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Volume 47, Number 2, 1986
Volume 127, Number 1, May 09, 1994
Volume 155, Number 2, March 11, 1996
Volume 202, Number 1--2, July 28, 1998
Volume 212, Number 1--2, February 06, 1999
Volume 230, Number 1--2, January 6, 2000
Volume 231, Number 1, January 17, 2000
Volume 231, Number 2, January 28, 2000
Volume 232, Number 1--2, February 6, 2000
Volume 233, Number 1--2, February 28, 2000
Volume 234, Number 1--2, March 6, 2000
Volume 235, Number 1, March 17, 2000
Volume 235, Number 2, March 28, 2000
Volume 236, Number 1--2, April 6, 2000
Volume 237, Number 1--2, April 28, 2000
Volume 238, Number 1--2, May 6, 2000
Volume 239, Number 1, May 17, 2000
Volume 239, Number 2, May 28, 2000
Volume 240, Number 1, June 6, 2000
Volume 240, Number 2, June 17, 2000
Volume 241, Number 1--2, June 28, 2000
Volume 242, Number 1--2, July 6, 2000
Volume 243, Number 1--2, July 28, 2000
Volume 244, Number 1--2, August 6, 2000
Volume 245, Number 1, August 17, 2000
Volume 245, Number 2, August 28, 2000
Volume 246, Number 1--2, September 6, 2000
Volume 247, Number 1--2, September 28, 2000
Volume 248, Number 1--2, October 6, 2000
Volume 249, Number 1, October 17, 2000
Volume 249, Number 2, October 28, 2000
Volume 250, Number 1--2, January 6, 2001
Volume 251, Number 1--2, January 28, 2001
Volume 252, Number 1--2, February 6, 2001
Volume 253, Number 1, February 17, 2001
Volume 254, Number 1--2, March 6, 2001
Volume 255, Number 1--2, March 28, 2001
Volume 256, Number 1--2, April 6, 2001
Volume 257, Number 1--2, April 28, 2001
Volume 258, Number 1--2, May 6, 2001
Volume 259, Number 1--2, May 28, 2001
Volume 260, Number 1--2, June 6, 2001
Volume 261, Number 1, June 17, 2001
Volume 261, Number 2, June 28, 2001
Volume 262, Number 1--2, July 6, 2001
Volume 263, Number 1--2, July 28, 2001
Volume 264, Number 1, August 6, 2001
Volume 265, Number 1--2, August 28, 2001
Volume 266, Number 1--2, September 6, 2001
Volume 267, Number 1--2, September 28, 2001
Volume 268, Number 1, October 6, 2001
Volume 268, Number 2, October 17, 2001
Volume 269, Number 1--2, October 28, 2001
Volume 270, Number 1--2, January 6, 2002
Volume 271, Number 1--2, January 28, 2002
Volume 272, Number 1--2, February 6, 2002
Volume 273, Number 1--2, February 28, 2002
Volume 274, Number 1--2, March 6, 2002
Volume 275, Number 1--2, March 28, 2002
Volume 276, Number 1--2, April 6, 2002
Volume 277, Number 1--2, April, 2002
Volume 278, Number 1--2, April, 2002
Volume 279, Number 1--2, May, 2002
Volume 280, Number 1--2, May, 2002
Volume 281, Number 1--2, May, 2002
Volume 282, Number 1, May, 2002
Volume 282, Number 2, June, 2002
Volume 283, Number 1, June, 2002
Volume 283, Number 2, June, 2002
Volume 284, Number 1, June, 2002
Volume 284, Number 2, July, 2002
Volume 285, Number 1, July, 2002
Volume 285, Number 2, August, 2002
Volume 286, Number 1, August, 2002
Volume 286, Number 2, September, 2002
Volume 287, Number 1, September, 2002
Volume 287, Number 2, September, 2002
Volume 288, Number 1, September, 2002
Volume 288, Number 2, September, 2002
Volume 289, Number 1, October, 2002
Volume 289, Number 2, October, 2002
Volume 290, Number 1, October, 2002
Volume 290, Number 2, October, 2002
Volume 290, Number 3, November, 2002
Volume 291, Number 1, November, 2002
Volume 291, Number 2, November, 2002
Volume 291, Number 3, January 6, 2003
Volume 292, Number 1, January 10, 2003
Volume 292, Number 2, January 27, 2003
Volume 292, Number 3, January 31, 2003
Volume 293, Number 1, February 3, 2003
Volume 293, Number 2, February 6, 2003
Volume 293, Number 3, February 9, 2003
Volume 294, Number 1--2, February 15, 2003
Volume 294, Number 3, February 18, 2003
Volume 295, Number 1--3, February 24, 2003
Volume 296, Number 1, March 4, 2003
Volume 296, Number 2, March 8, 2003
Volume 296, Number 3, March 14, 2003
Volume 297, Number 1--3, March 17, 2003
Volume 298, Number 1, April 4, 2003
Volume 298, Number 2, April 8, 2003
Volume 298, Number 3, April 11, 2003
Volume 299, Number 1--3, April 18, 2003
Volume 300, Number 1--3, May 7, 2003
Volume 301, Number 1--3, May 14, 2003
Volume 302, Number 1--3, June 13, 2003
Volume 303, Number 1, June 28, 2003
Volume 303, Number 2--3, July 15, 2003
Volume 304, Number 1--3, July 28, 2003
Volume 305, Number 1--3, August 18, 2003
Volume 306, Number 1--3, September 5, 2003
Volume 307, Number 1, September 26, 2003
Volume 307, Number 2, October 7, 2003
Volume 307, Number 3, October 14, 2003
Volume 308, Number 1--3, November 3, 2003
Volume 309, Number 1--3, December 2, 2003
Volume 310, Number 1--3, January 1, 2004
Volume 311, Number 1--3, January 23, 2004
Volume 312, Number 1, January 26, 2004
Volume 312, Number 2--3, January 30, 2004
Volume 313, Number 1, February 16, 2004
Volume 313, Number 2, February 17, 2004
Volume 313, Number 3, February 19, 2004
Volume 314, Number 1--2, February 25, 2004
Volume 314, Number 3, April 10, 2004
Volume 315, Number 1, May 5, 2004
Volume 315, Number 2--3, May 6, 2004
Volume 316, Number 1--3, May 28, 2004
Volume 317, Number 1--3, June 4, 2004
Volume 318, Number 1--2, June 6, 2004
Volume 318, Number 3, June 8, 2004
Volume 319, Number 1--3, June 10, 2004
Volume 320, Number 1, June 12, 2004
Volume 320, Number 2--3, June 14, 2004
Volume 321, Number 1, June 16, 2004
Volume 321, Number 2--3, August, 2004
Volume 322, Number 1, August, 2004
Volume 322, Number 2, August 30, 2004
Volume 322, Number 3, September, 2004
Volume 323, Number 1--3, September, 2004
Volume 324, Number 1, September, 2004
Volume 324, Number 2--3, September 20, 2004
Volume 325, Number 1, September 28, 2004
Volume 325, Number 2, October 1, 2004
Volume 325, Number 3, October 6, 2004
Volume 326, Number 1--3, October 20, 2004
Volume 327, Number 1--2, October 25, 2004
Volume 327, Number 3, November 2, 2004
Volume 328, Number 1--2, November 29, 2004
Volume 328, Number 3, December 3, 2004
Volume 329, Number 1--3, December 13, 2004
Volume 347, Number 1--2, November 30, 2005
Volume 352, Number 1--3, March 7, 2006
Volume 377, Number 1--3, May 31, 2007
Volume 817, Number ??, May 12, 2020


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 47, Number 2, 1986

                     M. Chrobak   Finite automata and unary languages  . . 149--158


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 127, Number 1, May 09, 1994

             Sergio De Agostino   P-complete problems in data compression  181--186


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 155, Number 2, March 11, 1996

       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
             Albrecht Hoene and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   Reducibility classes of $P$-selective
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--457


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 202, Number 1--2, July 28, 1998

             Marco Bernardo and   
               Roberto Gorrieri   A tutorial on EMPA: A theory of
                                  concurrent processes with
                                  nondeterminism, priorities,
                                  probabilities and time . . . . . . . . . 1--54


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 212, Number 1--2, February 06, 1999

                  Dieter Spreen   On functions preserving levels of
                                  approximation: A refined model
                                  construction for various lambda calculi  261--303


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 230, Number 1--2, January 6, 2000

                B. Apolloni and   
                     C. Gentile   $P$-sufficient statistics for PAC
                                  learning $k$-term-DNF formulas through
                                  enumeration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--37
           C. de la Higuera and   
                 F. Casacuberta   Topology of strings: Median string is
                                  NP-complete  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
                   Klaus Sutner   $ \sigma $-Automata and
                                  Chebyshev-polynomials  . . . . . . . . . 49--73
                 Zhi-Zhong Chen   Efficient algorithms for acyclic
                                  colorings of graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 75--95
              Nataliya Chekhova   Covering numbers of rotations  . . . . . 97--116
            John T. Baldwin and   
                 Saharon Shelah   On the classifiability of cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
              Ryuhei Uehara and   
            Kensei Tsuchida and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Identification of partial disjunction,
                                  parity, and threshold functions  . . . . 131--147
                 Brunella Gerla   Conditioning a state by a \Lukasiewicz
                                  event: a probabilistic approach to Ulam
                                  games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--166
        Ferdinando Cicalese and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Optimal strategies against a liar  . . . 167--193
              D. M. Breuker and   
      J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk and   
            H. J. van den Herik   Solving $ 8 \times 8 $ Domineering . . . 195--206
               J. Mark Ettinger   A metric for positional games  . . . . . 207--219
         Rémy Malgouyres   Homotopy in two-dimensional digital
                                  images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233
            S. Crvenkovi\'c and   
                 I. Dolinka and   
                 Z. Ésik   The variety of Kleene algebras with
                                  conversion is not finitely based . . . . 235--245
         Peter R. J. Asveld and   
                  Anton Nijholt   The inclusion problem for some
                                  subclasses of context-free languages . . 247--256
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--299


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 231, Number 1, January 17, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                   Pascal Caron   LANGAGE: A Maple package for automaton
                                  characterization of regular languages    5--15
              Mehryar Mohri and   
           Fernando Pereira and   
                  Michael Riley   The design principles of a weighted
                                  finite-state transducer library  . . . . 17--32
                Max Silberztein   INTEX: an FST toolbox  . . . . . . . . . 33--46
              Helmut Lescow and   
                 Jens Vöge   Minimal separating sets for acceptance
                                  conditions in Muller Automata  . . . . . 47--57
                 A. N. Trahtman   Optimal estimation on the order of local
                                  testability of finite automata . . . . . 59--74
                       D. Ziadi   Sorting and doubling techniques for set
                                  partitioning and automata minimization
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87
                    J.-L. Ponty   An efficient null-free procedure for
                                  deciding regular language membership . . 89--101
                 K. Salomaa and   
                      X. Wu and   
                          S. Yu   Efficient implementation of regular
                                  languages using reversed alternating
                                  finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
           J. A. Brzozowski and   
                   R. Negulescu   Automata of asynchronous behaviors . . . 113--128
                   Denis Maurel   Pseudo-minimal transducer  . . . . . . . 129--139

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 231, Number 2, January 28, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142
                Paolo Boldi and   
               Sebastiano Vigna   The Turing closure of an Archimedean
                                  field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156
                C. Ferretti and   
                   G. Mauri and   
               S. Kobayashi and   
                    T. Yokomori   On the universality of Post and splicing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
                C. Ferretti and   
                   G. Mauri and   
                     C. Zandron   Nine test tubes generate any RE language 171--180
             Katsunobu Imai and   
                 Kenichi Morita   A computation-universal two-dimensional
                                  $8$-state triangular reversible cellular
                                  automaton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--191
                  Lila Kari and   
                 Greg Gloor and   
                       Sheng Yu   Using DNA to solve the Bounded Post
                                  Correspondence Problem . . . . . . . . . 193--203
                    Arnaud Maes   More on morphisms and almost-periodicity 205--215
            Maurice Margenstern   Frontier between decidability and
                                  undecidability: a survey . . . . . . . . 217--251
                 C. Michaux and   
                   C. Troestler   Isomorphism theorem for BSS recursively
                                  enumerable sets over real closed fields  253--273
                Gheorghe P\uaun   DNA computing based on splicing:
                                  universality results . . . . . . . . . . 275--296
           Hiroshi Sakamoto and   
                  Daisuke Ikeda   Intractability of decision problems for
                                  finite-memory automata . . . . . . . . . 297--308
Géraud Sénizergues   Complete formal systems for equivalence
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--334
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 232, Number 1--2, February 6, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
            Didier Galmiche and   
                   David J. Pym   Proof-search in type-theoretic
                                  languages: an introduction . . . . . . . 5--53
          James L. Caldwell and   
                Ian P. Gent and   
               Judith Underwood   Search algorithms in type theory . . . . 55--90
           Raymond McDowell and   
                    Dale Miller   Cut-elimination for a logic with
                                  definitions and induction  . . . . . . . 91--119
             Toshiyasu Arai and   
                  Grigori Mints   Extended normal form theorems for
                                  logical proofs from axioms . . . . . . . 121--132
           Iliano Cervesato and   
            Joshua S. Hodas and   
                 Frank Pfenning   Efficient resource management for linear
                                  logic proof search . . . . . . . . . . . 133--163
                   M. W. Bunder   Proof finding algorithms for
                                  implicational logics . . . . . . . . . . 165--186
                      Amy Felty   The calculus of constructions as a
                                  framework for proof search with set
                                  variable instantiation . . . . . . . . . 187--229
                    D. Galmiche   Connection methods in linear logic and
                                  proof nets construction  . . . . . . . . 231--272
               Gopalan Nadathur   Correspondences between classical,
                                  intuitionistic and uniform provability   273--298
                Eike Ritter and   
                  David Pym and   
                 Lincoln Wallen   On the intuitionistic force of classical
                                  search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--333
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 233, Number 1--2, February 28, 2000

               Angelo Monti and   
                  Adriano Peron   Systolic tree $ \omega $-languages: the
                                  operational and the logical view . . . . 1--18
            Kosaburo Hashiguchi   New upper bounds to the limitedness of
                                  distance automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
             Tatsuya Akutsu and   
Magnús M. Halldórsson   On the approximation of largest common
                                  subtrees and largest common point sets   33--50
              D. Robilliard and   
                     D. Simplot   Undecidability of existential properties
                                  in picture languages . . . . . . . . . . 51--74
               Pascal Caron and   
                 Djelloul Ziadi   Characterization of Glushkov automata    75--90
              R. J. Gardner and   
               P. Gritzmann and   
                 D. Prangenberg   On the computational complexity of
                                  determining polyatomic structures by
                                  X-rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--106
              Kevin Cattell and   
         Michael J. Dinneen and   
           Rodney G. Downey and   
         Michael R. Fellows and   
            Michael A. Langston   On computing graph minor obstruction
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--127
             Yasuo Kawahara and   
                     Masao Mori   A small final coalgebra theorem  . . . . 129--145
         Gianpiero Cattaneo and   
            Enrico Formenti and   
           Giovanni Manzini and   
                Luciano Margara   Ergodicity, transitivity, and regularity
                                  for linear cellular automata over $ Z_m
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--164
        Jean-Claude Bermond and   
              Luisa Gargano and   
           Stephan Perennes and   
          Adele A. Rescigno and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Efficient collective communication in
                                  optical networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--189
       Alexandre V. Evfimievski   A probabilistic algorithm for updating
                                  files over a communication link  . . . . 191--199
          Alberto Del Lungo and   
      Francesco Del Ristoro and   
                Jean-Guy Penaud   Left ternary trees and non-separable
                                  rooted planar maps . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215
          Christian Germain and   
                     Jean Pallo   Langages rationnels définis avec une
                                  concaténation non-associative . . . . . . 217--231
           Alexander Rabinovich   Star free expressions over the reals . . 233--245
             Yonatan Aumann and   
             Judit Bar-Ilan and   
                    Uriel Feige   On the cost of recomputing: Tight bounds
                                  on pebbling with faults  . . . . . . . . 247--261
                    James Propp   Three-player impartial games . . . . . . 263--278
              T. Y. Nishida and   
                     A. Salomaa   On slender 0L languages  . . . . . . . . 279--286
                 Eric Goles and   
                  Erich Prisner   Source reversal and chip firing on
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--295
         Tomás Feder and   
             Nimrod Megiddo and   
               Serge A. Plotkin   A sublinear parallel algorithm for
                                  stable matching  . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--308
            Marek Karpinski and   
        Alf van der Poorten and   
               Igor Shparlinski   Zero testing of $p$-adic and modular
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
       Bala Kalyanasundaram and   
                  Kirk R. Pruhs   An optimal deterministic algorithm for
                                  online $b$-matching  . . . . . . . . . . 319--325
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 234, Number 1--2, March 6, 2000

      François Puitg and   
   Jean-François Dufourd   Formalizing mathematics in higher-order
                                  logic: A case study in geometric
                                  modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--57
               Michel Habib and   
             Ross McConnell and   
            Christophe Paul and   
                Laurent Viennot   Lex-BFS and partition refinement, with
                                  applications to transitive orientation,
                                  interval graph recognition and
                                  consecutive ones testing . . . . . . . . 59--84
Rastislav Krá\vlovi\vc and   
          Peter Ru\vzi\vcka and   
          Daniel\vStefankovi\vc   The complexity of shortest path and
                                  dilation bounded interval routing  . . . 85--107
            Klaus Weihrauch and   
                  Xizhong Zheng   Computability on continuous, lower
                                  semi-continuous and upper
                                  semi-continuous real functions . . . . . 109--133
                  Dennis Pixton   Splicing in abstract families of
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--166
                Kai Salomaa and   
                       Sheng Yu   Alternating finite automata and
                                  star-free languages  . . . . . . . . . . 167--176
                  Mehryar Mohri   Minimization algorithms for sequential
                                  transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--201
        Dimitris Achlioptas and   
              Marek Chrobak and   
                      John Noga   Competitive analysis of randomized
                                  paging algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . 203--218
                Cao An Wang and   
                     Binhai Zhu   Three-dimensional weak visibility:
                                  Complexity and applications  . . . . . . 219--232
        Jean Françon and   
                  Yves Bertrand   Topological 3D-manifolds: a statistical
                                  study of the cells . . . . . . . . . . . 233--254
            Didier Arqu\`es and   
                Alain Giorgetti   Counting rooted maps on a surface  . . . 255--272
                   A. Pavan and   
                 Alan L. Selman   Complete distributional problems, hard
                                  languages, and resource-bounded measure  273--286
                 Z. Ésik   A proof of the Krohn-Rhodes
                                  Decomposition Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 287--300
                Tanja Lange and   
                 Arne Winterhof   Factoring polynomials over arbitrary
                                  finite fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--308
           Gérard Boudol   On the semantics of the call-by-name CPS
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--321
            L. Hemaspaandra and   
                   A. Hoene and   
                     M. Ogihara   Erratum to ``Reducibility classes of
                                  $P$-selective sets'' [Theoret. Comput.
                                  Sci 155(2) (1996) 447--457]  . . . . . . 323--323
             Sergio De Agostino   Erratum to ``P-complete Problems in Data
                                  Compression'' [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 127
                                  (1994) 181--186] . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 235, Number 1, March 17, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                  Eric Bach and   
                    Marcos Kiwi   Threshold data structures and coding
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
                 Avrim Blum and   
             Goran Konjevod and   
                    R. Ravi and   
                Santosh Vempala   Semi-definite relaxations for minimum
                                  bandwidth and other vertex-ordering
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--42
                 Joan Boyar and   
        René Peralta and   
                  Denis Pochuev   On the multiplicative complexity of
                                  Boolean functions over the basis (,,1)   43--57
              Harry Buhrman and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                    Ming Li and   
            Paul Vitányi   New applications of the
                                  incompressibility method: Part II  . . . 59--70
           Peter Bürgisser   Cook's versus Valiant's hypothesis . . . 71--88
            Bruno Codenotti and   
        Pavel Pudlák and   
                 Giovanni Resta   Some structural properties of low-rank
                                  matrices related to computational
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107
                   Jeff Edmonds   Scheduling in the dark . . . . . . . . . 109--141
                Leonid A. Levin   Self-stabilization of circular arrays of
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
               J. Maurice Rojas   Uncomputably large integral points on
                                  algebraic plane curves?  . . . . . . . . 145--162
            Joseph H. Silverman   On the distribution of integer points on
                                  curves of genus zero . . . . . . . . . . 163--170
               Fangmin Song and   
                 Yongsen Xu and   
                   Yuechen Qian   The self-reduction in lambda calculus    171--181
                 A. N. Trahtman   Algorithms finding the order of local
                                  testability of deterministic finite
                                  automaton and estimations of the order   183--204
              Vijay V. Vazirani   Recent results on approximating the
                                  Steiner tree problem and its
                                  generalizations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--216

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 235, Number 2, March 28, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--217
                Hiroshi Era and   
              Kenjiro Ogawa and   
              Morimasa Tsuchiya   On upper bound graphs with respect to
                                  operations on graphs . . . . . . . . . . 219--223
             Masahiro Hachimori   Constructible complexes and recursive
                                  division of posets . . . . . . . . . . . 225--237
              Kenji Kashiwabara   Extremality of submodular functions  . . 239--256
                Toru Kojima and   
                   Kiyoshi Ando   Wide-diameter and minimum length of fan  257--266
                Hiroshi Maehara   Can a convex polyhedron have a
                                  developable face-cycle?  . . . . . . . . 267--270
              Tomoki Nakamigawa   A generalization of diagonal flips in a
                                  convex polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--282
                   Michio Ozeki   On covering radii and coset weight
                                  distributions of extremal binary
                                  self-dual codes of length 40 . . . . . . 283--308
                 Tadashi Sakuma   Forced color classes, intersection
                                  graphs and the strong perfect graph
                                  conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--324
               Kokichi Sugihara   Three-dimensional convex hull as a
                                  fruitful source of diagrams  . . . . . . 325--337
                 Akihisa Tamura   Perfect $ (0, \pm 1)$-matrices and
                                  perfect bidirected graphs  . . . . . . . 339--356
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--358


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 236, Number 1--2, April 6, 2000

                     M. Dauchet   Trees in Algebra and Programming . . . . 1--1
           Egidio Astesiano and   
                  Gianna Reggio   Formalism and method . . . . . . . . . . 3--34
              Adel Bouhoula and   
      Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and   
           José Meseguer   Specification and proof in membership
                                  equational logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--132
                Thomas Arts and   
              Jürgen Giesl   Termination of term rewriting using
                                  dependency pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--178
            Anders Dessmark and   
             Andrzej Lingas and   
           Andrzej Proskurowski   Maximum packing for $k$-connected
                                  partial $k$-trees in polynomial time . . 179--191
             Daniel Leivant and   
               Jean-Yves Marion   A characterization of alternating log
                                  time by ramified recurrence  . . . . . . 193--208
           Toshiyuki Yamada and   
       Jürgen Avenhaus and   
Carlos Loría-Sáenz and   
                Aart Middeldorp   Logicality of conditional rewrite
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--232
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--233


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 237, Number 1--2, April 28, 2000

                Bruno Courcelle   The monadic second-order logic of graphs
                                  XII: planar graphs and planar maps . . . 1--32
                    Yongge Wang   Resource bounded randomness and
                                  computational complexity . . . . . . . . 33--55
 Francesco Mario Malvestuto and   
               Marina Moscarini   Decomposition of a hypergraph by
                                  partial-edge separators  . . . . . . . . 57--79
            Jean-Camille Birget   Reductions and functors from problems to
                                  word problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--104
            Petra Schuurman and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   A polynomial time approximation scheme
                                  for the two-stage multiprocessor flow
                                  shop problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--122
             Paola Alimonti and   
                     Viggo Kann   Some APX-completeness results for cubic
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
               Niculae Mandache   On the computational power of
                                  context-free PC grammar systems  . . . . 135--148
       Andries van der Walt and   
                   Sigrid Ewert   A shrinking lemma for random forbidding
                                  context languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
             Viliam Geffert and   
           Jyrki Katajainen and   
                   Tomi Pasanen   Asymptotically efficient in-place
                                  merging  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--181
              Changwook Kim and   
            Ivan Hal Sudborough   Leftmove-bounded picture languages . . . 183--195
             Rimli Sengupta and   
               H. Venkateswaran   Non-cancellative Boolean circuits: A
                                  generalization of monotone Boolean
                                  circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--212
                 Siu-Wing Cheng   The Steiner tree problem for terminals
                                  on the boundary of a rectilinear polygon 213--238
                 Jean Senellart   Fast pattern matching in indexed texts   239--262
         Alberto Apostolico and   
            Valentin E. Brimkov   Fibonacci arrays and their
                                  two-dimensional repetitions  . . . . . . 263--273
           Cristopher Moore and   
           James P. Crutchfield   Quantum automata and quantum grammars    275--306
               Petr K\rurka and   
                Alejandro Maass   Realtime subshifts . . . . . . . . . . . 307--325
               Chung Keung Poon   A space lower bound for st-connectivity
                                  on node-named JAGs . . . . . . . . . . . 327--345
                  K. Lodaya and   
                        P. Weil   Series-parallel languages and the
                                  bounded-width property . . . . . . . . . 347--380
            Hiroaki Tohyama and   
                    Akeo Adachi   Complexity of path discovery game
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--406
                   U. K. Sarkar   On the design of a constructive
                                  algorithm to solve the multi-peg towers
                                  of Hanoi problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--421
               Alexander Meduna   Terminating left-hand sides of scattered
                                  context productions M. Nivat . . . . . . 423--427
                Janos Simon and   
                  Shi-Chun Tsai   On the bottleneck counting argument  . . 429--437
              James A. Anderson   The intersection of retracts of A *  . . 439--445
                       B. Litow   On Hadamard square roots of unity  . . . 447--454
                Gonzalo Navarro   Improved approximate pattern matching on
                                  hypertext  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--463
                 Viliam Geffert   A variant of inductive counting  . . . . 465--475
         Satyanarayana V. Lokam   On the rigidity of Vandermonde matrices  477--483
                Kazuo Iwama and   
          Yahiko Kambayashi and   
                  Kazuya Takaki   Tight bounds on the number of states of
                                  DFAs that are equivalent to $n$-state
                                  NFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--494
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 238, Number 1--2, May 6, 2000

                   V. Sabelfeld   The tree equivalence of linear recursion
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
         Prakash Panangaden and   
                Clark Verbrugge   Generating irregular partitionable data
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--80
          Markus Roggenbach and   
         Mila Majster-Cederbaum   Towards a unified view of bisimulation:
                                  a comparative study  . . . . . . . . . . 81--130
             Michael Codish and   
                  Vitaly Lagoon   Type dependencies for logic programs
                                  using ACI-unification  . . . . . . . . . 131--159
                   Ludwik Czaja   Process languages and nets . . . . . . . 161--181
                   Delia Kesner   Confluence of extensional and
                                  non-extensional $ \lambda $-calculi with
                                  explicit substitutions . . . . . . . . . 183--220
            Giuliano Pacini and   
                 Maria I. Sessa   Loop checking in SLD-derivations by
                                  well-quasi-ordering of goals . . . . . . 221--246
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Congruential complements of ground term
                                  rewrite systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--274
           Wim H. Hesselink and   
                   Albert Thijs   Fixpoint semantics and simulation  . . . 275--311
            Michele Boreale and   
                  Luca Trevisan   A complexity analysis of bisimilarity
                                  for value-passing processes  . . . . . . 313--345
          P. Savický and   
                 S.\vZák   A read-once lower bound and a (1,+ k
                                  )-hierarchy for branching programs . . . 347--362
              Ines Margaria and   
               Maddalena Zacchi   Generalized filter models  . . . . . . . 363--387
            Rocco De Nicola and   
               Rosario Pugliese   Linda-based applicative and imperative
                                  process algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--437
        Joost-Pieter Katoen and   
                 Albert Nymeyer   Pattern-matching algorithms based on
                                  term rewrite systems . . . . . . . . . . 439--464
                 Mingsheng Ying   Weak confluence and $ \tau $-inertness   465--475
                 Noriko H. Arai   No feasible monotone interpolation for
                                  simple combinatorial reasoning . . . . . 477--482
                Holger Naundorf   Strictly causal functions have a unique
                                  fixed point  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--488
                Ph. Besnard and   
                      T. Schaub   What is a (non-constructive)
                                  non-monotone logical system? . . . . . . 489--494
          P. Savický and   
            Ji\vrí Sgall   DNF tautologies with a limited number of
                                  occurrences of every variable  . . . . . 495--498
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 239, Number 1, May 17, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                   Manfred Broy   Algebraic specification of reactive
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--40
                    Bart Jacobs   Object-oriented hybrid systems of
                                  coalgebras plus monoid actions . . . . . 41--95
                 Irek Ulidowski   Finite axiom systems for testing
                                  preorder and De Simone process languages 97--139
           M. R. K. Krishna Rao   Some characteristics of strong innermost
                                  normalization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--164
            E. Pascal Gribomont   Simplification of boolean verification
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--185

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 239, Number 2, May 28, 2000

             Foto N. Afrati and   
            Phokion G. Kolaitis   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
              Jeffrey D. Ullman   Information integration using logical
                                  views  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--210
            Chandra Chekuri and   
                Anand Rajaraman   Conjunctive query containment revisited  211--229
            Serge Abiteboul and   
                   Victor Vianu   Queries and computation on the web . . . 231--255
             Jörg Flum and   
            Max Kubierschky and   
         Bertram Ludäscher   Games and total Datalog $ \not = $
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
                Guozhu Dong and   
              Leonid Libkin and   
                   Limsoon Wong   Local properties of query languages  . . 277--308
               Ronald Fagin and   
              Edward L. Wimmers   A formula for incorporating weights into
                                  scoring rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--338
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--339


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 240, Number 1, June 6, 2000

       Daniel Le Métayer   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            M. M. Bonsangue and   
                   F. Arbab and   
            J. W. de Bakker and   
         J. J. M. M. Rutten and   
              A. Scutell\`a and   
                   G. Zavattaro   A transition system semantics for the
                                  control-driven coordination language
                                  MANIFOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--47
                 Nadia Busi and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   Comparing three semantics for Linda-like
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--90
             Eric J. Hedman and   
               Joost N. Kok and   
                     Kaisa Sere   Coordinating action systems  . . . . . . 91--115
             Suresh Jagannathan   Continuation-based transformations for
                                  coordination languages . . . . . . . . . 117--146
              Roberto M. Amadio   On modelling mobility  . . . . . . . . . 147--176
              Luca Cardelli and   
               Andrew D. Gordon   Mobile ambients  . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--213
            Rocco De Nicola and   
          GianLuigi Ferrari and   
           Rosario Pugliese and   
                  Betti Venneri   Types for access control . . . . . . . . 215--254

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 240, Number 2, June 17, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
                   D. Sivakumar   Resolution of Hartmanis' conjecture for
                                  NL-hard sparse sets  . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
              Vincent Berry and   
                Olivier Gascuel   Inferring evolutionary trees with strong
                                  combinatorial evidence . . . . . . . . . 271--298
                       Lin Chen   A selected tour of the theory of
                                  identification matrices  . . . . . . . . 299--318
          Rüdiger Reischuk   Can large fanin circuits perform
                                  reliable computations in the presence of
                                  faults?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--335
             Yuji Kobayashi and   
                 Friedrich Otto   Repetitiveness of languages generated by
                                  morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--378
                Peter Eades and   
                     Xuemin Lin   Spring algorithms and symmetry . . . . . 379--405
            Md. Abul Kashem and   
                  Xiao Zhou and   
                Takao Nishizeki   Algorithms for generalized
                                  vertex-rankings of partial $k$-trees . . 407--427
            Sheng-Lung Peng and   
                Chin-Wen Ho and   
             Tsan-sheng Hsu and   
                Ming-Tat Ko and   
                  Chuan Yi Tang   Edge and node searching problems on
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--446
           A. S. Poulakidas and   
              A. Srinivasan and   
      Ö. E\ugecio\uglu and   
                  O. Ibarra and   
                        T. Yang   Image compression for fast wavelet-based
                                  subregion retrieval  . . . . . . . . . . 447--469
          Thomas Hofmeister and   
            Matthias Krause and   
                  Hans U. Simon   Contrast-optimal $k$ out of $n$ secret
                                  sharing schemes in visual cryptography   471--485
         Fred S. Annexstein and   
          Kenneth A. Berman and   
             Tsan-Sheng Hsu and   
                Ram Swaminathan   A multi-tree routing scheme using
                                  acyclic orientations . . . . . . . . . . 487--494
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--503


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 241, Number 1--2, June 28, 2000

                      Anonymous   Editorial(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            Paul Vitányi   A discipline of evolutionary programming 3--23
                 Philip M. Long   Improved bounds about on-line learning
                                  of smooth-functions of a single variable 25--35
              Eiji Takimoto and   
            Yoshifumi Sakai and   
                  Akira Maruoka   The learnability of exclusive-or
                                  expansions based on monotone DNF
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
                  V. Arvind and   
            N. V. Vinodchandran   Exact learning via teaching assistants   51--81
             Atsuyoshi Nakamura   Query learning of bounded-width OBDDs    83--114
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
                  Frank Stephan   Vacillatory and BC learning on noisy
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--141
                Sanjay Jain and   
                Efim Kinber and   
              Steffen Lange and   
              Rolf Wiehagen and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Learning languages and functions by
                                  erasing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--189
          Takeshi Shinohara and   
                 Hiroki Arimura   Inductive inference of unbounded unions
                                  of pattern languages from positive data  191--209
           M. R. K. Krishna Rao   Some classes of Prolog programs
                                  inferable from positive data . . . . . . 211--234
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--235


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 242, Number 1--2, July 6, 2000

