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Volume 295, Number 1--3, February 24, 2003
Volume 298, Number 1, April 4, 2003
Volume 327, Number 3, November 2, 2004
Volume 330, Number 1, January 31, 2005
Volume 330, Number 2, February 2, 2005
Volume 330, Number 3, February 9, 2005
Volume 331, Number 1, February 15, 2005
Volume 331, Number 2--3, February 25, 2005
Volume 332, Number 1--3, February 28, 2005
Volume 333, Number 1--2, March 1, 2005
Volume 333, Number 3, March 3, 2005
Volume 334, Number 1--3, April 15, 2005
Volume 335, Number 1, May 20, 2005
Volume 335, Number 2--3, May 23, 2005
Volume 336, Number 1, May 25, 2005
Volume 336, Number 2--3, May 26, 2005
Volume 337, Number 1--3, June 9, 2005
Volume 338, Number 1--3, June 10, 2005
Volume 339, Number 1, June 11, 2005
Volume 339, Number 2--3, June 12, 2005
Volume 340, Number 1, June 13, 2005
Volume 340, Number 2, June 27, 2005
Volume 341, Number 1--3, September 5, 2005
Volume 342, Number 1, September 6, 2005
Volume 342, Number 2--3, September 7, 2005
Volume 343, Number 1--2, October 10, 2005
Volume 343, Number 3, October 17, 2005
Volume 344, Number 1, November 11, 2005
Volume 344, Number 2--3, November 17, 2005
Volume 345, Number 1, November 21, 2005
Volume 345, Number 2--3, November 22, 2005
Volume 346, Number 1, November 23, 2005
Volume 346, Number 2--3, November 28, 2005
Volume 347, Number 1--2, November 30, 2005
Volume 347, Number 3, December 1, 2005
Volume 348, Number 1, December 2, 2005
Volume 348, Number 2--3, December 8, 2005
Volume 349, Number 1, December 12, 2005
Volume 349, Number 2, December 14, 2005
Volume 349, Number 3, December 16, 2005
Volume 350, Number 1, January 18, 2006
Volume 350, Number 2--3, February 7, 2006
Volume 351, Number 1, February 14, 2006
Volume 351, Number 2, February 21, 2006
Volume 351, Number 3, February 28, 2006
Volume 352, Number 1--3, March 7, 2006
Volume 353, Number 1--3, March 14, 2006
Volume 354, Number 1, March 21, 2006
Volume 354, Number 2, March 28, 2006
Volume 354, Number 3, April 4, 2006
Volume 355, Number 1, April 6, 2006
Volume 355, Number 2, April 11, 2006
Volume 355, Number 3, April 14, 2006
Volume 356, Number 1--2, May 5, 2006
Volume 356, Number 3, May 30, 2006
Volume 357, Number 1--3, July 25, 2006
Volume 358, Number 1, July 31, 2006
Volume 358, Number 2--3, August 7, 2006
Volume 359, Number 1--3, August 14, 2006
Volume 360, Number 1--3, August 21, 2006
Volume 361, Number 1, August 28, 2006
Volume 361, Number 2--3, September 1, 2006
Volume 362, Number 1--3, October 11, 2006
Volume 363, Number 1, October 25, 2006
Volume 363, Number 2, October 28, 2006
Volume 363, Number 3, October 31, 2006
Volume 364, Number 1, November 2, 2006
Volume 364, Number 2, November 6, 2006
Volume 364, Number 3, November 8, 2006
Volume 365, Number 1--2, November 10, 2006
Volume 365, Number 3, November 12, 2006
Volume 366, Number 1--2, November 16, 2006
Volume 366, Number 3, November 20, 2006
Volume 367, Number 1--2, November 24, 2006
Volume 367, Number 3, December 1, 2006
Volume 368, Number 1--2, December 5, 2006
Volume 368, Number 3, December 10, 2006
Volume 369, Number 1--3, December 15, 2006
Volume 370, Number 1--3, February 12, 2007
Volume 371, Number 1--2, February 22, 2007
Volume 371, Number 3, March 1, 2007
Volume 372, Number 1, March 6, 2007
Volume 372, Number 2--3, March 15, 2007
Volume 373, Number 1--2, March 22, 2007
Volume 373, Number 3, April 5, 2007
Volume 374, Number 1--3, April 20, 2007
Volume 375, Number 1--3, May 1, 2007
Volume 376, Number 1--2, May 10, 2007
Volume 376, Number 3, May 15, 2007
Volume 377, Number 1--3, May 31, 2007
Volume 378, Number 1, June 3, 2007
Volume 378, Number 2, June 6, 2007
Volume 378, Number 3, June 9, 2007
Volume 379, Number 1--2, June 12, 2007
Volume 379, Number 3, June 15, 2007
Volume 380, Number 1--2, June 21, 2007
Volume 380, Number 3, June 28, 2007
Volume 381, Number 1--3, August 22, 2007
Volume 382, Number 1, August 28, 2007
