Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Looking for MUM and DAD: Text-text comparisons do help.- Branch and bound on the network model.- A near optimal algorithm for the extended cow-path problem in the presence of relative errors.- Efficient algorithms for vertex arboricity of planar graphs.- A condition for the three colourability of planar locally path graphs.- A framework for the specification of reactive and concurrent systems in Z.- Synthesizing different development paradigms: Combining top-down with bottom-up reasoning about distributed systems.- Verifying part of the ACCESS.bus protocol using PVS.- Reusing batch parsers as incremental parsers.- The expressive power of indeterminate primitives in asynchronous computation.- The transformation calculus.- Equational axiomatization of bicoercibility for polymorphic types.- From causal consistency to sequential consistency in shared memory systems.- Observation of software for distributed systems with RCL.- Partiality and approximation schemes for local consistency in networks of constraints.- Maximal extensions of simplification orderings.- Average polynomial time is hard for exponential time under sn-reductions.- On self-testing without the generator bottleneck.- Observing behaviour categorically.- An algorithm for reducing binary branchings.- On the complexity of bisimilarity for value-passing processes.- On the expressive power of CCS.- Polarized name passing.- Path balance heuristic for self-adjusting binary search trees.- Pattern matching in compressed texts.- All-pairs min-cut in sparse networks.- Minimizing space usage in evaluation of expression trees.- Smooth surfaces for multi-scale shape representation.- On parallel complexity of planar triangulations.- Computing a largest empty anchored cylinder, and related problems.- Computing hierarchies of clusters from the euclidean minimum spanning tree in linear time.- Determinizing Büchi asynchronous automata.- Achilles and the tortoise climbing up the arithmetical hierarchy.- Generalized temporal verification diagrams.- Model checking of probabilistic and nondeterministic systems.