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SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science

38th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 21-27, 2012, Proceedings

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Table of contents (54 papers)

  1. Regular Papers

    1. Foundations of Computer Science

      1. Multitape NFA: Weak Synchronization of the Input Heads
        • Ömer Eğecioğlu, Oscar H. Ibarra, Nicholas Q. Tran
        Pages 238-250
      2. Visibly Pushdown Transducers with Look-Ahead
        • Emmanuel Filiot, Frédéric Servais
        Pages 251-263
      3. Consistent Consequence for Boolean Equation Systems
        • Maciej W. Gazda, Tim A. C. Willemse
        Pages 277-288
      4. 4-Coloring H-Free Graphs When H Is Small
        • Petr A. Golovach, Daniël Paulusma, Jian Song
        Pages 289-300
      5. Computing <i>q</i>-Gram Non-overlapping Frequencies on SLP Compressed Texts
        • Keisuke Goto, Hideo Bannai, Shunsuke Inenaga, Masayuki Takeda
        Pages 301-312
      6. Counting Maximal Independent Sets in Subcubic Graphs
        • Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski, Michał Tuczyński
        Pages 325-336
      7. Iterated Hairpin Completions of Non-crossing Words
        • Lila Kari, Steffen Kopecki, Shinnosuke Seki
        Pages 337-348
      8. Parikh’s Theorem and Descriptional Complexity
        • Giovanna J. Lavado, Giovanni Pighizzini
        Pages 361-372
      9. The Complexity of Small Universal Turing Machines: A Survey
        • Turlough Neary, Damien Woods
        Pages 385-405
      10. An Algorithm for Probabilistic Alternating Simulation
        • Chenyi Zhang, Jun Pang
        Pages 431-442
    2. Software and Web Engineering

      1. Towards a Smart, Self-scaling Cooperative Web Cache
        • Tomáš Černý, Petr Praus, Slávka Jaroměřská, Luboš Matl, Michael J. Donahoo
        Pages 443-455
      2. Named Entity Disambiguation Based on Explicit Semantics
        • Martin Jačala, Jozef Tvarožek
        Pages 456-466

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2012, held in Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, in January 2012. The 43 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The book also contains 11 invited talks, 10 of which are in full-paper length. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: foundations of computer science; software and Web engineering; cryptography, security, and verification; and artificial intelligence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Bratislava 4, Slovakia

    Mária Bieliková

  • Dept. of Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Gerhard Friedrich

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

    Georg Gottlob

  • Security Engineering Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Katzenbeisser

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Math., Stat. and Comp. Sci, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA; and University of Szeged, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6701 Szeged, Postafiók, Hungary

    György Turán

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