Volume 382, Number 2, August 31, 2007
Volume 382, Number 3, September 6, 2007
Volume 383, Number 1, September 12, 2007
Volume 383, Number 2--3, September 18, 2007
Volume 384, Number 1, September 24, 2007
Volume 384, Number 2--3, October 1, 2007
Volume 385, Number 1--3, October 15, 2007
Volume 386, Number 1--2, October 28, 2007
Volume 386, Number 3, November 1, 2007
Volume 387, Number 1, November 6, 2007
Volume 387, Number 2, November 12, 2007
Volume 387, Number 3, November 22, 2007
Volume 388, Number 1--3, December 5, 2007
Volume 389, Number 1--2, December 10, 2007
Volume 389, Number 3, December 15, 2007
Volume 390, Number 1, January 22, 2008
Volume 390, Number 2--3, January 28, 2008
Volume 391, Number 1--2, February 4, 2008
Volume 391, Number 3, February 14, 2008
Volume 392, Number 1--3, February 28, 2008
Volume 393, Number 1--3, March 20, 2008
Volume 394, Number 1--2, March 31, 2008
Volume 394, Number 3, April 8, 2008
Volume 395, Number 1, April 17, 2008
Volume 395, Number 2--3, May 1, 2008
Volume 396, Number 1--3, May 10, 2008
Volume 397, Number 1--3, May 20, 2008
Volume 398, Number 1--3, May 28, 2008
Volume 399, Number 1--2, June 3, 2008
Volume 399, Number 3, June 6, 2008
Volume 400, Number 1--3, June 9, 2008
Volume 401, Number 1--3, July 23, 2008
Volume 402, Number 1, July 28, 2008
Volume 402, Number 2--3, August 8, 2008
Volume 403, Number 1, August 20, 2008
Volume 403, Number 2--3, August 28, 2008
Volume 404, Number 1--2, September 6, 2008
Volume 404, Number 3, September 28, 2008
Volume 405, Number 1--2, October 6, 2008
Volume 405, Number 3, October 17, 2008
Volume 406, Number 1--2, October 28, 2008
Volume 406, Number 3, October 31, 2008
Volume 407, Number 1--3, November 6, 2008
Volume 408, Number 1, November 17, 2008
Volume 408, Number 2--3, November 28, 2008
Volume 409, Number 1, December 6, 2008
Volume 409, Number 2, December 17, 2008
Volume 409, Number 3, December 28, 2008
Volume 410, Number 1, January 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 2--3, February 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 4--5, February 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 6--7, February 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 8--10, March 1, 2009
Volume 410, Number 11, March 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 12--13, March 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 14, March 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 15, April 1, 2009
Volume 410, Number 16, April 2, 2009
Volume 410, Number 17, April 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 18, April 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 19, April 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 20, May 1, 2009
Volume 410, Number 21--23, May 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 24--25, May 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 26, June 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 27--29, June 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 30--32, August 20, 2009
Volume 410, Number 33--34, August 21, 2009
Volume 410, Number 35, August 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 36, August 31, 2009
Volume 410, Number 37, September 1, 2009
Volume 410, Number 38--40, September 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 41, September 15, 2009
Volume 410, Number 42, September 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 43, October 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 44, October 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 45, October 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 46, November 1, 2009
Volume 410, Number 47--49, November 6, 2009
Volume 410, Number 50, November 17, 2009
Volume 410, Number 51, November 28, 2009
Volume 410, Number 52, December 6, 2009
Volume 412, Number 43, October 7, 2011
Volume 412, Number 45, October 21, 2011
Volume 475, Number ??, March 4, 2013
Volume 492, Number ??, June 24, 2013


