and Benjamin Rossman Tree-Depth and the Formula Complexity of Subgraph Isomorphism . . . . . . . . . . 273--325
Nikhil Bansal and Jatin Batra and Majid Farhadi and Prasad Tetali On Min Sum Vertex Cover and Generalized Min Sum Set Cover . . . . . . . . . . . 327--357 Sébastien Bouchard and Yoann Dieudonné and Andrzej Pelc Want to Gather? No Need to Chatter! . . 358--411
Tomasz Gogacz and Jerzy Marcinkowski and Andreas Pieris Uniform Restricted Chase Termination . . 641--683 Chong Shangguan and Itzhak Tamo Generalized Singleton Bound and List-Decoding Reed--Solomon Codes Beyond the Johnson Radius . . . . . . . . . . . 684--717 Jaros\law Byrka and Fabrizio Grandoni and Afrouz Jabal Ameli Breaching the $2$-Approximation Barrier for Connectivity Augmentation: a Reduction to Steiner Tree . . . . . . . 718--739 Mark de Berg and Hans L. Bodlaender and Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak and Sudeshna Kolay An ETH-Tight Exact Algorithm for Euclidean TSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--760 Arnab Bhattacharyya and Sutanu Gayen and Eric Price and Vincent Y. F. Tan and N. V. Vinodchandran Near-Optimal Learning of Tree-Structured Distributions by Chow and Liu . . . . . 761--793 Swastik Kopparty and Noga Ron-Zewi and Shubhangi Saraf and Mary Wootters Improved List Decoding of Folded Reed--Solomon and Multiplicity Codes . . 794--840
Ulrich A. Brodowsky and Stefan Hougardy and Xianghui Zhong The Approximation Ratio of the k -Opt Heuristic for the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--864 Julien Baste and Ignasi Sau and Dimitrios M. Thilikos Hitting Minors on Bounded Treewidth Graphs. IV. An Optimal Algorithm . . . . 865--912 Dan Alistarh and James Aspnes and Faith Ellen and Rati Gelashvili and Leqi Zhu Why Extension-Based Proofs Fail . . . . 913--944 Niv Buchbinder and Moran Feldman and Mohit Garg Deterministic $ 1 / 2 $ ($ 1 / 2 + \epsilon $)-Approximation for Submodular Maximization over a Matroid . . . . . . 945--967 Marco Bressan and Enoch Peserico and Luca Pretto Sublinear Algorithms for Local Graph-Centrality Estimation . . . . . . 968--1008 Sevag Gharibian and François Le Gall Dequantizing the Quantum Singular Value Transformation: Hardness and Applications to Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum PCP Conjecture . . . . . . . 1009--1038 Nithin Varma and Yuichi Yoshida Average Sensitivity of Graph Algorithms 1039--1081
Argyrios Deligkas and Michail Fasoulakis and Evangelos Markakis A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for $ 1 / 2$-Well-Supported Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083--1096 Konstantinos Panagiotou and Leon Ramzews and Benedikt Stufler Exact-Size Sampling of Enriched Trees in Linear Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097--1131 Sayan Bhattacharya and Monika Henzinger and Danupon Nanongkai and Xiaowei Wu Deterministic Near-Optimal Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic Set Cover . . . . 1132--1192 Albert Atserias and Joanna Fijalkow Definable Ellipsoid Method, Sums-of-Squares Proofs, and the Graph Isomorphism Problem . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1229 Satoru Iwata and Yu Yokoi Finding Maximum Edge-Disjoint Paths Between Multiple Terminals . . . . . . . 1230--1268 Sam Coy and Artur Czumaj Deterministic Massively Parallel Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269--1318 Ittai Abraham and Arnold Filtser and Anupam Gupta and Ofer Neiman Corrigendum: Metric Embedding via Shortest Path Decompositions . . . . . . 1319--1320