                Sarit Kraus and   
                Tatjana Plotkin   Algorithms of distributed task
                                  allocation for cooperative agents  . . . 1--27
           Hsien-Kuei Hwang and   
                Bo-Yin Yang and   
                  Yeong-Nan Yeh   Presorting algorithms: An average-case
                                  point of view  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
                     Klaus Meer   Counting problems over the reals . . . . 41--58
                 Hing Leung and   
                Detlef Wotschke   On the size of parsers and
                                  LR(k)-grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69
        Antonín Ku\vcera   Effective decomposability of sequential
                                  behaviours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--89
                      P. Hubert   Suites équilibrées . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--108
          Donatella Merlini and   
            Renzo Sprugnoli and   
               M. Cecilia Verri   Strip tiling and regular grammars  . . . 109--124
              Priti Shankar and   
         Amitranjan Gantait and   
              A. R. Yuvaraj and   
                  Maya Madhavan   A new algorithm for linear regular tree
                                  pattern matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--142
              Friedrich Hubalek   On the variance of the internal path
                                  length of generalized digital trees ---
                                  The Mellin convolution approach  . . . . 143--168
   Martha L. Escobar-Molano and   
        Shahram Ghandeharizadeh   On the complexity of coordinated display
                                  of multimedia objects  . . . . . . . . . 169--197
                  V. Arvind and   
            N. V. Vinodchandran   The counting complexity of
                                  group-definable languages  . . . . . . . 199--218
         Cristian S. Calude and   
               Elena Calude and   
           Bakhadyr Khoussainov   Finite nondeterministic automata:
                                  Simulation and minimality  . . . . . . . 219--235
              Samir Khuller and   
               Robert Pless and   
              Yoram J. Sussmann   Fault tolerant $K$-center problems . . . 237--245
               J.-C. Birget and   
                S. Margolis and   
                  J. Meakin and   
                        P. Weil   PSPACE-complete problems for subgroups
                                  of free groups and inverse finite
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--281
                   Drew Vandeth   Sturmian words and words with a critical
                                  exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--300
                Martin Mundhenk   On hard instances  . . . . . . . . . . . 301--311
    Conrado Martínez and   
                 Salvador Roura   On the competitiveness of the
                                  move-to-front rule . . . . . . . . . . . 313--325
                    Lucian Ilie   On lengths of words in context-free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--359
                   Pascal Caron   Families of locally testable languages   361--376
                Biing-Feng Wang   Tight bounds on the solutions of
                                  multidimensional divide-and-conquer
                                  maximin recurrences  . . . . . . . . . . 377--401
         Gennady S. Makanin and   
            Tatiana A. Makanina   Parametrisation of solutions of
                                  parametric equation in free monoid . . . 403--475
        Pál Gyenizse and   
Sándor Vágvölgyi   A property of left-linear rewrite
                                  systems preserving recognizability . . . 477--498
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 243, Number 1--2, July 28, 2000

         Józef Winkowski   Processes of timed Petri nets  . . . . . 1--34
          Roberto De Prisco and   
             Butler Lampson and   
                    Nancy Lynch   Revisiting the PAXOS algorithm . . . . . 35--91
                 Peter Padawitz   Swinging
                                  types=functions+relations+transition
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--165
          Anatoli Degtyarev and   
              Yuri Gurevich and   
          Paliath Narendran and   
              Margus Veanes and   
                Andrei Voronkov   Decidability and complexity of
                                  simultaneous rigid $E$-unification with
                                  one variable and related results . . . . 167--184
                 Noriko H. Arai   Tractability of Cut-free Gentzen-type
                                  propositional calculus with permutation
                                  inference II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
             Jonathan P. Seldin   A Gentzen-style sequent calculus of
                                  constructions with expansion rules . . . 199--215
               Shlomo Moran and   
                      Sagi Snir   Simple and efficient network
                                  decomposition and synchronization  . . . 217--241
                  Rida A. Bazzi   Planar quorums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--268
           K. B. Lakshmanan and   
      Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and   
                     S. S. Ravi   Alarm placement in systems with fault
                                  propagation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--288
       Lefteris M. Kirousis and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
              Danny Krizanc and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Power consumption in packet radio
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--305
                 Yuh-Jzer Joung   Two decentralized algorithms for strong
                                  interaction fairness for systems with
                                  unbounded speed variability  . . . . . . 307--338
                David Meier and   
                Beverly Sanders   Composing leads-to properties  . . . . . 339--361
              Juan A. Garay and   
            Rosario Gennaro and   
            Charanjit Jutla and   
                      Tal Rabin   Secure distributed storage and retrieval 363--389
                    Wan Fokkink   Language preorder as a precongruence . . 391--408
                Tuomas Aura and   
                   Johan Lilius   A causal semantics for time Petri nets   409--447
                      Qing Zhou   Grzegorczyk's hierarchy of computable
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--466
                  A. Rabinovich   Symbolic model checking for $ \mu
                                  $-calculus requires exponential time . . 467--475
                 Fabio Massacci   The proof complexity of analytic and
                                  clausal tableaux . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--487
                   Alfons Geser   On normalizing, non-terminating one-rule
                                  string rewriting systems . . . . . . . . 489--498
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 244, Number 1--2, August 6, 2000

                   Joachim Apel   Computational ideal theory in finitely
                                  generated extension rings  . . . . . . . 1--33
             Jung-Heum Park and   
                Kyung-Yong Chwa   Recursive circulants and their
                                  embeddings among hypercubes  . . . . . . 35--62
                Bruno Courcelle   The monadic second-order logic of graphs
                                  XIII: Graph drawings with edge crossings 63--94
                   Oya Ekin and   
            Peter L. Hammer and   
                Alexander Kogan   Convexity and logical analysis of data   95--116
                   Juha Honkala   On D0L power series  . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
               Matthias Ott and   
                  Frank Stephan   Structural measures for games and
                                  process control in the branch learning
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--165
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
         Michael R. Fellows and   
         Michael T. Hallett and   
            H. Todd Wareham and   
                Tandy J. Warnow   The hardness of perfect phylogeny,
                                  feasible register assignment and other
                                  problems on thin colored graphs  . . . . 167--188
                  Peter Jonsson   Boolean constraint satisfaction:
                                  complexity results for optimization
                                  problems with arbitrary weights  . . . . 189--203
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                Jörg Rothe   A second step towards
                                  complexity-theoretic analogs of Rice's
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217
         Gianpiero Cattaneo and   
            Michele Finelli and   
                Luciano Margara   Investigating topological chaos by
                                  elementary cellular automata dynamics    219--241
          Zsuzsanna Róka   The firing squad synchronization problem
                                  on Cayley graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--256
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                Jörg Rothe   Characterizing the existence of one-way
                                  permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
                  Eric Kern and   
               Maurice Mignotte   Applications of the representation of
                                  finite fields by matrices  . . . . . . . 263--265
                   Juha Honkala   A short solution for the HDT0L sequence
                                  equivalence problem  . . . . . . . . . . 267--270
                    Michel Rigo   Generalization of automatic sequences
                                  for numeration systems on a regular
                                  language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
           Dieter van Melkebeek   The zero-one law holds for BPP . . . . . 283--288
              Jozef Kelemen and   
    Alica Kelemenová and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                 Victor Mitrana   Colonies with limited activation of
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--298
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 245, Number 1, August 17, 2000

                 Masami Ito and   
         Chrystopher L. Nehaniv   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               J. A. Brzozowski   Delay-insensitivity and ternary
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25
Pál Dömösi and   
         Chrystopher L. Nehaniv   On complete systems of automata  . . . . 27--54
              Joseph Goguen and   
                  Grant Malcolm   A hidden agenda  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--101
                       B. Imreh   On the equivalence of the cube-product
                                  and the general product of automata  . . 103--113
                 Masami Ito and   
                  Lila Kari and   
               Gabriel Thierrin   Shuffle and scattered deletion closure
                                  of languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--133
              Alexis Maciel and   
     Pierre Péladeau and   
           Denis Thérien   Programs over semigroups of dot-depth
                                  one  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--148

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 245, Number 2, August 28, 2000

          Bogdan S. Chlebus and   
               Artur Czumaj and   
         Leszek G\casieniec and   
          Miros\law Kowaluk and   
            Wojciech Plandowski   Algorithms for the parallel alternating
                                  direction access machine . . . . . . . . 151--173
        Brigitte Oesterdiekhoff   Periodic comparator networks . . . . . . 175--202
               Guillaume Fertin   On the structure of minimum broadcast
                                  digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216
                 Cyril Gavoille   A survey on interval routing . . . . . . 217--253
          Peter Ru\vzi\vcka and   
          Daniel\vStefankovi\vc   On the complexity of multi-dimensional
                                  interval routing schemes . . . . . . . . 255--280
           Farhad Shahrokhi and   
       Ondrej Sýkora and   
László A. Székely and   
                   Imrich Vrt'o   A new lower bound for the bipartite
                                  crossing number with applications  . . . 281--294
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 246, Number 1--2, September 6, 2000

                   Frank Drewes   Tree-based picture generation  . . . . . 1--51
                  Frank Nielsen   Fast stabbing of boxes in high
                                  dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--72
          Reneta P. Barneva and   
        Valentin E. Brimkov and   
                Philippe Nehlig   Thin discrete triangular meshes  . . . . 73--105
               Toshihiro Fujito   Approximating minimum feedback vertex
                                  sets in hypergraphs  . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Jérôme O. Durand-Lose   Reversible space-time simulation of
                                  cellular automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
              T. Y. Nishida and   
                        S. Seki   Grouped partial ET0L systems and
                                  parallel multiple context-free grammars  131--150
            Didier Arqu\`es and   
Jean-François Béraud   Le Schéma de carte et ses applications.
                                  (French) [The sketch of a map and its
                                  applications]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--194
               J. W. Sander and   
                    R. Tijdeman   The complexity of functions on lattices  195--225
                Yih-Kai Lin and   
                Kuo-Liang Chung   A space-efficient Huffman decoding
                                  algorithm and its parallelism  . . . . . 227--238
                       Zhen Liu   Dynamic scheduling of parallel
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--252
        Pedro García and   
               José Ruiz   Right and left locally testable
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
                Martin Dyer and   
            Catherine Greenhill   Polynomial-time counting and sampling of
                                  two-rowed contingency tables . . . . . . 265--278
               Alexander Meduna   Generative power of three-nonterminal
                                  scattered context grammars . . . . . . . 279--284
              Cunsheng Ding and   
             David R. Kohel and   
                       San Ling   Secret-sharing with a class of ternary
                                  codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--298
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 247, Number 1--2, September 28, 2000

             Manfred Droste and   
                Paul Gastin and   
                 Dietrich Kuske   Asynchronous cellular automata for
                                  pomsets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
                 Thomas Ehrhard   Parallel and serial hypercoherences  . . 39--81
                     Ian Mackie   Interaction nets for linear logic  . . . 83--140
                Catherine Oriat   Detecting equivalence of modular
                                  specifications with categorical diagrams 141--190
           Zoran Ognjanovic and   
             Miodrag Ra\vskovic   Some first-order probability logics  . . 191--212
               Yefim Dinitz and   
                Tamar Eilam and   
               Shlomo Moran and   
                    Shmuel Zaks   On the total $k$-diameter of connection
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--228
                    Jens Blanck   Domain representations of topological
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--255
                   Rym Mili and   
           Jules Desharnais and   
              Marc Frappier and   
                       Ali Mili   Semantic distance between specifications 257--276
               Sabine Broda and   
              Luís Damas   On principal types of combinators  . . . 277--290
               Wim H. Hesselink   A generalization of Naundorf's fixpoint
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 248, Number 1--2, October 6, 2000

                 Charles Consel   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Luke Hornof and   
            Jacques Noyé   Accurate binding-time analysis for
                                  imperative languages: flow, context, and
                                  return sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . 3--27
               David Melski and   
                    Thomas Reps   Interconvertibility of a class of set
                                  constraints and context-free-language
                                  reachability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--98
             Rogardt Heldal and   
                    John Hughes   Extending a partial evaluator which
                                  supports separate compilation  . . . . . 99--145
                Brian Grant and   
                Markus Mock and   
          Matthai Philipose and   
             Craig Chambers and   
                Susan J. Eggers   DyC: an expressive annotation-directed
                                  dynamic compiler for C . . . . . . . . . 147--199
              Gilles Muller and   
              Renaud Marlet and   
        Eugen-Nicolae Volanschi   Accurate program analyses for successful
                                  specialization of legacy system software 201--210
                 Walid Taha and   
                     Tim Sheard   MetaML and multi-stage programming with
                                  explicit annotations . . . . . . . . . . 211--242
              Olivier Danvy and   
               Ulrik P. Schultz   Lambda-dropping: transforming recursive
                                  equations into programs with block
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--287
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 249, Number 1, October 17, 2000

               Klaus Keimel and   
            Michael Mislove and   
           Constantine Tsinakis   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
             J. J. M. M. Rutten   Universal coalgebra: a theory of systems 3--80
                Chantal Berline   From computation to foundations via
                                  functions and application: The $ \lambda
                                  $-calculus and its webbed models . . . . 81--161
                  Frank J. Oles   An application of lattice theory to
                                  knowledge representation . . . . . . . . 163--196
               Antonino Salibra   On the algebraic models of lambda
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--240

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 249, Number 2, October 28, 2000

           Costas S. Iliopoulos   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
              Paul E. Dunne and   
               Alan Gibbons and   
                   Michele Zito   Complexity-theoretic models of phase
                                  transitions in search problems . . . . . 243--263
            Aviezri S. Fraenkel   Recent results and questions in
                                  combinatorial game complexities  . . . . 265--288
       Franti\vsek Fran\vek and   
             Ay\cse Karaman and   
                    W. F. Smyth   Repetitions in Sturmian strings  . . . . 289--303
                  Jan Holub and   
             Bo\vrivoj Melichar   Approximate string matching using factor
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311
               Laurent Mouchard   Normal forms of quasiperiodic strings    313--324
               S. Ravindran and   
              A. M. Gibbons and   
                 M. S. Paterson   Dense edge-disjoint embedding of
                                  complete binary trees in interconnection
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--342
                    W. F. Smyth   Repetitive perhaps, but certainly not
                                  boring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
                   Sanming Zhou   Bounding the bandwidths for graphs . . . 357--368
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--369


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 250, Number 1--2, January 6, 2001

                       Ina Koch   Enumerating all connected maximal common
                                  subgraphs in two graphs  . . . . . . . . 1--30
      Joanna J\cedrzejowicz and   
           Andrzej Szepietowski   Shuffle languages are in P . . . . . . . 31--53
              Satoshi Okawa and   
                  Sadaki Hirose   Homomorphic characterizations of
                                  recursively enumerable languages with
                                  very small language classes  . . . . . . 55--69
              Christophe Prieur   How to decide continuity of rational
                                  functions on infinite words  . . . . . . 71--82
                S. Caporaso and   
                    M. Zito and   
                      N. Galesi   A predicative and decidable
                                  characterization of the polynomial
                                  classes of languages . . . . . . . . . . 83--99
                Wolfgang Merkle   Structural properties of bounded
                                  relations with an application to NP
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 101--124
           Jean R. S. Blair and   
            Pinar Heggernes and   
                 Jan Arne Telle   A practical algorithm for making filled
                                  graphs minimal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141
          Giuseppe Ateniese and   
               Carlo Blundo and   
          Alfredo De Santis and   
             Douglas R. Stinson   Extended capabilities for visual
                                  cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--161
          Valeria Mihalache and   
                   Arto Salomaa   Language-theoretic aspects of DNA
                                  complematarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--178
             Judit Bar-Ilan and   
               Guy Kortsarz and   
                    David Peleg   Generalized submodular cover problems
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--200
     Paolo Giulio Franciosa and   
           Daniele Frigioni and   
                Roberto Giaccio   Semi-dynamic breadth-first search in
                                  digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--217
         Z. Fülöp and   
       S. Vágvölgyi   Restricted ground tree transducers . . . 219--233
Gerth Stòting Brodal and   
            M. Cristina Pinotti   Comparator networks for binary heap
                                  construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--245
                  Changwook Kim   Double Greibach operator grammars  . . . 247--264
                S. Labhalla and   
                H. Lombardi and   
                      E. Moutai   Espaces métriques rationnellement présentés
                                  et complexité, le cas de l'espace des
                                  fonctions réelles uniformément continues
                                  sur un intervalle compact  . . . . . . . 265--332
                  Timo Knuutila   Re-describing an algorithm by Hopcroft   333--363
          Colin M. Campbell and   
        Edmund F. Robertson and   
            Nikola Ru\vskuc and   
              Richard M. Thomas   Automatic semigroups . . . . . . . . . . 365--391
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--394
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--401
           Giorgio Ausiello and   
            Donald Sannella and   
                Michael Mislove   25 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv--xvi
                  Maurice Nivat   25 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xiii


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 251, Number 1--2, January 28, 2001

Géraud Sénizergues   $ L(A) = L(B) $? decidability results
                                  from complete formal systems . . . . . . 1--166
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--167


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 252, Number 1--2, February 6, 2001

      H. Jaap van den Herik and   
                  Hiroyuki Iida   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
        Aviezri S. Fraenkel and   
                  Dmitri Zusman   A new heap game  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--12
        Aviezri S. Fraenkel and   
                     Ofer Rahat   Infinite cyclic impartial games  . . . . 13--22
              William L. Spight   Extended thermography for multiple kos
                                  in go  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--43
            Steven Willmott and   
          Julian Richardson and   
                 Alan Bundy and   
                    John Levine   Applying adversarial planning techniques
                                  to Go  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--82
                  Xinbo Gao and   
              Hiroyuki Iida and   
     Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk and   
          H. Jaap van den Herik   Strategies anticipating a difference in
                                  search depth using opponent-model search 83--104
             Donald F. Beal and   
                Martin C. Smith   Temporal difference learning applied to
                                  game playing and the results of
                                  application to shogi . . . . . . . . . . 105--119
          Dennis M. Breuker and   
      H. Jaap van den Herik and   
     Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk and   
                L. Victor Allis   A solution to the GHI problem for
                                  best-first search  . . . . . . . . . . . 121--149
          Andreas Junghanns and   
             Jonathan Schaeffer   Sokoban: improving the search with
                                  relevance cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--175
       Yngvi Björnsson and   
               Tony A. Marsland   Multi-cut $ \alpha, \beta $-pruning in
                                  game-tree search . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--196
                  Wim Pijls and   
                  Arie de Bruin   Game tree algorithms and solution trees  197--215
                  Ian Frank and   
                    David Basin   A theoretical and empirical
                                  investigation of search in imperfect
                                  information games  . . . . . . . . . . . 217--256
                      Anonymous   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--257


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 253, Number 1, February 17, 2001

             Miquel Bertran and   
                     Teodor Rus   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   Manfred Broy   Refinement of time . . . . . . . . . . . 3--26
  Nikolaj S. Bjòrner and   
                Zohar Manna and   
             Henny B. Sipma and   
          Tomás E. Uribe   Deductive verification of real-time
                                  systems using STeP . . . . . . . . . . . 27--60
                 Henning Dierks   PLC-automata: a new class of
                                  implementable real-time automata . . . . 61--93
Sérgio Vale Aguiar Campos and   
                  Edmund Clarke   The Verus language: representing time
                                  efficiently with BDDs  . . . . . . . . . 95--118
                Zhiming Liu and   
                  Mathai Joseph   Verification, refinement and scheduling
                                  of real-time programs  . . . . . . . . . 119--152


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 254, Number 1--2, March 6, 2001

              Laura Recalde and   
             Enrique Teruel and   
                   Manuel Silva   Structure theory of multi-level
                                  deterministically synchronized
                                  sequential processes . . . . . . . . . . 1--33
Anna Ingólfsdóttir and   
                  Andrea Schalk   A fully abstract denotational model for
                                  observational precongruence  . . . . . . 35--61
      François Monin and   
               Marianne Simonot   An ordinal measure based procedure for
                                  termination of functions . . . . . . . . 63--94
                  Pedro Resende   Quantales, finite observations and
                                  strong bisimulation  . . . . . . . . . . 95--149
                Tristan Crolard   Subtractive logic  . . . . . . . . . . . 151--185
                  R. Ramesh and   
         I. V. Ramakrishnan and   
                    R. C. Sekar   Automata-driven efficient subterm
                                  unification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--223
          Jan Springintveld and   
           Frits Vaandrager and   
             Pedro R. D'Argenio   Testing timed automata . . . . . . . . . 225--257
            Christophe Raffalli   Completeness, minimal logic and programs
                                  extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--271
             Salvatore Ruggieri   $ \exists $-Universal termination of
                                  logic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--296
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
           André Schiper   Genuine atomic multicast in asynchronous
                                  distributed systems  . . . . . . . . . . 297--316
           Stefano Guerrini and   
                  Andrea Masini   Parsing MELL proof nets  . . . . . . . . 317--335
              Xiao Jun Chen and   
                Rocco De Nicola   Algebraic characterizations of trace and
                                  decorated trace equivalences over
                                  tree-like structures . . . . . . . . . . 337--361
            Jan Van den Bussche   Simulation of the nested relational
                                  algebra by the flat relational algebra,
                                  with an application to the complexity of
                                  evaluating powerset algebra expressions  363--377
                Lars Jenner and   
                  Walter Vogler   Fast asynchronous systems in dense time  379--422
             Luc Vandeurzen and   
               Marc Gyssens and   
                 Dirk Van Gucht   On the expressiveness of
                                  linear-constraint query languages for
                                  spatial databases  . . . . . . . . . . . 423--463
       Konstantinos Sagonas and   
             Terrance Swift and   
                David S. Warren   The limits of fixed-order computation    465--499
        Joost-Pieter Katoen and   
             Christel Baier and   
                  Diego Latella   Metric semantics for true concurrent
                                  real time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--542
           Marcelo F. Frias and   
                Roger D. Maddux   Completeness of a relational calculus
                                  for program schemes  . . . . . . . . . . 543--556
                 B. Thomsen and   
                    S. Abramsky   A fully abstract denotational semantics
                                  for the calculus of higher-order
                                  communicating systems  . . . . . . . . . 557--589
                Paul Spruit and   
              Roel Wieringa and   
               John-Jules Meyer   Regular database update logics . . . . . 591--661
                P. Rondogiannis   Stratified negation in temporal logic
                                  programming and the cycle-sum test . . . 663--676
              Dieter Probst and   
                  Thomas Studer   How to normalize the Jay . . . . . . . . 677--681
                Mark Levene and   
                  George Loizou   Guaranteeing no interaction between
                                  functional dependencies and tree-like
                                  inclusion dependencies . . . . . . . . . 683--690
             Marco Bernardo and   
               Roberto Gorrieri   Corrigendum to ``A tutorial on EMPA: a
                                  theory of concurrent processes with
                                  nondeterminism, priorities,
                                  probabilities and time'' --- [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. 202 (1998) 1--54] . . . . . 691--694
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 254 (2001) . . . . . 699--700


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 255, Number 1--2, March 28, 2001

                 Colin Stirling   Decidability of DPDA equivalence . . . . 1--31
            Thomas Erlebach and   
                   Klaus Jansen   The complexity of path coloring and call
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--50
       Srinivasa R. Arikati and   
            Anders Dessmark and   
             Andrzej Lingas and   
              Madhav V. Marathe   Approximation algorithms for maximum
                                  two-dimensional pattern matching . . . . 51--62
           Ivo Düntsch and   
                   Hui Wang and   
                Steve McCloskey   A relation-algebraic approach to the
                                  region connection calculus . . . . . . . 63--83
                       S. S. Yu   Post-plus languages  . . . . . . . . . . 85--105
                    Sanjay Jain   Branch and bound on the network model    107--123
         Cristian S. Calude and   
          Peter H. Hertling and   
       Bakhadyr Khoussainov and   
                    Yongge Wang   Recursively enumerable reals and Chaitin
                                  $ \Omega $ numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 125--149
         Jean Néraud and   
                    Carla Selmi   On codes with a finite deciphering
                                  delay: constructing uncompletable words  151--162
            Dietmar Wätjen   Parallel communicating limited and
                                  uniformly limited 0L systems . . . . . . 163--191
                Vesa Halava and   
            Mika Hirvensalo and   
                 Ronald de Wolf   Marked PCP is decidable  . . . . . . . . 193--204
                  V. Arvind and   
           Johannes Köbler   On pseudorandomness and resource-bounded
                                  measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--221
                 Olivier Finkel   Locally finite languages . . . . . . . . 223--261
         Tiziana Calamoneri and   
               Annalisa Massini   Optimal three-dimensional layout of
                                  interconnection networks . . . . . . . . 263--279
             Tomás Feder   Fanout limitations on constraint systems 281--293
                B. Apolloni and   
                   D. Malchiodi   Gaining degrees of freedom in
                                  subsymbolic learning . . . . . . . . . . 295--321
          Luis-Miguel Lopez and   
                Philippe Narbel   Substitutions and interval exchange
                                  transformations of rotation class  . . . 323--344
            Jean-Guy Penaud and   
              Elisa Pergola and   
              Renzo Pinzani and   
                 Olivier Roques   Chemins de Schröder et hiérarchies
                                  aléatoires. (French). [Schröder paths and
                                  aleatory hierarchies]  . . . . . . . . . 345--361
             Jacques Justin and   
               Giuseppe Pirillo   Fractional powers in Sturmian words  . . 363--376
                 George Rahonis   Alphabetic and synchronized tree
                                  transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--399
              Jukka A. Koskinen   Non-injective knapsack public-key
                                  cryptosystems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--422
            Paul F. Fischer and   
        Franco P. Preparata and   
                 John E. Savage   Generalized scans and tridiagonal
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--436
                   C. Picouleau   Reconstruction of domino tiling from its
                                  two orthogonal projections . . . . . . . 437--447
                 Guohua Jin and   
                 Zhiyuan Li and   
                     Fujie Chen   A theoretical foundation for program
                                  transformations to reduce cache
                                  thrashing due to true data sharing . . . 449--481
            Sabrina Mantaci and   
                Antonio Restivo   Codes and equations on trees . . . . . . 483--509
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
             György Vaszil   On context-free parallel communicating
                                  grammar systems: synchronization,
                                  communication, and normal forms  . . . . 511--538
             Xavier Droubay and   
             Jacques Justin and   
               Giuseppe Pirillo   Episturmian words and some constructions
                                  of de Luca and Rauzy . . . . . . . . . . 539--553
                   Guoliang Xue   A cost optimal parallel algorithm for
                                  computing force field in $N$-body
                                  simulations on a CREW PRAM . . . . . . . 555--568
              Jorge Almeida and   
                 Pedro V. Silva   SC-hyperdecidability of $R$  . . . . . . 569--591
                  Felipe Cucker   On weak and weighted computations over
                                  the real closure of $Q$  . . . . . . . . 593--600
                Roberto Incitti   The growth function of context-free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601--605
          Hervé Fournier   Sparse NP-complete problems over the
                                  reals with addition  . . . . . . . . . . 607--610
                 Olga Sokratova   The Mal'cev Lemma and rewriting on
                                  semirings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--614
              M. Nikolskaia and   
                  L. Nikolskaia   Size of OBDD representation of $2$-level
                                  redundancies functions . . . . . . . . . 615--625
            Subhas C. Nandy and   
          Tomohiro Harayama and   
                   Tetsuo Asano   Dynamically maintaining the widest
                                  $k$-dense corridor . . . . . . . . . . . 627--639
              S. Ravi Kumar and   
                   D. Sivakumar   On the unique shortest lattice vector
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--648
                Yu-Wei Chen and   
                Kuo-Liang Chung   Improved fault-tolerant sorting
                                  algorithm in hypercubes  . . . . . . . . 649--658
              Chiuyuan Chen and   
                     Kaiping Wu   Disproving a conjecture on planar
                                  visibility graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 659--665
                   Juha Honkala   On Parikh slender context-free languages 667--677
                E. Barcucci and   
                     S. Rinaldi   Some linear recurrences and their
                                  combinatorial interpretation by means of
                                  regular languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 679--686
         Vincent D. Blondel and   
            Olivier Bournez and   
              Pascal Koiran and   
  Christos H. Papadimitriou and   
             John N. Tsitsiklis   Deciding stability and mortality of
                                  piecewise affine dynamical systems . . . 687--696
                 A. N. Trahtman   Erratum to ``Optimal estimation on the
                                  order of local testability of finite
                                  automata'' --- [Theoret. Comput. Sci.
                                  231 (2000) 59--74] . . . . . . . . . . . 697--697
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 255 (2001) . . . . . 699--700


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 256, Number 1--2, April 6, 2001

                Ahmed Bouajjani   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            Yoram Hirshfeld and   
                   Faron Moller   Pushdown automata, multiset automata,
                                  and Petri nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
                  Petr Jan\vcar   Nonprimitive recursive complexity and
                                  undecidability for Petri net
                                  equivalences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
                   Richard Mayr   Decidability of model checking with the
                                  temporal logic EF  . . . . . . . . . . . 31--62
                  A. Finkel and   
                Ph. Schnoebelen   Well-structured transition systems
                                  everywhere!  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--92
                  Y. Kesten and   
                   O. Maler and   
                  M. Marcus and   
                  A. Pnueli and   
                      E. Shahar   Symbolic model checking with rich
                                  assertional languages  . . . . . . . . . 93--112
               David Lesens and   
          Nicolas Halbwachs and   
                 Pascal Raymond   Automatic verification of parameterized
                                  networks of processes  . . . . . . . . . 113--144
        Parosh Aziz Abdulla and   
                  Bengt Jonsson   Ensuring completeness of symbolic
                                  verification methods for infinite-state
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--167
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 256 (2001) . . . . . 169--169


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 257, Number 1--2, April 28, 2001

                 J.-P. Ressayre   Weak Arithmetics . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
                  Denis Richard   What are weak arithmetics? . . . . . . . 17--29
                      Anonymous   Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--49
          Patrick Cegielski and   
                  Denis Richard   Decidability of the theory of the
                                  natural integers with the Cantor pairing
                                  function and the successor . . . . . . . 51--77
             C. Dimitracopoulos   On end extensions of models of
                                  subsystems of Peano arithmetic . . . . . 79--84
                  J. Duparc and   
                  O. Finkel and   
                 J.-P. Ressayre   Computer science and the fine structure
                                  of Borel sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--105
             Henri-Alex Esbelin   Counting modulo finite semigroups  . . . 107--114
                     Ivan Korec   A list of arithmetical structures
                                  complete with respect to the first-order
                                  definability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--151
            Maurice Margenstern   On quasi-unilateral universal Turing
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166
              Yuri Matiyasevich   Some arithmetical restatements of the
                                  Four Color Conjecture  . . . . . . . . . 167--183
                  Olivier Sudac   The prime number theorem is PRA-provable 185--239
                Olivier Teytaud   Decidability of the halting problem for
                                  Matiyasevich deterministic machines  . . 241--251
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 257 (2001) . . . . . 253--253


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 258, Number 1--2, May 6, 2001

             Franck van Breugel   An introduction to metric semantics:
                                  operational and denotational models for
                                  programming and specification languages  1--98
               Manfred Broy and   
         Gheorghe\cStef\uanescu   The algebra of stream processing
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--129
           Joost Engelfriet and   
               Tjalling Gelsema   Structural inclusion in the pi-calculus
                                  with replication . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--168
                   Ken Mano and   
                 Mizuhito Ogawa   Unique normal form property of
                                  compatible term rewriting systems: a new
                                  proof of Chew's theorem  . . . . . . . . 169--208
          Athanassios Tzouvaras   Objects and their lambda calculus  . . . 209--232
        Gaétan Hains and   
Frédéric Loulergue and   
                   John Mullins   Concrete data structures and functional
                                  parallel programming . . . . . . . . . . 233--267
           Giorgio Delzanno and   
              Maurizio Martelli   Proofs as computations in linear logic   269--297
              Lars Birkedal and   
                     Mads Tofte   A constraint-based region inference
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--392
           Flavio Corradini and   
                   Dino Di Cola   On testing urgency through laziness over
                                  processes with durational actions  . . . 393--407
              Petr Jan\vcar and   
    Antonín Ku\vcera and   
                   Richard Mayr   Deciding bisimulation-like equivalences
                                  with finite-state processes  . . . . . . 409--433
              Bernhard Gramlich   On interreduction of semi-complete term
                                  rewriting systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 435--451
           Franck Seynhaeve and   
               Sophie Tison and   
               Marc Tommasi and   
                   Ralf Treinen   Grid structures and undecidable
                                  constraint theories  . . . . . . . . . . 453--490
           E. Allen Emerson and   
         Charanjit S. Jutla and   
               A. Prasad Sistla   On model checking for the $ \mu
                                  $-calculus and its fragments . . . . . . 491--522
               Stefan Brass and   
            Jürgen Dix and   
         Ilkka Niemelä and   
         Teodor C. Przymusinski   On the equivalence of the static and
                                  disjunctive well-founded semantics and
                                  its computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--553
             Shashi Shekhar and   
                       Weili Wu   Optimal placement of data replicas in
                                  distributed database with majority
                                  voting protocol  . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--571
             Philippe Darondeau   On the Petri net realization of
                                  context-free graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 573--598
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 258 (2001) . . . . . 599--599


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 259, Number 1--2, May 28, 2001