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

             Sven O. Krumke and   
         Willem E. de Paepe and   
             Diana Poensgen and   
                   Leen Stougie   News from the online traveling repairman 279--294


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

               Takashi Yokomori   Polynomial-time identification of very
                                  simple grammars from positive data . . . 179--206


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

          J.-M. Champarnaud and   
                      F. Coulon   NFA reduction algorithms by means of
                                  regular inequalities . . . . . . . . . . 241--253


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 330, Number 1, January 31, 2005

      Juhani Karhumäki and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
            D. S. Ananichev and   
                   M. V. Volkov   Synchronizing generalized monotonic
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
            Holger Austinat and   
             Volker Diekert and   
           Ulrich Hertrampf and   
                Holger Petersen   Regular frequency computations . . . . . 15--21
       Cezar Câmpeanu and   
      Nicolae Sântean and   
                       Sheng Yu   Mergible states in large NFA . . . . . . 23--34
               Arturo Carpi and   
                   Aldo de Luca   Completions in measure of languages and
                                  related combinatorial problems . . . . . 35--57
                   Zhe Dang and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                    Zhi-Wei Sun   On two-way nondeterministic finite
                                  automata with one reversal-bounded
                                  counter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--79
              Cunsheng Ding and   
                   Xuesong Wang   A coding theory construction of new
                                  systematic authentication codes  . . . . 81--99
              Rudolf Freund and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez   Tissue P systems with channel states . . 101--116
                 Tero Harju and   
                   Dirk Nowotka   On the equation $x^k = z_1^{k_1}
                                  z_2^{k_2} \cdots z_n^{k_n}$ in a free
                                  semigroup  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
                   Juha Honkala   The language equivalence problem for
                                  HD0L systems having D0L growths  . . . . 123--133
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
                Georg Schnitger   On the power of randomized multicounter
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144
          Yuri Matiyasevich and   
Géraud Sénizergues   Decision problems for semi-Thue systems
                                  with a few rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--169
                 Keijo Ruohonen   Explicit test sets for iterated
                                  morphisms in free monoids and metabelian
                                  groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--191
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 330, Number 2, February 2, 2005

     E. Csuhaj-Varjú and   
                    D. Wotschke   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
                Henning Bordihn   On the number of components in
                                  cooperating distributed grammar systems  195--204
           Juan Castellanos and   
              Peter Leupold and   
                 Victor Mitrana   On the size complexity of hybrid
                                  networks of evolutionary processors  . . 205--220
      Jean-Marc Champarnaud and   
         Thomas Paranthoën   Random generation of DFAs  . . . . . . . 221--235
                 Mark Daley and   
                  Ian McQuillan   Template-guided DNA recombination  . . . 237--250
              Rudolf Freund and   
                  Lila Kari and   
              Marion Oswald and   
              Petr Sosík   Computationally universal P systems
                                  without priorities: two catalysts are
                                  sufficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266
              Markus Holzer and   
                  Martin Kutrib   On the descriptional complexity of
                                  finite automata with modified acceptance
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--285
 Galina Jirásková   State complexity of some operations on
                                  binary regular languages . . . . . . . . 287--298
              Martin Kappes and   
            Frank Nießner   Succinct representations of languages by
                                  DFA with different levels of reliability 299--310
                  Martin Kutrib   On the descriptional power of heads,
                                  counters, and pebbles  . . . . . . . . . 311--324
                Andreas Malcher   On two-way communication in cellular
                                  automata with a fixed number of cells    325--338
        Maurice Margenstern and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             Yurii Rogozhin and   
                  Sergey Verlan   Context-free insertion--deletion systems 339--348
               Filippo Mera and   
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Complementing unary nondeterministic
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--360
             György Vaszil   On the descriptional complexity of some
                                  rewriting mechanisms regulated by
                                  context conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 361--373

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 330, Number 3, February 9, 2005

           Flavio Corradini and   
                   Uwe Nestmann   Selected papers of the Tenth
                                  International Workshop on Expressiveness
                                  in Concurrency (EXPRESS 2003)  . . . . . 375--376
                 Luca Aceto and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
Anna Ingólfsdóttir and   
                     Bas Luttik   CCS with Hennessy's merge has no
                                  finite-equational axiomatization . . . . 377--405
            Christie Bolton and   
                     Gavin Lowe   A hierarchy of failures-based models:
                                  theory and application . . . . . . . . . 407--438
             Arnaud Carayol and   
          Daniel Hirschkoff and   
               Davide Sangiorgi   On the representation of McCarthy's \em
                                  amb in the $\pi$-calculus  . . . . . . . 439--473
           Étienne Lozes   Elimination of spatial connectives in
                                  static spatial logics  . . . . . . . . . 475--499
             Sergio Maffeis and   
                  Iain Phillips   On the computational strength of pure
                                  ambient calculi  . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--551
                   Richard Mayr   Weak bisimilarity and regularity of
                                  context-free processes is EXPTIME-hard   553--575
              Frank D. Valencia   Decidability of infinite-state timed CCP
                                  processes and first-order LTL  . . . . . 577--607
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--610
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--622


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 331, Number 1, February 15, 2005

            Fernando Orejas and   
                Jan van Leeuwen   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Markus Bläser   Beyond the Alder--Strassen bound . . . . 3--21
          Kunihiko Sadakane and   
        Nadia Takki-Chebihi and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   Combinatorics and algorithms for
                                  low-discrepancy roundings of a real
                                  sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
               Artur Czumaj and   
               Christian Sohler   Testing hypergraph colorability  . . . . 37--52
                  Jop F. Sibeyn   Faster gossiping on butterfly networks   53--72
                Edith Cohen and   
              Eran Halperin and   
                    Haim Kaplan   Performance aspects of distributed
                                  caches using TTL-based consistency . . . 73--96
                Rajeev Alur and   
            Kousha Etessami and   
             Mihalis Yannakakis   Realizability and verification of MSC
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--114
         Franck van Breugel and   
                  James Worrell   A behavioural pseudometric for
                                  probabilistic transition systems . . . . 115--142
               Hubert Comon and   
       Véronique Cortier   Tree automata with one memory set
                                  constraints and cryptographic protocols  143--214
         Lutz Schröder and   
           Till Mossakowski and   
           Andrzej Tarlecki and   
                Bartek Klin and   
                  Piotr Hoffman   Amalgamation in the semantics of CASL    215--247
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 331, Number 2--3, February 25, 2005