Benny Applebaum and Eliran Kachlon Sampling Graphs without Forbidden Subgraphs and Unbalanced Expanders with Negligible Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321--1368 Jesper Nederlof and Jakub Pawlewicz and Céline M. F. Swennenhuis and Karol W\kegrzycki A Faster Exponential Time Algorithm for Bin Packing With a Constant Number of Bins via Additive Combinatorics . . . . 1369--1412 Marcel Dall Agnol and Tom Gur and Oded Lachish A Structural Theorem for Local Algorithms with Applications to Coding, Testing, and Verification . . . . . . . 1413--1463 Elette Boyle and Vincent Cohen-Addad and Alexandra Kolla and Mikkel Thorup Special Section on the Fifty-Ninth Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (2018) . . . . . . . . FOCS18--i--FOCS18--i Martin Grohe and Daniel Neuen and Pascal Schweitzer A Faster Isomorphism Test for Graphs of Small Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS18--1--FOCS18--36 Vera Traub and Jens Vygen Beating the Integrality Ratio for $s$--$t$-Tours in Graphs . . . . . . . . FOCS18--37--FOCS18--84 Timothy Chu and Yu Gao and Richard Peng and Sushant Sachdeva and Saurabh Sawlani and Junxing Wang Graph Sparsification, Spectral Sketches, and Faster Resistance Computation via Short Cycle Decompositions . . . . . . . FOCS18--85--FOCS18--157 Jatin Batra and Naveen Garg and Amit Kumar Constant Factor Approximation Algorithm for Weighted Flow-Time on a Single Machine in PseudoPolynomial Time . . . . FOCS18--158--FOCS18--188 Urmila Mahadev Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . FOCS18--189--FOCS18--215 Akash Kumar and C. Seshadhri and Andrew Stolman Random Walks and Forbidden Minors I: An $ n^{1 / 2 + o(1)}$-Query One-Sided Tester for Minor Closed Properties on Bounded Degree Graphs . . . . . . . . . FOCS18--216--FOCS18--249 Jeongwan Haah and Matthew B. Hastings and Robin Kothari and Guang Hao Low Quantum Algorithm for Simulating Real Time Evolution of Lattice Hamiltonians FOCS18--250--FOCS18--284 Josh Alman and Virginia Vassilevska Williams Limits on All Known (and Some Unknown) Approaches to Matrix Multiplication . . FOCS18--285--FOCS18--315 Mika Göös and Aviad Rubinstein Near-Optimal Communication Lower Bounds for Approximate Nash Equilibria . . . . FOCS18--316--FOCS18--348 Shuichi Hirahara Non-Black-Box Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions Within $ \mathsf {NP} $ . . . FOCS18--349--FOCS18--382
David Gamarnik and Aukosh Jagannath and Alexander S. Wein Hardness of Random Optimization Problems for Boolean Circuits, Low-Degree Polynomials, and Langevin Dynamics . . . 1--46 Maria Chudnovsky and Marcin Pilipczuk and Micha Pilipczuk and Stéphan Thomassé Quasi-Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for the Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem in \boldmath $H$-Free Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--86 Janardhan Kulkarni and Yang P. Liu and Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab S. Sawhney and Jakub Tarnawski Online Edge Coloring via Tree Recurrences and Correlation Decay . . . 87--110 Maria Chudnovsky and Sophie Spirkl and Mingxian Zhong Four-Coloring $ P_6 $-Free Graphs. I. Extending an Excellent Precoloring . . . 111--145 Maria Chudnovsky and Sophie Spirkl and Mingxian Zhong Four-Coloring \boldmath $ P_6 $-Free Graphs. II. Finding an Excellent Precoloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--187