              Lothar M. Schmitt   Theory of genetic algorithms . . . . . . 1--61
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
          Gianluca Della Vedova   The complexity of multiple sequence
                                  alignment with SP-score that is a metric 63--79
              Marek Chrobak and   
            Christoph Dürr   Reconstructing polyatomic structures
                                  from discrete X-rays: NP-completeness
                                  proof for three atoms  . . . . . . . . . 81--98
        Maurice Margenstern and   
                 Kenichi Morita   NP problems are tractable in the space
                                  of cellular automata in the hyperbolic
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--128
               Kojiro Kobayashi   On time optimal solutions of the firing
                                  squad synchronization problem for
                                  two-dimensional paths  . . . . . . . . . 129--143
               Arturo Carpi and   
                   Aldo de Luca   Words and special factors  . . . . . . . 145--182
                   Ines Klimann   New types of automata to solve fixed
                                  point problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--197
                      Paul Trow   Determining presentations of sofic
                                  shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--216
                Maria Serna and   
                    Fatos Xhafa   On the parallel approximability of a
                                  subclass of quadratic programming  . . . 217--231
    Chính T. Ho\`ang and   
                   R. Sritharan   Finding houses and holes in graphs . . . 233--244
Marie-Andrée Jacob-Da Col   Applications quasi-affines et pavages du
                                  plan discret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--269
               J.-C. Dubacq and   
                  B. Durand and   
                    E. Formenti   Kolmogorov complexity and cellular
                                  automata classification  . . . . . . . . 271--285
           Daniele Frigioni and   
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and   
                  Umberto Nanni   Dynamic algorithms for classes of
                                  constraint satisfaction problems . . . . 287--305
                 Andreas Goerdt   The giant component threshold for random
                                  regular graphs with edge faults  . . . . 307--321
                 Dawei Hong and   
            Jean-Camille Birget   Approximation of some NP-hard
                                  optimization problems by finite
                                  machines, in probability . . . . . . . . 323--339
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
              Ross M. McConnell   Nesting of prime substructures in
                                  $k$-ary relations  . . . . . . . . . . . 341--357
          Gianluca De Marco and   
              Luisa Gargano and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Concurrent multicast in weighted
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--377
            A. Barbé and   
                     G. Skordev   Decimation-invariant sequences and their
                                  automaticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--403
                  H. Fernau and   
                  M. Holzer and   
                      R. Freund   Hybrid modes in cooperating distributed
                                  grammar systems: internal versus
                                  external hybridization . . . . . . . . . 405--426
           Susanne Kaufmann and   
                  Frank Stephan   Robust learning with infinite additional
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--454
                  John Case and   
             Keh-Jiann Chen and   
                    Sanjay Jain   Costs of general purpose learning  . . . 455--473
               Jianliang Xu and   
        Tsunehiro Yoshinaga and   
             Katsushi Inoue and   
                   Yue Wang and   
                      Akira Ito   Alternation for sublogarithmic
                                  space-bounded alternating pushdown
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--492
          Annalisa De Bonis and   
              Luisa Gargano and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Efficient algorithms for chemical
                                  threshold testing problems . . . . . . . 493--511
                Guo-Hui Lin and   
                   Guoliang Xue   Signed genome rearrangement by reversals
                                  and transpositions: models and
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--531
           Stephen L. Bloom and   
             Christian Choffrut   Long words: the theory of concatenation
                                  and omega-power  . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--548
             David Guijarro and   
 Víctor Lavín and   
                 Vijay Raghavan   Monotone term decision lists . . . . . . 549--575
                   M. Aldaz and   
                  G. Matera and   
       J. L. Montaña and   
                    L. M. Pardo   A new method to obtain lower bounds for
                                  polynomial evaluation  . . . . . . . . . 577--596
                  V. Arvind and   
            Jacobo Torán   A nonadaptive NC checker for permutation
                                  group intersection . . . . . . . . . . . 597--611
                 Dima Grigoriev   Linear lower bound on degrees of
                                  Positivstellensatz calculus proofs for
                                  the parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--622
                Peter Kirrinnis   Fast algorithms for the Sylvester
                                  equation $ A X - X B^T = C $ . . . . . . 623--638
                Gerald A. Heuer   Three-part partition games on rectangles 639--661
            Ji\vrí Sgall   Solution of David Gale's lion and man
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--670
                  Anton Stiglic   Computations with a deck of cards  . . . 671--678
   A. Fúster-Sabater and   
   L. J. García-Villalba   An efficient algorithm to generate
                                  binary sequences for cryptographic
                                  purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--688
               Juha Honkala and   
                   Arto Salomaa   Watson--Crick D0L systems with regular
                                  triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--698
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 259 (2001) . . . . . 699--700


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 260, Number 1--2, June 6, 2001

                Bart Jacobs and   
                 Larry Moss and   
              Horst Reichel and   
                     Jan Rutten   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
              Corina C\^\irstea   Semantic constructions for the
                                  specification of objects . . . . . . . . 3--25
           Andrea Corradini and   
   Martin Große-Rhode and   
                   Reiko Heckel   A coalgebraic presentation of structured
                                  transition systems . . . . . . . . . . . 27--55
                  H. Peter Gumm   Equational and implicational classes of
                                  coalgebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
              H. Peter Gumm and   
           Tobias Schröder   Covarieties and complete covarieties . . 71--86
            Peter Johnstone and   
                 John Power and   
            Toru Tsujishita and   
           Hiroshi Watanabe and   
                  James Worrell   On the structure of categories of
                                  coalgebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--117
                 Alexander Kurz   Specifying coalgebras with modal logic   119--138
               Lawrence S. Moss   Parametric corecursion . . . . . . . . . 139--163
                  Alberto Pardo   Fusion of recursive programs with
                                  computational effects  . . . . . . . . . 165--207
                 Martin Rö   From modal logic to terminal coalgebras  209--228
                 Grigore Ro\csu   Equational axiomatizability for
                                  coalgebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--247
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 260 (2001) . . . . . 249--249
                      Anonymous   Master index volumes 251-260 . . . . . . 251--259


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 261, Number 1, June 17, 2001

                        Ming Li   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                Sanjay Jain and   
              Steffen Lange and   
                  Jochen Nessel   On the learnability of recursively
                                  enumerable languages from good examples  3--29
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Arun Sharma   Synthesizing noise-tolerant language
                                  learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--56
                        V. Vovk   Probability theory for the Brier game    57--79
                 Leonid Gurvits   A note on a scale-sensitive dimension of
                                  linear bounded functionals in Banach
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--90
            Andris Ambainis and   
          Kalvis Aps\=\itis and   
     R\=usi\cn\vs Freivalds and   
                  Carl H. Smith   Hierarchies of probabilistic and team
                                  FIN-learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--117
            Thomas Erlebach and   
           Peter Rossmanith and   
             Hans Stadtherr and   
            Angelika Steger and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Learning one-variable pattern languages
                                  very efficiently on average, in
                                  parallel, and by asking queries  . . . . 119--156
                 Wolfgang Maass   On the relevance of time in neural
                                  computation and learning . . . . . . . . 157--178
              Eiji Takimoto and   
              Akira Maruoka and   
                   Volodya Vovk   Predicting nearly as well as the best
                                  pruning of a decision tree through
                                  dynamic programming scheme . . . . . . . 179--209

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 261, Number 2, June 28, 2001

               Wen-Lian Hsu and   
                  Ming-Yang Kao   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
                  Fan Chung and   
                  Ronald Graham   Dynamic location problems with limited
                                  look-ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--226
                Kazuo Iwama and   
                Eiji Miyano and   
             Satoshi Tajima and   
                   Hisao Tamaki   Efficient randomized routing algorithms
                                  on the two-dimensional mesh of buses . . 227--239
             Dongsoo S. Kim and   
                    Ding-Zhu Du   Multirate multicast switching networks   241--251
                Marcos Kiwi and   
         Daniel A. Spielman and   
                 Shang-Hua Teng   Min-max-boundary domain decomposition    253--266
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
                 Sven Schuierer   The ultimate strategy to search on $m$
                                  rays?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--295
                     Chi-Jen Lu   An exact characterization of symmetric
                                  functions in $ q A C^0 [2] $ . . . . . . 297--303
              Steffen Reith and   
                Klaus W. Wagner   On boolean lowness and boolean highness  305--321
               Kuo-Hui Tsai and   
                Da-Wei Wang and   
                    Frank Hwang   Lower bounds for wide-sense nonblocking
                                  Clos network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--328
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 261 (2001) . . . . . 333--334


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 262, Number 1--2, July 6, 2001

Juraj Hromkovi\vcand Georg Schnitger   On the power of Las Vegas II: Two-way
                                  finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
        \vSt\vepán Holub   Local and global cyclicity in free
                                  semigroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36
                  David Lee and   
          Henryk Wo\'zniakowski   Approximate evaluations of
                                  characteristic polynomials of Boolean
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--68
            Alberto Bertoni and   
              Marco Carpentieri   Analogies and differences between
                                  quantum and stochastic automata  . . . . 69--81
               Donghui Chen and   
                Ding-Zhu Du and   
               Xiao-Dong Hu and   
                Guo-Hui Lin and   
               Lusheng Wang and   
                   Guoliang Xue   Approximations for Steiner trees with
                                  minimum number of Steiner points . . . . 83--99
              Ming-Yang Kao and   
                       Jie Wang   Minimizing roundoff errors of prefix
                                  sums via dynamic construction of Huffman
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--115
          Satoshi Kobayashi and   
             Victor Mitrana and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Formal properties of PA-matching . . . . 117--131
               K. Kalorkoti and   
                   D. H. Tulley   Priority queues with binary priorities   133--144
              Bengt Aspvall and   
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
                  Fredrik Manne   Approximations for the general block
                                  distribution of a matrix . . . . . . . . 145--160
           Bhaskar DasGupta and   
              Eduardo D. Sontag   A polynomial-time algorithm for checking
                                  equivalence under certain semiring
                                  congruences motivated by the state-space
                                  isomorphism problem for hybrid systems   161--189
               Oliver Jenkinson   Strong cocycle triviality for $ Z^2 $
                                  subshifts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--213
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
              Gen-Huey Chen and   
                    Chin-Wen Ho   Longest fault-free paths in star graphs
                                  with vertex faults . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
            G. Dányi and   
             Z. Fülöp   The component hierarchy of chain-free
                                  cooperating distributed regular tree
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240
             Stephen Fenner and   
               Steven Homer and   
              Randall Pruim and   
                Marcus Schaefer   Hyper-polynomial hierarchies and the
                                  polynomial jump  . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
                    Bing Lu and   
                     Jun Gu and   
                Xiaodong Hu and   
              Eugene Shragowitz   Wire segmenting for buffer insertion
                                  based on RSTP-MSP  . . . . . . . . . . . 257--267
                J.-P. Duval and   
                 F. Mignosi and   
                     A. Restivo   Recurrence and periodicity in infinite
                                  words from local periods . . . . . . . . 269--284
             Ekkart Kindler and   
              Hagen Völzer   Algebraic nets with flexible arcs  . . . 285--310
                 Enno Ohlebusch   Implementing conditional term rewriting
                                  by graph rewriting . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
               Nguyen Huong Lam   Finite maximal solid codes . . . . . . . 333--347
               Doris Fiebig and   
          Ulf-Rainer Fiebig and   
               Nata\vsa Jonoska   Multiplicities of covers for sofic
                                  shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--375
                   Frank Drewes   Tree-based generation of languages of
                                  fractals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--414
                Heejin Park and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Parallel algorithms for red-black trees  415--435
               Steven S. Seiden   Preemptive multiprocessor scheduling
                                  with rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--458
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
                    Yin-Feng Xu   Onbeta-skeleton as a subgraph of the
                                  minimum weight triangulation . . . . . . 459--471
                  Dieter Spreen   Representations versus numberings: on
                                  the relationship of two computability
                                  notions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--499
             Bernd Borchert and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   Dot operators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--523
            Matthieu Latapy and   
            Roberto Mantaci and   
              Michel Morvan and   
                  Ha Duong Phan   Structure of some sand piles model . . . 525--556
             Jeong Seop Sim and   
       Costas S. Iliopoulos and   
                Kunsoo Park and   
                    W. F. Smyth   Approximate periods of strings . . . . . 557--568
               Artur Czumaj and   
                  Ian Finch and   
         Leszek G\kasieniec and   
               Alan Gibbons and   
                  Paul Leng and   
            Wojciech Rytter and   
                   Michele Zito   Efficient Web searching using temporal
                                  factors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--582
             Yuji Kobayashi and   
            Masashi Katsura and   
        Kayoko Shikishima-Tsuji   Termination and derivational complexity
                                  of confluent one-rule string-rewriting
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--632
          Yasuhiko Takenaga and   
             Kouji Nakajima and   
                   Shuzo Yajima   Tree-shellability of Boolean functions   633--647
          Jeannette Janssen and   
                 Lata Narayanan   Approximation algorithms for channel
                                  assignment with constraints  . . . . . . 649--667
                 Olivier Finkel   Topological properties of omega
                                  context-free languages . . . . . . . . . 669--697
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 262 (2001) . . . . . 699--700


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 263, Number 1--2, July 28, 2001

               Gerard Chang and   
                Michel Deza and   
         Yannis Manoussakis and   
             Jean-Marc Steyaert   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               Hong-Gwa Yeh and   
                Gerard J. Chang   Weighted connected $k$-domination and
                                  weighted $k$-dominating clique in
                                  distance-hereditary graphs . . . . . . . 3--8
               Komei Fukuda and   
               Alain Prodon and   
                 Tadashi Sakuma   Notes on acyclic orientations and the
                                  shelling lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16
                  Frank Nielsen   On point covers of $c$-oriented polygons 17--29
              Philippe Cara and   
               Serge Lehman and   
          Dimitrii V. Pasechnik   On the number of inductively minimal
                                  geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
           Dmitrii V. Pasechnik   On computing Hilbert bases via the
                                  Elliot-MacMahon algorithm  . . . . . . . 37--46
                Reinhardt Euler   Characterizing bipartite Toeplitz graphs 47--58
              V. Yegnanarayanan   Graph colourings and partitions  . . . . 59--74
         Yannis Manoussakis and   
                     Zsolt Tuza   Ramsey numbers for tournaments . . . . . 75--85
       Gyula Károlyi and   
                     Vera Rosta   Generalized and geometric Ramsey numbers
                                  for cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98
          Guillaume Damiand and   
               Michel Habib and   
                Christophe Paul   A simple paradigm for graph recognition:
                                  application to cographs and distance
                                  hereditary graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111
                Bor-Kuan Lu and   
              Fang-Rong Hsu and   
                  Chuan Yi Tang   Finding the shortest boundary guard of a
                                  simple polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
                   E. G. Belaga   Mod $3$ arithmetic on triangulated
                                  Riemann surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
                 Li-Da Tong and   
             Frank K. Hwang and   
                Gerard J. Chang   Channel graphs of bit permutation
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--143
               Hsien-Kuei Hwang   Uniform asymptotics of some Abel sums
                                  arising in coding theory . . . . . . . . 145--158
                 Eric Angel and   
         Vassilis Zissimopoulos   On the landscape ruggedness of the
                                  quadratic assignment problem . . . . . . 159--172
              Rabah Harbane and   
         Marie-Claude Heydemann   Efficient reconfiguration algorithms of
                                  de Bruijn and Kautz networks into linear
                                  arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
                    A. Quilliot   Convexity and global optimization: a
                                  theoretical link . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--204
                   Seiya Negami   Note on Ramsey theorems for spatial
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
                    F. K. Hwang   A complementary survey on double-loop
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
                   Bruno Martin   A simulation of cellular automata on
                                  hexagons by cellular automata on rings   231--234
    Patrice Calégari and   
Frédéric Guidec and   
              Pierre Kuonen and   
                  Frank Nielsen   Combinatorial optimization algorithms
                                  for radio network planning . . . . . . . 235--245
                 O. Favaron and   
                    Y. Redouane   Neighborhood unions and regularity in
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
            Cristina Bazgan and   
     Amel Harkat-Benhamdine and   
                     Hao Li and   
              Mariusz Wo\'zniak   Partitioning vertices of $1$-tough
                                  graphs into paths  . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
              C. Indermitte and   
            Th. M. Liebling and   
                M. Troyanov and   
     H. Clémençon   Voronoi diagrams on piecewise flat
                                  surfaces and an application to
                                  biological growth  . . . . . . . . . . . 263--274
                   Roger K. Yeh   Finite-dimensional T-colorings of graphs 275--281
              Mordecai J. Golin   A combinatorial approach to Golomb
                                  forests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--304
              Yasuko Matsui and   
                  Tomomi Matsui   NP-completeness for calculating power
                                  indices of weighted majority games . . . 305--310
                   Michio Ozeki   On the covering radius problem for
                                  ternary self-dual codes  . . . . . . . . 311--332
                     Hao Li and   
                    Jianping Li   Independent triangles covering given
                                  vertices of a graph  . . . . . . . . . . 333--344
                 H. Maehara and   
                   N. Tokushige   When does a planar bipartite framework
                                  admit a continuous deformation?  . . . . 345--354
               Szu-En Cheng and   
                     Ko-Wei Lih   An improvement on a spernerity proof of
                                  Horrocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--377
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 263 (2001) . . . . . 379--380


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 264, Number 1, August 6, 2001

     R\=usi\cn\vs Freivalds and   
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
              George P\uaun and   
                   Walter Unger   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
          Satoshi Kobayashi and   
            Yasubumi Sakakibara   Multiple splicing systems and the
                                  universal computability  . . . . . . . . 3--23
                 Vincenzo Manca   Logical string rewriting . . . . . . . . 25--51
            Lali Barri\`ere and   
              Johanne Cohen and   
              Margarida Mitjana   Gossiping in chordal rings under the
                                  line model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--64
  Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer   Communication in the two-way listen-in
                                  vertex-disjoint paths mode . . . . . . . 65--90
                 Andreas Goerdt   Random regular graphs with edge faults:
                                  Expansion through cores  . . . . . . . . 91--125
              Farid Ablayev and   
            Marek Karpinski and   
           Rustam Mubarakzjanov   On BPP versus NP coNP for ordered
                                  read-once branching programs . . . . . . 127--137
                  Michele Mosca   Counting by quantum eigenvalue
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
                Andris Ambainis   Probabilistic inductive inference: a
                                  survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--167


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 265, Number 1--2, August 28, 2001

                  O. Dubois and   
                R. Monasson and   
                  B. Selman and   
                    R. Zecchina   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
          Olivier C. Martin and   
       Rémi Monasson and   
              Riccardo Zecchina   Statistical mechanics methods and phase
                                  transitions in optimization problems . . 3--67
               Michel Talagrand   Rigorous results for mean field models
                                  for spin glasses . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
                Stephan Mertens   A physicist's approach to number
                                  partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--108
        Dimitris Achlioptas and   
       Lefteris M. Kirousis and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
                  Danny Krizanc   Rigorous results for random $ (2 +
                                  p)$-SAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
        W. Fernandez de la Vega   Random $2$-SAT: results and problems . . 131--146
                    John Franco   Results related to threshold phenomena
                                  research in satisfiability: lower bounds 147--157
            Dimitris Achlioptas   Lower bounds for random $3$-SAT via
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 159--185
                 Olivier Dubois   Upper bounds on the satisfiability
                                  threshold  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--197
      Alexander K. Hartmann and   
                   Martin Weigt   Statistical mechanics perspective on the
                                  phase transition in vertex covering of
                                  finite-connectivity random graphs  . . . 199--225
           Joseph Culberson and   
                       Ian Gent   Frozen development in graph coloring . . 227--264
               Barbara M. Smith   Constructing an asymptotic phase
                                  transition in random binary constraint
                                  satisfaction problems  . . . . . . . . . 265--283
                  Andreas Engel   Complexity of learning in artificial
                                  neural networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--306
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 265 (2001) . . . . . 307--307


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 266, Number 1--2, September 6, 2001

     Carsten Schürmann and   
     Joëlle Despeyroux and   
                 Frank Pfenning   Primitive recursion for higher-order
                                  abstract syntax  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--57
         Tatsuru Matsushita and   
                 Colin Runciman   The accepting power of unary string
                                  logic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79
                G. Aguilera and   
     I. P. de Guzmán and   
            M. Ojeda-Aciego and   
                    A. Valverde   Reductions for non-clausal theorem
                                  proving  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--112
            Klaus U. Schulz and   
                 Stephan Kepser   Combination of constraint systems II:
                                  Rational amalgamation  . . . . . . . . . 113--157
              René David   On the asymptotic behaviour of primitive
                                  recursive algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 159--193
                Karl Lermer and   
                  Paul Strooper   Refinement and state machine abstraction 195--235
            Michele Boreale and   
            Rocco De Nicola and   
               Rosario Pugliese   Divergence in testing and readiness
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--248
         Masatomo Hashimoto and   
                  Atsushi Ohori   A typed context calculus . . . . . . . . 249--272
             David Aspinall and   
             Adriana Compagnoni   Subtyping dependent types  . . . . . . . 273--309
             Manolis Koubarakis   Tractable disjunctions of linear
                                  constraints: basic results and
                                  applications to temporal reasoning . . . 311--339
                   Ralph Loader   Finitary PCF is not decidable  . . . . . 341--364
         Duminda Wijesekera and   
                  M. Ganesh and   
         Jaideep Srivastava and   
                    Anil Nerode   Normal forms and syntactic completeness
                                  proofs for functional independencies . . 365--405
      César Muñoz   Proof-term synthesis on dependent-type
                                  systems via explicit substitutions . . . 407--440
               Yi-Dong Shen and   
                Li-Yan Yuan and   
                   Jia-Huai You   Loop checks for logic programs with
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--461
            Michel Bauderon and   
        Hél\`ene Jacquet   Node rewriting in graphs and
                                  hypergraphs: a categorical framework . . 463--487
            Susumu Yamasaki and   
               Yoshinori Kurose   A sound and complete procedure for a
                                  general logic program in non-floundering
                                  derivations with respect to the
                                  $3$-valued stable model semantics  . . . 489--512
               A. K. McIver and   
                 Carroll Morgan   Partial correctness for probabilistic
                                  demonic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--541
           Riccardo Pucella and   
             Prakash Panangaden   On the expressive power of first-order
                                  boolean functions in PCF . . . . . . . . 543--567
      Cédric Fournet and   
                  Cosimo Laneve   Bisimulations in the join-calculus . . . 569--603
             Ji\vrí Srba   Basic process algebra with deadlocking
                                  states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--630
           Jan Friso Groote and   
                  Jos van Wamel   The parallel composition of uniform
                                  processes with data  . . . . . . . . . . 631--652
                Uri Abraham and   
               Shlomi Dolev and   
                 Ted Herman and   
                      Irit Koll   Self-stabilizing $l$-exclusion . . . . . 653--692
                James Riely and   
               Matthew Hennessy   Distributed processes and location
                                  failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--735
            Zurab Khasidashvili   On the longest perpetual reductions in
                                  orthogonal expression reduction systems  737--772
              Gilles Barthe and   
              John Hatcliff and   
Morten Heine B. Sòrensen   An induction principle for pure type
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--818
             Karl Schlechta and   
                Jürgen Dix   Explaining updates by minimal sums . . . 819--838
             Mingsheng Ying and   
                 Martin Wirsing   Recursive equations in higher-order
                                  process calculi  . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--852
               Robert Goldblatt   What is the coalgebraic analogue of
                                  Birkhoff's variety theorem?  . . . . . . 853--886
           Vincenzo Auletta and   
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
              Luisa Gargano and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
                  Pino Persiano   Sparse and limited wavelength conversion
                                  in all-optical tree networks . . . . . . 887--934
        M. E. Majster-Cederbaum   Underspecification for a simple process
                                  algebra of recursive processes . . . . . 935--950
                 Raymond Turner   Type inference for set theory  . . . . . 951--974
                   Thierry Joly   Constant time parallel computations in $
                                  \lambda $-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 975--985
              Thomas Krantz and   
                 Virgile Mogbil   Encoding Hamiltonian circuits into
                                  multiplicative linear logic  . . . . . . 987--996
                  Dieter Spreen   Corrigendum to ``On functions preserving
                                  levels of approximation: a refined model
                                  construction for various lambda
                                  calculi'' [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 212
                                  (1999) 261--303] . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--998
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 266 (2001) . . . . . 999--1000


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 267, Number 1--2, September 28, 2001

      Jean-Marc Champarnaud and   
               Denis Maurel and   
                 Djelloul Ziadi   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
          C. Câmpeanu and   
           N. Sântean and   
                          S. Yu   Minimal cover-automata for finite
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
              J.-M. Champarnaud   Subset construction complexity for
                                  homogeneous automata, position automata
                                  and ZPC-structures . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
         Jürgen Albert and   
           Dora Giammarresi and   
                    Derick Wood   Normal form algorithms for extended
                                  context-free grammars  . . . . . . . . . 35--47
                   Norbert Blum   On parsing LL-languages  . . . . . . . . 49--59
                   Heiko Goeman   On parsing and condensing substrings of
                                  LR languages in linear time  . . . . . . 61--82
             Matti Nykänen   Using acceptors as transducers . . . . . 83--104
                 G. Duchamp and   
                 M. Flouret and   
       É. Laugerotte and   
                    J.-G. Luque   Direct and dual laws for automata with
                                  multiplicities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--120
               Denis Maurel and   
Brigitte Le Pévédic   The syntactic prediction with token
                                  automata: application to HandiAS system  121--129
                     T. Poibeau   Parsing natural language idioms with
                                  bidirectional finite-state machines  . . 131--140
            Dominique L'Her and   
           Philippe Le Parc and   
            Lionel Marcé   Proving sequential function chart
                                  programs using timed automata  . . . . . 141--155
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 267 (2001) . . . . . 157--157


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 268, Number 1, October 6, 2001

           Stefano Leonardi and   
   Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
      Christoph Ambühl and   
         Bernd Gärtner and   
           Bernhard von Stengel   A new lower bound for the list update
                                  problem in the partial cost model  . . . 3--16
                 Yossi Azar and   
                     Oded Regev   On-line bin-stretching . . . . . . . . . 17--41
                Yair Bartal and   
             Moses Charikar and   
                    Piotr Indyk   On page migration and other relaxed task
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--66
             Stefan Bischof and   
                  Ernst W. Mayr   On-line scheduling of parallel jobs with
                                  runtime restrictions . . . . . . . . . . 67--90
         Esteban Feuerstein and   
                   Leen Stougie   On-line single-server dial-a-ride
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--105
           W\lodzimierz G\lazek   Online algorithms for page replication
                                  in rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
                  Tracy Kimbrel   Online paging and file caching with
                                  expiration times . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
                  John Noga and   
               Steven S. Seiden   An optimal online algorithm for
                                  scheduling two machines with release
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--143
                   Marco Riedel   Online request server matching . . . . . 145--160
               Rudolf Fleischer   On the Bahncard problem  . . . . . . . . 161--174

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 268, Number 2, October 17, 2001

                R. Wiehagen and   
                    T. Zeugmann   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177
       M. R. K. Krishna Rao and   
                      A. Sattar   Polynomial-time learnability of logic
                                  programs with local variables from
                                  entailment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--198
                  Marc Fischlin   Cryptographic limitations on
                                  parallelizing membership and equivalence
                                  queries with applications to
                                  random-self-reductions . . . . . . . . . 199--219
              Frank Stephan and   
                   Yuri Ventsov   Learning algebraic structures from text  221--273
               Léa Meyer   Aspects of complexity of probabilistic
                                  learning under monotonicity constraints  275--322
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
           Susanne Kaufmann and   
                Arun Sharma and   
                  Frank Stephan   Predictive learning models for concept
                                  drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--349
            Eiju Hirowatari and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   A comparison of identification criteria
                                  for inductive inference of recursive
                                  real-valued functions  . . . . . . . . . 351--366
          Kalvis Aps\=\itis and   
     R\=usi\cn\vs Freivalds and   
       Raimonds Simanovskis and   
                 Juris Smotrovs   Closedness properties in
                                  ex-identification  . . . . . . . . . . . 367--393
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 268 (2001) . . . . . 395--395


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 269, Number 1--2, October 28, 2001

           Rei Safavi-Naini and   
                  Huaxiong Wang   Broadcast authentication for group
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
                   Rainer Kerth   On the construction of stable models of
                                  untyped $ \lambda $-calculus . . . . . . 23--46
           Flavio Corradini and   
          GianLuigi Ferrari and   
                  Marco Pistore   On the semantics of durational actions   47--82
                  Paola Quaglia   Explicit substitutions for
                                  pi-congruences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--134
               Oege de Moor and   
             Ganesh Sittampalam   Higher-order matching for program
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--162
                Yaron Riany and   
                 Nir Shavit and   
                    Dan Touitou   Towards a practical snapshot algorithm   163--201
            Jan A. Bergstra and   
                    Alban Ponse   Non-regular iterators in process algebra 203--229
                    Simone Tini   An axiomatic semantics for Esterel . . . 231--282
                 Olivier Finkel   Wadge hierarchy of omega context-free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--315
              Gilles Barthe and   
              John Hatcliff and   
   Morten Heine Sòrensen   Weak normalization implies strong
                                  normalization in a class of
                                  non-dependent pure type systems  . . . . 317--361
 Joaquín Mateos Lago and   
Mario Rodríguez Artalejo   A declarative framework for
                                  object-oriented programming with genetic
                                  inheritance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--417
Dragan Ma\vsulovi\'cand Bo\vza Tasi\'c   Operators on classes of coalgebras . . . 419--431
                    Ingo Lepper   Derivation lengths and order types of
                                  Knuth--Bendix orders . . . . . . . . . . 433--450
           Ivo Düntsch and   
        Szabolcs Mikulás   Cylindric structures and dependencies in
                                  relational databases . . . . . . . . . . 451--468
                    Michel Rigo   Numeration systems on a regular
                                  language: arithmetic operations,
                                  recognizability and formal power series  469--498
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 269 (2001) . . . . . 499--499


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 270, Number 1--2, January 6, 2002

                    Oliver Matz   Dot-depth, monadic quantifier
                                  alternation, and first-order closure
                                  over grids and pictures  . . . . . . . . 1--70
                   Andrzej Pelc   Searching games with errors---fifty
                                  years of coping with liars . . . . . . . 71--109
                F. K. Hwang and   
                  Y. C. Yao and   
                    B. Dasgupta   Some permutation routing algorithms for
                                  low-dimensional hypercubes . . . . . . . 111--124
     W. M. P. van der Aalst and   
                      T. Basten   Inheritance of workflows: an approach to
                                  tackling problems related to change  . . 125--203
         Ménard Bourgade   Calculs sur les structures de langage
                                  dénombrable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--222
           J. R. B. Cockett and   
                   Stephen Lack   Restriction categories I: categories of
                                  partial maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--259
            William Lenhart and   
                Giuseppe Liotta   The drawability problem for minimum
                                  weight triangulations  . . . . . . . . . 261--286
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
                 Mandayam Suraj   Control structures in hypothesis spaces:
                                  the influence on learning  . . . . . . . 287--308
           Kieran T. Herley and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
                  Geppino Pucci   Deterministic parallel backtrack search  309--324
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
             Hing-Fung Ting and   
               Kar-Keung To and   
                    Wai-Ha Wong   On-line load balancing of temporary
                                  tasks revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--340
             Luca Becchetti and   
           Paola Bertolazzi and   
             Carlo Gaibisso and   
                Giorgio Gambosi   On the design of efficient ATM routing
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--359
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
                  Pino Persiano   Edge coloring of bipartite graphs with
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--399
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
             Robert A. Hegstrom   Partial words and a theorem of Fine and
                                  Wilf revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--419
                 Kikuo Fujimura   Time-minimal paths amidst moving
                                  obstacles in three dimensions  . . . . . 421--440
                Markus E. Nebel   The stack-size of tries: a combinatorial
                                  study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--461
       Alessandra Cherubini and   
    Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and   
           Pierluigi San Pietro   Associative language descriptions  . . . 463--491
               Thomas Eiter and   
          Toshihide Ibaraki and   
                Kazuhisa Makino   Decision lists and related Boolean
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--524
              Jean Mairesse and   
                Laurent Vuillon   Asymptotic behavior in a heap model with
                                  two pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--560
        Cécile Murat and   
           Vangelis Th. Paschos   A priori optimization for the
                                  probabilistic maximum independent set
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--590
           Clifford Bergman and   
                  Giora Slutzki   Computational complexity of some
                                  problems involving congruences on
                                  algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--608
               Dinesh Mehta and   
                 Vijay Raghavan   Decision tree approximations of Boolean
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--623
              Arnaud Durand and   
               Miki Hermann and   
                  Laurent Juban   On the complexity of recognizing the
                                  Hilbert basis of a linear Diophantine
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--642
                 E. Pergola and   
                 R. Pinzani and   
                     S. Rinaldi   Approximating algebraic functions by
                                  means of rational ones . . . . . . . . . 643--657
            Jeffrey Shallit and   
                  Ming-wei Wang   On two-sided infinite fixed points of
                                  morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659--675
    Antonín Ku\vcera and   
                   Richard Mayr   Weak bisimilarity between finite-state
                                  systems and BPA or normed BPP is
                                  decidable in polynomial time . . . . . . 677--700
         Jürgen Dassow and   
             Victor Mitrana and   
                   Arto Salomaa   Operations and language generating
                                  devices suggested by the genome
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701--738
                  Lan Zhang and   
             Katsushi Inoue and   
                  Akira Ito and   
                       Yue Wang   Probabilistic rebound Turing machines    739--760
              Georg Gottlob and   
               Nicola Leone and   
            Francesco Scarcello   Computing LOGCFL certificates  . . . . . 761--777
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Membrane systems with carriers . . . . . 779--796
              Chuzo Iwamoto and   
         Tomonobu Hatsuyama and   
             Kenichi Morita and   
                 Katsunobu Imai   Constructible functions in cellular
                                  automata and their applications to
                                  hierarchy results  . . . . . . . . . . . 797--809
               Costas Busch and   
        Neophytos Demetriou and   
            Maurice Herlihy and   
            Marios Mavronicolas   Threshold counters with increments and
                                  decrements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811--826
                 Eric Goles and   
              Michel Morvan and   
                  Ha Duong Phan   The structure of a linear chip firing
                                  game and related models  . . . . . . . . 827--841
                 Jens Stoye and   
                   Dan Gusfield   Simple and flexible detection of
                                  contiguous repeats using a suffix tree   843--856
               J. W. Sander and   
                    R. Tijdeman   The rectangle complexity of functions on
                                  two-dimensional lattices . . . . . . . . 857--863
    András Pluhár   The accelerated $k$-in-a-row game  . . . 865--875
        Ferdinando Cicalese and   
            Daniele Mundici and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Least adaptive optimal search with
                                  unreliable tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 877--893
         Gary William Flake and   
                   Eric B. Baum   Rush Hour is PSPACE-complete, or ``Why
                                  you should generously tip parking lot
                                  attendants'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--911
                 Michael Drmota   The variance of the height of binary
                                  search trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--919
            Shigeki Akiyama and   
                 Attila Peth\Ho   On canonical number systems  . . . . . . 921--933
               Doris Fiebig and   
              Ulf-Rainer Fiebig   Compact factors of countable state
                                  Markov shifts  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935--946
     Verónica Becher and   
              Santiago Figueira   An example of a computable absolutely
                                  normal number  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947--958
               Sigrid Ewert and   
           Andries van der Walt   A pumping lemma for random permitting
                                  context languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 959--967
                  Changwook Kim   Two undecidability results for chain
                                  code picture languages . . . . . . . . . 969--976
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977--979
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--992


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 271, Number 1--2, January 28, 2002

                   Bruno Durand   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
             Cristian S. Calude   A characterization of c.e. random reals  3--14
          Andrej A. Muchnik and   
          Semen Ye. Positselsky   Kolmogorov entropy in the context of
                                  computability theory . . . . . . . . . . 15--35
               Bruno Durand and   
                 Sylvain Porrot   Comparison between the complexity of a
                                  function and the complexity of its graph 37--46
               Bruno Durand and   
             Alexander Shen and   
           Nikolai Vereshchagin   Descriptive complexity of computable
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
        Nikolai K. Vereshchagin   Kolmogorov complexity conditional to
                                  large integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
             Alexei Chernov and   
             Andrej Muchnik and   
        Andrei Romashchenko and   
             Alexander Shen and   
           Nikolai Vereshchagin   Upper semi-lattice of binary strings
                                  with the relation ``x is simple
                                  conditional to y'' . . . . . . . . . . . 69--95
              Andrej A. Muchnik   Conditional complexity and codes . . . . 97--109
            A. Romashchenko and   
                    A. Shen and   
                N. Vereshchagin   Combinatorial interpretation of
                                  Kolmogorov complexity  . . . . . . . . . 111--123
             Alexander Shen and   
           Nikolai Vereshchagin   Logical operations and Kolmogorov
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
    Nikolai K. Vereshchagin and   
              Michael V. Vyugin   Independent minimum length programs to
                                  translate between given strings  . . . . 131--143
              Mikhail V. Vyugin   Information distance and conditional
                                  complexities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150
           Serge Grigorieff and   
               Jean-Yves Marion   Kolmogorov complexity and
                                  non-determinism  . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--180
                Yuri Kalnishkan   General linear relations between
                                  different types of predictive complexity 181--200
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 272, Number 1--2, February 6, 2002

Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
                Mitsu Okada and   
               Masako Takahashi   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
          Steffen van Bakel and   
           Franco Barbanera and   
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
               Fer-Jan de Vries   Intersection types for $ \lambda $-trees 3--40
Frédéric Blanqui and   
      Jean-Pierre Jouannaud and   
                Mitsuhiro Okada   Inductive-data-type systems  . . . . . . 41--68
                Mario Coppo and   
          Ferruccio Damiani and   
                 Paola Giannini   Strictness, totality, and
                                  non-standard-type inference  . . . . . . 69--112
                   Ryu Hasegawa   Two applications of analytic functors    113--175
             Susumu Hayashi and   
           Ryosuke Sumitomo and   
                Ken-ichiro Shii   Towards the animation of proofs ---
                                  testing proofs by examples . . . . . . . 177--195
            Hajime Ishihara and   
               Toshihiko Kurata   Completeness of intersection and union
                                  type assignment systems for
                                  call-by-value $ \lambda $-models . . . . 197--221
         Yukiyoshi Kameyama and   
                  Masahiko Sato   Strong normalizability of the
                                  non-deterministic catch/throw calculi    223--245
              Andrew D. Ker and   
               Hanno Nickau and   
                 C.-H. Luke Ong   Innocent game models of untyped $
                                  \lambda $-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 247--292
           Martijn Oostdijk and   
                 Herman Geuvers   Proof by computation in the Coq system   293--314
              Tarmo Uustalu and   
                     Varmo Vene   Least and greatest fixed points in
                                  intuitionistic natural deduction . . . . 315--339
              Hirofumi Yokouchi   Completeness of type assignment systems
                                  with intersection, union, and type
                                  quantifiers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--398
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 273, Number 1--2, February 28, 2002

                      J. Neraud   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                   Tom C. Brown   Applications of standard Sturmian words
                                  to elementary number theory  . . . . . . 5--9
            Flavio D'Alessandro   A combinatorial problem on Trapezoidal
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--33
                    Alex Heinis   The $ P(n) / n $-function for
                                  bi-infinite words  . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
               Jean Berstel and   
                    Luc Boasson   Shuffle factorization is unique  . . . . 47--67
         Christian Choffrut and   
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
               Nicolas Ollinger   The commutation of finite sets: a
                                  challenging problem  . . . . . . . . . . 69--79
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
            Ján Ma\vnuch   Multiple factorizations of words and
                                  defect effect  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97
                 F. Mignosi and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                   M. Sciortino   Words and forbidden factors  . . . . . . 99--117
                G. Richomme and   
                   F. Wlazinski   Some results on $k$-power-free morphisms 119--142
                   Aldo de Luca   Some combinatorial results on Bernoulli
                                  sets and codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--165
                Yannick Guesnet   On maximal codes with a finite
                                  interpreting delay . . . . . . . . . . . 167--183
         Jean Néraud and   
                    Carla Selmi   Locally complete sets and finite
                                  decomposable codes . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
Valérie Berthé and   
                Robert Tijdeman   Balance properties of multi-dimensional
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--224
      Zoltán Ésik   Axiomatizing the subsumption and subword
                                  preorders on finite and infinite partial
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--248
              Christian Mauduit   Finite and infinite pseudorandom binary
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--261
                    V. Malyshev   Quantum evolution of words . . . . . . . 263--269
                 M. Bigotte and   
                   G. Jacob and   
              N. E. Oussous and   
                     M. Petitot   Lyndon words and shuffle algebras for
                                  generating the coloured multiple zeta
                                  values relations tables  . . . . . . . . 271--282
                 G. Duchamp and   
       É. Laugerotte and   
                    J.-G. Luque   On the support of graph Lie algebras . . 283--294
             Sylvia Encheva and   
            Gérard Cohen   Frameproof codes against limited
                                  coalitions of pirates  . . . . . . . . . 295--304
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 274, Number 1--2, March 6, 2002

           Davide Sangiorgi and   
               Robert de Simone   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                  F. S. de Boer   A Hoare logic for dynamic networks of
                                  asynchronously communicating
                                  deterministic processes  . . . . . . . . 3--41
            Holger Hermanns and   
              Ulrich Herzog and   
            Joost-Pieter Katoen   Process algebra for performance
                                  evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--87
                  D. Lugiez and   
                Ph. Schnoebelen   The regular viewpoint on PA-processes    89--115
              P. Madhusudan and   
              P. S. Thiagarajan   Branching time controllers for discrete
                                  event systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--149
            P.-Y. Schobbens and   
               J.-F. Raskin and   
                T. A. Henzinger   Axioms for real-time logics  . . . . . . 151--182
                   Peter Sewell   From rewrite rules to bisimulation
                                  congruences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--230
                 Nobuko Yoshida   Minimality and separation results on
                                  asynchronous mobile processes ---
                                  representability theorems by concurrent
                                  combinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--276
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 274 (2002) . . . . . 277--277


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 275, Number 1--2, March 28, 2002

                 Mingsheng Ying   Bisimulation indexes and their
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--68
               Bruce S. Burdick   A note on iterated duals of certain
                                  topological spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
                Ernest G. Manes   Taut Monads and T0-spaces  . . . . . . . 79--109
                  A. Rabinovich   Finite variability interpretation of
                                  monadic logic of order . . . . . . . . . 111--125
                     Nadia Busi   Analysis issues in Petri nets with
                                  inhibitor arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--177
            Serge Abiteboul and   
               Sophie Cluet and   
                      Tova Milo   Correspondence and translation for
                                  heterogeneous data . . . . . . . . . . . 179--213
             Dominic Duggan and   
                     John Ophel   Open and closed scopes for constrained
                                  genericity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--258
           Pierpaolo Degano and   
             Fabio Gadducci and   
                 Corrado Priami   A causal semantics for CCS via rewriting
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--282
                Iain A. Stewart   Program schemes, arrays, Lindström
                                  quantifiers and zero-one laws  . . . . . 283--310
               Igor Walukiewicz   Monadic second-order logic on tree-like
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--346
        Dani\`ele Beauquier and   
               Anatol Slissenko   Decidable verification for reducible
                                  timed automata specified in a first
                                  order logic with time  . . . . . . . . . 347--388
                 Maria I. Sessa   Approximate reasoning by
                                  similarity-based SLD resolution  . . . . 389--426
           J. Adámek and   
           M. Hébert and   
              J. Rosický   On abstract data types presented by
                                  multiequations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--462
                Sergei Vorobyov   $ \forall \exists^5$-equational theory
                                  of context unification is undecidable    463--479
                 Mingsheng Ying   Additive models of probabilistic
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--519
           Agostino Cortesi and   
            Agostino Dovier and   
          Elisa Quintarelli and   
                  Letizia Tanca   Operational and abstract semantics of
                                  the query language G-Log . . . . . . . . 521--560
               Ernst Zimmermann   Peirce's Rule in Natural Deduction . . . 561--574
                 Felice Cardone   A coinductive completeness proof for the
                                  equivalence of recursive types . . . . . 575--587
                  Walter Vogler   Efficiency of asynchronous systems, read
                                  arcs, and the MUTEX-problem  . . . . . . 589--631
                Frank Neven and   
              Thomas Schwentick   Query automata over finite trees . . . . 633--674
              Adel Bouhoula and   
       Michaël Rusinowitch   Observational proofs by rewriting  . . . 675--698
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 275 (2002) . . . . . 699--699


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 276, Number 1--2, April 6, 2002

                Robert Cori and   
           Dominique Rossin and   
                    Bruno Salvy   Polynomial ideals for sandpiles and
                                  their Gröbner bases . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
   Vincent Bouchitté and   
                   Ioan Todinca   Listing all potential maximal cliques of
                                  a graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
          Gruia C\ualinescu and   
                   Peng-Jun Wan   Splittable traffic partition in
                                  WDM/SONET rings to minimize SONET ADMs   33--50
              Stefan Droste and   
              Thomas Jansen and   
                   Ingo Wegener   On the analysis of the $ (1 + 1) $
                                  evolutionary algorithm . . . . . . . . . 51--81
               Amber Settle and   
                    Janos Simon   Smaller solutions for the firing squad   83--109
                     Bin Ma and   
               Lusheng Wang and   
                 Kaizhong Zhang   Computing similarity between RNA
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--132
            Subhamoy Maitra and   
                  Palash Sarkar   Cryptographically significant Boolean
                                  functions with five valued Walsh spectra 133--146
        Harumichi Nishimura and   
                  Masanao Ozawa   Computational complexity of uniform
                                  quantum circuit families and quantum
                                  Turing machines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--181
                Vesa Halava and   
                 Tero Harju and   
                Mika Hirvensalo   Binary (generalized) Post Correspondence
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--204
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
             György Vaszil   Parallel communicating grammar systems
                                  with bounded resources . . . . . . . . . 205--219
         Z. Fülöp and   
                    A. Terlutte   Iterated relabeling tree transducers . . 221--244
                Kai Salomaa and   
                       Sheng Yu   Decidability of EDT0L structural
                                  equivalence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--259
           David F. Manlove and   
           Robert W. Irving and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
                Yasufumi Morita   Hard variants of stable marriage . . . . 261--279
             Jacques Justin and   
               Giuseppe Pirillo   Episturmian words and episturmian
                                  morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--313
          Serafino Cicerone and   
        Gabriele Di Stefano and   
               Michele Flammini   Static and dynamic low-congested
                                  interval routing schemes . . . . . . . . 315--354
     Stavros Konstantinidis and   
                  Amber O'Hearn   Error-detecting properties of languages  355--375
             Henning Fernau and   
                    Ralf Stiebe   Sequential grammars and automata with
                                  valences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--405
                  V. V. V'yugin   Note: Does snooping help?  . . . . . . . 407--415
                  Chiuyuan Chen   Note: A necessary condition for a graph
                                  to be the visibility graph of a simple
                                  polygon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--424
            Gregorio Malajovich   Note: Lower bounds for some decision
                                  problems over C  . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--434
                   J. M. Robson   Note: Constant bounds on the moments of
                                  the height of binary search trees  . . . 435--444
              Christophe Prieur   Note: How to decide continuity of
                                  rational functions on infinite words . . 445--447
                    Yongge Wang   Note: A comparison of two approaches to
                                  pseudorandomness . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--459
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 276 (2002) . . . . . 465--466


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 277, Number 1--2, April, 2002

          Pascal Van Hentenryck   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            Roberto Bagnara and   
           Patricia M. Hill and   
                Enea Zaffanella   Set-sharing is redundant for
                                  pair-sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--46
                 Patrick Cousot   Constructive design of a hierarchy of
                                  semantics of a transition system by
                                  abstract interpretation  . . . . . . . . 47--103
                 Alexandre Frey   Satisfying subtype inequalities in
                                  polynomial space . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
                  G. Ramalingam   On sparse evaluation representations . . 119--147
             Francesca Scozzari   Logical optimality of groundness
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--184
               Kwangkeun Yi and   
                   Sukyoung Ryu   A cost-effective estimation of uncaught
                                  exceptions in Standard ML programs . . . 185--217
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 277 (2002) . . . . . 223


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 278, Number 1--2, April, 2002

            Stephen Brookes and   
                Michael Mislove   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                    Peter Freyd   Cartesian logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
             Stephen Brooks and   
                Michael Mislove   Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
                 Melvin Fitting   Fixpoint semantics for logic programming
                                  a survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
               Matthew Hennessy   A fully abstract denotational semantics
                                  for the $ \pi $-calculus . . . . . . . . 53--89
        Antonio Bucciarelli and   
             Pasquale Malacaria   Relative definability of boolean
                                  functions via hypergraphs  . . . . . . . 91--110
               Adrian Fiech and   
               David A. Schmidt   Polymorphic lambda calculus and
                                  subtyping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--140
            Robert C. Flagg and   
        Philipp Sünderhauf   The essence of ideal completion in
                                  quantitative form  . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
           H. P. Künzi and   
              M. P. Schellekens   On the Yoneda completion of a
                                  quasi-metric space . . . . . . . . . . . 159--194
                Paul Gastin and   
                   Dan Teodosiu   Resource traces: a domain for processes
                                  sharing exclusive resources  . . . . . . 195--221
                   V. Gupta and   
              R. Jagadeesan and   
                 V. A. Saraswat   Truly concurrent constraint programming  223--255
                    P. S. Mulry   Lifting results for categories of
                                  algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
               David A. Naumann   Soundness of data refinement for a
                                  higher-order imperative language . . . . 271--301
                     John Power   Premonoidal categories as categories
                                  with algebraic structure . . . . . . . . 303--321
                 John Power and   
              Giuseppe Rosolini   Fixpoint operators for domain equations  323--333
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 278 (2002) . . . . . 335


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 279, Number 1--2, May, 2002

       Jean-Marie Chesneaux and   
         Christiane Frougny and   
             Jean-Michel Muller   Foreword: Real Numbers . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Daniel Etiemble   Computer arithmetic and hardware: ``off
                                  the shelf'' microprocessors versus
                                  ``custom hardware''  . . . . . . . . . . 3--27
                Peter R. Turner   Residue polynomial systems . . . . . . . 29--49
               David Lester and   
             Scott Chambers and   
                    Heoi Lee Lu   A constructive algorithm for finding the
                                  exact roots of polynomials with
                                  computable real coefficients . . . . . . 51--64
              Reinhold Heckmann   Contractivity of linear fractional
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--82
                 Peter Hertling   A lower bound for range enclosure in
                                  interval arithmetic  . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 279 (2002) . . . . . 97


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 280, Number 1--2, May, 2002

                Bart Jacobs and   
                     Jan Rutten   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                     Uwe Wolter   CSP, partial automata, and coalgebras    3--34
              Corina C\^\irstea   A coalgebraic equational approach to
                                  specifying observational structures  . . 35--68
             Alexander Kurz and   
                 Rolf Hennicker   On institutions for modular coalgebraic
                                  specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--103
                 D. Pavlovi and   
                       V. Pratt   The continuum as a final coalgebra . . . 105--122
               S\lawomir Lasota   Coalgebra morphisms subsume open maps    123--135
                 John Power and   
               Hiroshi Watanabe   Combining a monad and a comonad  . . . . 137--162
           Andrea Corradini and   
               Reiko Heckel and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Compositional SOS and beyond: a
                                  coalgebraic view of open systems . . . . 163--192
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 281, Number 1--2, May, 2002

                    G. Ausiello   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
            Pierre-Louis Curien   Une br\`eve biographie scientifique de
                                  Maurice Nivat. (French) [A brief
                                  scientific biography of Maurice Nivat]   3--23
         Grzegorz Rozenberg and   
                   Arto Salomaa   ICALP, EATCS and Maurice Nivat . . . . . 25--30
            André Arnold   Nivat's processes and their
                                  synchronization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36
            Cyril Banderier and   
              Philippe Flajolet   Basic analytic combinatorics of directed
                                  lattice paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--80
        Dani\`ele Beauquier and   
           Jean-Claude Fournier   Groups and tilings . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97
               Jean Berstel and   
                Laurent Vuillon   Coding rotations on intervals  . . . . . 99--107
       Gérard Boudol and   
              Ilaria Castellani   Noninterference for concurrent programs
                                  and thread systems . . . . . . . . . . . 109--130
              Roberto Bruni and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Dynamic connectors for concurrency . . . 131--176
            Bruno Courcelle and   
                  Teodor Knapik   The evaluation of first-order
                                  substitution is monadic second-order
                                  compatible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--206
                  Guy Cousineau   Tilings as a programming exercise  . . . 207--217
                Max Dauchet and   
               Sophie Tison and   
                   Marc Tommasi   Réduction de la non-linéarité des
                                  morphismes d'arbres. (French)
                                  [Recognizable tree-languages and
                                  non-linear morphisms]  . . . . . . . . . 219--233
              Alberto Del Lungo   Reconstructing permutation matrices from
                                  diagonal sums  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
           Marianne Delorme and   
                Jacques Mazoyer   Reconnaissance parall\`ele des langages
                                  rationnels sur automates cellulaires
                                  plans. (French) [Parallel recognition of
                                  rational languages on planar cellular
                                  automata]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--289
          Josep Díaz and   
                Maria Serna and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   Counting $H$-colorings of partial
                                  $k$-trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--309
                   Bruno Durand   De la logique aux pavages. (French) [On
                                  the logic of tiling] . . . . . . . . . . 311--324
             A. Ehrenfeucht and   
                   T. Harju and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Gene assembly through cyclic graph
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--349
               Luca Ferrari and   
              Elisa Pergola and   
              Renzo Pinzani and   
                 Simone Rinaldi   An algebraic characterization of the set
                                  of succession rules  . . . . . . . . . . 351--367
                Paul Gastin and   
                Michael Mislove   A truly concurrent semantics for a
                                  process algebra using resource pomsets   369--421
               Serge Grigorieff   Modelization of deterministic rational
                                  relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--453
            Peter Gritzmann and   
                  Sven de Vries   On the algorithmic inversion of the
                                  discrete Radon transform . . . . . . . . 455--469
                Mitsuhiro Okada   A uniform semantic proof for
                                  cut-elimination and completeness of
                                  various first and higher order logics    471--498
                     Teodor Rus   A unified language processing
                                  methodology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--536
                   Arto Salomaa   Uni-transitional Watson--Crick D0L
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--553
Géraud Sénizergues   L(A)=L(B)? A simplified decidability
                                  proof  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--608
             Gérard Huet   \'Sr\=\i Yantra Geometry . . . . . . . . 609--628
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--630


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 282, Number 1, May, 2002

            Joost-Pieter Katoen   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
             Mario Bravetti and   
               Roberto Gorrieri   The theory of interactive generalized
                                  semi-Markov processes  . . . . . . . . . 5--32
              Bengt Jonsson and   
                        Wang Yi   Testing preorders for probabilistic
                                  processes can be characterized by
                                  simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--51
                 Paul Z. Kolano   Proof assistance for real-time systems
                                  using an interactive theorem prover  . . 53--99
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
             Roberto Segala and   
                Jeremy Sproston   Automatic verification of real-time
                                  systems with discrete probability
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--150
                Karl Lermer and   
                    Colin Fidge   A formal model of real-time program
                                  compilation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--190
                   A. K. McIver   Quantitative program logic and expected
                                  time bounds in probabilistic distributed
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--219

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 282, Number 2, June, 2002

                 Elena Lodi and   
                Linda Pagli and   
                 Nicola Santoro   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
                      F. Luccio   Algorithms, nymphs, and shepherds  . . . 223--229
                    David Peleg   Local majorities, coalitions and
                                  monopolies in graphs: a review . . . . . 231--257
                Paolo Boldi and   
            Massimo Santini and   
               Sebastiano Vigna   Measuring with jugs  . . . . . . . . . . 259--270
            Aviezri S. Fraenkel   Arrays, numeration systems and
                                  Frankenstein games . . . . . . . . . . . 271--284
               Alberto Pedrotti   Playing by searching: two strategies
                                  against a linearly bounded liar  . . . . 285--302
                  Alon Itai and   
              Michael Rodeh and   
                 Hadas Shachnai   The passport control problem or how to
                                  keep a dynamic service system load
                                  balanced?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--318
               Alain Daurat and   
          Yan Gérard and   
                  Maurice Nivat   The chords' problem  . . . . . . . . . . 319--336
          Donatella Merlini and   
            Renzo Sprugnoli and   
               M. Cecilia Verri   A strip-like tiling algorithm  . . . . . 337--352
              Ronald Becker and   
              Bruno Simeone and   
                   Yen-I Chiang   A shifting algorithm for continuous tree
                                  partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--380
                   Steve Seiden   A manifesto for the computational method 381--395
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 283, Number 1, June, 2002

            Gilles Bertrand and   
         Rémy Malgouyres   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                     T. Y. Kong   Topological adjacency relations on $ Z^n
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--28
                   R. Ayala and   
        E. Domínguez and   
       A. R. Francés and   
                    A. Quintero   Weak lighting functions and strong
                                  26-surfaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--66
     Rémy Malgouyres and   
                    Malika More   On the computational complexity of
                                  reachability in 2D binary images and
                                  some basic problems of 2D digital
                                  topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--108
    Sébastien Fourey and   
         Rémy Malgouyres   Intersection number and topology
                                  preservation within digital surfaces . . 109--150
        Valentin E. Brimkov and   
              Reneta P. Barneva   Graceful planes and lines  . . . . . . . 151--170
              Yan Gérard   Periodic graphs and connectivity of the
                                  rational digital hyperplanes . . . . . . 171--182
Marie-Andrée Jacob-Da Col   About local configurations in arithmetic
                                  planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--201
          Olivier Devillers and   
           Pierre-Marie Gandoin   Rounding Voronoi diagram . . . . . . . . 203--221
                Attila Kuba and   
                   Emese Balogh   Reconstruction of convex 2D discrete
                                  sets in polynomial time  . . . . . . . . 223--242
             Mohamed Tajine and   
                Christian Ronse   Topological properties of Hausdorff
                                  discretization, and comparison to other
                                  discretization schemes . . . . . . . . . 243--268

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 283, Number 2, June, 2002

               Roberto Gorrieri   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
               Chiara Bodei and   
           Pierpaolo Degano and   
           Riccardo Focardi and   
                 Corrado Priami   Primitives for authentication in process
                                  algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--304
                Ewen Denney and   
                  Thomas Jensen   Correctness of Java card method lookup
                                  via logical relations  . . . . . . . . . 305--331
          Joshua D. Guttman and   
               F. Javier Thayer   Authentication tests and the structure
                                  of bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--380
           Flemming Nielson and   
         Hanne Riis Nielson and   
      René Rydhof Hansen   Validating firewalls using flow logics   381--418
           Vitaly Shmatikov and   
               John C. Mitchell   Finite-state analysis of two contract
                                  signing protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . 419--450
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 284, Number 1, June, 2002

               Paul Fischer and   
                 Hans Simon and   
                     Carl Smith   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            András Antos   Lower bounds for the rate of convergence
                                  in nonparametric pattern recognition . . 3--24
                  Shai Fine and   
         Ran Gilad-Bachrach and   
                     Eli Shamir   Query by committee, linear separation
                                  and random walks . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--51
          Peter L. Bartlett and   
                 Shai Ben-David   Hardness results for neural network
                                  approximation problems . . . . . . . . . 53--66
                Nigel Duffy and   
                 David Helmbold   A geometric approach to leveraging weak
                                  learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--108
             D. P. Helmbold and   
                 S. Panizza and   
                  M. K. Warmuth   Direct and indirect algorithms for
                                  on-line learning of disjunctions . . . . 109--142
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Arun Sharma   Mind change complexity of learning logic
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--160
               Matthias Ott and   
                  Frank Stephan   Avoiding coding tricks by hyperrobust
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--180
     Márta Pintér   On the rate of convergence of error
                                  estimates for the partitioning
                                  classification rule  . . . . . . . . . . 181--196

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 284, Number 2, July, 2002

                   Ker-l Ko and   
                Anil Nerode and   
                Klaus Weihrauch   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
             Markus Bläser   Uniform computational complexity of the
                                  derivatives of $C$-functions . . . . . . 199--206
                  J. Blanck and   
      V. Stoltenberg-Hansen and   
                   J. V. Tucker   Domain representations of partial
                                  functions, with applications to spatial
                                  objects and constructive volume geometry 207--240
              Vasco Brattka and   
                 Peter Hertling   Topological properties of real number
                                  representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--257
         Douglas S. Bridges and   
           Nicholas Dudley Ward   Kernels of seminorms in constructive
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
             Cristian S. Calude   Chaitin numbers, Solovay machines, and
                                  Gödel incompleteness  . . . . . . . . . . 269--277
             Douglas Cenzer and   
              Jeffrey B. Remmel   Effectively closed sets and graphs of
                                  computable real functions  . . . . . . . 279--318
               Abbas Edalat and   
          André Lieutier   Foundation of a computable solid
                                  modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--345
               Armin Hemmerling   Effective metric spaces and
                                  representations of the reals . . . . . . 347--372
        Michal Kone\vcný   Real functions computable by finite
                                  automata using affine representations    373--396
            Vladimir N. Krupski   Effective simultaneous approximability
                                  of reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--417
                  Takakazu Mori   On the computability of Walsh functions  419--436
                    Dag Normann   Exact real number computations relative
                                  to hereditarily total functionals  . . . 437--453
                 Ludwig Staiger   The Kolmogorov complexity of real
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--466
                  Hideki Tsuiki   Real number computation through Gray
                                  code embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--485
              Atsushi Yoshikawa   Interpolation functor and computability  487--498
                  Xizhong Zheng   The closure properties on real numbers
                                  under limits and computable operators    499--518
         Matthias Schröder   Extended admissibility . . . . . . . . . 519--538
           Rodney G. Downey and   
            Geoffrey L. LaForte   Presentations of computably enumerable
                                  reals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--555
                      Anonymous   Author index volume 284 (2002) . . . . . 557--558


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 285, Number 1, July, 2002

      Giancarlo Bongiovanni and   
            Giorgio Gambosi and   
             Rossella Petreschi   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
             Juraj Hromkovi and   
               Ralf Klasing and   
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   Towards the notion of stability of
                                  approximation for hard optimization
                                  tasks and the traveling salesman problem 3--24
                 D. Cantone and   
                    G. Cincotti   QuickHeapsort, an efficient mix of
                                  classical sorting algorithms . . . . . . 25--42
                Peter Damaschke   Online strategies for backups  . . . . . 43--53
                     Irit Dinur   Approximating SVP to within
                                  almost-polynomial factors is NP-hard . . 55--71
          Donatella Merlini and   
            Renzo Sprugnoli and   
               M. Cecilia Verri   Modified binary searching for static
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   The hardness of placing street names in
                                  a Manhattan type map . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
         K. Steinhöfel and   
                A. Albrecht and   
                     C. K. Wong   The convergence of stochastic algorithms
                                  solving flow shop scheduling . . . . . . 101--117

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 285, Number 2, August, 2002

 Narciso Martí-Oliet and   
           José Meseguer   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120
 Narciso Martí-Oliet and   
           José Meseguer   Rewriting logic: roadmap and
                                  bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--154
    Peter Borovanský and   
            Claude Kirchner and   
   Hél\`ene Kirchner and   
          Pierre-Etienne Moreau   ELAN from a rewriting logic point of
                                  view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--185
                  M. Clavel and   
            F. Durán and   
                    S. Eker and   
                 P. Lincoln and   
      N. Martí-Oliet and   
                J. Meseguer and   
                  J. F. Quesada   Maude: specification and programming in
                                  rewriting logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--243
              Manuel Clavel and   
           José Meseguer   Reflection in conditional rewriting
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--288
        R\uazvan Diaconescu and   
              Kokichi Futatsugi   Logical foundations of CafeOBJ . . . . . 289--318
             Fabio Gadducci and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Comparing logics for rewriting:
                                  rewriting logic, action calculi and tile
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--358
  Peter Csaba Ölveczky and   
           José Meseguer   Specification of real-time and hybrid
                                  systems in rewriting logic . . . . . . . 359--405
                Isabel Pita and   
     Narciso Martí-Oliet   A Maude specification of an
                                  object-oriented model for
                                  telecommunication networks . . . . . . . 407--439
                Carolyn Talcott   Actor theories in rewriting logic  . . . 441--485
                   Patrick Viry   Equational rules for rewriting logic . . 487--517
             Martin Wirsing and   
                Alexander Knapp   A formal approach to object-oriented
                                  software engineering . . . . . . . . . . 519--560
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--564


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 286, Number 1, August, 2002

              Peter Ru\vzi\vcka   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Foto Afrati and   
         Ir\`ene Guessarian and   
            Michel de Rougemont   The expressiveness of DAC  . . . . . . . 3--32
                  Walter Vogler   Partial order semantics and read arcs    33--63
        Zurab Khasidashvili and   
                   John Glauert   Relating conflict-free stable transition
                                  and event models via redex families  . . 65--95
                  Markus Holzer   Multi-head finite automata:
                                  data-independent versus data-dependent
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--116
         Christian Choffrut and   
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Distances between languages and
                                  reflexivity of relations . . . . . . . . 117--138
             Drago Krznaric and   
           Christos Levcopoulos   Optimal algorithms for complete linkage
                                  clustering in d dimensions . . . . . . . 139--149
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 286, Number 2, September, 2002

                 J. L. Fiadeiro   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
           Egidio Astesiano and   
              Michel Bidoit and   
   Hél\`ene Kirchner and   
  Bernd Krieg-Brückner and   
            Peter D. Mosses and   
            Donald Sannella and   
               Andrzej Tarlecki   CASL: the Common Algebraic Specification
                                  Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--196
           Tomasz Borzyszkowski   Logical systems for structured
                                  specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--245
              Roberto Bruni and   
             Fabio Gadducci and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Normal forms for algebras of connections 247--292
           Andrea Corradini and   
                 Fabio Gadducci   A functorial semantics for
                                  multi-algebras and partial algebras,
                                  with applications to syntax  . . . . . . 293--322
               Beata Konikowska   Rasiowa-Sikorski deduction systems in
                                  computer science applications  . . . . . 323--366
               Till Mossakowski   Relating CASL with other specification
                                  languages: the institution level . . . . 367--475
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 287, Number 1, September, 2002

               G. Rozenberg and   
                A. E. Eiben and   
                      J. N. Kok   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Martyn Amos and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
         Grzegorz Rozenberg and   
                   Arto Salomaa   Topics in the theory of DNA computing    3--38
            Arwen Brenneman and   
                    Anne Condon   Strand design for biomolecular
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--58
              Masami Hagiya and   
               John A. Rose and   
                 Ken Komiya and   
               Kensaku Sakamoto   Complexity analysis of the SAT engine:
                                  DNA algorithms as probabilistic
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--71
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   A guide to membrane computing  . . . . . 73--100
           Hans-Georg Beyer and   
         Hans-Paul Schwefel and   
                   Ingo Wegener   How to analyse evolutionary algorithms   101--130
              Stefan Droste and   
              Thomas Jansen and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Optimization with randomized search
                                  heuristics the (A)NFL theorem, realistic
                                  scenarios, and difficult functions . . . 131--144
         H. Mühlenbein and   
                     Th. Mahnig   Evolutionary computation and Wright's
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--165
                  B. Naudts and   
                     L. Schoofs   GA performance distributions and
                                  randomly generated binary constraint
                                  satisfaction problems  . . . . . . . . . 167--185
                      Erkki Oja   Unsupervised learning in neural
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--207
             Alex Gammerman and   
                   Volodya Vovk   Prediction algorithms and confidence
                                  measures based on algorithmic randomness
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217
                 Tom Heskes and   
                Bart Bakker and   
                    Bert Kappen   Approximate algorithms for
                                  neural-Bayesian approaches . . . . . . . 219--238
       Robert A. Legenstein and   
                 Wolfgang Maass   Neural circuits for pattern recognition
                                  with small total wire length . . . . . . 239--249
    Thomas Natschläger and   
                 Wolfgang Maass   Spiking neurons and the induction of
                                  finite state machines  . . . . . . . . . 251--265
                Mika Hirvensalo   Computing with quanta impacts of quantum
                                  theory on computation  . . . . . . . . . 267--298
            Andris Ambainis and   
                   John Watrous   Two-way finite automata with quantum and
                                  classical states . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--311
              Barbara M. Terhal   Detecting quantum entanglement . . . . . 313--335
                 Ronald de Wolf   Quantum communication and complexity . . 337--353
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 287, Number 2, September, 2002

          Jaroslav Ne\vset\vril   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
                     Ali Akhavi   Random lattices, threshold phenomena and
                                  efficient reduction algorithms . . . . . 359--385
              Eric Anderson and   
              Marek Chrobak and   
                  John Noga and   
          Ji í Sgall and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Solution of a problem in DNA computing   387--391
           Eric J. Anderson and   
            Kirsten Hildrum and   
             Anna R. Karlin and   
               April Rasala and   
                   Michael Saks   On list update and work function
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--418
                 Yossi Azar and   
                 Oded Regev and   
          Ji í Sgall and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Off-line temporary tasks assignment  . . 419--428
             Luca Becchetti and   
            Miriam Di Ianni and   
   Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela   Approximation algorithms for routing and
                                  call scheduling in all-optical chains
                                  and rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--448
             Krzysztof Diks and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
              Danny Krizanc and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   The impact of information on
                                  broadcasting time in linear radio
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--471
                Limor Drori and   
                    David Peleg   Faster exact solutions for some NP-hard
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--499
     Daniele V. Finocchiaro and   
               Marco Pellegrini   On computing the diameter of a point set
                                  in high dimensional Euclidean space  . . 501--514
                P. Flajolet and   
                  K. Hatzis and   
             S. Nikoletseas and   
                    P. Spirakis   On the robustness of interconnections in
                                  random graphs: a symbolic approach . . . 515--534
               Yair Frankel and   
           Philip MacKenzie and   
                      Moti Yung   Adaptively secure distributed public-key
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--561
           Arlette Gaillard and   
             Heinz Groeflin and   
            Alan J. Hoffman and   
         William R. Pulleyblank   On the submodular matrix representation
                                  of a digraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--570
         Eduardo Sany Laber and   
    Ruy Luiz Milidiú and   
             Artur Alves Pessoa   A strategy for searching with different
                                  access costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--584
      Jaroslav Ne\vset\vril and   
                  Claude Tardif   Density via duality  . . . . . . . . . . 585--591
          Pierre Nicod\`eme and   
                Bruno Salvy and   
              Philippe Flajolet   Motif statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--617
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--620


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 288, Number 1, September, 2002