              Frank de Boer and   
             Marcello Bonsangue   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--250
Erika Ábrahám and   
           Frank S. de Boer and   
      Willem-Paul de Roever and   
                 Martin Steffen   An assertion-based proof system for
                                  multithreaded Java . . . . . . . . . . . 251--290
               Jozef Hooman and   
                Jaco van de Pol   Semantic models of a timed distributed
                                  dataspace architecture . . . . . . . . . 291--323
          Gianluigi Ferrari and   
              Ugo Montanari and   
                  Emilio Tuosto   Coalgebraic minimization of HD-automata
                                  for the $\pi$-calculus using polymorphic
                                  types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--365
            Franz Achermann and   
               Oscar Nierstrasz   A calculus for reasoning about software
                                  composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--396
               Yonit Kesten and   
                    Amir Pnueli   A compositional approach to CTL$^*$
                                  verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--428
                Emil Sekerinski   Verification and refinement with
                                  fine-grained action-based concurrent
                                  objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--455
             Dirk Pattinson and   
                 Martin Wirsing   A coordination approach to mobile
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--483
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--486


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 332, Number 1--3, February 28, 2005

                 Andrew Lim and   
            Brian Rodrigues and   
                   Fan Wang and   
                        Zhou Xu   $k$-Center problems with minimum
                                  coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                   Alain Daurat   Determination of Q-convex sets by X-rays 19--45
                  Lila Kari and   
              Petr Sosík   Aspects of shuffle and deletion on
                                  trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
           Steven S. Seiden and   
              Peter P. Chen and   
                  R. F. Lax and   
                    J. Chen and   
                     Guoli Ding   New bounds for randomized busing . . . . 63--81
               Marc Demange and   
           Vangelis Th. Paschos   On-line vertex-covering  . . . . . . . . 83--108
                Qingmin Shi and   
      Joseph JáJá   A new framework for addressing temporal
                                  range queries and some preliminary
                                  results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121
                Maria Serna and   
              Luca Trevisan and   
                    Fatos Xhafa   The approximability of non-Boolean
                                  satisfiability problems and restricted
                                  integer programming  . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
           Sylvain Lombardy and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   Derivatives of rational expressions with
                                  multiplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--177
               Jean Berstel and   
                Luc Boasson and   
                 Michel Latteux   Mixed languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--198
          F. J. Brandenburg and   
                    K. Skodinis   Finite graph automata for linear and
                                  boundary graph languages . . . . . . . . 199--232
         Salvatore La Torre and   
             Aniello Murano and   
              Margherita Napoli   Weak Muller acceptance conditions for
                                  tree automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--250
             Bernhard Fuchs and   
 Winfried Hochstättler and   
                    Walter Kern   Online matching on a line  . . . . . . . 251--264
       Vilhelm Dahllöf and   
              Peter Jonsson and   
          Magnus Wahlström   Counting models for 2SAT and 3SAT
                                  formulae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--291
            Nikola Jevti\'c and   
              Alon Orlitsky and   
          Narayana P. Santhanam   A lower bound on compression of unknown
                                  alphabets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--311
                 Marco Pedicini   Greedy expansions and sets with deleted
                                  digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--336
            Klaus Weihrauch and   
                     Ning Zhong   Computing the solution of the
                                  Korteweg--de Vries equation with
                                  arbitrary precision on Turing machines   337--366
                    A. Cincotti   Three-player partizan games  . . . . . . 367--389
                 Longtao He and   
               Binxing Fang and   
                        Jie Sui   The wide window string matching
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404
              Jean Cardinal and   
               Stefan Langerman   Designing small keyboards is hard  . . . 405--415
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   On the one-sided crossing minimization
                                  in a bipartite graph with large degrees  417--446
               Hong-Gwa Yeh and   
                     Xuding Zhu   Resource-sharing system scheduling and
                                  circular chromatic number  . . . . . . . 447--460
                H. J. Huang and   
                    L. Jiao and   
                   T. Y. Cheung   Property-preserving subnet reductions
                                  for designing manufacturing systems with
                                  shared resources . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--485
        Harumichi Nishimura and   
                  Masanao Ozawa   Uniformity of quantum circuit families
                                  for error-free algorithms  . . . . . . . 487--496
            Cristina Bazgan and   
 Jérôme Monnot and   
       Vangelis Th. Paschos and   
             Fabrice Serri\`ere   On the differential approximation of MIN
                                  SET COVER  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--513
      Jesper Makholm Byskov and   
Bolette Ammitzbòll Madsen and   
                Bjarke Skjernaa   New algorithms for Exact Satisfiability  515--541
               Reza Gharavi and   
                  V. Anantharam   An upper bound for the largest Lyapunov
                                  exponent of a Markovian product of
                                  nonnegative matrices . . . . . . . . . . 543--557
                     Dekel Tsur   Sequencing by hybridization with errors:
                                  handling longer sequences  . . . . . . . 559--566
          Maxime Crochemore and   
Jacques Désarménien and   
               Dominique Perrin   A note on the Burrows--Wheeler
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--572
               Ali Aberkane and   
                James D. Currie   The Thue--Morse word contains circular
                                  $5/2^+$ power free words of every length 573--581
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--584
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 333, Number 1--2, March 1, 2005