Jacob Focke and Marc Roth Counting Small Induced Subgraphs with Hereditary Properties . . . . . . . . . 189--220 Amir Abboud and Greg Bodwin Reachability Preservers: New Extremal Bounds and Approximation Algorithms . . 221--246 Ruben Becker and Yuval Emek and Mohsen Ghaffari and Christoph Lenzen Decentralized Low-Stretch Trees via Low Diameter Graph Decompositions . . . . . 247--286 Ishay Haviv Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for the Kneser and Schrijver Problems . . . . . 287--314 Sjoerd Dirksen and Shahar Mendelson and Alexander Stollenwerk Fast Metric Embedding into the Hamming Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--345 Arnaud Casteigts and Michael Raskin and Malte Renken and Viktor Zamaraev Sharp Thresholds in Random Simple Temporal Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--388 Zeyu Guo and Ray Li and Chong Shangguan and Itzhak Tamo and Mary Wootters Improved List-Decodability and List-Recoverability of Reed--Solomon Codes via Tree Packings . . . . . . . . 389--430 Clément Legrand-Duchesne and Ashutosh Rai and Martin Tancer Parameterized Complexity of Untangling Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--479 Amey Bhangale and Prahladh Harsha and Orr Paradise and Avishay Tal Rigid Matrices from Rectangular PCPs . . 480--523 Artur Czumaj and Christian Sohler Sublinear Time Approximation of the Cost of a Metric $k$-Nearest Neighbor Graph 524--571
Mika Göös and Alexandros Hollender and Siddhartha Jain and Gilbert Maystre and William Pires and Robert Robere and Ran Tao Further Collapses in \boldmath $ \mathsf {TFNP} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--587 Ravishankar Krishnaswamy and Viswanath Nagarajan and Kirk Pruhs and Clifford Stein Cluster Before You Hallucinate: Node-Capacitated Network Design and Energy Efficient Routing . . . . . . . . 588--623 Tara Abrishami and Maria Chudnovsky and Marcin Pilipczuk and Pawe\l Rzazewski and Paul Seymour Induced Subgraphs of Bounded Treewidth and the Container Method . . . . . . . . 624--647 Yaroslav Alekseev and Dima Grigoriev and Edward A. Hirsch and Iddo Tzameret Semialgebraic Proofs, IPS Lower Bounds, and the $ \tau $-Conjecture: Can a Natural Number be Negative? . . . . . . 648--700 Zhiyi Huang and Qiankun Zhang and Yuhao Zhang AdWords in a Panorama . . . . . . . . . 701--763 Stefan Dantchev and Nicola Galesi and Abdul Ghani and Barnaby Martin Proof Complexity and the Binary Encoding of Combinatorial Principles . . . . . . 764--802
Sébastien Bubeck and Dan Mikulincer How to Trap a Gradient Flow . . . . . . 803--824 Isolde Adler and Noleen Köhler and Pan Peng On Testability of First-Order Properties in Bounded-Degree Graphs and Connections to Proximity-Oblivious Testing . . . . . 825--883 Michael Benedikt and Egor V. Kostylev and Tony Tan Two Variable Logic with Ultimately Periodic Counting . . . . . . . . . . . 884--968 Jason M. Altschuler and Jinho Bok and Kunal Talwar On the Privacy of Noisy Stochastic Gradient Descent for Convex Optimization 969--1001 Sunil Arya and Guilherme D. da Fonseca and David M. Mount Economical Convex Coverings and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002--1038 Faith Ellen and Rati Gelashvili and Leqi Zhu Revisionist Simulations: a New Approach to Proving Space Lower Bounds . . . . . 1039--1084 Fedor V. Fomin and Tuukka Korhonen Fast FPT-Approximation of Branchwidth 1085--1131 Haitao Wang Algorithms for Subpath Convex Hull Queries and Ray-Shooting among Segments 1132--1161 Jason Li and Debmalya Panigrahi Approximate Gomory--Hu Tree is Faster than $ n - 1 $ Maximum Flows . . . . . . 1162--1180 Ziyun Huang and Qilong Feng and Jianxin Wang and Jinhui Xu PTAS for Minimum Cost MultiCovering with Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181--1215