                       G. Moser   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
                Arnold Beckmann   Notations for exponentiation . . . . . . 3--19
              Harry Buhrman and   
                 Ronald de Wolf   Complexity measures and decision tree
                                  complexity: a survey . . . . . . . . . . 21--43
                     A. Carbone   Streams and strings in formal proofs . . 45--83
               P. Crescenzi and   
                       G. Rossi   On the Hamming distance of constraint
                                  satisfaction problems  . . . . . . . . . 85--100
               Thomas Eiter and   
                   Helmut Veith   On the complexity of data disjunctions   101--128
              Erich Grädel   Guarded fixed point logics and the
                                  monadic theory of countable trees  . . . 129--152
              Leonid Libkin and   
                   Limsoon Wong   Lower bounds for invariant queries in
                                  logics with counting . . . . . . . . . . 153--180
                 Zenon Sadowski   On an optimal propositional proof system
                                  and the structure of easy subsets of
                                  TAUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--193
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 288, Number 2, September, 2002

             Osamu Watanabe and   
                    Arun Sharma   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
José L. Balcázar and   
               Jorge Castro and   
             David Guijarro and   
              Hans-Ulrich Simon   The consistency dimension and
                                  distribution-dependent learning from
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--215
              Eiji Takimoto and   
             Manfred K. Warmuth   Predicting nearly as well as the best
                                  pruning of a planar decision graph . . . 217--235
           Sally A. Goldman and   
                Stephen S. Kwek   On learning unions of pattern languages
                                  and tree patterns in the mistake bound
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--254
           Nader H. Bshouty and   
                Nadav Eiron and   
               Eyal Kushilevitz   PAC learning with nasty noise  . . . . . 255--275
              Steffen Lange and   
                 Gunter Grieser   On the power of incremental learning . . 277--307
              Frank Stephan and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Learning classes of approximations to
                                  non-recursive functions  . . . . . . . . 309--341
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 289, Number 1, October, 2002

               Reiner Durchholz   A generic causal model for place latency 1--49
           Peter J. Grabner and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Sorting algorithms for broadcast
                                  communications: mathematical analysis    51--67
             Evgeny Dantsin and   
             Andreas Goerdt and   
           Edward A. Hirsch and   
                Ravi Kannan and   
              Jon Kleinberg and   
     Christos Papadimitriou and   
         Prabhakar Raghavan and   
              Uwe Schöning   A deterministic $ (2 - 2 / (k + 1))^n $
                                  algorithm for $k$-SAT based on local
                                  search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--83
                   T. Eilam and   
                   S. Moran and   
                        S. Zaks   The complexity of the characterization
                                  of networks supporting shortest-path
                                  interval routing . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--104
            A. Barbé and   
                F. von Haeseler   Symmetries of decimation invariant
                                  sequences and digit sets . . . . . . . . 105--136
          J.-M. Champarnaud and   
                       D. Ziadi   Canonical derivatives, partial
                                  derivatives and finite automaton
                                  constructions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--163
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                 Jianwen Su and   
                   Zhe Dang and   
              Tevfik Bultan and   
            Richard A. Kemmerer   Counter Machines and Verification
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--189
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                     Jianwen Su   Augmenting the discrete timed automaton
                                  with other data structures . . . . . . . 191--204
             M. D. Atkinson and   
               M. M. Murphy and   
                    N. Ru\vskuc   Sorting with two ordered stacks in
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--223
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
                 Olivier Carton   Determinization of transducers over
                                  finite and infinite words  . . . . . . . 225--251
              Andreas Klein and   
                  Martin Kutrib   Deterministic Turing machines in the
                                  range between real-time and linear-time  253--275
                   Wei Chen and   
                Koichi Wada and   
                Kimio Kawaguchi   Robust algorithms for constructing
                                  strongly convex hulls in parallel  . . . 277--295
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
                  D. K. Luhmann   Conjugacy on partial words . . . . . . . 297--312
            Kuo-Liang Chung and   
               Wen-Ming Yan and   
                    Jung-Gen Wu   Load-balanced parallel banded-system
                                  solvers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--334
           Wolfgang W. Bein and   
              Marek Chrobak and   
            Lawrence L. Larmore   The $3$-server problem in the plane  . . 335--354
           Vincenzo Auletta and   
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
                  Pino Persiano   Randomized path coloring on binary trees 355--399
                 Hagit Brit and   
               Shlomo Moran and   
                Gadi Taubenfeld   Public data structures: counters as a
                                  special case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--423
                 Henning Fernau   Even linear simple matrix languages:
                                  formal language properties and
                                  grammatical inference  . . . . . . . . . 425--456
              Leslie G. Valiant   Expressiveness of matchgates . . . . . . 457--471
                Uriel Feige and   
                  Giora Rayzman   On the drift of short schedules  . . . . 473--484
              Petr Sosík   Universal computation with Watson--Crick
                                  D0L systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--501
         Herbert Fleischner and   
            Oliver Kullmann and   
                 Stefan Szeider   Polynomial-time recognition of minimal
                                  unsatisfiable formulas with fixed
                                  clause-variable difference . . . . . . . 503--516
                 Niklas Eriksen   $ (1 + \epsilon)$-Approximation of
                                  sorting by reversals and transpositions  517--529
      Sini\vsa Crvenkovi\'c and   
                   Igor Dolinka   On axioms for commutative regular
                                  equations without addition . . . . . . . 531--551
                 Liming Cai and   
               David Juedes and   
                      Iyad Kanj   The inapproximability of non-NP-hard
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 553--571
         Vincent D. Blondel and   
           Julien Cassaigne and   
                Codrin Nichitiu   On the presence of periodic
                                  configurations in Turing machines and in
                                  counter machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--590
         Robert Baumgartner and   
                  Georg Gottlob   Propositional default logics made
                                  easier: computational complexity of
                                  model checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--627
             Dirk V. Arnold and   
               Hans-Georg Beyer   Performance analysis of evolution
                                  strategies with multi-recombination in
                                  high-dimensional $ R^N $-search spaces
                                  disturbed by noise . . . . . . . . . . . 629--647
             Charles Knessl and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   The height of a binary search tree: the
                                  limiting distribution perspective  . . . 649--703
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                      Ion Petre   Conway's problem for three-word sets . . 705--725
             Pedro V. Silva and   
             Benjamin Steinberg   Extensions and submonoids of automatic
                                  monoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--754
            Antonio Restivo and   
                 Pedro V. Silva   On the lattice of prefix codes . . . . . 755--782
                Honghui Wan and   
                John C. Wootton   Algorithms for computing lengths of
                                  chains in integral partition lattices    783--800
            Gabriel Ciobanu and   
                   Mihai Rotaru   Molecular interaction  . . . . . . . . . 801--827
                 Wolfgang Slany   Endgame problems of Sim-like graph
                                  Ramsey avoidance games are
                                  PSPACE-complete  . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--843
                Peter Damaschke   Two short notes on the on-line
                                  travelling salesman: handling times and
                                  lookahead  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--852
            Kosaburo Hashiguchi   Algorithms for determining the smallest
                                  number of nonterminals (states)
                                  sufficient for generating (accepting) a
                                  regular language R with $ R_1 \subseteq
                                  R \subseteq R_2 $ for given regular
                                  languages $ R_1 $, $ R_2 $ . . . . . . . 853--859
              John M. Hitchcock   MAX3SAT is exponentially hard to
                                  approximate if NP has positive dimension 861--869
                       M. Ageev   Martin's game: a lower bound for the
                                  number of sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871--876
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 289, Number 2, October, 2002

                 Dingzhu Du and   
                Peter Eades and   
                     Xuemin Lin   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877
          Franz Aurenhammer and   
                Naoki Katoh and   
           Hiromichi Kojima and   
              Makoto Ohsaki and   
                     Yinfeng Xu   Approximating uniform triangular meshes
                                  in polygons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879--895
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
                 Anna Lubiw and   
                 Sue Whitesides   Embedding problems for paths with
                                  direction constrained edges  . . . . . . 897--917
            Carmen Hernando and   
           Michael E. Houle and   
                 Ferran Hurtado   On local transformation of polygons with
                                  visibility properties  . . . . . . . . . 919--937
             Satoshi Fujita and   
                   Takeshi Hada   Two-dimensional on-line bin packing
                                  problem with rotatable items . . . . . . 939--952
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
                 Shiro Taketomi   Online independent sets  . . . . . . . . 953--962
          Tomohiro Yamasaki and   
         Hirotada Kobayashi and   
             Yuuki Tokunaga and   
                   Hiroshi Imai   One-way probabilistic reversible and
                                  quantum one-counter automata . . . . . . 963--976
               Hirotaka Ono and   
            Kazuhisa Makino and   
              Toshihide Ibaraki   Logical analysis of data with
                                  decomposable structures  . . . . . . . . 977--995
               Subhash Khot and   
                Venkatesh Raman   Parameterized complexity of finding
                                  subgraphs with hereditary properties . . 997--1008
                Yuriy A. Reznik   Some results on tries with adaptive
                                  branching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1026
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1029


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 290, Number 1, October, 2002

        Marios Mavronicolas and   
                Nikos Papadakis   Trade-off results for connection
                                  management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--57
                    Frank Stomp   Correctness of substring-preprocessing
                                  in Boyer--Moore's pattern matching
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--78
                  Didier Caucal   On infinite transition graphs having a
                                  decidable monadic theory . . . . . . . . 79--115
             Marco Bernardo and   
                 Mario Bravetti   Performance measure sensitive
                                  congruences for Markovian process
                                  algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--160
                Olivier Laurent   Polarized proof-nets and $ \mu
                                  $-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--188
               Silvio Valentini   A cartesian closed category in
                                  Martin-Löf's intuitionistic type theory   189--219
            Madhavan Mukund and   
           K. Narayan Kumar and   
                  Milind Sohoni   Bounded time-stamping in message-passing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239
        Parosh Aziz Abdulla and   
                  Bengt Jonsson   Model checking of systems with many
                                  identical timed processes  . . . . . . . 241--264
                   Dorel Lucanu   Relaxed models for rewriting logic . . . 265--289
             Cesare Tinelli and   
          Christophe Ringeissen   Unions of non-disjoint theories and
                                  combinations of satisfiability
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--353
                M. Bravetti and   
                      A. Aldini   Discrete time generative-reactive
                                  probabilistic processes with different
                                  advancing speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--406
           Franco Barbanera and   
                Stefano Berardi   A full continuous model of polymorphism  407--428
                  Koji Nakazawa   Confluency and strong normalizability of
                                  call-by-value $ \mu $-calculus . . . . . 429--463
  Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini and   
              Adriano Peron and   
                    Simone Tini   A comparison of Statecharts step
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--498
Carlos Iván Chesñevar and   
            Jürgen Dix and   
        Frieder Stolzenburg and   
 G. R. Guillermo Ricardo Simari   Relating defeasible and normal logic
                                  programming through transformation
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--529
             Patrick Cousot and   
                  Radhia Cousot   Parsing as abstract interpretation of
                                  grammar semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . 531--544
                Zhaohui Zhu and   
                     Bin Li and   
                 Xi'an Xiao and   
                 Shifu Chen and   
                      Wujia Zhu   A representation theorem for recovering
                                  contraction relations satisfying wci . . 545--564
             Luca de Alfaro and   
                    Arjun Kapur   Hybrid diagrams  . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--597
               Fabio Alessi and   
               Paolo Baldan and   
                  Furio Honsell   A category of compositional
                                  domain-models for separable Stone spaces 599--635
         Luca Bernardinello and   
             Carlo Ferigato and   
                  Lucia Pomello   An algebraic model of observable
                                  properties in distributed systems  . . . 637--668
                 T. Calders and   
                   J. Paredaens   Axiomatization of frequent itemsets  . . 669--693
          Roberto M. Amadio and   
               Denis Lugiez and   
            Vincent Vanack\`ere   On the symbolic reduction of processes
                                  with cryptographic functions . . . . . . 695--740
                  Cosimo Laneve   A type system for JVM threads  . . . . . 741--778
                    Yuxi Fu and   
                  Zhenrong Yang   Understanding the mismatch combinator in
                                  chi calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779--830
        Michael R. Laurence and   
          Sebastian Danicic and   
                Mark Harman and   
                Rob Hierons and   
                   John Howroyd   Equivalence of conservative, free,
                                  linear program schemas is decidable  . . 831--862
                   Roberta Gori   An abstract interpretation framework to
                                  reason on finite failure and other
                                  properties of finite and infinite
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863--936
     Mauno Rönkkö and   
             Anders P. Ravn and   
                     Kaisa Sere   Hybrid action systems  . . . . . . . . . 937--973
          Steffen van Bakel and   
       Maribel Fernández   Normalization, approximation, and
                                  semantics for combinator systems . . . . 975--1019
               Reinhard Pichler   Explicit versus implicit representations
                                  of subsets of the Herbrand universe  . . 1021--1056
               Fabio Martinelli   Analysis of security protocols as open
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1106
                Thierry Coquand   A syntactical proof of the Marriage
                                  Lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107--1113
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 290, Number 2, October, 2002

                   G. Motet and   
                  J.-C. Geffroy   Dependable computing: an overview  . . . 1115--1126
                Guohong Cao and   
                 Mukesh Singhal   Checkpointing with mutable checkpoints   1127--1148
             Antonio Caruso and   
             Stefano Chessa and   
            Piero Maestrini and   
                    Paolo Santi   Fault-diagnosis of grid structures . . . 1149--1174
          Christopher Colby and   
                 Karl Crary and   
              Robert Harper and   
                  Peter Lee and   
                 Frank Pfenning   Automated techniques for provably safe
                                  mobile code  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175--1199
       I. S. W. B. Prasetya and   
                S. D. Swierstra   Factorizing fault tolerance  . . . . . . 1201--1222
               C. J. Walter and   
                        N. Suri   The customizable fault/error model for
                                  dependable distributed systems . . . . . 1223--1251

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 290, Number 3, November, 2002

           Evripidis Bampis and   
         Rodolphe Giroudeau and   
         Jean-Claude König   An approximation algorithm for the
                                  precedence constrained scheduling
                                  problem with hierarchical communications 1883--1895


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 291, Number 1, November, 2002

                Shay Kutten and   
                  Paul Spirakis   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
        Jean-Claude Bermond and   
             Nausica Marlin and   
                David Peleg and   
       Stéphane Perennes   Directed virtual path layouts in ATM
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--28
            Paola Flocchini and   
               Bernard Mans and   
                 Nicola Santoro   Sense of direction in distributed
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--53
            Maurice Herlihy and   
                Sergio Rajsbaum   A classification of wait-free loop
                                  agreement tasks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--77
            Fernando Pedone and   
           André Schiper   Optimistic atomic broadcast: a pragmatic
                                  viewpoint  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--101
             Jeremy Sussman and   
                 Keith Marzullo   The Bancomat problem: an example of
                                  resource allocation in a partitionable
                                  asynchronous system  . . . . . . . . . . 103--131
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 291, Number 2, November, 2002

             Peter Kornerup and   
         Jean-Claude Bajard and   
         Christiane Frougny and   
             Jean-Michel Muller   Preface: Real Numbers and Computers  . . 133--134
                  G. Hanrot and   
                   J. Rivat and   
               G. Tenenbaum and   
                  P. Zimmermann   Density results on floating-point
                                  invertible numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 135--141
                Marc Daumas and   
              Philippe Langlois   Additive symmetries: the non-negative
                                  case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--157
            David W. Matula and   
                Lee D. McFearin   A $ p \times p $ bit fraction model of
                                  binary floating point division and
                                  extremal rounding cases  . . . . . . . . 159--182
                Abraham Ziv and   
               Laurent Fournier   Solving the generalized mask constraint
                                  for test generation of binary floating
                                  point add operation  . . . . . . . . . . 183--201
               David Lester and   
                   Paul Gowland   Using PVS to validate the algorithms of
                                  an exact arithmetic  . . . . . . . . . . 203--218

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 291, Number 3, January 6, 2003

             Cesare Tinelli and   
                     Teodor Rus   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
                  Kamel Adi and   
             Mourad Debbabi and   
                  Mohamed Mejri   A new logic for electronic commerce
                                  protocols  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--283
           Riccardo Focardi and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
               Fabio Martinelli   A comparison of three authentication
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--327
                Bart Jacobs and   
                      Erik Poll   Coalgebras and monads in the semantics
                                  of Java  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--349
                   Eric Van Wyk   Specification languages in algebraic
                                  compilers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--385
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--388


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 292, Number 1, January 10, 2003

  Patrice Séébold   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                      Anonymous   Publications of Jean Berstel . . . . . . 3--7
         Jean-Paul Allouche and   
              Michael Baake and   
           Julien Cassaigne and   
                  David Damanik   Palindrome complexity  . . . . . . . . . 9--31
            Holger Austinat and   
             Volker Diekert and   
               Ulrich Hertrampf   A structural property of regular
                                  frequency computations . . . . . . . . . 33--43
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
             Olivier Carton and   
          Christophe Prieur and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   Squaring transducers: an efficient
                                  procedure for deciding functionality and
                                  sequentiality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
            Dani\`ele Beauquier   On probabilistic timed automata  . . . . 65--84
             Sre\vcko Brlek and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   On a valuation of rational subsets of $
                                  Z^k $ Dédié \`a Jean Berstel . . . . . . . 85--96
     Véronique Bruy\`ere   Cumulative defect  . . . . . . . . . . . 97--109
               Arturo Carpi and   
                   Aldo de Luca   Semiperiodic words and root-conjugacy    111--130
             Christian Choffrut   Minimizing subsequential transducers: a
                                  survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--143
 Philippe Chrétienne and   
                  Francis Sourd   PERT scheduling with convex cost
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
                Robert Cori and   
               Gilles Schaeffer   Description trees and Tutte formulas . . 165--183
              Maxime Crochemore   Reducing space for index implementation  185--197
        Andrzej Ehrenfeucht and   
                 Tero Harju and   
                  Ion Petre and   
          David M. Prescott and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Formal systems for gene assembly in
                                  ciliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--219
             Christiane Frougny   On-line digit set conversion in real
                                  base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--235
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
        Ján Ma\vnuch and   
            Wojciech Plandowski   A defect theorem for bi-infinite words   237--243
            Filippo Mignosi and   
            Antonio Restivo and   
                 Pedro V. Silva   On Fine and Wilf's theorem for
                                  bidimensional words  . . . . . . . . . . 245--262
                   Arto Salomaa   Composition sequences for functions over
                                  a finite domain  . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--281
  Patrice Séébold   On some generalizations of the
                                  Thue--Morse morphism . . . . . . . . . . 283--298
                Wolfgang Thomas   Uniform and nonuniform recognizability   299--316
                  Jean-Eric Pin   Algebraic tools for the concatenation
                                  product  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--342
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 292, Number 2, January 27, 2003

                 S. Arikawa and   
                K. Furukawa and   
               S. Morishita and   
                      H. Motoda   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--344
          Petr Hájek and   
                  Martin Hole a   Formal logics of discovery and
                                  hypothesis formation by machine  . . . . 345--357
              Steffen Lange and   
                 Gunter Grieser   Variants of iterative learning . . . . . 359--376
             Yosuke Hayashi and   
          Satoshi Matsumoto and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
                Masayuki Takeda   Uniform characterizations of
                                  polynomial-query learnabilities  . . . . 377--385
           Yoshimitsu Kudoh and   
           Makoto Haraguchi and   
                 Yoshiaki Okubo   Data abstractions for decision tree
                                  induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--416
               João Gama   Iterative Bayes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430
          Genshiro Kitagawa and   
           Tomoyuki Higuchi and   
                Fumiyo N. Kondo   Smoothness prior approach to explore
                                  mean structure in large-scale time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--446
              Eiji Takimoto and   
                  Akira Maruoka   Top-down decision tree learning as
                                  information based boosting . . . . . . . 447--464
             Masahiro Hirao and   
           Hiromasa Hoshino and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   A practical algorithm to find the best
                                  subsequence patterns . . . . . . . . . . 465--479
             Tatsuya Akutsu and   
              Satoru Miyano and   
                  Satoru Kuhara   A simple greedy algorithm for finding
                                  functional relations: efficient
                                  implementation and average case analysis 481--495
            Masayuki Takeda and   
              Tomoko Fukuda and   
               Ichiro Nanri and   
            Mayumi Yamasaki and   
                  Koichi Tamari   Discovering instances of poetic allusion
                                  from anthologies of classical Japanese
                                  poems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--524
            Masayuki Takeda and   
          Tetsuya Matsumoto and   
              Tomoko Fukuda and   
                   Ichiro Nanri   Discovering characteristic expressions
                                  in literary works  . . . . . . . . . . . 525--546
              Hayato Ohwada and   
                Fumio Mizoguchi   Integrating information visualization
                                  and retrieval for WWW information
                                  discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547--571

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 292, Number 3, January 31, 2003

    André Berthiaume and   
                 John D. Rogers   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--573
                   John Watrous   PSPACE has constant-round quantum
                                  interactive proof systems  . . . . . . . 575--588
            Pawel Horodecki and   
             John A. Smolin and   
          Barbara M. Terhal and   
            Ashish V. Thapliyal   Rank two bipartite bound entangled
                                  states do not exist  . . . . . . . . . . 589--596
                  Lance Fortnow   One complexity theorist's view of
                                  quantum computing  . . . . . . . . . . . 597--610
             A. Ehrenfeucht and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Forbidding--enforcing systems  . . . . . 611--638
               Hermann Jung and   
                Maria Serna and   
                  Paul Spirakis   An efficient deterministic parallel
                                  algorithm for two processors precedence
                                  constraint scheduling  . . . . . . . . . 639--652
               G. Rozenberg and   
                      H. Spaink   DNA computing by blocking  . . . . . . . 653--665
               Wei-Mei Chen and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Divide-and-conquer recurrences
                                  associated with generalized heaps,
                                  optimal merge, and related structures    667--677
                 Xuemin Lin and   
                    Peter Eades   Towards area requirements for drawing
                                  hierarchically planar graphs . . . . . . 679--695
              Yuliang Zheng and   
                  Xian-Mo Zhang   Connections among nonlinearity,
                                  avalanche and correlation immunity . . . 697--710
          Andrés Moreira   Universality and decidability of
                                  number-conserving cellular automata  . . 711--721
                   Jack Jie Dai   A stronger Kolmogorov zero-one law for
                                  resource-bounded measure . . . . . . . . 723--732
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--735


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 293, Number 1, February 3, 2003

           Stephane Gaubert and   
       Jean-Jacques Loiseau and   
              Jean Mairesse and   
              Maurice Nivat and   
                  Jean-Eric Pin   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
     R. A. Cuninghame-Green and   
                    P. Butkovic   The equation $ A \otimes x = B \otimes y
                                  $ over (max,$+$) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--12
        Jacob van der Woude and   
                        Subiono   Conditions for the structural existence
                                  of an eigenvalue of a bipartite
                                  (min,max,+)-system . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
                Pierre Bernhard   Minimax---or feared value---$ L^1 /
                                  L^\infty $ control . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44
               Karel Zimmermann   Disjunctive optimization, max-separable
                                  problems and extremal algebras . . . . . 45--54
        Flavio d'Alessandro and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   The finite power property in free groups 55--82
                 Nami Kobayashi   Some properties of recognizable $
                                  \mathcal {Z} $-subsets . . . . . . . . . 83--113
                   Ines Klimann   A solution to the problem of $ (A, B)
                                  $-invariance for series  . . . . . . . . 115--139
             Jeremy Gunawardena   From max-plus algebra to nonexpansive
                                  mappings: a nonlinear theory for
                                  discrete event systems . . . . . . . . . 141--167
                 Luca Aceto and   
  Zoltán Ésik and   
Anna Ingólfsdóttir   The max-plus algebra of the natural
                                  numbers has no finite equational basis   169--188
                    J.-P. Comet   Application of Max-Plus algebra to
                                  biological sequence comparisons  . . . . 189--217
       Bertrand Ducourthial and   
       Sébastien Tixeuil   Self-stabilization with path algebra . . 219--236
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 293, Number 2, February 6, 2003

                 A. Nijholt and   
                  G. Scollo and   
                      D. Heylen   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--241
               Aravind K. Joshi   A note on the strong and weak generative
                                  powers of formal systems . . . . . . . . 243--259
            Hans-Peter Kolb and   
             Jens Michaelis and   
           Uwe Mönnich and   
                Frank Morawietz   An operational and denotational approach
                                  to non-context-freeness  . . . . . . . . 261--289
                   James Rogers   wMSO theories as grammar formalisms  . . 291--320
                  Denys Duchier   Dominance constraints with Boolean
                                  connectives: a model-eliminative
                                  treatment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--343
          Edward P. Stabler and   
               Edward L. Keenan   Structural similarity within and among
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--363
         Karl-Michael Schneider   Tabular parsing and algebraic
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--389
                    P. Boullier   Counting with range concatenation
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--416
             Peter R. J. Asveld   Algebraic aspects of families of fuzzy
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--445
                 D. Cantone and   
               A. Formisano and   
               E. G. Omodeo and   
                    C. G. Zarba   Compiling dyadic first-order
                                  specifications into map algebra  . . . . 447--475

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 293, Number 3, February 9, 2003

                    Colin Fidge   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--477
         Salvatore La Torre and   
              Margherita Napoli   Finite automata on timed $ \omega
                                  $-trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--505
           Annabelle McIver and   
                 Carroll Morgan   Almost-certain eventualities and
                                  abstract probabilities in the
                                  quantitative temporal logic qTL  . . . . 507--534
             Shane Saunders and   
                  Tadao Takaoka   Improved shortest path algorithms for
                                  nearly acyclic graphs  . . . . . . . . . 535--556
                 Peter Schachte   Precise goal-independent abstract
                                  interpretation of constraint logic
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--577
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--584


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 294, Number 1--2, February 15, 2003

  Ji í Adámek and   
Martín Escardó and   
                 Martin Hofmann   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
      Ji í Adámek   On final coalgebras of continuous
                                  functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--29
                Anna Bucalo and   
      Carsten Führmann and   
                   Alex Simpson   An equational notion of lifting monad    31--60
           J. R. B. Cockett and   
                   Stephen Lack   Restriction categories II: partial map
                                  classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--102
         Camillo Fiorentini and   
                Silvio Ghilardi   Combining word problems through
                                  rewriting in categories with products    103--149
          Thomas T. Hildebrandt   Towards categorical models for fairness:
                                  fully abstract presheaf semantics of
                                  SCCS with finite delay . . . . . . . . . 151--181
              Martin Hyland and   
                  Andrea Schalk   Glueing and orthogonality for models of
                                  linear logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--231
               Lawrence S. Moss   Recursion and corecursion have the same
                                  equational logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--267
             A. S. Murawski and   
                   C.-H. L. Ong   Exhausting strategies, joker games and
                                  full completeness for IMLL with Unit . . 269--305
                  Hideki Tsuiki   A domain-theoretic semantics of lax
                                  generic functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 307--331
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 294, Number 3, February 18, 2003

           Jean-Yves Girard and   
            Mitsuhiro Okada and   
                  Andre Scedrov   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
             V. Michele Abrusci   Towards a semantics of proofs for
                                  non-commutative logic: multiplicatives
                                  and additives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351
              Vincent Danos and   
       Jean-Baptiste Joinet and   
               Harold Schellinx   Computational isomorphisms in classical
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--378
           Stefano Guerrini and   
             Simone Martini and   
                  Andrea Masini   Coherence for sharing proof-nets . . . . 379--409
           Raymond McDowell and   
                Dale Miller and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Encoding transition systems in sequent
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--437
                  Vaughan Pratt   Chu spaces as a semantic bridge between
                                  linear logic and mathematics . . . . . . 439--471
        Christian Retoré   Handsome proof-nets: perfect matchings
                                  and cographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--488
       Lorenzo Tortora de Falco   Additives of linear logic and
                                  normalization---Part I: A (restricted)
                                  Church--Rosser property  . . . . . . . . 489--524
            Max I. Kanovich and   
            Mitsuhiro Okada and   
                  Andre Scedrov   Phase semantics for light linear logic   525--549
             Misao Nagayama and   
                Mitsuhiro Okada   A graph-theoretic characterization
                                  theorem for multiplicative fragment of
                                  non-commutative linear logic . . . . . . 551--573
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--576


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 295, Number 1--3, February 24, 2003

        Ji\vrí Sgall and   
                      Ale Pultr   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
            Andris Ambainis and   
              Arnolds \kKikusts   Exact results for accepting
                                  probabilities of quantum automata  . . . 3--25
                Albert Atserias   Improved bounds on the Weak Pigeonhole
                                  Principle and infinitely many primes
                                  from weaker axioms . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
              Chris Barrett and   
          Harry B. Hunt III and   
          Madhav V. Marathe and   
                 S. S. Ravi and   
      Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and   
             Richard E. Stearns   Reachability problems for sequential
                                  dynamical systems with threshold
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--64
             Markus Bläser   The complexity of bivariate power series
                                  arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--83
            Ahmed Bouajjani and   
            Peter Habermehl and   
                   Richard Mayr   Automatic verification of recursive
                                  procedures with one integer parameter    85--106
               Sabin Cautis and   
            Filippo Mignosi and   
            Jeffrey Shallit and   
              Ming-wei Wang and   
                Soroosh Yazdani   Periodicity, morphisms, and matrices . . 107--121
          Giovanni Di Crescenzo   Sharing one secret vs. sharing many
                                  secrets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--140
               Pavol \vDuri and   
            Ján Ma\vnuch   On the computational complexity of
                                  infinite words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151
          Hervé Fournier   Quantifier rank for parity of embedded
                                  finite models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--169
                 Viliam Geffert   Space hierarchy theorem revised  . . . . 171--187
             Viliam Geffert and   
           Carlo Mereghetti and   
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Converting two-way nondeterministic
                                  unary automata into simpler automata . . 189--203
           Thanh Minh Hoang and   
                Thomas Thierauf   The complexity of the characteristic and
                                  the minimal polynomial . . . . . . . . . 205--222
                    Jarkko Kari   Synchronizing finite automata on
                                  Eulerian digraphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 223--232
              Andreas Klein and   
                  Martin Kutrib   Fast one-way cellular automata . . . . . 233--250
              Chiu-Yuen Koo and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
             Tsuen-Wan Ngan and   
          Kunihiko Sadakane and   
                   Kar-Keung To   On-line scheduling with tight deadlines  251--261
        Daniel Král' and   
      Jan Kratochvíl and   
         Heinz-Jürgen Voss   Mixed hypergraphs with bounded degree:
                                  edge-coloring of mixed multigraphs . . . 263--278
             Sven O. Krumke and   
         Willem E. de Paepe and   
             Diana Poensgen and   
                   Leen Stougie   News from the online traveling repairman 279--294
               Nir Piterman and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   From bidirectionality to alternation . . 295--321
            Pavel Pudlák   On reducibility and symmetry of disjoint
                                  NP pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--339
              Luigi Santocanale   On the equational definition of the
                                  least prefixed point . . . . . . . . . . 341--370
                      K. Sutner   The size of power automata . . . . . . . 371--386
                   Martin Thimm   On the approximability of the Steiner
                                  tree problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--402
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--404
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 296, Number 1, March 4, 2003

                       Jie Wang   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
           Oswin Aichholzer and   
          Franz Aurenhammer and   
             Ferran Hurtado and   
                 Hannes Krasser   Towards compatible triangulations  . . . 3--13
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
                      Eric Bach   On testing for zero polynomials by a set
                                  of points with bounded precision . . . . 15--25
               Wun-Tat Chan and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
             Hing-Fung Ting and   
            Prudence W. H. Wong   On-line stream merging in a general
                                  setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--46
             Otfried Cheong and   
               Chan-Su Shin and   
               Antoine Vigneron   Computing farthest neighbors on a convex
                                  polytope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
                   Zhe Dang and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
            Richard A. Kemmerer   Generalized discrete timed automata:
                                  decidable approximations for safety
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--74
                 Rob Duncan and   
                Jianbo Qian and   
           Antoine Vigneron and   
                     Binhai Zhu   Polynomial time algorithms for
                                  three-label point labeling . . . . . . . 75--87
                Liying Kang and   
                  Hong Qiao and   
                Erfang Shan and   
                     Dingzhu Du   Lower bounds on the minus domination and
                                  $k$-subdomination numbers  . . . . . . . 89--98
               Wen-Lian Hsu and   
              Ross M. McConnell   PC trees and circular-ones arrangements  99--116
           Michal Koucký   Log-space constructible universal
                                  traversal sequences for cycles of length
                                  $ O(n^{4.03}) $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--144
                  Xiang-Yang Li   Generating well-shaped $d$-dimensional
                                  Delaunay Meshes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--165
            Enrico Nardelli and   
             Guido Proietti and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Finding the most vital node of a
                                  shortest path  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--177
                   Bodo Manthey   Non-approximability of weighted multiple
                                  sequence alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 296, Number 2, March 8, 2003

            Maurice Margenstern   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
                  Didier Caucal   On the transition graphs of Turing
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--223
                 Henning Fernau   Nonterminal complexity of programmed
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--251
                 D. Besozzi and   
                   G. Mauri and   
                  G. P\uaun and   
                     C. Zandron   Gemmating P systems: collapsing
                                  hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--267
               Pierluigi Frisco   Direct constructions of universal
                                  extended H systems . . . . . . . . . . . 269--293
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
                 Juan Pazos and   
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón   Tissue P systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--326
          Francine Herrmann and   
            Maurice Margenstern   A universal cellular automaton in the
                                  hyperbolic plane . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--364
                      K. Sutner   Cellular automata and intermediate
                                  degrees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--375

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 296, Number 3, March 14, 2003

        Jan Van den Bussche and   
                   Victor Vianu   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--377
                  Leonid Libkin   Expressive power of SQL  . . . . . . . . 379--404
             Marcelo Arenas and   
          Leopoldo Bertossi and   
               Jan Chomicki and   
                     Xin He and   
             Vijay Raghavan and   
                 Jeremy Spinrad   Scalar aggregation in inconsistent
                                  databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--434
               Jeff Edmonds and   
                 Jarek Gryz and   
             Dongming Liang and   
         Renée J. Miller   Mining for empty spaces in large data
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--452
          Gösta Grahne and   
                     Alex Thomo   Algebraic rewritings for optimizing
                                  regular path queries . . . . . . . . . . 453--471
                  William Hesse   The dynamic complexity of transitive
                                  closure is in DynTC$^0$  . . . . . . . . 473--485
               Chung Keung Poon   Dynamic orthogonal range queries in OLAP 487--510
            Rakesh K. Sinha and   
             Randeep Bhatia and   
                 Chung-Min Chen   Asymptotically optimal declustering
                                  schemes for $2$-dim range queries  . . . 511--534
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 297, Number 1--3, March 17, 2003