Andrew D. Gordon, Programme Chair FOSSACS 2003   Preface for the Special Issue  . . . . . 1--1
               Andreas Abel and   
              Ralph Matthes and   
                  Tarmo Uustalu   Iteration and coiteration schemes for
                                  higher-order and nested datatypes  . . . 3--66
             Bruno Blanchet and   
               Andreas Podelski   Verification of cryptographic protocols:
                                  tagging enforces termination . . . . . . 67--90
                Eduardo Bonelli   Normalisation for higher-order calculi
                                  with explicit substitutions  . . . . . . 91--125
               Iovka Boneva and   
               Jean-Marc Talbot   When ambients cannot be opened . . . . . 127--169
         Franck van Breugel and   
            Michael Mislove and   
         Joël Ouaknine and   
                  James Worrell   Domain theory, testing and simulation
                                  for labelled Markov processes  . . . . . 171--197
                       J. Laird   Game semantics and linear CPS
                                  interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--224
                   Denis Lugiez   Multitree automata that count  . . . . . 225--263
          Luigi Santocanale and   
            André Arnold   Ambiguous classes in $\mu$-calculi
                                  hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--296
          Vladimiro Sassone and   
            Pawe\l Soboci\'nski   Locating reaction with 2-categories  . . 297--327
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 333, Number 3, March 3, 2005

                David Peleg and   
                     Jop Sibeyn   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
                 Andre Osterloh   Optimal oblivious routing on
                                  $d$-dimensional meshes . . . . . . . . . 331--346
                   Hiro Ito and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
                Yasuo Okabe and   
               Takuya Yoshihiro   Single backup table schemes for
                                  shortest-path routing  . . . . . . . . . 347--353
        Dariusz R. Kowalski and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Time complexity of radio broadcasting:
                                  adaptiveness vs. obliviousness and
                                  randomization vs. determinism  . . . . . 355--371
               Costas Busch and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
                  Paul Spirakis   The cost of concurrent, low-contention
                                  Read&Modify&Write  . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--400
           Michele Flammini and   
            Alfredo Navarra and   
           Andrzej Proskurowski   On routing of wavebands for all-to-all
                                  communications in all-optical paths and
                                  cycles $^,$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--413
             Cyril Gavoille and   
            Martin Nehéz   Interval routing in reliability networks 415--432
   Antonio Fernández and   
          Chryssis Georgiou and   
          Alexander Russell and   
             Alex A. Shvartsman   The Do-All problem with Byzantine
                                  processor failures . . . . . . . . . . . 433--454
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 334, Number 1--3, April 15, 2005

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                    Jarkko Kari   Theory of cellular automata: a survey    3--33
                     Anne Auger   Convergence results for the
                                  $(1,\lambda)$-SA-ES using the theory of
                                  $\phi$-irreducible Markov chains . . . . 35--69
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
           Clelia De Felice and   
                  Rosalba Zizza   The structure of reflexive regular
                                  splicing languages via Schützenberger
                                  constants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--98
           Philippe Gaborit and   
                 Oliver D. King   Linear constructions for DNA codes . . . 99--113
                Oscar H. Ibarra   On membrane hierarchy in P systems . . . 115--129
                  Lila Kari and   
     Stavros Konstantinidis and   
              Petr Sosík   On properties of bond-free DNA languages 131--159
                   Madhu Mutyam   Rewriting P systems: improved
                                  hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--175
           Martin Sauerhoff and   
                 Detlef Sieling   Quantum branching programs and
                                  space-bounded nonuniform quantum
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--225
               Damien Woods and   
             Thomas J. Naughton   An optical model of computation  . . . . 227--258
                 Guowu Yang and   
         William N. N. Hung and   
                Xiaoyu Song and   
                Marek Perkowski   Majority-based reversible logic gates    259--274
          Tomohiro Yamasaki and   
         Hirotada Kobayashi and   
                   Hiroshi Imai   Quantum versus deterministic counter
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--297
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--299
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 335, Number 1, May 20, 2005

