Computing and Combinatorics: 8th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2002, Singapore, August 15-17, 2002 Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 2387

Invited Lectures.- The Assembly of the Human and Mouse Genomes.- Data Structures for One-Dimensional Packet Classification Using Most-Specific-Rule Matching.- DNA Complementarity and Paradigms of Computing.- Complexity Theory I.- On Higher Arthur-Merlin Classes.- (2 + f(n))-SAT and Its Properties.- On the Minimal Polynomial of a Matrix.- Computable Real Functions of Bounded Variation and Semi-computable Real Numbers.- Discrete Algorithms I.- Improved Compact Routing Tables for Planar Networks via Orderly Spanning Trees.- Coloring Algorithms on Subcubic Graphs.- Efficient Algorithms for the Hamiltonian Problem on Distance-Hereditary Graphs.- Extending the Accommodating Function.- Computational Biology and Learning Theory I.- Inverse Parametric Sequence Alignment.- The Full Steiner Tree Problem in Phylogeny.- Inferring a Union of Halfspaces from Examples.- Dictionary Look-Up within Small Edit Distance.- Coding Theory and Cryptography.- Polynomial Interpolation of the Elliptic Curve and XTR Discrete Logarithm.- Co-orthogonal Codes.- Efficient Power-Sum Systolic Architectures for Public-Key Cryptosystems in GF(2m).- A Combinatorial Approach to Anonymous Membership Broadcast.- Parallel and Distributed Architectures.- Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems with DNA Computing.- New Architecture and Algorithms for Degradable VLSI/WSI Arrays.- Cluster: A Fast Tool to Identify Groups of Similar Programs.- Broadcasting in Generalized de Bruijn Digraphs.- Graph Theory.- On the Connected Domination Number of Random Regular Graphs.- On the Number of Minimum Cuts in a Graph.- On Crossing Numbers of 5-Regular Graphs.- Maximum Flows and Critical Vertices in AND/OR Graphs.- Radio Networks.- New Energy-Efficient Permutation Routing Protocol for Single-Hop Radio Networks.- Simple MutualExclusion Algorithms Based on Bounded Tickets on the Asynchronous Shared Memory Model.- Time and Energy Optimal List Ranking Algorithms on the k-Channel Broadcast Communication Model.- Energy-Efficient Size Approximation of Radio Networks with No Collision Detection.- Automata and Formal Languages.- A New Class of Symbolic Abstract Neural Nets: Tissue P Systems.- Transducers with Set Output.- Self-assembling Finite Automata.- Repetition Complexity of Words.- Internet Networks.- Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure.- On Randomized Broadcasting and Gossiping in Radio Networks.- Fast and Dependable Communication in Hyper-rings.- Computational Geometry I.- The On-Line Heilbronn’s Triangle Problem in Three and Four Dimensions.- Algorithms for Normal Curves and Surfaces.- Terrain Polygon Decomposition, with Application to Layered Manufacturing.- Computational Biology and Learning Theory II.- Supertrees by Flipping.- A Space and Time Efficient Algorithm for Constructing Compressed Suffix Arrays.- Sharpening Occam’s Razor.- Approximating 3D Points with Cylindrical Segments.- Discrete Algorithms II.- Algorithms for the Multicolorings of Partial k-Trees.- A Fault-Tolerant Merge Sorting Algorithm.- 2-Compromise Usability in 1-Dimensional Statistical Databases.- Computational Geometry II.- An Experimental Study and Comparison of Topological Peeling and Topological Walk.- On-Line Maximizing the Number of Items Packed in Variable-Sized Bins.- On-Line Grid-Packing with a Single Active Grid.- Bend Minimization in Orthogonal Drawings Using Integer Programming.- Combinatorial Optimization.- The Conditional Location of a Median Path.- New Results on the k-Truck Problem.- Theory of Equal-Flows in Networks.- Minimum Back-Walk-Free Latency Problem.- Complexity II.- CountingSatisfying Assignments in 2-SAT and 3-SAT.- On the Maximum Number of Irreducible Coverings of an n-Vertex Graph by n — 3 Cliques.- On Reachability in Graphs with Bounded Independence Number.- On Parameterized Enumeration.- Quantum Computing.- Probabilistic Reversible Automata and Quantum Automata.- Quantum versus Deterministic Counter Automata.- Quantum DNF Learnability Revisited.