                       A. Viola   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                     Ali Akhavi   The optimal LLL algorithm is still
                                  polynomial in fixed dimension  . . . . . 3--23
         Pedro Berrizbeitia and   
    Mauricio Odremán and   
                Juan Tena Ayuso   Primality test for numbers $M$ with a
                                  large power of $5$ dividing $ M^4 - 1$   25--36
             Olivier Carton and   
                     Max Michel   Unambiguous Büchi automata  . . . . . . . 37--81
          Serafino Cicerone and   
        Gabriele Di Stefano and   
           Daniele Frigioni and   
                  Umberto Nanni   A fully dynamic algorithm for
                                  distributed shortest paths . . . . . . . 83--102
              Myra B. Cohen and   
            Charles J. Colbourn   Optimal and pessimal orderings of
                                  Steiner triple systems in disk arrays    103--117
             Sylvie Corteel and   
       Mario Valencia-Pabon and   
            Dani\`ele Gardy and   
            Dominique Barth and   
                   Alain Denise   The permutation-path coloring problem on
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--143
 Celina M. H. de Figueiredo and   
       João Meidanis and   
Célia Picinin de Mello and   
                   Carmen Ortiz   Decompositions for the edge colouring of
                                  reduced indifference graphs  . . . . . . 145--155
   Maribel Fernández and   
                     Ian Mackie   Operational equivalence for interaction
                                  nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--181
    David Fernández-Baca   Decomposable multi-parameter matroid
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 183--198
     Joachim von zur Gathen and   
            Thomas Lücking   Subresultants revisited  . . . . . . . . 199--239
             Andreas Goerdt and   
                    Mike Molloy   Analysis of edge deletion processes on
                                  faulty random regular graphs . . . . . . 241--260
           Peter J. Grabner and   
         Arnold Knopfmacher and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Combinatorics of geometrically
                                  distributed random variables: run
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--270
       Claudio Gutiérrez   Equations in free semigroups with
                                  involution and their relation to
                                  equations in free groups . . . . . . . . 271--280
             Valentine Kabanets   Almost $k$-wise independence and hard
                                  Boolean functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 281--295
             F. Laroussinie and   
            Ph. Schnoebelen and   
                     M. Turuani   On the expressivity and complexity of
                                  quantitative branching-time temporal
                                  logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--315
               Guy Louchard and   
                 John W. Turner   Generalized covariances of
                                  multi-dimensional Brownian excursion
                                  local times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
                   Richard Mayr   Undecidable problems in unreliable
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--354
             F. K. Miyazawa and   
                 Y. Wakabayashi   Cube packing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
                    Lucia Moura   Rank inequalities and separation
                                  algorithms for packing designs and
                                  sparse triple systems  . . . . . . . . . 367--384
               Jaroslav Opatrny   Uniform multi-hop all-to-all optical
                                  routings in rings  . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397
                  Brett Stevens   The anti-Oberwolfach solution: pancyclic
                                  $2$-factorizations of complete graphs    399--424
             Stephen Taylor and   
                Marianne Durand   Emerging behavior as binary search trees
                                  are symmetrically updated  . . . . . . . 425--445
         Brigitte Vallée   Dynamical analysis of a class of
                                  Euclidean algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 447--486
                   Michele Zito   Small maximal matchings in random graphs 487--507
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--510
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 298, Number 1, April 4, 2003

          Takeshi Shinohara and   
              Carl H. Smith and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
               Akihiro Yamamoto   Hypothesis finding based on upward
                                  refinement of residue hypotheses . . . . 5--19
           Hiroshi Sakamoto and   
             Kouichi Hirata and   
                 Hiroki Arimura   Learning elementary formal systems with
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--50
              Steffen Lange and   
             Gunter Grieser and   
                Klaus P. Jantke   Advanced elementary formal systems . . . 51--70
              Steffen Lange and   
                  Jochen Nessel   Decision lists over regular patterns . . 71--87
          Yasuhito Mukouchi and   
                    Masako Sato   Refutable language learning with a
                                  neighbor system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--110
                Sanjay Jain and   
                Efim Kinber and   
              Rolf Wiehagen and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   On learning of functions refutably . . . 111--143
            Wolfgang Merkle and   
                  Frank Stephan   Refuting learning revisited  . . . . . . 145--177
               Takashi Yokomori   Polynomial-time identification of very
                                  simple grammars from positive data . . . 179--206
             Seishi Okamoto and   
                Nobuhiro Yugami   Effects of domain characteristics on
                                  instance-based learning algorithms . . . 207--233
             Tatsuya Akutsu and   
              Satoru Kuhara and   
             Osamu Maruyama and   
                  Satoru Miyano   Identification of genetic networks by
                                  strategic gene disruptions and gene
                                  overexpressions under a boolean model    235--251
                Takuya Kida and   
          Tetsuya Matsumoto and   
             Yusuke Shibata and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
                 Setsuo Arikawa   Collage system: a unifying framework for
                                  compressed pattern matching  . . . . . . 253--272
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 298, Number 2, April 8, 2003

                  David Wolfram   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
               Paula Severi and   
               Fer-Jan de Vries   Infinitary lambda calculus and
                                  discrimination of Berarducci trees . . . 275--302
                 Rod Downey and   
                  Lance Fortnow   Uniformly hard languages . . . . . . . . 303--315
         Michael R. Fellows and   
             Catherine McCartin   On the parametric complexity of
                                  schedules to minimize tardy tasks  . . . 317--324
           Bakhadyr Khoussainov   On algebraic and logical specifications
                                  of classes of regular languages  . . . . 325--346
           Padmanabhan Krishnan   Automatic synthesis of a subclass of
                                  schedulers in timed systems  . . . . . . 347--363
                Eric Martin and   
                Arun Sharma and   
                  Frank Stephan   Learning power and language
                                  expressiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--383

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 298, Number 3, April 11, 2003

              Furio Honsell and   
                 Marino Miculan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
        Martín Abadi and   
                 Bruno Blanchet   Secrecy types for asymmetric
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--415
                 Luca Aceto and   
  Zoltán Ésik and   
Anna Ingólfsdóttir   Equational theories of tropical
                                  semirings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--469
              Michel Bidoit and   
             Rolf Hennicker and   
                 Alexander Kurz   Observational logic, constructor-based
                                  logic, and their duality . . . . . . . . 471--510
           Miko\laj Boja\'nczyk   The finite graph problem for two-way
                                  alternating automata . . . . . . . . . . 511--528
                 Nadia Busi and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   Expired data collection in shared
                                  dataspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--556
         Cristiano Calcagno and   
              Peter O'Hearn and   
                 Richard Bornat   Program logic and equivalence in the
                                  presence of garbage collection . . . . . 557--581
               Gerwin Klein and   
                  Tobias Nipkow   Verified bytecode verifiers  . . . . . . 583--626
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--628


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 299, Number 1--3, April 18, 2003

                Bruno Courcelle   The monadic second-order logic of graphs
                                  XIV: uniformly sparse graphs and edge
                                  set quantifications  . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
            Letizia Magnoni and   
            Massimo Mirolli and   
            Franco Montagna and   
                    Giulia Simi   PAC learning of probability
                                  distributions over a discrete domain . . 37--63
              Julio Aracena and   
                     Eric Goles   Complexity of perceptron recognition for
                                  a class of geometric patterns  . . . . . 65--79
                        M. Kiwi   Algebraic testing and weight
                                  distributions of codes . . . . . . . . . 81--106
                    F. K. Hwang   A survey on multi-loop networks  . . . . 107--121
            Chiara Epifanio and   
              Michel Koskas and   
                Filippo Mignosi   On a conjecture on bidimensional words   123--150
                  David R. Wood   Optimal three-dimensional orthogonal
                                  graph drawing in the general position
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--178
       Miklós Bartha and   
     Miklós Krész   Structuring the elementary components of
                                  graphs having a perfect internal
                                  matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--210
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                 Guohui Lin and   
                Jianjun Wen and   
                    Dong Xu and   
                   Jinbo Xu and   
                        Ying Xu   Approximation algorithms for NMR
                                  spectral peak assignment . . . . . . . . 211--229
             R. Baeza-Yates and   
          J. Gabarró and   
                   X. Messeguer   Fringe analysis of synchronized parallel
                                  insertion algorithms in $2$--$3$ Trees   231--271
            Subhas C. Nandy and   
                 Sandip Das and   
              Partha P. Goswami   An efficient $k$ nearest neighbors
                                  searching algorithm for a query line . . 273--288
              Dahlia Malkhi and   
             Yishay Mansour and   
              Michael K. Reiter   Diffusion without false rumors: on
                                  propagating updates in a Byzantine
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--306
              Markus Holzer and   
                Pierre McKenzie   Alternating and empty alternating
                                  auxiliary stack automata . . . . . . . . 307--326
                 Olivier Finkel   On omega context free languages which
                                  are Borel sets of infinite rank  . . . . 327--346
                 Dietrich Kuske   Towards a language theory for infinite
                                  N-free pomsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--386
        Kjell Lemström and   
                    Lauri Hella   Approximate pattern matching and
                                  transitive closure logics  . . . . . . . 387--412
                   Zhe Dang and   
       Pierluigi San Pietro and   
            Richard A. Kemmerer   Presburger liveness verification of
                                  discrete timed automata  . . . . . . . . 413--438
               Leah Epstein and   
                   Rob van Stee   Lower bounds for on-line single-machine
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--450
   Michaël Rusinowitch and   
                Mathieu Turuani   Protocol insecurity with a finite number
                                  of sessions and composed keys is
                                  NP-complete  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--475
             Francesca Fiorenzi   Cellular automata and strongly
                                  irreducible shifts of finite type  . . . 477--493
 Shankara Narayanan Krishna and   
                  Raghavan Rama   Breaking DES using P systems . . . . . . 495--508
                Bruce W. Watson   A new regular grammar pattern matching
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--521
               Bruno Durand and   
            Enrico Formenti and   
          Zsuzsanna Róka   Number-conserving cellular automata I:
                                  decidability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--535
           Lars Engebretsen and   
                 Jonas Holmerin   Towards optimal lower bounds for clique
                                  and chromatic number . . . . . . . . . . 537--584
                Alain Giorgetti   An asymptotic study for path reversal    585--602
                    Marcel Wild   Idempotent and co-idempotent stack
                                  filters and min--max operators . . . . . 603--631
                  H. Fernau and   
                  M. Holzer and   
                      R. Freund   Hybrid modes in cooperating distributed
                                  grammar systems: combining the $t$-mode
                                  with the modes $ \leq k$ and $ = k$  . . 633--662
              Alexander Okhotin   On the closure properties of linear
                                  conjunctive languages  . . . . . . . . . 663--685
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                       Zhe Dang   Eliminating the storage tape in
                                  reachability constructions . . . . . . . 687--706
          Adam L. Buchsbaum and   
         Raffaele Giancarlo and   
           Jeffery R. Westbrook   On finding common neighborhoods in
                                  massive graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707--718
          Michael U. Gerber and   
                  Daniel Kobler   Algorithms for vertex-partitioning
                                  problems on graphs with fixed
                                  clique-width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--734
              P.-C. Héam   Some complexity results for polynomial
                                  rational expressions . . . . . . . . . . 735--741
                      Y. J. Liu   Regular component decomposition of
                                  regular languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 743--749
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
            Miriam Di Ianni and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   The minimum broadcast range assignment
                                  problem on linear multi-hop wireless
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--761
                Wojciech Rytter   On maximal suffixes and constant-space
                                  linear-time versions of KMP algorithm    763--774
        Pedro García and   
           José Ruiz and   
        Manuel Vazquez de Parga   Bilateral locally testable languages . . 775--783
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             György Vaszil   PC grammar systems with five
                                  context-free components generate all
                                  recursively enumerable languages . . . . 785--794
              Leslie G. Valiant   Corrigendum to ``Expressiveness of
                                  matchgates'': [Theoret. Comput. Sci.
                                  289(1) (2002) 457--471]  . . . . . . . . 795--795
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797--799
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 300, Number 1--3, May 7, 2003

                Peter Aczel and   
  Ji í Adámek and   
              Stefan Milius and   
            Ji í Velebil   Infinite trees and completely iterative
                                  theories: a coalgebraic view . . . . . . 1--45
          Gian Luca Cattani and   
                  Glynn Winskel   Presheaf models for CCS-like languages   47--89
       Stacy E. Finkelstein and   
                Peter Freyd and   
                   James Lipton   A new framework for declarative
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--160
      Otmane A\"\it Mohamed and   
                Xiaoyu Song and   
                   Eduard Cerny   On the non-termination of M-based
                                  abstract state enumeration . . . . . . . 161--179
                Axel Wabenhorst   Induction in the Timed Interval Calculus 181--207
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Intersection of finitely generated
                                  congruences over term algebra  . . . . . 209--234
          Stéphane Demri   A polynomial space construction of
                                  tree-like models for logics with local
                                  chains of modal connectives  . . . . . . 235--258
          Raymond Devillers and   
              Hanna Klaudel and   
              Robert-C. Riemann   General parameterised refinement and
                                  recursion for the M-net calculus . . . . 259--300
           Abdelwaheb Ayari and   
                David Basin and   
                 Felix Klaedtke   Decision procedures for inductive
                                  Boolean functions based on alternating
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--329
           Alexander Rabinovich   Automata over continuous time  . . . . . 331--363
               Lorenzo Carlucci   A new proof-theoretic proof of the
                                  independence of Kirby--Paris' Hydra
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--378
           Andrew D. Gordon and   
                   Alan Jeffrey   Typing correspondence assertions for
                                  communication protocols  . . . . . . . . 379--409
                 Luca Aceto and   
            Patricia Bouyer and   
    Augusto Burgueño and   
                  Kim G. Larsen   The power of reachability testing for
                                  timed automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--475
                       R. David   Decidability results for primitive
                                  recursive algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 477--504
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--505
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--519
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 301, Number 1--3, May 14, 2003

         Yiannis N. Moschovakis   On primitive recursive algorithms and
                                  the greatest common divisor function . . 1--30
              A. V. Kelarev and   
                O. V. Sokratova   On congruences of automata defined by
                                  directed graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43
               Martin Sauerhoff   Approximation of boolean functions by
                                  combinatorial rectangles . . . . . . . . 45--78
            Masashi Katsura and   
             Yuji Kobayashi and   
                 Friedrich Otto   Undecidable properties of monoids with
                                  word problem solvable in linear time.
                                  Part II. Cross sections and homological
                                  and homotopical finiteness conditions    79--101
        Kyriakos N. Sgarbas and   
         Nikos D. Fakotakis and   
           George K. Kokkinakis   Optimal insertion in deterministic DAWGs 103--117
 Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis and   
     Constantinos J. Siniolakis   Architecture independent parallel
                                  selection with applications to parallel
                                  priority queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--142
                   Richard Nock   Complexity in the case against accuracy
                                  estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--165
       Véronique Terrier   Two-dimensional cellular automata and
                                  deterministic on-line tessalation
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186
               Arto Salomaa and   
              Petr Sosík   Watson--Crick D0L systems: the power of
                                  one transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--200
           Claudio Ferretti and   
            Giancarlo Mauri and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
                Claudio Zandron   On three variants of rewriting P systems 201--215
                 Olivier Finkel   Ambiguity in omega context free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--270
                  R. Boliac and   
                       V. Lozin   Independent domination in finitely
                                  defined classes of graphs  . . . . . . . 271--284
                  Manfred Peter   The asymptotic distribution of elements
                                  in automatic sequences . . . . . . . . . 285--312
       Andries van der Walt and   
                   Sigrid Ewert   A property of random context picture
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--320
                 John Ellis and   
               Frank Ruskey and   
                 Joe Sawada and   
                  Jamie Simpson   Euclidean strings  . . . . . . . . . . . 321--340
                Enrico Formenti   On the sensitivity of additive cellular
                                  automata in Besicovitch topologies . . . 341--354
            Paola Flocchini and   
         Alessandro Roncato and   
                 Nicola Santoro   Computing on anonymous networks with
                                  sense of direction . . . . . . . . . . . 355--379
               Chin Lung Lu and   
            Sheng-Lung Peng and   
                  Chuan Yi Tang   Efficient minus and signed domination in
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--397
               Nguyen Huong Lam   Completing comma-free codes  . . . . . . 399--415
                   Igor Dolinka   The multiplicative fragment of the Yanov
                                  equational theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
            Leonidas Georgiadis   Arborescence optimization problems
                                  solvable by Edmonds' algorithm . . . . . 427--437
                Marcy Barge and   
            Beverly Diamond and   
                 Charles Holton   Asymptotic orbits of primitive
                                  substitutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--450
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           Akihiro Matsuura and   
                  Mike Paterson   A family of NFAs which need $
                                  2^n$-deterministic states  . . . . . . . 451--462
                Van Bang Le and   
                 Bert Randerath   On stable cutsets in line graphs . . . . 463--475
                     Joe Sawada   A fast algorithm to generate necklaces
                                  with fixed content . . . . . . . . . . . 477--489
                   L. H. Harper   On the bandwidth of a Hamming graph  . . 491--498
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 302, Number 1--3, June 13, 2003

                    G. Richomme   Conjugacy and episturmian morphisms  . . 1--34
                Peter Damaschke   Nearly optimal strategies for special
                                  cases of on-line capital investment  . . 35--44
                Alois Panholzer   Analysis of multiple quickselect
                                  variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--91
                       Zhe Dang   Pushdown timed automata: a binary
                                  reachability characterization and safety
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--121
                    Jerzy Mycka   -Recursion and infinite limits . . . . . 123--133
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Term rewriting restricted to ground
                                  terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--165
                   S. Brlek and   
                   A. Ladouceur   A note on differentiable palindromes . . 167--178
            Rocco De Nicola and   
                   Anna Labella   Nondeterministic regular expressions as
                                  solutions of equational systems  . . . . 179--189
                  Jingchao Chen   Optimizing stable in-place merging . . . 191--210
                Wojciech Rytter   Application of Lempel--Ziv factorization
                                  to the approximation of grammar-based
                                  compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222
              Dong Kyue Kim and   
                 Yoo Ah Kim and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Generalizations of suffix arrays to
                                  multi-dimensional matrices . . . . . . . 223--238
                   Klaus Jansen   Approximate strong separation with
                                  application in fractional graph coloring
                                  and preemptive scheduling  . . . . . . . 239--256
          George Karakostas and   
          Richard J. Lipton and   
              Anastasios Viglas   On the complexity of intersecting finite
                                  state automata and versus  . . . . . . . 257--274
               Zhuhan Jiang and   
             Olivier de Vel and   
                    Bruce Litow   Unification and extension of weighted
                                  finite automata applicable to image
                                  compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--294
Pál Dömösi and   
     Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and   
                 John L. Rhodes   Finite semigroups, feedback, and the
                                  Letichevsky criteria on non-empty words
                                  in finite automata . . . . . . . . . . . 295--317
         Aleksei V. Fishkin and   
                 Guochuan Zhang   On maximizing the throughput of
                                  multiprocessor tasks . . . . . . . . . . 319--335
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
               Angelo Monti and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   Distributed broadcast in radio networks
                                  of unknown topology  . . . . . . . . . . 337--364
              Alexander Okhotin   A recognition and parsing algorithm for
                                  arbitrary conjunctive grammars . . . . . 365--399
              Dong Kyue Kim and   
                 Yoo Ah Kim and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Generalizations of suffix arrays to
                                  multi-dimensional matrices . . . . . . . 401--416
             Nadia Creignou and   
      Hervé Daudé   Generalized satisfiability problems:
                                  minimal elements and phase transitions   417--430
            Alberto Bertoni and   
         Christian Choffrut and   
      Massimiliano Goldwurm and   
                Violetta Lonati   On the number of occurrences of a symbol
                                  in words of regular languages  . . . . . 431--456
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                  Harald Hempel   P-immune sets with holes lack
                                  self-reducibility properties . . . . . . 457--466
                    Till Tantau   Query complexity of membership
                                  comparable sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--474
              Therese Biedl and   
           Jonathan F. Buss and   
            Erik D. Demaine and   
          Martin L. Demaine and   
   Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi and   
               Tomá Vina   Palindrome recognition using a
                                  multidimensional tape  . . . . . . . . . 475--480
                   Juha Honkala   Decidability results for Watson--Crick
                                  D0L systems with nonregular triggers . . 481--488
               Artur Czumaj and   
         Leszek G\casieniec and   
              Daya Ram Gaur and   
        Ramesh Krishnamurti and   
            Wojciech Rytter and   
                   Michele Zito   On polynomial-time approximation
                                  algorithms for the variable length
                                  scheduling problem . . . . . . . . . . . 489--495
                  Marek Chrobak   Errata to: ``Finite Automata and Unary
                                  Languages'': [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 47
                                  (1986) 149--158] . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--498
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 303, Number 1, June 28, 2003

        Dani\`ele Beauquier and   
             Yuri Matijassevich   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
        Dani\`ele Beauquier and   
          Dimitri Grigoriev and   
              Yuri Matiyasevich   Biography of A. O. Slissenko . . . . . . 3--5
                  A. Arnold and   
                 A. Vincent and   
                 I. Walukiewicz   Games for synthesis of controllers with
                                  partial observation  . . . . . . . . . . 7--34
                 A. Carbone and   
                      M. Gromov   Functional labels and syntactic entropy
                                  on DNA strings and proteins  . . . . . . 35--51
   Patrick Cégielski and   
    François Heroult and   
                  Denis Richard   On the amplitude of intervals of natural
                                  numbers whose every element has a common
                                  prime divisor with at least an extremity 53--62
           Michael Dekhtyar and   
         Alexander Dikovsky and   
                    Mars Valiev   On feasible cases of checking
                                  multi-agent systems behavior . . . . . . 63--81
             Dima Grigoriev and   
               Edward A. Hirsch   Algebraic proof systems over formulas    83--102
         Ir\`ene Guessarian and   
  Eugénie Foustoucos and   
        Theodore Andronikos and   
                    Foto Afrati   On temporal logic versus datalog . . . . 103--133
             Roman Kolpakov and   
               Gregory Kucherov   Finding approximate repetitions under
                                  Hamming distance . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--156
             J. A. Makowsky and   
            J. P. Mariño   Tree-width and the monadic quantifier
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
                   L. Maksimova   Complexity of some problems in positive
                                  and related calculi  . . . . . . . . . . 171--185
                       G. Mints   A termination proof for epsilon
                                  substitution using partial derivations   187--213
          Damian Niwi\'nski and   
               Igor Walukiewicz   A gap property of deterministic tree
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--231
          Alexander A. Razborov   Resolution lower bounds for the weak
                                  functional pigeonhole principle  . . . . 233--243
            Sergei Soloviev and   
               Vladimir Orevkov   On categorical equivalence of
                                  Gentzen-style derivations in IMLL  . . . 245--260
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 303, Number 2--3, July 15, 2003

                  B. Durand and   
                     L. Vuillon   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--265
                    James Propp   Generalized domino-shuffling . . . . . . 267--301
                       Igor Pak   Tile invariants: new horizons  . . . . . 303--331
                 J. C. Fournier   Combinatorics of perfect matchings in
                                  plane bipartite graphs and application
                                  to tilings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--351
                 Nicolas Thiant   An $ O(n \log n) $-algorithm for finding
                                  a domino tiling of a plane picture whose
                                  number of holes is bounded . . . . . . . 353--374
       Sébastien Desreux   An algorithm to generate exactly once
                                  every tiling with lozenges of a domain   375--408
                  Fumei Lam and   
                   Lior Pachter   Forcing numbers of stop signs  . . . . . 409--416
        Dani\`ele Beauquier and   
                  Maurice Nivat   A codicity undecidable problem in the
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--430
        Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs   Data structures and algorithms for
                                  tilings I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--445
          Thomas L. Fitzkee and   
           Kevin G. Hockett and   
        E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.   A weakly mixing tiling dynamical system
                                  with a smooth model  . . . . . . . . . . 447--462
                    Daniel Lenz   Hierarchical structures in Sturmian
                                  dynamical systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 463--490
         Christiane Frougny and   
         Jean-Pierre Gazeau and   
                 Rudolf Krejcar   Additive and multiplicative properties
                                  of point sets based on beta-integers . . 491--516
            Krzysztof Lorys and   
            Katarzyna E. Paluch   New approximation algorithm for RTILE
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--537
                  Kari Eloranta   The bounded eight-vertex model . . . . . 539--552
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--554


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 304, Number 1--3, July 28, 2003

                An. Muchnik and   
                 A. Semenov and   
                     M. Ushakov   Almost periodic sequences  . . . . . . . 1--33
              Sara Brunetti and   
                   Alain Daurat   An algorithm reconstructing convex
                                  lattice sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--57
               Guy Louchard and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Ascending runs of sequences of
                                  geometrically distributed random
                                  variables: a probabilistic analysis  . . 59--86
              Joong Chae Na and   
         Alberto Apostolico and   
       Costas S. Iliopoulos and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Truncated suffix trees and their
                                  application to data compression  . . . . 87--101
              Marco Carpentieri   On the simulation of quantum Turing
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--128
        Maciej Li\'skiewicz and   
          Mitsunori Ogihara and   
                 Seinosuke Toda   The complexity of counting self-avoiding
                                  walks in subgraphs of two-dimensional
                                  grids and hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . 129--156
        Antonín Ku\vcera   The complexity of bisimilarity-checking
                                  for one-counter processes  . . . . . . . 157--183
                    Jia Lee and   
             Katsunobu Imai and   
                 Kenichi Morita   Simulation of one-dimensional cellular
                                  automata by uniquely parallel parsable
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--200
                       Li Sheng   $2$-Role assignments on triangulated
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--214
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
       Arvind Krishnamurthy and   
                 Rahul Sami and   
                  Scott Shenker   Hardness results for multicast cost
                                  sharing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--236
             Guangting Chen and   
                   Guoliang Xue   A PTAS for weight constrained Steiner
                                  trees in series--parallel graphs . . . . 237--247
              Karell Bertet and   
               Jens Gustedt and   
                  Michel Morvan   Weak-order extensions of an order  . . . 249--268
            Enrico Formenti and   
                Aristide Grange   Number conserving cellular automata II:
                                  dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--290
        Kosaburo Hashiguchi and   
               Yoshito Wada and   
                    Shuji Jimbo   Regular binoid expressions and regular
                                  binoid languages . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--313
Zoltán Fülöp and   
                   Zsolt Gazdag   Shape preserving top-down tree
                                  transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--339
             Pilu Crescenzi and   
          Alberto Del Lungo and   
             Roberto Grossi and   
                 Elena Lodi and   
                Linda Pagli and   
                 Gianluca Rossi   Text sparsification via local maxima . . 341--364
               Wei-Ting Cao and   
                   Zhi-Ying Wen   Some properties of the factors of
                                  Sturmian sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 365--385
              Masahiko Fukuyama   A Nim game played on graphs  . . . . . . 387--399
              Masahiko Fukuyama   A Nim game played on graphs II . . . . . 401--419
           Yassine Hacha\"\ichi   A descriptive complexity approach to the
                                  linear hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--429
              John M. Hitchcock   Fractal dimension and logarithmic loss
                                  unpredictability . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--441
                    V. Y. Popov   The approximate period problem for DNA
                                  alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--447
Sándor Vágvölgyi   On ground tree transformations and
                                  congruences induced by tree automata . . 449--459
              Xiaoyan Cheng and   
                 Xiufeng Du and   
                  Manki Min and   
                Hung Q. Ngo and   
                    Lu Ruan and   
                Jianhua Sun and   
                       Weili Wu   Super link-connectivity of iterated line
                                  digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--469
            Erik D. Demaine and   
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
                   J. Ian Munro   On universally easy classes for
                                  NP-complete problems . . . . . . . . . . 471--476
            William Gasarch and   
                 Evan Golub and   
             Aravind Srinivasan   When does a random Robin Hood win? . . . 477--484
             Pablo Dartnell and   
            Alejandro Maass and   
              Fernando Schwartz   Combinatorial constructions associated
                                  to the dynamics of one-sided cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--497
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--500
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 305, Number 1--3, August 18, 2003

            Ralph Kopperman and   
           Michael B. Smyth and   
                  Dieter Spreen   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Nina Amenta and   
           Thomas J. Peters and   
           Alexander C. Russell   Computational topology: ambient isotopic
                                  approximation of $2$-manifolds . . . . . 3--15
                  Vasco Brattka   Recursive quasi-metric spaces  . . . . . 17--42
              Vasco Brattka and   
                   Gero Presser   Computability on subsets of metric
                                  spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--76
            Thierry Coquand and   
                Guo-Qiang Zhang   A representation of stably compact
                                  spaces, and patch topology . . . . . . . 77--84
                  Giovanni Curi   Constructive metrisability in point-free
                                  topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--109
                  Antony Galton   A generalized topological view of motion
                                  in discrete space  . . . . . . . . . . . 111--134
               K. A. Hardie and   
                 S. Salbany and   
         J. J. C. Vermeulen and   
                  P. J. Witbooi   A non-Hausdorff quaternion
                                  multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--158
              Reinhold Heckmann   A non-topological view of dcpos as
                                  convergence spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
             Pascal Hitzler and   
             Anthony Karel Seda   Generalized metrics and uniquely
                                  determined logic programs  . . . . . . . 187--219
                   T. Yung Kong   The Khalimsky topologies are precisely
                                  those simply connected topologies on $
                                  \mathbb {Z}^n $ whose connected sets
                                  include all $ 2^n$-connected sets but no
                                  $ (3^n - 1)$-disconnected sets . . . . . 221--235
              Ralph Kummetz and   
                 Dietrich Kuske   The topology of Mazurkiewicz traces  . . 237--258
           Jimmie D. Lawson and   
                         Bin Lu   Riemann and Edalat integration on
                                  domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--275
                    Keye Martin   Ideal models of spaces . . . . . . . . . 277--297
                    Keye Martin   The regular spaces with countably based
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--310
              Pedro Resende and   
                 Steven Vickers   Localic sup-lattices and tropological
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--346
                Giovanni Sambin   Some points in formal topology . . . . . 347--408
              M. P. Schellekens   A characterization of partial
                                  metrizability: domains are quantifiable  409--432
              Peter M. Schuster   Unique existence, approximate solutions,
                                  and countable choice . . . . . . . . . . 433--455
                    J. \vSlapal   Closure operations for digital topology  457--471
                L. S. V\^\i and   
                  D. S. Bridges   A constructive theory of point-set
                                  nearness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--489
                 Julian Webster   Cell complexes, oriented matroids and
                                  digital geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--502
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--503
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 306, Number 1--3, September 5, 2003

                     G. E. Farr   The Go polynomials of a graph  . . . . . 1--18
                 Mark Daley and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                      Lila Kari   Closure and decidability properties of
                                  some language classes with respect to
                                  ciliate bio-operations . . . . . . . . . 19--38
            Dietmar Wätjen   Function-dependent teams in eco-grammar
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--53
               Chin Lung Lu and   
              Chuan Yi Tang and   
          Richard Chia-Tung Lee   The full Steiner tree problem  . . . . . 55--67
       József Balogh and   
     János A. Csirik and   
                Yuval Ishai and   
               Eyal Kushilevitz   Private computation using a PEZ
                                  dispenser  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
               M. H. Albert and   
             M. D. Atkinson and   
                    N. Ru\vskuc   Regular closed sets of permutations  . . 85--100
              Petr Sosík   Watson--Crick D0L systems: generative
                                  power and undecidable problems . . . . . 101--112
            \cStefan Andrei and   
  Salvador Valerio Cavadini and   
                  Wei-Ngan Chin   A new algorithm for regularizing
                                  one-letter context-free grammars . . . . 113--122
                Liang Zhang and   
                 K. P. Shum and   
                   Shou-Li Peng   Completion of codes with finite
                                  bi-decoding delays . . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
                Tetsu Iwata and   
           Tomonobu Yoshino and   
                 Kaoru Kurosawa   Non-cryptographic primitive for
                                  pseudorandom permutation . . . . . . . . 139--154
             Nissim Francez and   
               Michael Kaminski   An algebraic characterization of
                                  deterministic regular languages over
                                  infinite alphabets . . . . . . . . . . . 155--175
          Klaus Ambos-Spies and   
            Wolfgang Merkle and   
                Jan Reimann and   
          Sebastiaan A. Terwijn   Almost complete sets . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
           L. A. Bunimovich and   
              D. M. Kreslavskiy   Lorentz gas cellular automata on graphs  195--221
          Annalisa De Bonis and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Constructions of generalized
                                  superimposed codes with applications to
                                  group testing and conflict resolution in
                                  multiple access channels . . . . . . . . 223--243
                  Laurent Rosaz   The word problem for congruences is
                                  NP-hard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--268
      Alexis Bienvenüe and   
        Olivier François   Global convergence for evolution
                                  strategies in spherical problems: some
                                  simple proofs and difficulties . . . . . 269--289
            Sylvain Gravier and   
               Mehdi Mhalla and   
                   Eric Tannier   On a modular domination game . . . . . . 291--303
               Leah Epstein and   
        Csanád Imreh and   
                   Rob van Stee   More on weighted servers or F is better
                                  than L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--317
                 Eric Angel and   
           Evripidis Bampis and   
              Alexander Kononov   On the approximate tradeoff for
                                  bicriteria batching and parallel machine
                                  scheduling problems  . . . . . . . . . . 319--338
    Ruy Luiz Milidiú and   
         Artur Alves Pessoa and   
             Eduardo Sany Laber   The complexity of makespan minimization
                                  for pipeline transportation  . . . . . . 339--351
Ji\vrí \vSíma and   
                  Pekka Orponen   Exponential transients in
                                  continuous-time Liapunov systems . . . . 353--372
                Lucian Ilie and   
                       Sheng Yu   Reducing NFAs by invariant equivalences  373--390
     Vânia M. F. Dias and   
    Guilherme D. da Fonseca and   
 Celina M. H. de Figueiredo and   
           Jayme L. Szwarcfiter   The stable marriage problem with
                                  restricted pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--405
          Patricia A. Evans and   
            Andrew D. Smith and   
                H. Todd Wareham   On the complexity of finding common
                                  approximate substrings . . . . . . . . . 407--430
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
           Robert W. Irving and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           David F. Manlove and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
            Yasufumi Morita and   
                    Sandy Scott   Approximability results for stable
                                  marriage problems with ties  . . . . . . 431--447
           Alexander Meduna and   
                  Martin \vSvec   Forbidding ET0L grammars . . . . . . . . 449--469
               Serge Dulucq and   
                 Laurent Tichit   RNA secondary structure comparison:
                                  exact analysis of the Zhang--Shasha tree
                                  edit algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--484
       Víctor Dalmau and   
                  Peter Jeavons   Learnability of quantified formulas  . . 485--511
       René Ndoundam and   
               Maurice Tchuente   Exponential transient length generated
                                  by a neuronal recurrence equation  . . . 513--533
                     A. E. Frid   Arithmetical complexity of symmetric D0L
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--542
               Klaus Jansen and   
              Roberto Solis-Oba   An asymptotic fully polynomial time
                                  approximation scheme for bin covering    543--551
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--554
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 307, Number 1, September 26, 2003