         Alberto Apostolico and   
             Raffaele Giancarlo   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
          Abhijit Chattaraj and   
                   Laxmi Parida   An inexact-suffix-tree-based algorithm
                                  for detecting extensible patterns  . . . 3--14
               Lusheng Wang and   
                   Hao Zhao and   
                Guozhu Dong and   
                    Jianping Li   On the complexity of finding emerging
                                  patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--27
            Giancarlo Mauri and   
                  Giulio Pavesi   Algorithms for pattern matching and
                                  discovery in RNA secondary structure . . 29--51
                    Ying Xu and   
               Lusheng Wang and   
                   Hao Zhao and   
                    Jianping Li   Exact matching of RNA secondary
                                  structure patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
Jérôme Waldispühl and   
             Jean-Marc Steyaert   Modeling and predicting all-$\alpha$
                                  transmembrane proteins including
                                  helix--helix pairing . . . . . . . . . . 67--92
               Charles Choy and   
             Jesper Jansson and   
          Kunihiko Sadakane and   
                  Wing-Kin Sung   Computing the maximum agreement of
                                  phylogenetic networks  . . . . . . . . . 93--107
               Vineet Bafna and   
              Sorin Istrail and   
            Giuseppe Lancia and   
                    Romeo Rizzi   Polynomial and APX-hard cases of the
                                  individual haplotyping problem . . . . . 109--125
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 335, Number 2--3, May 23, 2005

                 Luca Aceto and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
         Anna Ingolfsdottir and   
      Zoltán Ésik   Guest editors' foreword  . . . . . . . . 127--129
                J. C. M. Baeten   A brief history of process algebra . . . 131--146
                 Bas Luttik and   
            Vincent van Oostrom   Decomposition orders --- another
                                  generalisation of the fundamental
                                  theorem of arithmetic  . . . . . . . . . 147--186
               F. Corradini and   
                      W. Vogler   Measuring the performance of
                                  asynchronous systems with PAFAS  . . . . 187--213
             J. A. Bergstra and   
               C. A. Middelburg   Process algebra for hybrid systems . . . 215--280
          Alessandro Aldini and   
                 Marco Bernardo   On the usability of process algebra: an
                                  architectural view . . . . . . . . . . . 281--329
              Roberto Bruni and   
              Ugo Montanari and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   Observational congruences for
                                  dynamically reconfigurable tile systems  331--372
       Catuscia Palamidessi and   
          Oltea Mihaela Herescu   A randomized encoding of the
                                  $\pi$-calculus with mixed choice . . . . 373--404
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--406


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 336, Number 1, May 25, 2005

             Maurizio Lenzerini   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
           Michael Benedikt and   
                 Wenfei Fan and   
                  Gabriel Kuper   Structural properties of XPath fragments 3--31
            Diego Calvanese and   
        Giuseppe De Giacomo and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Decidable containment of recursive
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
               Alin Deutsch and   
                     Val Tannen   XML queries and constraints, containment
                                  and reformulation  . . . . . . . . . . . 57--87
               Ronald Fagin and   
        Phokion G. Kolaitis and   
     Renée J. Miller and   
                    Lucian Popa   Data exchange: semantics and query
                                  answering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--124
              Floris Geerts and   
                  Bart Kuijpers   On the decidability of termination of
                                  query evaluation in transitive-closure
                                  logics for polynomial constraint
                                  databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--151
                Wim Martens and   
                    Frank Neven   On the complexity of typechecking
                                  top-down XML transformations . . . . . . 153--180
                David Toman and   
                  Grant Weddell   On reasoning about structural equality
                                  in XML: a description logic approach . . 181--203
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 336, Number 2--3, May 26, 2005

               Egon Börger   Abstract state machines and high-level
                                  system design and analysis . . . . . . . 205--207
              Cyrille Artho and   
           Howard Barringer and   
             Allen Goldberg and   
             Klaus Havelund and   
           Sarfraz Khurshid and   
                 Mike Lowry and   
           Corina Pasareanu and   
             Grigore Ro\csu and   
                Koushik Sen and   
              Willem Visser and   
                Rich Washington   Combining test case generation and
                                  runtime verification . . . . . . . . . . 209--234
           Egon Börger and   
              Nicu G. Fruja and   
           Vincenzo Gervasi and   
           Robert F. Stärk   A high-level modular definition of the
                                  semantics of C#  . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--284
           Uwe Glässer and   
                   Qian-Ping Gu   Formal description and analysis of a
                                  distributed location service for mobile
                                  ad hoc networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--309
              Yuri Gurevich and   
               Nikolai Tillmann   Partial updates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--342
          Stanislas Nanchen and   
           Robert F. Stärk   A logic for secure memory access of
                                  abstract state machines  . . . . . . . . 343--365
        Gruia-Catalin Roman and   
                   Jamie Payton   A principled exploration of coordination
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--401
             Gerhard Schellhorn   ASM refinement and generalizations of
                                  forward simulation in data refinement: a
                                  comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--435
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 337, Number 1--3, June 9, 2005

