Fundamentals of Computation Theory

On word equations and Makanin's algorithm.- Complexity classes with complete problems between P and NP-C.- Interpretations of synchronous flowchart schemes.- Generalized Boolean hierarchies and Boolean hierarchies over RP.- The equational logic of iterative processes.- The distributed bit complexity of the ring: From the anonymous to the non-anonymous case.- The jump number problem for biconvex graphs and rectangle covers of rectangular regions.- Recent developments in the design of asynchronous circuits.- New simulations between CRCW PRAMs.- About connections between syntactical and computational complexity.- Completeness in approximation classes.- Separating completely complexity classes related to polynomial size ?-Decision trees.- On product hierarchies of automata.- On the communication complexity of planarity.- Context-free NCE graph grammars.- Dynamic data structures with finite population: A combinatorial analysis.- Iterated deterministic top-down look-ahead.- Using generating functions to compute concurrency.- A logic for nondeterministic functional programs extended abstract.- Decision problems and Coxeter groups.- Complexity of formula classes in first order logic with functions.- Normal and sinkless Petri nets.- Descriptive and computational complexity.- The effect of null-chains on the complexity of contact schemes.- Monte-Carlo inference and its relations to reliable frequency identification.- Semilinear real-time systolic trellis automata.- Inducibility of the composition of frontier-to-root tree transformations.- On oblivious branching programs of linear length.- Some time-space bounds for one-tape deterministic turing machines.- Rank of rational finitely generated W-languages.- Extensional properties of sets of time bounded complexity (extended abstract).- Learning under uniform distribution.- An extended framework for default reasoning.- Logic programming of some mathematical paradoxes.- Analysis of compact 0-complete trees: A new access method to