Theory and Applications of Models of Computation

Plenary Talks.- Neural Computations That Support Long Mixed Sequences of Knowledge Acquisition Tasks.- Constraints, Graphs, Algebra, Logic, and Complexity.- Distributed Systems and Their Environments.- Invited Special Session: Models of Computation.- Co-evolution and Information Signals in Biological Sequences.- The Extended Turing Model as Contextual Tool.- Strong Positive Reducibilities.- Invited Special Session: Algorithms and Complexity.- Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Graph-Modeled Date Clustering.- On Spanners of Geometric Graphs.- Searching Trees: An Essay.- Approximability and Fixed-Parameter Tractability for the Exemplar Genomic Distance Problems.- Contributed Papers.- A Quadratic Kernel for 3-Set Packing.- Quantitative Aspects of Speed-Up and Gap Phenomena.- Computing the Exact Distribution Function of the Stochastic Longest Path Length in a DAG.- On the Connection between Interval Size Functions and Path Counting.- On the Red/Blue Spanning Tree Problem.- Undecidability of Cost-Bounded Reachability in Priced Probabilistic Timed Automata.- A Computational Proof of Complexity of Some Restricted Counting Problems.- Block-Graph Width.- Minimum Vertex Ranking Spanning Tree Problem on Permutation Graphs.- On Parameterized Exponential Time Complexity.- Best-Order Streaming Model.- Behavioral and Logical Equivalence of Stochastic Kripke Models in General Measurable Spaces.- Influence of Tree Topology Restrictions on the Complexity of Haplotyping with Missing Data.- Improved Deterministic Algorithms for Weighted Matching and Packing Problems.- Parameterized Complexity of Coloring Problems: Treewidth versus Vertex Cover.- Discovering Almost Any Hidden Motif from Multiple Sequences in Polynomial Time with Low Sample Complexity and High Success Probability.- A Complete Characterisation of the Linear Clique-Width of Path Powers.- Preserving Privacy versus Data Retention.- Kolmogorov Complexity and Combinatorial Methods in Communication Complexity.- An Almost Totally