         Roberto Giacobazzi and   
             Isabella Mastroeni   Transforming semantics by abstract
                                  interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--50
        Gennaro Costagliola and   
          Filomena Ferrucci and   
                Carmine Gravino   Adding symbolic information to picture
                                  models: definitions and properties . . . 51--104
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
        Wojciech Plandowski and   
                Wojciech Rytter   On the complexity of decidable cases of
                                  the commutation problem of languages . . 105--118
                   I. McQuillan   The generative capacity of
                                  block-synchronized context-free grammars 119--133
          T. C. Edwin Cheng and   
              Hans Kellerer and   
                 Vladimir Kotov   Semi-on-line multiprocessor scheduling
                                  with given total processing time . . . . 134--146
            Paola Flocchini and   
          Giuseppe Prencipe and   
             Nicola Santoro and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Gathering of asynchronous robots with
                                  limited visibility . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168
                 Wai-Fong Chuan   Factors of characteristic words of
                                  irrational numbers . . . . . . . . . . . 169--182
              Etsuro Moriya and   
            Dieter Hofbauer and   
                Maria Huber and   
                 Friedrich Otto   On state-alternating context-free
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--216
                   Philip Bille   A survey on tree edit distance and
                                  related problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--239
     Vânia M. F. Dias and   
 Celina M. H. de Figueiredo and   
           Jayme L. Szwarcfiter   Generating bicliques of a graph in
                                  lexicographic order  . . . . . . . . . . 240--248
              Michael Elkin and   
                    David Peleg   Approximating $k$-spanner problems for
                                  $k > 2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--277
          Dimitar P. Guelev and   
                  Dang Van Hung   On the completeness and decidability of
                                  duration calculus with iteration . . . . 278--304
                Jianer Chen and   
                   Iyad A. Kanj   On approximating minimum vertex cover
                                  for graphs with perfect matching . . . . 305--318
              Martin Aigner and   
          Gianluca De Marco and   
             Manuela Montangero   The plurality problem with three colors
                                  and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--330
               Bodo Manthey and   
          Rüdiger Reischuk   The intractability of computing the
                                  Hamming distance . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--346
               Shlomo Hoory and   
                 Stefan Szeider   Computing unsatisfiable $k$-SAT
                                  instances with few occurrences per
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--359
             Arthur W. Chou and   
                       Ker-I Ko   The computational complexity of distance
                                  functions of two-dimensional domains . . 360--369
                 Sun-Yuan Hsieh   Embedding longest fault-free paths onto
                                  star graphs with more vertex faults  . . 370--378
                   H. Bruin and   
                     O. Volkova   The complexity of Fibonacci-like
                                  kneading sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 379--389
               Li-Sha Huang and   
                 Minming Li and   
                       Bo Zhang   Approximation of Walrasian equilibrium
                                  in single-minded auctions  . . . . . . . 390--398
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 338, Number 1--3, June 10, 2005

   Andrzej M. Borzyszkowski and   
             Philippe Darondeau   Transition systems without transitions   1--16
               Alan Jeffrey and   
                  Julian Rathke   A fully abstract may testing semantics
                                  for concurrent objects . . . . . . . . . 17--63
        Giovanna D'Agostino and   
                  Giacomo Lenzi   An axiomatization of bisimulation
                                  quantifiers via the $\mu$-calculus . . . 64--95
                        Yuxi Fu   On quasi-open bisimulation . . . . . . . 96--126
                  Chiaki Sakama   Ordering default theories and
                                  nonmonotonic logic programs  . . . . . . 127--152
            Cormac Flanagan and   
          Stephen N. Freund and   
                Shaz Qadeer and   
               Sanjit A. Seshia   Modular verification of multithreaded
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--183
                  James Worrell   On the final sequence of a finitary set
                                  functor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--199
         Mircea-Dan Hernest and   
              Ulrich Kohlenbach   A complexity analysis of functional
                                  interpretations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--246
          Yannick Chevalier and   
          Ralf Küsters and   
   Michaël Rusinowitch and   
                Mathieu Turuani   An NP decision procedure for protocol
                                  insecurity with XOR  . . . . . . . . . . 247--274
              Carsten Fritz and   
                   Thomas Wilke   Simulation relations for alternating
                                  Büchi automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--314
            Andrzej S. Murawski   Functions with local state: Regularity
                                  and undecidability . . . . . . . . . . . 315--349
              Antonio Bueno and   
     Valentín Valero and   
              Fernando Cuartero   A translation of TPAL$_p$ into a class
                                  of timed-probabilistic Petri nets  . . . 350--392
            Michele Boreale and   
           Maria Grazia Buscemi   A method for symbolic analysis of
                                  security protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 393--425
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--426
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 339, Number 1, June 11, 2005

