General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics

Encoding the Joint Empirical Distribution in a Correlated Source.- On Logarithmically Asymptotically Optimal Hypothesis Testing for Arbitrarily Varying Sources with Side Information.- On Logarithmically Asymptotically Optimal Testing of Hypotheses and Identification.- Correlation Inequalities in Function Spaces.- Lower Bounds for Divergence in the Central Limit Theorem.- Information Measures - Error Concepts - Performance Criteria.- Identification Entropy.- Optimal Information Measures for Weakly Chaotic Dynamical Systems.- Report on Models of Write-Efficient Memories with Localized Errors and Defects.- Percolation on a k-Ary Tree.- On Concepts of Performance Parameters for Channels.- Appendix: On Common Information and Related Characteristics of Correlated Information Sources.- Search - Sorting - Ordering - Planning.- Q-Ary Ulam-Renyi Game with Constrained Lies.- Search with Noisy and Delayed Responses.- A Kraft-Type Inequality for d-Delay Binary Search Codes.- Threshold Group Testing.- A Fast Suffix-Sorting Algorithm.- Monotonicity Checking.- Algorithmic Motion Planning: The Randomized Approach.- Language Evolution - Pattern Discovery - Reconstructions.- Information Theoretic Models in Language Evolution.- Zipf's Law, Hyperbolic Distributions and Entropy Loss.- Bridging Lossy and Lossless Compression by Motif Pattern Discovery.- Reverse-Complement Similarity Codes.- On Some Applications of Information Indices in Chemical Graph Theory.- Largest Graphs of Diameter 2 and Maximum Degree 6.- Network Coding.- An Outside Opinion.- Problems inNetwork Coding and Error Correcting Codes Appended by a Draft Version of S. Riis "Utilising Public Information in Network Coding".- Combinatorial Models.- On the Thinnest Coverings of Spheres and Ellipsoids with Balls in Hamming and Euclidean Spaces.- Appendix: On Set Coverings in Cartesian Product Spaces.- Testing Sets for 1-Perfect Code.- On Partitions of a Rectangle into Rectangles with Restricted Number of Cross Sections.- On Attractive and Friendly Sets in Sequence Spaces.- Remarks on an Edge Isoperimetric Problem.- Appendix: On Edge-Isoperimetric Theorems for Uniform Hypergraphs.- Appendix: Solution of Burnashev's Problem and a Sharpening of the Erd?s/Ko/Rado Theorem.- Realization of Intensity Modulated Radiation Fields Using Multileaf Collimators.- Sparse Asymmetric Connectors in Communication Networks.- Problem Section.- Finding , the Identification Capacity of the AVC , if Randomization in the Encoding Is Excluded.- Intersection Graphs of Rectangles and Segments.- Cutoff Rate Enhancement.- Some Problems in Organic Coding Theory.- Generalized Anticodes in Hamming Spaces.- Two Problems from Coding Theory.- Private Capacity of Broadcast Channels.- A Short Survey on Upper and Lower Bounds for Multidimensional Zero Sums.- Binary Linear Codes That Are Optimal for Error Correction.- Capacity Problem of Trapdoor Channel.- Hotlink Assignment on the Web.- The Rigidity of Hamming Spaces.- A Conjecture in Finite Fields.- Multiparty Computations in Non-private Environments.- Some Mathematical Problems Related to Quantum Hypothesis Testing.- Designs and Perfect Codes.