               J. Néraud   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
         Jean-Paul Allouche and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   The ring of $k$-regular sequences, II    3--29
                   Ali Aberkane   Words whose complexity satisfies . . . . 31--46
              Boris Adamczewski   Balances for fixed points of primitive
                                  substitutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--75
            D. S. Ananichev and   
               A. Cherubini and   
                   M. V. Volkov   Image reducing words and subgroups of
                                  free groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein and   
           Antonio Mach\`\i and   
               Fabio Scarabotti   On the entropy of regular languages  . . 93--102
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein and   
                 Wolfgang Woess   Growth-sensitivity of context-free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116
                   Wit Fory and   
            Tomasz Krawczyk and   
              James A. Anderson   Semiretracts---a counterexample and some
                                  results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--127
                Yannick Guesnet   On maximal synchronous codes . . . . . . 129--138
                 Tero Harju and   
                   Dirk Nowotka   On the independence of equations in
                                  three variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--172
         Christophe Hohlweg and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   Lyndon words, permutations and trees . . 173--178
  Patrice Séébold   Lyndon factorization of the Prouhet
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
                 Pedro V. Silva   The homomorphism problem for trace
                                  monoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--215
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 307, Number 2, October 7, 2003

             Elena Barcucci and   
              Alberto Del Lungo   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
            Didier Arqu\`es and   
                   Anne Micheli   A generalization of the language of
                                  ukasiewicz coding rooted planar
                                  hypermaps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239
           Nicolas Bonichon and   
                 Mohamed Mosbah   Watermelon uniform random generation
                                  with applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou and   
              Marko Petkov\vsek   Walks confined in a quadrant are not
                                  always D-finite  . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
            Michel Bousquet and   
              Cedric Chauve and   
            Gilbert Labelle and   
                  Pierre Leroux   Two bijective proofs for the arborescent
                                  form of the Good--Lagrange formula and
                                  some applications to colored rooted
                                  trees and cacti  . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--302
             L. S. Chandran and   
                  L. Ibarra and   
                  F. Ruskey and   
                      J. Sawada   Generating and characterizing the
                                  perfect elimination orderings of a
                                  chordal graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--317
             Emeric Deutsch and   
               Helmut Prodinger   A bijection between directed
                                  column-convex polyominoes and ordered
                                  trees of height at most three  . . . . . 319--325
                 L. Ferrari and   
                E. Grazzini and   
                 E. Pergola and   
                     S. Rinaldi   Some bijective results about the area of
                                  Schröder paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--335
                 G. Labelle and   
                 C. Lamathe and   
                      P. Leroux   A classification of plane and planar
                                  $2$-trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--363
                       Marc Noy   Graphs determined by polynomial
                                  invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--384
        Dominique Poulalhon and   
               Gilles Schaeffer   A bijection for triangulations of a
                                  polygon with interior points and
                                  multiple edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--401
               Louis W. Shapiro   Bijections and the Riordan group . . . . 403--413
             Vincent Vajnovszki   A loopless algorithm for generating the
                                  permutations of a multiset . . . . . . . 415--431
           Markus Vöge and   
            Anthony J. Guttmann   On the number of hexagonal polyominoes   433--453

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 307, Number 3, October 14, 2003

          Josep Díaz and   
                      Tom Payne   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
                   L. H. Harper   Accidental combinatorist, an
                                  autobiography  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--472
         Sergei L. Bezrukov and   
           Robert Elsässer   Edge-isoperimetric problems for
                                  cartesian powers of regular graphs . . . 473--492
Béla Bollobás and   
                    Imre Leader   Union of shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--502
         Tiziana Calamoneri and   
           Annalisa Massini and   
                   Imrich Vrt'o   New results on edge-bandwidth  . . . . . 503--513
             E. Rodney Canfield   Integer partitions and the Sperner
                                  property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--529
             J. Díaz and   
                      N. Do and   
                M. J. Serna and   
                  N. C. Wormald   Bounds on the max and min bisection of
                                  random cubic and random $4$-regular
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--547
           R. Elsässer and   
          R. Královi and   
                      B. Monien   Sparse topologies with small spectrum
                                  size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--565
                 David Muradian   The bandwidth minimization problem for
                                  cyclic caterpillars with hair length $1$
                                  is NP-complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--572
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 308, Number 1--3, November 3, 2003

             J. J. M. M. Rutten   Behavioural differential equations: a
                                  coinductive calculus of streams,
                                  automata, and power series . . . . . . . 1--53
                    Yuxi Fu and   
                  Zhenrong Yang   Tau laws for pi calculus . . . . . . . . 55--130
              H. Peter Gumm and   
               Jesse Hughes and   
           Tobias Schröder   Distributivity of categories of
                                  coalgebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--143
                  Walter Keller   Clustering for Petri nets  . . . . . . . 145--197
                Foto Afrati and   
       Manolis Gergatsoulis and   
                 Francesca Toni   Linearisability on datalog programs  . . 199--226
                 Karim Nour and   
            Christophe Raffalli   Simple proof of the completeness theorem
                                  for second-order classical and
                                  intuitionistic logic by reduction to
                                  first-order mono-sorted logic  . . . . . 227--237
              Olivier Danvy and   
               Lasse R. Nielsen   A first-order one-pass CPS
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--257
             Jean-Louis Krivine   Dependent choice, `quote' and the clock  259--276
          Witold Charatonik and   
          Silvano Dal Zilio and   
           Andrew D. Gordon and   
      Supratik Mukhopadhyay and   
               Jean-Marc Talbot   Model checking mobile ambients . . . . . 277--331
              Andrew D. Ker and   
               Hanno Nickau and   
                 C.-H. Luke Ong   Adapting innocent game models for the
                                  Böhm tree $ \lambda $-theory  . . . . . . 333--366
                    Yifeng Chen   A fixpoint theory for non-monotonic
                                  parallelism  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--392
                  P. Mateus and   
                  M. Morais and   
                   C. Nunes and   
                 A. Pacheco and   
                A. Sernadas and   
                    C. Sernadas   Categorical foundations for randomly
                                  timed automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--427
                 Yann Loyer and   
           Nicolas Spyratos and   
                 Daniel Stamate   Parametrized semantics of logic
                                  programs---a unifying framework  . . . . 429--447
                    Uri Abraham   Self-stabilizing timestamps  . . . . . . 449--515
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--517
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 309, Number 1--3, December 2, 2003

             Thomas Ehrhard and   
                Laurent Regnier   The differential lambda-calculus . . . . 1--41
                 Peter Selinger   Order-incompleteness and finite lambda
                                  reduction models . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--63
                  Vashti Galpin   A format for semantic equivalence
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--109
                 Thomas Forster   Better-quasi-orderings and coinduction   111--123
            Claudio Hermida and   
                   Paulo Mateus   Paracategories I: internal
                                  paracategories and saturated partial
                                  algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--156
                  Paul Gardiner   Power simulation and its relation to
                                  traces and failures refinement . . . . . 157--176
                 Dirk Pattinson   Coalgebraic modal logic: soundness,
                                  completeness and decidability of local
                                  consequence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--193
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Right-linear half-monadic term rewrite
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--211
         Lutz Straßburger   MELL in the calculus of structures . . . 213--285
                Zhaohui Zhu and   
                  Xian Xiao and   
                  Yong Zhou and   
                      Wujia Zhu   Normal conditions for inference
                                  relations and injective models . . . . . 287--311
            Jan A. Bergstra and   
                Alban Ponse and   
          Mark B. van der Zwaag   Branching time and orthogonal
                                  bisimulation equivalence . . . . . . . . 313--355
     Francisco Durán and   
           José Meseguer   Structured theories and institutions . . 357--380
             Daniel Kirsten and   
             Jerzy Marcinkowski   Two techniques in the area of the star
                                  problem in trace monoids . . . . . . . . 381--412
               Bernard Boigelot   On iterating linear transformations over
                                  recognizable sets of integers  . . . . . 413--468
               Dan R. Ghica and   
                   Guy McCusker   The regular-language semantics of
                                  second-order idealized A$_{\mbox
                                  {lgol}}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--502
            Ruggero Lanotte and   
  Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini and   
                    Simone Tini   Concurrency in timed automata  . . . . . 503--527
                  Markus Lohrey   Realizability of high-level message
                                  sequence charts: closing the gaps  . . . 529--554
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--555
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 310, Number 1--3, January 1, 2004

                Jack J. Dai and   
           James I. Lathrop and   
               Jack H. Lutz and   
               Elvira Mayordomo   Finite-state dimension . . . . . . . . . 1--33
                Marc Chemillier   Synchronization of musical words . . . . 35--60
            Savio S. H. Tse and   
              Francis C. M. Lau   New bounds for multi-label interval
                                  routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--77
                  Olivier Serre   Vectorial languages and linear temporal
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--116
       Annie Choquet-Geniet and   
              Emmanuel Grolleau   Minimal schedulability interval for
                                  real-time systems of periodic tasks with
                                  offsets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
                 Eric Angel and   
           Evripidis Bampis and   
              Laurent Gourv\`es   Approximating the Pareto curve with
                                  local search for the bicriteria TSP(1,2)
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
                 Hing Leung and   
               Viktor Podolskiy   The limitedness problem on distance
                                  automata: Hashiguchi's method revisited  147--158
                   Ron Lavi and   
                     Noam Nisan   Competitive analysis of incentive
                                  compatible on-line auctions  . . . . . . 159--180
              Lothar M. Schmitt   Theory of Genetic Algorithms II: models
                                  for genetic operators over the
                                  string-tensor representation of
                                  populations and convergence to global
                                  optima for arbitrary fitness function
                                  under scaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--231
Traian-Florin \cSerb\uanu\ct\ua   Extending Parikh matrices  . . . . . . . 233--246
           Oliver Jenkinson and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   Characterisations of balanced words via
                                  orderings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--271
                 Wai-Fong Chuan   Moments of conjugacy classes of binary
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285
              Therese Biedl and   
    Brov\vna Brejová and   
            Erik D. Demaine and   
          Ang\`ele M. Hamel and   
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
         Tomá\vs Vina\vr   Finding hidden independent sets in
                                  interval graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--307
             Richard Groult and   
     Martine Léonard and   
               Laurent Mouchard   Speeding up the detection of evolutive
                                  tandem repeats . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--328
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
           Feodor F. Dragan and   
            Ho\`ang-Oanh Le and   
                    Van Bang Le   Tree spanners on chordal graphs:
                                  complexity and algorithms  . . . . . . . 329--354
                 Anton Mityagin   On the complexity of finding a local
                                  maximum of functions on discrete planar
                                  subsets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--363
      Henrik Björklund and   
              Sven Sandberg and   
                Sergei Vorobyov   Memoryless determinacy of parity and
                                  mean payoff games: a simple proof  . . . 365--378
           Yoshifumi Manabe and   
                    Naka Tajima   $ (h, k)$-Arbiters for $h$-out-of-$k$
                                  mutual exclusion problem . . . . . . . . 379--392
                    Michal Kunc   Undecidability of the trace coding
                                  problem and some decidable cases . . . . 393--456
                Hee-Kap Ahn and   
             Siu-Wing Cheng and   
             Otfried Cheong and   
             Mordecai Golin and   
        René van Oostrum   Competitive facility location: the
                                  Voronoi game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--467
            Julien Cervelle and   
                   Bruno Durand   Tilings: recursivity and regularity  . . 469--477
                   P. Dukes and   
                Alan C. H. Ling   A combinatorial error bound for
                                  $t$-point-based sampling . . . . . . . . 479--488
Jérémie Chalopin and   
                     Hing Leung   On factorization forests of finite
                                  height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--499
                   Sanming Zhou   A channel assignment problem for optical
                                  networks modelled by Cayley graphs . . . 501--511
            Michael Alekhnovich   Mutilated chessboard problem is
                                  exponentially hard for resolution  . . . 513--525
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
                 Sven Schuierer   On-line parallel heuristics, processor
                                  scheduling and robot searching under the
                                  competitive framework  . . . . . . . . . 527--537
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--540
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--553
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 311, Number 1--3, January 23, 2004

               A. J. Kfoury and   
                    J. B. Wells   Principality and type inference for
                                  intersection types using expansion
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--70
            Claudio Hermida and   
                      P. Mateus   Paracategories II: adjunctions,
                                  fibrations and examples from
                                  probabilistic automata theory  . . . . . 71--103
               Felix Joachimski   Confluence of the coinductive $ \lambda
                                  $-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--119
           Atsushi Igarashi and   
                Naoki Kobayashi   A generic type system for the
                                  Pi-calculus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--163
                    Li Jiao and   
              To-Yat Cheung and   
                     Weiming Lu   On liveness and boundedness of
                                  asymmetric choice nets . . . . . . . . . 165--197
                    Yohji Akama   Limiting partial combinatory algebras    199--220
            Agostino Dovier and   
               Carla Piazza and   
              Alberto Policriti   An efficient algorithm for computing
                                  bisimulation equivalence . . . . . . . . 221--256
           J. Adámek and   
                    H.-E. Porst   On tree coalgebras and coalgebra
                                  presentations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--283
       Ernst-Erich Doberkat and   
              Eugenio G. Omodeo   ER modelling from first relational
                                  principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--323
         Markus Müller-Olm   Precise interprocedural dependence
                                  analysis of parallel programs  . . . . . 325--388
               James Bailey and   
                Guozhu Dong and   
         Kotagiri Ramamohanarao   On the decidability of the termination
                                  problem of active database systems . . . 389--437
            R\uazvan Diaconescu   Interpolation in Grothendieck
                                  Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--461
           Rob van Glabbeek and   
                   Ursula Goltz   Well-behaved flow event structures for
                                  parallel composition and action
                                  refinement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--478
      María Alpuente and   
            Moreno Falaschi and   
        Ginés Moreno and   
            Germán Vidal   Rules $+$ strategies for transforming
                                  lazy functional logic programs . . . . . 479--525
       Stacy E. Finkelstein and   
                Peter Freyd and   
                   James Lipton   Erratum to: ``A new framework for
                                  declarative programming'': [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. 300 (2003) 91--160] . . . . 527--527
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--529
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 312, Number 1, January 26, 2004

          Stephan Eidenbenz and   
           Matthew Hennessy and   
             Rafael Morales and   
         Francisco Triguero and   
             Peter Widmayer and   
                 Ricardo Conejo   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Moses Charikar and   
                 Kevin Chen and   
           Martin Farach-Colton   Finding frequent items in data streams   3--15
           Lars Engebretsen and   
             Jonas Holmerin and   
              Alexander Russell   Inapproximability results for equations
                                  over finite groups . . . . . . . . . . . 17--45
                    Seth Pettie   A new approach to all-pairs shortest
                                  paths on real-weighted graphs  . . . . . 47--74
                  Tomasz Radzik   Improving time bounds on maximum
                                  generalised flow computations by
                                  contracting the network  . . . . . . . . 75--97
                Keye Martin and   
            Michael Mislove and   
                  James Worrell   Measuring the probabilistic powerdomain  99--119
               C.-H. L. Ong and   
              P. Di Gianantonio   Games characterizing Levy--Longo trees   121--142
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--x

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 312, Number 2--3, January 30, 2004

              Rudolf Freund and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                Gheorghe P\uaun   From regulated rewriting to computing
                                  with membranes: collapsing hierarchies   143--188
            Nageswara S. V. Rao   Probabilistic quickest path algorithm    189--201
       Véronique Terrier   Two-dimensional cellular automata and
                                  their neighborhoods  . . . . . . . . . . 203--222
       Stéphane Vialette   On the computational complexity of
                                  $2$-interval pattern matching problems   223--249
        Kosaburo Hashiguchi and   
           Naoto Sakakibara and   
                    Shuji Jimbo   Equivalence of regular binoid
                                  expressions and regular expressions
                                  denoting binoid languages over free
                                  binoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266
           Yoshiyuki Karuno and   
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   An approximability result of the
                                  multi-vehicle scheduling problem on a
                                  path with release and handling times . . 267--280
                       Zhang Yi   Global exponential convergence of
                                  recurrent neural networks with variable
                                  delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--293
               Pierluigi Frisco   The conformon-P system: a molecular and
                                  cell biology-inspired computability
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--319
               Chuan-Kun Wu and   
                      Ed Dawson   Correlation immunity and resiliency of
                                  symmetric Boolean functions  . . . . . . 321--335
               Jochen Alber and   
                 Jens Gramm and   
                  Jiong Guo and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Computing the similarity of two
                                  sequences with nested arc annotations    337--358
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                       Zhe Dang   On two-way FA with monotonic counters
                                  and quadratic Diophantine equations  . . 359--378
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                   Zhe Dang and   
                 Omer Egecioglu   Catalytic P systems, semilinear sets,
                                  and vector addition systems  . . . . . . 379--399
                   M. Habib and   
                 L. Nourine and   
                 O. Raynaud and   
                     E. Thierry   Computational aspects of the
                                  $2$-dimension of partially ordered sets  401--431
  Antonio Cano Gómez and   
           Jean-Éric Pin   Shuffle on positive varieties of
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--461
                 Benjamin Doerr   Typical rounding problems  . . . . . . . 463--477
                 Daowen Qiu and   
                 Mingsheng Ying   Characterizations of quantum automata    479--489
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--492


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 313, Number 1, February 16, 2004

            Bruce W. Watson and   
                    Derick Wood   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
              Anne Bergeron and   
                   Sylvie Hamel   From cascade decompositions to
                                  bit-vector algorithms  . . . . . . . . . 3--16
           Bernard Boigelot and   
                   Louis Latour   Counting the solutions of Presburger
                                  equations without enumerating them . . . 17--29
      Jean-Marc Champarnaud and   
          Gérard Duchamp   Derivatives of rational expressions and
                                  related theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
                 Jan Daciuk and   
              Gertjan van Noord   Finite automata for compact
                                  representation of tuple dictionaries . . 45--56
                   Zhe Dang and   
              Tevfik Bultan and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
            Richard A. Kemmerer   Past pushdown timed automata and safety
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--71
       Jacques Farré and   
        J. Fortes Gálvez   Bounded-connect noncanonical
                                  discriminating-reverse parsers . . . . . 73--91
               N. Friburger and   
                      D. Maurel   Finite-state transducer cascades to
                                  extract named entities in texts  . . . . 93--104
       Tamás Gaál   Deciding sequentiability of finite-state
                                  transducers by finite-state
                                  pattern-matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117
           Dominique Geniet and   
        Jean-Philippe Dubernard   Scheduling hard sporadic tasks with
                                  regular languages and generating
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--132
               F. Katritzke and   
               W. Merzenich and   
                      M. Thomas   Enhancements of partitioning techniques
                                  for image compression using weighted
                                  finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
             André Kempe   Extraction and recoding of input-$
                                  \epsilon $-cycles in finite state
                                  transducers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
               Lynette van Zijl   Generalized acceptance, succinctness and
                                  supernondeterministic finite automata    159--172
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 313, Number 2, February 17, 2004

                     N. Abe and   
                     R. Khardon   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
                   Dana Angluin   Queries revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . 175--194
            Yuri Kalnishkan and   
               Volodya Vovk and   
              Michael V. Vyugin   Loss functions, complexities, and the
                                  Legendre transformation  . . . . . . . . 195--207
                Sanjay Jain and   
                  Frank Stephan   Learning how to separate . . . . . . . . 209--228
                  Sandra Zilles   Separation of uniform learning classes   229--265
      François Denis and   
      Aurélien Lemay and   
                 Alain Terlutte   Learning regular languages using RFSAs   267--294
           C. de la Higuera and   
                  J. C. Janodet   Inference of $ \omega $-languages from
                                  prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--312

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 313, Number 3, February 19, 2004

           Rudolf Fleischer and   
          Richard J. Nowakowski   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--313
             Ingo Althöfer   Improved game play by multiple computer
                                  hints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--324
            Erik D. Demaine and   
          Martin L. Demaine and   
               Rudolf Fleischer   Solitaire Clobber  . . . . . . . . . . . 325--338
                 Benjamin Doerr   European tenure games  . . . . . . . . . 339--351
             Ioana Dumitriu and   
                   Joel Spencer   A Halfliar's game  . . . . . . . . . . . 353--369
           Peter L. Erd\Hos and   
              Ulrich Faigle and   
 Winfried Hochstättler and   
                    Walter Kern   Note on the game chromatic index of
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--376
    Sándor P. Fekete and   
           Rudolf Fleischer and   
           Aviezri Fraenkel and   
               Matthias Schmitt   Traveling salesmen in the presence of
                                  competition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--392
            Aviezri S. Fraenkel   Complexity, appeal and challenges of
                                  combinatorial games  . . . . . . . . . . 393--415
                 J. P. Grossman   Periodicity in one-dimensional peg
                                  duotaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
                  F. Harary and   
                   W. Slany and   
                   O. Verbitsky   On the lengths of symmetry
                                  breaking--preserving games on graphs . . 427--446
              Markus Holzer and   
                 Stefan Schwoon   Assembling molecules in ATOMIX is hard   447--462
                   S. Howse and   
               R. J. Nowakowski   Periodicity and arithmetic-periodicity
                                  in hexadecimal games . . . . . . . . . . 463--472
        Daniel Král' and   
            Vladan Majerech and   
        Ji\vrí Sgall and   
Tomá\vs Tichý and   
              Gerhard Woeginger   It is tough to be a plumber  . . . . . . 473--484
                  U. Lorenz and   
                      B. Monien   Error analysis in minimax trees  . . . . 485--498
          Raymond Georg Snatzke   New results of exhaustive search in the
                                  game Amazons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--509
         Mark H. M. Winands and   
     Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk and   
          H. Jaap van den Herik   An effective two-level proof-number
                                  search algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--525
                David Wolfe and   
                 William Fraser   Counting the number of games . . . . . . 527--532
                 J. P. Grossman   Appendix A: Report on the First
                                  International Clobber Tournament . . . . 533--537
            Erik D. Demaine and   
           Rudolf Fleischer and   
        Aviezri S. Fraenkel and   
          Richard J. Nowakowski   Appendix B: Open problems at the 2002
                                  Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic
                                  Combinatorial Game Theory  . . . . . . . 539--543
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 314, Number 1--2, February 25, 2004

         Tomás Feder and   
          Florent Madelaine and   
                Iain A. Stewart   Dichotomies for classes of homomorphism
                                  problems involving unary functions . . . 1--43
                Christian Deppe   Strategies for the Renyi--Ulam Game with
                                  fixed number of lies . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
               Enrica Duchi and   
            Jean-Marc Fedou and   
                 Simone Rinaldi   From object grammars to ECO systems  . . 57--95
                Shinya Sano and   
              Naoto Miyoshi and   
                 Ryohei Kataoka   $m$-Balanced words: A generalization of
                                  balanced words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--120
         Vlady Ravelomanana and   
            Loÿs Thimonier   Forbidden subgraphs in connected graphs  121--171
               Amihood Amir and   
              Ayelet Butman and   
          Maxime Crochemore and   
              Gad M. Landau and   
                    Mary Schaps   Two-dimensional pattern matching with
                                  rotations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--187
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
                  Ajay Chriscoe   Local periods and binary partial words:
                                  an algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--216
          Fabrizio Angiulli and   
       Giovambattista Ianni and   
                 Luigi Palopoli   On the complexity of inducing
                                  categorical and quantitative association
                                  rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--249
                    Jia-Yan Yao   Some properties of Ising automata  . . . 251--279
                     A. Rybalov   On the P--NP problem over real matrix
                                  rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--285
              Serge Burckel and   
              Marianne Morillon   Sequential computation of linear Boolean
                                  mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
                     Jun Gu and   
               Xiao-Dong Hu and   
                Xiaohua Jia and   
                  Mu-Hong Zhang   Routing algorithm for multicast under
                                  multi-tree model in optical networks . . 293--301
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 314, Number 3, April 10, 2004

              Kenichiro Noguchi   Simple $8$-state minimal time solution
                                  to the firing squad synchronization
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--334
                 Nicola Dimitri   Efficiency and equilibrium in the
                                  electronic mail game; the general case   335--349
          Annalisa De Bonis and   
              Alfredo De Santis   Randomness in secret sharing and visual
                                  cryptography schemes . . . . . . . . . . 351--374
                F. H. Chang and   
                  J. Y. Guo and   
                F. K. Hwang and   
                      C. K. Lin   Wide-sense nonblocking for symmetric or
                                  asymmetric $3$-stage Clos networks under
                                  various routing strategies . . . . . . . 375--386
Zoltán Fülöp and   
               Zsolt Gazdag and   
                   Heiko Vogler   Hierarchies of tree series
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--429
              Chang-Hsiung Tsai   Linear array and ring embeddings in
                                  conditional faulty hypercubes  . . . . . 431--443
                Henning Bordihn   Context-freeness of the power of
                                  context-free languages is undecidable    445--449
         Michael Domaratzki and   
              Alexander Okhotin   Representing recursively enumerable
                                  languages by iterated deletion . . . . . 451--457
                    Amr Elmasry   On the sequential access theorem and
                                  deque conjecture for splay trees . . . . 459--466
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 315, Number 1, May 5, 2004

                Michael Mislove   Mathematical Foundations of Programming
                                  Semantics: Papers from MFPS 14 and MFPS
                                  16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 S. Berardi and   
                     C. Berline   Building continuous webbed models for
                                  system F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--34
               Andrej Bauer and   
              Lars Birkedal and   
            D. S. Dana S. Scott   Equilogical spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 35--59
             Cristiano Calcagno   Two-level languages for program
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--81
              Andrea Schalk and   
               Valeria de Paiva   Poset-valued sets or how to build models
                                  for linear logics  . . . . . . . . . . . 83--107
        Michal Kone\vcný   Real functions incrementally computable
                                  by finite automata . . . . . . . . . . . 109--133
              M. P. Schellekens   The correspondence between partial
                                  metrics and semivaluations . . . . . . . 135--149
                       Zhe Yang   Encoding types in ML-like languages  . . 151--190
             Z. Füredi and   
                  R. P. Kurshan   Minimal length test vectors for
                                  multiple-fault detection . . . . . . . . 191--208
                     Gavin Lowe   Semantic models for information flow . . 209--256
               David J. Pym and   
     P. W. Peter W. O'Hearn and   
                  Hongseok Yang   Possible worlds and resources: the
                                  semantics of BI  . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--305
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 315, Number 2--3, May 6, 2004

          Ioannis Z. Emiris and   
           Bernard Mourrain and   
                  Victor Y. Pan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
             Zheng-Jian Bai and   
          R. H. Raymond H. Chan   Inverse eigenproblem for centrosymmetric
                                  and centroskew matrices and their
                                  approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--318
                 D. A. Bini and   
                   L. Gemignani   Bernstein--Bezoutian matrices  . . . . . 319--333
                A. Bompadre and   
                  G. Matera and   
           R. Wachenchauzer and   
                   A. Waissbein   Polynomial equation solving by lifting
                                  procedures for ramified fibers . . . . . 335--369
                  D. Burago and   
               D. Grigoriev and   
                   A. Slissenko   Approximating shortest path for the skew
                                  lines problem in time doubly logarithmic
                                  in $ 1 / \epsilon $  . . . . . . . . . . 371--404
                Ernie Croot and   
                Ren-Cang Li and   
             H. J. Hui June Zhu   The abc conjecture and correctly
                                  rounded reciprocal square roots  . . . . 405--417
  J. Joachim von zur Gathen and   
            Michael Nöcker   Fast arithmetic with general Gauß periods 419--452
               Georg Heinig and   
                  K. Karla Rost   Split algorithms for skewsymmetric
                                  Toeplitz matrices with arbitrary rank
                                  profile  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--468
                   Igor Kaporin   The aggregation and cancellation
                                  techniques as a practical tool for
                                  faster matrix multiplication . . . . . . 469--510
                Fu-Rong Lin and   
               Wai-Ki Ching and   
            M. K. Michael K. Ng   Fast inversion of triangular Toeplitz
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--523
        Gregorio Malajovich and   
         J. M. J. Maurice Rojas   High probability analysis of the
                                  condition number of sparse polynomial
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--555
                 D. Noutsos and   
         S. Serra Capizzano and   
                    P. Vassalos   Matrix algebra preconditioners for
                                  multilevel Toeplitz systems do not
                                  insure optimal convergence rate  . . . . 557--579
              Victor Y. Pan and   
          M. Marc Van Barel and   
                Xinmao Wang and   
                Gianni Codevico   Iterative inversion of structured
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--592
          Luis Miguel Pardo and   
  J. S. Jorge San Martín   Deformation techniques to solve
                                  generalised Pham systems . . . . . . . . 593--625
Sonia Pérez-Díaz and   
               Juana Sendra and   
         J. R. J. Rafael Sendra   Parametrization of approximate algebraic
                                  curves by lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--650
          Andrew J. Sommese and   
             Jan Verschelde and   
       C. W. Charles W. Wampler   Numerical factorization of multivariate
                                  complex polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . 651--669
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--672


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 316, Number 1--3, May 28, 2004

              Lars Birkedal and   
Martín Escardó and   
                 Achim Jung and   
              Giuseppe Rosolini   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Ji\vrí Adámek and   
              Stefan Milius and   
          Ji\vrí Velebil   On coalgebra based on classes  . . . . . 3--23
               Fabio Alessi and   
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
                 Stefania Lusin   Intersection types and domain operators  25--47
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
            Silvia Ghilezan and   
                 Silvia Likavec   Behavioural inverse limit $ \lambda
                                  $-models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--74
         J. D. Jimmie D. Lawson   Idempotent analysis and continuous
                                  semilattices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87
     J. D. Jimmie D. Lawson and   
                     Luoshan Xu   Posets having continuous intervals . . . 89--103
       F. W. F. William Lawvere   Left and right adjoint operations on
                                  spaces and data types  . . . . . . . . . 105--111
        M. A. M. Andrew Moshier   On the relationship between compact
                                  regularity and Gentzen's cut rule  . . . 113--136
                    Dag Normann   Hierarchies of total functionals over
                                  the reals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
             Mikkel Nygaard and   
                  Glynn Winskel   Domain theory for concurrency  . . . . . 153--190
              Bernhard Reus and   
               Thomas Streicher   Semantics and logic of object calculi    191--213
                Ivar Rummelhoff   Polynat in PER models  . . . . . . . . . 215--224
                 C. F. Townsend   Presenting locale pullback via directed
                                  complete posets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--258
                 Steven Vickers   Entailment systems for stably locally
                                  compact locales  . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--296
              S. J. Vickers and   
                 C. F. Townsend   A universal characterization of the
                                  double powerlocale . . . . . . . . . . . 297--321
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--323
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 317, Number 1--3, June 4, 2004

                Mark Burgin and   
                  Allen Klinger   Three aspects of super-recursive
                                  algorithms and hypercomputation or
                                  finding black swans  . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                    Peter Kugel   Toward a theory of intelligence  . . . . 13--30
                    Mark Burgin   Algorithmic complexity of recursive and
                                  inductive algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 31--60
       Ji\vrí Wiedermann   Characterizing the super-Turing
                                  computing power and efficiency of
                                  classical fuzzy Turing machines  . . . . 61--69
                Mark Burgin and   
                  Allen Klinger   Experience, generations, and limits in
                                  machine learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--91
             T. D. Tien D. Kieu   Hypercomputation with quantum adiabatic
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--104
                   Oron Shagrir   Super-tasks, accelerating Turing
                                  machines and uncomputability . . . . . . 105--114
       B. J. Bruce J. MacLennan   Natural computation and non-Turing
                                  models of computation  . . . . . . . . . 115--145
M. L. Manuel Lameiras Campagnolo   Continuous-time computation with
                                  restricted integration capabilities  . . 147--165
          Selmer Bringsjord and   
           Konstantine Arkoudas   The modal argument for hypercomputing
                                  minds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--190
                 Benjamin Wells   Hypercomputation by definition . . . . . 191--207
         C. E. Carol E. Cleland   The concept of computability . . . . . . 209--225
           K. T. Kevin T. Kelly   Uncomputability: the problem of
                                  induction internalized . . . . . . . . . 227--249
         B. J. B. Jack Copeland   Hypercomputation: philosophical issues   251--267
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 318, Number 1--2, June 6, 2004

               Jean-Yves Marion   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               Klaus Aehlig and   
              Ulrich Berger and   
             Martin Hofmann and   
          Helmut Schwichtenberg   An arithmetic for non-size-increasing
                                  polynomial-time computation  . . . . . . 3--27
                Patrick Baillot   Stratified coherence spaces: a
                                  denotational semantics for light linear
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--55
              S. Bellantoni and   
                     I. Oitavem   Separating NC along the $ \delta $ axis  57--78
             R. Ralph Benzinger   Automated higher-order complexity
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--103
                  N. Danner and   
                     C. Pollett   Minimization and NP multifunctions . . . 105--119
                 M. Hofmann and   
                    P. J. Scott   Realizability models for BLL-like
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--137
             L. Kristiansen and   
                    K.-H. Niggl   On the computational complexity of
                                  imperative programming languages . . . . 139--161
                    Yves Lafont   Soft linear logic and polynomial time    163--180
                 Daniel Leivant   Intrinsic reasoning about functional
                                  programs II: unipolar induction and
                                  primitive-recursion  . . . . . . . . . . 181--196
             A. S. Murawski and   
                   C.-H. L. Ong   On an interpretation of safe recursion
                                  in light affine logic  . . . . . . . . . 197--223
         J. S. (James S.) Royer   On the computational complexity of
                                  Longley's $H$ functional . . . . . . . . 225--241
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 318, Number 3, June 8, 2004

     Mila Majster-Cederbaum and   
                   Frank Salger   Towards the hierarchical verification of
                                  reactive systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--296
                Rajeev Alur and   
         Salvatore La Torre and   
               George J. Pappas   Optimal paths in weighted timed automata 297--322
    Josée Desharnais and   
               Vineet Gupta and   
           Radha Jagadeesan and   
             Prakash Panangaden   Metrics for labelled Markov processes    323--354
                   Georg Karner   Continuous monoids and semirings . . . . 355--372
               Sabine Broda and   
          Luís Damas and   
             Marcelo Finger and   
            Paulo Silva e Silva   The decidability of a fragment of
                                  BB'IW-logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--408
               Ugo Dal Lago and   
                 Simone Martini   Phase semantics and decidability of
                                  elementary affine logic  . . . . . . . . 409--433
             R. N. Banerjee and   
                      A. Bujosa   A geometric interpretation of
                                  LD-resolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--470
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--471


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 319, Number 1--3, June 10, 2004

                     L. Vuillon   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               Michael Korn and   
                       Igor Pak   Tilings of rectangles with T-tetrominoes 3--27
              E. H. Eric H. Kuo   Applications of graphical condensation
                                  for enumerating matchings and tilings    29--57
             Olivier Bodini and   
             Eric Rémila   Tilings with trichromatic colored-edges
                                  triangles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
            N. Destainville and   
                 R. Mosseri and   
                      F. Bailly   A formula for the number of tilings of
                                  an octagon by rhombi . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
S. Sébastien Desreux and   
            Martin Matamala and   
              Ivan Rapaport and   
             Eric Rémila   Domino tilings and related models: space
                                  of configurations of domains with holes  83--101
                   Francis Oger   Algebraic and model-theoretic properties
                                  of tilings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--126
      Jean-Charles Delvenne and   
       V. D. Vincent D. Blondel   Quasi-periodic configurations and
                                  undecidable dynamics for tilings,
                                  infinite words and Turing machines . . . 127--143
              Pierre Arnoux and   
Valérie Berthé and   
                    Anne Siegel   Two-dimensional iterated morphisms and
                                  discrete planes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--176
Valérie Berthé and   
                Robert Tijdeman   Lattices and multi-dimensional words . . 177--202
        Valentin E. Brimkov and   
        R. P. Reneta P. Barneva   Connectivity of discrete planes  . . . . 203--227
               Anthony Quas and   
                   Luca Zamboni   Periodicity and local complexity . . . . 229--240
              E. O. Harriss and   
                  J. S. W. Lamb   Canonical substitutions tilings of
                                  Ammann--Beenker type . . . . . . . . . . 241--279
              Avi Elkharrat and   
         Christiane Frougny and   
         Jean-Pierre Gazeau and   
 J.-L. Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry   Symmetry groups for beta-lattices  . . . 281--305
     P. J. Peter J. Grabner and   
          Clemens Heuberger and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Distribution results for low-weight
                                  binary representations for pairs of
                                  integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--331
             Svjetlan Fereti\c'   A $q$-enumeration of convex polyominoes
                                  by the festoon approach  . . . . . . . . 333--356
  Zoltán Füredi and   
          J.-H. Jeong-Hyun Kang   Distance graph on $ \mathbb {Z}^n $ with
                                  $ \ell_1 $ norm  . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--366
            Codrin Nichitiu and   
        Christophe Papazian and   
             Eric Rémila   Leader election in plane cellular
                                  automata, only with left--right global
                                  convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--384
        Katherine Humphreys and   
          Heinrich Niederhausen   Counting lattice paths taking steps in
                                  infinitely many directions under special
                                  access restrictions  . . . . . . . . . . 385--409
                Marc Daniel and   
            Sylvain Gravier and   
                  Julien Moncel   Identifying codes in some subgraphs of
                                  the square lattice . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
           F. Aguiló and   
                 D. Arteaga and   
                       I. Diego   A symbolical algorithm on additive basis
                                  and double-loop networks . . . . . . . . 423--439
          J. D. James D. Currie   The number of binary words avoiding
                                  abelian fourth powers grows
                                  exponentially  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--446
                 A. Frosini and   
                        G. Simi   The NP-completeness of a tomographical
                                  problem on bicolored domino tilings  . . 447--454
     R. Régis Barbanchon   On unique graph $3$-colorability and
                                  parsimonious reductions in the plane . . 455--482
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 320, Number 1, June 12, 2004

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
     Joshua J. Arulanandham and   
         Cristian S. Calude and   
       M. J. Michael J. Dinneen   A fast natural algorithm for searching   3--13
                  Eli Biham and   
            Gilles Brassard and   
             Dan Kenigsberg and   
                     T. Tal Mor   Quantum computing without entanglement   15--33
                Anne Condon and   
                  Beth Davy and   
          Baharak Rastegari and   
                Shelly Zhao and   
                Finbarr Tarrant   Classifying RNA pseudoknotted structures 35--50
                 Mark Daley and   
                  Lila Kari and   
                  Ian McQuillan   Families of languages defined by ciliate
                                  bio-operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--69
     Michelangelo Diligenti and   
                 Marco Gori and   
                  Marco Maggini   Neural computation, social networks, and
                                  topological spectra  . . . . . . . . . . 71--87
          O. H. Oscar H. Ibarra   On the computational complexity of
                                  membrane systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--109
V. R. Vicente Ruiz de Angulo and   
                   Carme Torras   Neural learning methods yielding
                                  functional invariance  . . . . . . . . . 111--121
              Tobias Storch and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Real royal road functions for constant
                                  population size  . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--134
       Adam Prügel-Bennett   When a genetic algorithm outperforms
                                  hill-climbing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--153
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 320, Number 2--3, June 14, 2004

                S. Bezrukov and   
           R. Elsässer and   
                  B. Monien and   
                   R. Preis and   
                  J.-P. Tillich   New spectral lower bounds on the
                                  bisection width of graphs  . . . . . . . 155--174
    G. Z. Gillian Z. Elston and   
             Gretchen Ostheimer   On groups whose word problem is solved
                                  by a counter automaton . . . . . . . . . 175--185
               Ch. Choffrut and   
                      Y. Haddad   String-matching with OBDDs . . . . . . . 187--198
                 J. J. Yuan and   
                  Z. H. Liu and   
                   C. T. Ng and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   The unbounded single machine parallel
                                  batch scheduling problem with family
                                  jobs and release dates to minimize
                                  makespan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--212
 A. André Berthiaume and   
               Todd Bittner and   
        Ljubomir Perkovi\'c and   
               Amber Settle and   
                    Janos Simon   Bounding the firing synchronization
                                  problem on a ring  . . . . . . . . . . . 213--228
                 Olivier Powell   A note on measuring in P . . . . . . . . 229--246
          Martin Middendorf and   
         D. F. David F. Manlove   Combined super-/substring and
                                  super-/subsequence problems  . . . . . . 247--267
               Carlo Blundo and   
               Paolo D'Arco and   
               Vanessa Daza and   
            Carles Padró   Bounds and constructions for
                                  unconditionally secure distributed key
                                  distribution schemes for general access
                                  structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--291
             Michael Domaratzki   Deletion along trajectories  . . . . . . 293--313
               Arto Salomaa and   
                Derick Wood and   
                       Sheng Yu   On the state complexity of reversals of
                                  regular languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 315--329
              Patrick Healy and   
                     Ago Kuusik   Algorithms for multi-level graph
                                  planarity testing and layout . . . . . . 331--344
               Simona Cocco and   
        R. Rémi Monasson   Heuristic average-case analysis of the
                                  backtrack resolution of random
                                  $3$-satisfiability instances . . . . . . 345--372
       Vilhelm Dahllöf and   
              Peter Jonsson and   
                 Richard Beigel   Algorithms for four variants of the
                                  exact satisfiability problem . . . . . . 373--394
M.-P. Marie-Pierre Béal and   
              Anne Bergeron and   
             Sylvie Corteel and   
               Mathieu Raffinot   An algorithmic view of gene teams  . . . 395--418
              Alexander Okhotin   On the number of nonterminals in linear
                                  conjunctive grammars . . . . . . . . . . 419--448
                Asa Ben-Hur and   
     Alexander Roitershtein and   
       H. T. Hava T. Siegelmann   On probabilistic analog automata . . . . 449--464
            Markus Hunziker and   
  António Machiavelo and   
                     Jihun Park   Chebyshev polynomials over finite fields
                                  and reversibility of $ \sigma $-automata
                                  on square grids  . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--483
                Liying Kang and   
       M. Y. Moo Young Sohn and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   Paired-domination in inflated graphs . . 485--494
        J. M. John M. Hitchcock   The size of SPP  . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--503
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--506
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--518


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 321, Number 1, June 16, 2004

        J. A. Juan A. Garay and   
                Sergio Rajsbaum   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
          Michael A. Bender and   
 M. Martín Farach-Colton   The Level Ancestor Problem simplified    5--12
C. F. Claudson F. Bornstein and   
                Santosh Vempala   Flow metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
Hervé Brönnimann and   
                John Iacono and   
           Jyrki Katajainen and   
                  Pat Morin and   
             Jason Morrison and   
             Godfried Toussaint   Space-efficient planar convex hull
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--40
                   R. Carmo and   
               J. Donadelli and   
              Y. Kohayakawa and   
                       E. Laber   Searching in random partially ordered
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--57
         Theodoulos Garefalakis   The generalized Weil pairing and the
                                  discrete logarithm problem on elliptic
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--72
            Alejandro Hevia and   
                    Marcos Kiwi   Electronic jury voting protocols . . . . 73--94
           S. Muthukrishnan and   
               S. Cenk Sahinalp   An efficient algorithm for sequence
                                  comparison with block reversals  . . . . 95--101
             Hadas Shachnai and   
                     Tami Tamir   Tight bounds for online
                                  class-constrained packing  . . . . . . . 103--123
              Brett Stevens and   
                Eric Mendelsohn   Packing arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148
              Mario Szegedy and   
                   Xiaomin Chen   Computing Boolean functions from
                                  multiple faulty copies of input bits . . 149--170
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 321, Number 2--3, August, 2004

Cláudia Linhares Sales and   
 Frédéric Maffray   On dart-free perfectly contractile
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--194
                       Keqin Li   Analysis of randomized load distribution
                                  for reproduction trees in linear arrays
                                  and rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--214
            Jason J. Holdsworth   Graph traversal and graph transformation 215--231
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
                  Peter Leupold   Evolution and observation---a
                                  non-standard way to generate formal
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--248
           Rodney G. Downey and   
          Evan J. Griffiths and   
                 Stephanie Reid   On Kurtz randomness  . . . . . . . . . . 249--270
                  Martin Klazar   On the least exponential growth
                                  admitting uncountably many closed
                                  permutation classes  . . . . . . . . . . 271--281
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
              Kimmo Fredriksson   Average complexity of exact and
                                  approximate multiple string matching . . 283--290
            Patricia Bouyer and   
          Catherine Dufourd and   
            Emmanuel Fleury and   
                  Antoine Petit   Updatable timed automata . . . . . . . . 291--345
          Juan Luis Esteban and   
              Nicola Galesi and   
                 Jochen Messner   On the complexity of resolution with
                                  bounded conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . 347--370
               Richard Nock and   
                  Frank Nielsen   On domain-partitioning induction
                                  criteria: worst-case bounds for the
                                  worst-case based . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--382
                   B. Ravikumar   Peg-solitaire, string rewriting systems
                                  and finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
               Dong Pyo Chi and   
                    DoYong Kwon   Sturmian words, $ \beta $-shifts, and
                                  transcendence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404
          Michael H. Albert and   
         Alexander Golynski and   
          Ang\`ele M. Hamel and   
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
           S. Srinivasa Rao and   
            Mohammad Ali Safari   Longest increasing subsequences in
                                  sliding windows  . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--414
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Seventeen lines and one-hundred-and-one
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--421
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--424


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 322, Number 1, August, 2004

   Patrick Cégielski and   
                    Malika More   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
            Zofia Adamowicz and   
Leszek Aleksander Ko\lodziejczyk   Well-behaved principles alternative to
                                  bounded induction  . . . . . . . . . . . 5--16
    Anatoly Petrivich Beltiukov   A strong induction scheme that leads to
                                  polynomially computable realizations . . 17--39
                     A. Chateau   On the complexity of decision using
                                  destinies in $H$-bounded structures  . . 41--67
                 Olivier Finkel   Closure properties of locally finite $
                                  \omega $-languages . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
     Verónica Becher and   
               Serge Grigorieff   Recursion and topology on $ 2^{\leq
                                  \omega } $ for possibly infinite
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--136
           Yassine Hacha\"\ichi   Arithmetical definability and
                                  computational complexity . . . . . . . . 137--146
           Andrea Formisano and   
          Eugenio G. Omodeo and   
              Alberto Policriti   Three-variable statements of set-pairing 147--173
           Jean-Pierre Ressayre   Winning strategies for infinite games:
                                  from large cardinals to computer science
                                  extended abstract  . . . . . . . . . . . 175--179
              K. Shahbazyan and   
                Yu. Shoukourian   EMSO-logic and automata related to
                                  homogeneous flow event structures  . . . 181--201
                  Alan R. Woods   Subset sum ``cubes'' and the complexity
                                  of primality testing . . . . . . . . . . 203--219
                I. D. Zaslavsky   On some generalizations of the primitive
                                  recursive arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . 221--230
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 322, Number 2, August 30, 2004

               J. Demongeot and   
                     J. Mazoyer   Discrete applied problems, cellular
                                  automata and lattices: florilegium for
                                  E. Goles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
                       M. Nivat   For the $ 50 $ th anniversary of Eric
                                  Goles: A few words by Maurice Nivat  . . 233--235
              Julio Aracena and   
          Jacques Demongeot and   
                     Eric Goles   On limit cycles of monotone functions
                                  with symmetric connection graph  . . . . 237--244
            Mourad Ba\"\iou and   
                Michel Balinski   Student admissions and faculty
                                  recruitment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--265
                 A. Gajardo and   
                       E. Goles   Dynamics of a class of ants on a
                                  one-dimensional lattice  . . . . . . . . 267--283
                     Eric Goles   Folding and tiling . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
          Andrés Moreira   Genetic algorithms for the imitation of
                                  genomic styles in protein
                                  backtranslation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--312
               Georges Weil and   
                 Kamel Heus and   
              Thomas Faraut and   
              Jacques Demongeot   The cyclic genetic code as a constraint
                                  satisfaction problem . . . . . . . . . . 313--334
                 M. Delorme and   
                     J. Mazoyer   Real-time recognition of languages on an
                                  two-dimensional Archimedean thread . . . 335--354
        Christoph Dürr and   
              Ivan Rapaport and   
            Guillaume Theyssier   Cellular automata and communication
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--368
     Martín Matamala and   
                 Eduardo Moreno   Dynamic of cyclic automata over $
                                  \mathbb {Z}^2 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381
          Éric Goles and   
            Matthieu Latapy and   
    Clémence Magnien and   
              Michel Morvan and   
                  Ha Duong Phan   Sandpile models and lattices: a
                                  comprehensive survey . . . . . . . . . . 383--407
             Eric Rémila   The lattice structure of the set of
                                  domino tilings of a polygon  . . . . . . 409--422

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 322, Number 3, September, 2004

              Vladimiro Sassone   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--426
        Martín Abadi and   
          Cédric Fournet   Private authentication . . . . . . . . . 427--476
                 Nadia Busi and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   On the expressive power of movement and
                                  restriction in pure mobile ambients  . . 477--515
         Luís Caires and   
                  Luca Cardelli   A spatial logic for concurrency---II . . 517--565
                Tom Chothia and   
                 Dominic Duggan   Abstractions for fault-tolerant global
                                  computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--613
           Matthew Hennessy and   
              Massimo Merro and   
                  Julian Rathke   Towards a behavioural theory of access
                                  and mobility control in distributed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--669
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--672


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 323, Number 1--3, September, 2004

               Alan Jeffrey and   
                  Julian Rathke   A theory of bisimulation for a fragment
                                  of concurrent ML with local names  . . . 1--48
                    C. Raffalli   Getting results from programs extracted
                                  from classical proofs  . . . . . . . . . 49--70
          Serenella Cerrito and   
                   Delia Kesner   Pattern matching as cut elimination  . . 71--127
                  P. Baldan and   
                    N. Busi and   
               A. Corradini and   
                    G. M. Pinna   Domain and event structure semantics for
                                  Petri nets with read and inhibitor arcs  129--189
              R. M. Hierons and   
                      M. Harman   Testing conformance of a deterministic
                                  implementation against a
                                  non-deterministic stream X-machine . . . 191--233
                 Timothy Porter   Interpreted systems and Kripke models
                                  for multiagent systems from a
                                  categorical perspective  . . . . . . . . 235--266
                Nicolas Peltier   The first order theory of primal
                                  grammars is decidable  . . . . . . . . . 267--320
            Guo-Qiang Zhang and   
              William C. Rounds   Reasoning with power defaults  . . . . . 321--350
       Christophe Dehlinger and   
   Jean-François Dufourd   Formalizing generalized maps in Coq  . . 351--397
       Christophe Dehlinger and   
   Jean-François Dufourd   Formalizing the trading theorem in Coq   399--442
                Pascal Urso and   
              Emmanuel Kounalis   Sound generalizations in mathematical
                                  induction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--471
            Christian Urban and   
            Andrew M. Pitts and   
              Murdoch J. Gabbay   Nominal unification  . . . . . . . . . . 473--497
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 324, Number 1, September, 2004

                     Masami Ito   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
  Zoltán Ésik and   
                   Werner Kuich   Inductive $^*$-semirings . . . . . . . . 3--33
                 Tero Harju and   
          Juhani Karhumäki   Many aspects of defect theorems  . . . . 35--54
                 Mizuhito Ogawa   Well-quasi-orders and regular$ \omega
                                  $-languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
            Yasuhiro Suzuki and   
             Hiroshi Tanaka and   
               Takashi Yokomori   On the power of membrane division in $P$
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--85
         Tatjana Petkovi\'c and   
         Miroslav \'Ciri\'c and   
            Stojan Bogdanovi\'c   Unary algebras, semigroups and
                                  congruences on free semigroups . . . . . 87--105
         René Schott and   
            Jean-Claude Spehner   Two optimal parallel algorithms on the
                                  commutation class of a word  . . . . . . 107--131
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 324, Number 2--3, September 20, 2004

                  Amos Fiat and   
                    Sandy Irani   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--135
                 Avrim Blum and   
                Vijay Kumar and   
                 Atri Rudra and   
                       Felix Wu   Online learning in online auctions . . . 137--146
          John E. Augustine and   
                  Steven Seiden   Linear time approximation schemes for
                                  vehicle scheduling problems  . . . . . . 147--160
        Alexander Kesselman and   
                 Yishay Mansour   Harmonic buffer management policy for
                                  shared memory switches . . . . . . . . . 161--182
                  M. Mendel and   
               Steven S. Seiden   Online companion caching . . . . . . . . 183--200
         Tomás Feder and   
             Rajeev Motwani and   
             Rina Panigrahy and   
               Steve Seiden and   
               Rob van Stee and   
                         An Zhu   Combining request scheduling with web
                                  caching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--218
           Rudolf Fleischer and   
       W\lodzimierz G\lazek and   
                   Steve Seiden   New results for online page replication  219--251
               Ronny Lempel and   
                   Shlomo Moran   Competitive caching of query results in
                                  search engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--271
             Prosenjit Bose and   
                      Pat Morin   Competitive online routing in geometric
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--288
              Marek Chrobak and   
            Ji\vrí Sgall   The weighted $2$-server problem  . . . . 289--312
            Baruch Awerbuch and   
                 Yossi Azar and   
                    Yair Bartal   On-line generalized Steiner problem  . . 313--324
             Luca Becchetti and   
           Stefano Leonardi and   
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and   
                     Kirk Pruhs   Semi-clairvoyant scheduling  . . . . . . 325--335
                Yair Bartal and   
              Elias Koutsoupias   On the competitive ratio of the work
                                  function algorithm for the $k$-server
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--345
          Elias Koutsoupias and   
              David Scot Taylor   The CNN problem and other $k$-server
                                  variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359
                 Peter Chen and   
                     Guoli Ding   The best expert versus the smartest
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--382


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 325, Number 1, September 28, 2004

                 Corrado Priami   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
           Damien Eveillard and   
            Delphine Ropers and   
              Hidde de Jong and   
        Christiane Branlant and   
             Alexander Bockmayr   A multi-scale constraint programming
                                  model of alternative splicing regulation 3--24
   Nathalie Chabrier-Rivier and   
            Marc Chiaverini and   
              Vincent Danos and   
      François Fages and   
         Vincent Schächter   Modeling and querying biomolecular
                                  interaction networks . . . . . . . . . . 25--44
              M. Antoniotti and   
                  C. Piazza and   
               A. Policriti and   
                 M. Simeoni and   
                      B. Mishra   Taming the complexity of biochemical
                                  models through bisimulation and
                                  collapsing: theory and practice  . . . . 45--67
              Vincent Danos and   
                  Cosimo Laneve   Formal molecular biology . . . . . . . . 69--110
                   M. Curti and   
                  P. Degano and   
                  C. Priami and   
                  C. T. Baldari   Modelling biochemical pathways through
                                  enhanced $ \pi $-calculus  . . . . . . . 111--140
                 Aviv Regev and   
        Ekaterina M. Panina and   
          William Silverman and   
              Luca Cardelli and   
                   Ehud Shapiro   BioAmbients: an abstraction for
                                  biological compartments  . . . . . . . . 141--167
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 325, Number 2, October 1, 2004

                    Jarkko Kari   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
            A. Barbé and   
                F. von Haeseler   The Pascal matroid as a home for
                                  generating sets of cellular automata
                                  configurations defined by quasigroups    171--214
                    Tim Boykett   Efficient exhaustive listings of
                                  reversible one dimensional cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--247
         Gianpiero Cattaneo and   
          Alberto Dennunzio and   
                Luciano Margara   Solution of some conjectures about
                                  topological properties of linear
                                  cellular automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 249--271
                 Eugen Czeizler   On the size of the inverse neighborhoods
                                  for one-dimensional reversible cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
      Andrés Moreira and   
               Nino Boccara and   
                     Eric Goles   On conservative and monotone
                                  one-dimensional cellular automata and
                                  their particle representation  . . . . . 285--316
                      K. Sutner   The complexity of reversible cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--328
            Tommaso Toffoli and   
          Silvio Capobianco and   
             Patrizia Mentrasti   How to turn a second-order cellular
                                  automaton into a lattice gas: a new
                                  inversion scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--344

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 325, Number 3, October 6, 2004

               Tandy Warnow and   
                     Binhai Zhu   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--346
                Mark Marron and   
         Krister M. Swenson and   
            Bernard M. E. Moret   Genomic distances under deletions and
                                  insertions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--360
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                   Yong Gao and   
                 Guohui Lin and   
        Robert Niewiadomski and   
                  Yang Wang and   
                     Junfeng Wu   A space-efficient algorithm for sequence
                                  alignment with inversions and reversals  361--372
                    Martin Kutz   The complexity of Boolean matrix root
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--390
            Eric J. Schwabe and   
              Ian M. Sutherland   Efficient data mappings for
                                  parity-declustered data layouts  . . . . 391--407
         Francis Y. L. Chin and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                 Qizhi Fang and   
                   Shanfeng Zhu   Approximate and dynamic rank aggregation 409--424
               Tetsuo Asano and   
                Naoki Katoh and   
               Hisao Tamaki and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   The structure and number of global
                                  roundings of a graph . . . . . . . . . . 425--437
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
           Shuichi Miyazaki and   
              Hiroki Yanagisawa   Randomized approximation of the stable
                                  marriage problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--465
         Francis Y. L. Chin and   
             Stanley P. Y. Fung   Improved competitive algorithms for
                                  online scheduling with partial job
                                  values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--478
               Jae-Hoon Kim and   
                Kyung-Yong Chwa   Scheduling broadcasts with deadlines . . 479--488
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--490


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 326, Number 1--3, October 20, 2004

       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                   Mayur Thakur   Lower bounds and the hardness of
                                  counting properties  . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
              Cedric Chauve and   
               Guillaume Fertin   On maximal instances for the original
                                  syntenic distance  . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
                  Pascal Michel   Small Turing machines and generalized
                                  busy beaver competition  . . . . . . . . 45--56
       Friedrich Eisenbrand and   
              Fabrizio Grandoni   On the complexity of fixed parameter
                                  clique and dominating set  . . . . . . . 57--67
           James Allen Fill and   
                    Nevin Kapur   Limiting distributions for additive
                                  functionals on Catalan trees . . . . . . 69--102
             Yashar Ganjali and   
       MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi   Characterization of networks supporting
                                  multi-dimensional linear interval
                                  routing schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116
              Tomomi Matsui and   
              Yasuko Matsui and   
                       Yoko Ono   Random generation of $ 2 \times 2 \cdots
                                  {} \times 2 \times J $ contingency
                                  tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--135
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
              Dirk Bongartz and   
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
               Ralf Klasing and   
             Guido Proietti and   
          Sebastian Seibert and   
                   Walter Unger   On the hardness of constructing minimal
                                  $2$-connected spanning subgraphs in
                                  complete graphs with sharpened triangle
                                  inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--153
        Teofilo F. Gonzalez and   
                   David Serena   Complexity of pairwise shortest path
                                  routing in the grid  . . . . . . . . . . 155--185
             Martin Ziegler and   
                  Vasco Brattka   Computability in linear algebra  . . . . 187--211
              Svante Janson and   
            Stefano Lonardi and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   On average sequence complexity . . . . . 213--227
          Jean-Pierre Duval and   
             Roman Kolpakov and   
           Gregory Kucherov and   
             Thierry Lecroq and   
                Arnaud Lefebvre   Linear-time computation of local periods 229--240
               Marcia Edson and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   On representations of positive integers
                                  in the Fibonacci base  . . . . . . . . . 241--260
        Ji\vrí Fiala and   
         Aleksei V. Fishkin and   
                    Fedor Fomin   On distance constrained labeling of disk
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--292
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
              Ana Radovanovi\'c   Least-recently-used caching with
                                  dependent requests . . . . . . . . . . . 293--327
                Marcos Kiwi and   
              Alexander Russell   The Chilean Highway Problem  . . . . . . 329--342
            Anders Dessmark and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Optimal graph exploration without good
                                  maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--362
                         Xun Yi   Authenticated key agreement in dynamic
                                  peer groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--382
          Thorsten Bernholt and   
                   Paul Fischer   The complexity of computing the
                                  MCD-estimator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--398
                 Minming Li and   
             Shawn L. Huang and   
               Xiaoming Sun and   
                     Xiao Huang   Performance evaluation for energy
                                  efficient topologic control in ad hoc
                                  wireless networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 399--408
               Alan Gibbons and   
                      Paul Sant   Rotation sequences and edge-colouring of
                                  binary tree pairs  . . . . . . . . . . . 409--418
                       Qi Cheng   On the ultimate complexity of factorials 419--429
           Stefano Leonardi and   
             Guido Schäfer   Cross-monotonic cost sharing methods for
                                  connected facility location games  . . . 431--442
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 327, Number 1--2, October 25, 2004

                  H. Peter Gumm   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
               Falk Bartels and   
               Ana Sokolova and   
                   Erik de Vink   A hierarchy of probabilistic system
                                  types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
                 Hubie Chen and   
               Riccardo Pucella   A coalgebraic approach to Kleene algebra
                                  with tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--44
              Corina C\^\irstea   A compositional approach to defining
                                  logics for coalgebras  . . . . . . . . . 45--69
               Jesse Hughes and   
                    Bart Jacobs   Simulations in coalgebra . . . . . . . . 71--108
              Clemens Kupke and   
             Alexander Kurz and   
                     Yde Venema   Stone coalgebras . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--134
              Marina Lenisa and   
                 John Power and   
               Hiroshi Watanabe   Category theory for operational
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--154
              Ralph Matthes and   
                  Tarmo Uustalu   Substitution in non-wellfounded syntax
                                  with variable binding  . . . . . . . . . 155--174
          Alessandra Palmigiano   A coalgebraic view on positive modal
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--195
                 Grigore Ro\csu   Behavioral abstraction is hiding
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--221
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 327, Number 3, November 2, 2004

  Zoltán Ésik and   
  Zoltán Fülöp   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
            D. S. Ananichev and   
                   M. V. Volkov   Synchronizing monotonic automata . . . . 225--239
          J.-M. Champarnaud and   
                      F. Coulon   NFA reduction algorithms by means of
                                  regular inequalities . . . . . . . . . . 241--253
        Flavio D'Alessandro and   
             Stefano Varricchio   Well quasi-orders and context-free
                                  grammars $^,$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268
             Diego de Falco and   
      Massimiliano Goldwurm and   
                Violetta Lonati   Frequency of symbol occurrences in
                                  bicomponent stochastic models  . . . . . 269--300
            Dieter Hofbauer and   
              Johannes Waldmann   Deleting string rewriting systems
                                  preserve regularity  . . . . . . . . . . 301--317
              Markus Holzer and   
             Barbara König   On deterministic finite automata and
                                  syntactic monoid size  . . . . . . . . . 319--347
               Ines Klimann and   
           Sylvain Lombardy and   
              Jean Mairesse and   
              Christophe Prieur   Deciding unambiguity and sequentiality
                                  from a finitely ambiguous max-plus
                                  automaton  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--373
                Andreas Malcher   Minimizing finite automata is
                                  computationally hard . . . . . . . . . . 375--390
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--392


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 328, Number 1--2, November 29, 2004

                Oscar H. Ibarra   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
             Cyril Allauzen and   
                  Mehryar Mohri   An optimal pre-determinization algorithm
                                  for weighted transducers . . . . . . . . 3--18
                   Xiang Fu and   
              Tevfik Bultan and   
                     Jianwen Su   Conversation protocols: a formalism for
                                  specification and verification of
                                  reactive electronic services . . . . . . 19--37
             Franck Guingne and   
             Florent Nicart and   
             André Kempe   Acyclic networks maximizing the printing
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--51
             Dietrich Kuske and   
                Ingmar Meinecke   Branching automata with costs --- a way
                                  of reflecting parallelism in costs . . . 53--75
           Sylvain Lombardy and   
   Yann Régis-Gianas and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   Introducing VAUCANSON  . . . . . . . . . 77--96
            Satoru Miyamoto and   
           Shunsuke Inenaga and   
            Masayuki Takeda and   
                Ayumi Shinohara   Ternary directed acyclic word graphs . . 97--111
               B. Ravikumar and   
                      G. Eisman   Weak minimization of DFA --- an
                                  algorithm and applications . . . . . . . 113--133
                Hellis Tamm and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Bideterministic automata and minimal
                                  representations of regular languages . . 135--149
                 A. N. Trahtman   Reducing the time complexity of testing
                                  for local threshold testability  . . . . 151--160
               Lynette van Zijl   On binary $ \oplus $-NFAs and succinct
                                  descriptions of regular languages  . . . 161--170
                 M. Vilares and   
              V. M. Darriba and   
                 J. Vilares and   
                  F. J. Ribadas   A formal frame for robust parsing  . . . 171--186
                  Farn Wang and   
                   Hsu-Chun Yen   Reachability solution characterization
                                  of parametric real-time systems  . . . . 187--201
                 Gaoyan Xie and   
                   Cheng Li and   
                       Zhe Dang   Linear reachability problems and minimal
                                  solutions to linear Diophantine equation
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--219
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 328, Number 3, December 3, 2004

   Mauricio Alvarez-Manilla and   
                 Achim Jung and   
                   Klaus Keimel   The probabilistic powerdomain for stably
                                  compact spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--244
               Hejiao Huang and   
              To-yat Cheung and   
                   Wai Ming Mak   Structure and behavior preservation by
                                  Petri-net-based refinements in system
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--269
               Yi-Dong Shen and   
               Jia-Huai You and   
                    Li-Yan Yuan   Enhancing global SLS-resolution with
                                  loop cutting and tabling mechanisms  . . 271--287
                Patrick Baillot   Type inference for light affine logic
                                  via constraints on words . . . . . . . . 289--323
         Reiner Hähnle and   
             Neil V. Murray and   
                 Erik Rosenthal   Linearity and regularity with negation
                                  normal form  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--354
                       John Foy   A dynamical system which must be stable
                                  whose stability cannot be proved . . . . 355--361
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--364


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 329, Number 1--3, December 13, 2004

           Amin Coja-Oghlan and   
             Andreas Goerdt and   
         André Lanka and   
           Frank Schädlich   Techniques from combinatorial
                                  approximation algorithms yield efficient
                                  algorithms for random $ 2 k$-SAT . . . . 1--45
                 Michael Drmota   On Robson's convergence and boundedness
                                  conjectures concerning the height of
                                  binary search trees  . . . . . . . . . . 47--70
              Hana Chockler and   
                 Orna Kupferman   $ \omega $-Regular languages are
                                  testable with a constant number of
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--92
              Peter Jonsson and   
                 Andrei Krokhin   Recognizing frozen variables in
                                  constraint satisfaction problems . . . . 93--113
       Tamás Hornung and   
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Storage-to-tree transducers with
                                  look-ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--158
                  Thomas Strahm   A proof-theoretic characterization of
                                  the basic feasible functionals . . . . . 159--176
              F. Blanchet-Sadri   Codes, orderings, and partial words  . . 177--202
            Yasuhiro Tajima and   
              Etsuji Tomita and   
           Mitsuo Wakatsuki and   
                Matsuaki Terada   Polynomial time learning of simple
                                  deterministic languages via queries and
                                  a representative sample  . . . . . . . . 203--221
                Alin Bostan and   
             Éric Schost   On the complexities of multipoint
                                  evaluation and interpolation . . . . . . 223--235
            Gembu Morohashi and   
                  Shigeki Iwata   Some minimum merging networks  . . . . . 237--250
         Jacques Peyri\`ere and   
                     Bo Tan and   
              Zhi-Xiong Wen and   
                         Jun Wu   The factor composition matrix of
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--269
             Leonid Kontorovich   Uniquely decodable $n$-gram embeddings   271--284
              Grzegorz Malewicz   A tight analysis and near-optimal
                                  instances of the algorithm of Anderson
                                  and Woll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--301
         Tobias Brueggemann and   
                    Walter Kern   An improved deterministic local search
                                  algorithm for 3-SAT  . . . . . . . . . . 303--313
       Víctor Dalmau and   
                  Peter Jonsson   The complexity of counting homomorphisms
                                  seen from the other side . . . . . . . . 315--323
                    Lu Ruan and   
                 Hongwei Du and   
                Xiaohua Jia and   
                   Weili Wu and   
                 Yingshu Li and   
                       Ker-I Ko   A greedy approximation for minimum
                                  connected dominating sets  . . . . . . . 325--330
              Yuliang Zheng and   
                  Xian-Mo Zhang   The Generalized XOR Lemma  . . . . . . . 331--337
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


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