                   T. Harju and   
          J. Karhumäki and   
                     A. Restivo   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                    S. I. Adian   Divisibility problem for one relator
                                  monoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--6
                James D. Currie   Pattern avoidance: themes and variations 7--18
            Narad Rampersad and   
            Jeffrey Shallit and   
                  Ming-wei Wang   Avoiding large squares in infinite
                                  binary words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
         Leszek Ga\csieniec and   
             Roman Kolpakov and   
                   Igor Potapov   Space efficient search for maximal
                                  repetitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
       Sorin Constantinescu and   
                    Lucian Ilie   Generalised fine and Wilf's theorem for
                                  arbitrary number of periods  . . . . . . 49--60
        \vSt\vepán Holub   A proof of the extended Duval's
                                  conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
                     A. E. Frid   Sequences of linear arithmetical
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--87
    Isabel M. Araújo and   
     Véronique Bruy\`ere   Sturmian words and a criterium by
                                  Michaux--Villemaire  . . . . . . . . . . 88--102
             F. Levé and   
                    G. Richomme   On a conjecture about finite fixed
                                  points of morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . 103--128
                  F. Hivert and   
              J.-C. Novelli and   
                   J.-Y. Thibon   The algebra of binary search trees . . . 129--165
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 339, Number 2--3, June 12, 2005

                 Yijia Chen and   
             Jörg Flum and   
                   Martin Grohe   Machine-based methods in parameterized
                                  complexity theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 167--199
                Andreas Maletti   HASSE diagrams for classes of
                                  deterministic bottom-up
                                  tree-to-tree-series transformations  . . 200--240
                  Shengyu Zhang   On the power of Ambainis lower bounds    241--256
             Cheng-Kuan Lin and   
              Hua-Min Huang and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   The super connectivity of the pancake
                                  graphs and the super laceability of the
                                  star graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271
            Cristina Bazgan and   
            Bruno Escoffier and   
           Vangelis Th. Paschos   Completeness in standard and
                                  differential approximation classes:
                                  Poly-(D)APX- and (D)PTAS-completeness    272--292
                    Yong He and   
                    Yiwei Jiang   Optimal semi-online preemptive
                                  algorithms for machine covering on two
                                  uniform machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--314
            Amitabha Bagchi and   
          Amitabh Chaudhary and   
                    Petr Kolman   Short length Menger's theorem and
                                  reliable optical routing . . . . . . . . 315--332
            Peter Damaschke and   
                      Zhen Zhou   On queuing lengths in on-line switching  333--343
                   Murray Elder   A context-free and a $1$-counter
                                  geodesic language for a
                                  Baumslag--Solitar group  . . . . . . . . 344--371
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--373


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 340, Number 1, June 13, 2005

           Roberto Gorrieri and   
               Fabio Martinelli   Theoretical foundations of security
                                  analysis and design II . . . . . . . . . 1--2
       Alessandra Di Pierro and   
               Chris Hankin and   
               Herbert Wiklicky   Measuring the confinement of
                                  probabilistic systems  . . . . . . . . . 3--56
                Jonathan Herzog   A computational interpretation of
                                  Dolev--Yao adversaries . . . . . . . . . 57--81
     Gordon Thomas Rohrmair and   
                     Gavin Lowe   Using data-independence in the analysis
                                  of intrusion detection systems . . . . . 82--101
      Karthikeyan Bhargavan and   
      Cédric Fournet and   
               Andrew D. Gordon   A semantics for web services
                                  authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--153
             Roberto Zunino and   
               Pierpaolo Degano   Weakening the perfect encryption
                                  assumption in Dolev--Yao adversaries . . 154--178
                      Anonymous   Editorial board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 340, Number 2, June 27, 2005

                 A. de Luca and   
                 F. Mignosi and   
                  D. Perrin and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185
                      Anonymous   Editorial: From Antonio's former
                                  students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--187
                   Arto Salomaa   Connections between subwords and certain
                                  matrix mappings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--203
    Isabel M. Araújo and   
     Véronique Bruy\`ere   Words derivated from Sturmian words  . . 204--219
               Arturo Carpi and   
                   Aldo de Luca   Codes of central Sturmian words  . . . . 220--239
               Clelia De Felice   An enhanced property of factorizing
                                  codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--256
    Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and   
                Matteo Pradella   Tile rewriting grammars and picture
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--272
                 Tero Harju and   
                   Dirk Nowotka   Counting bordered and primitive words
                                  with a fixed weight  . . . . . . . . . . 273--279
                   Jean Berstel   Growth of repetition-free words --- a
                                  review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--290
  Zoltán Ésik and   
                    Pascal Weil   Algebraic recognizability of regular
                                  tree languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--321
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
             Michel Latteux and   
                      Ion Petre   Commutation with codes . . . . . . . . . 322--333
                J.-P. Borel and   
                  C. Reutenauer   Palindromic factors of billiard words    334--348
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
                Giancarlo Mauri   Regular splicing languages and
                                  subclasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--363
         Christian Choffrut and   
                    Berke Durak   Collage of two-dimensional words . . . . 364--380
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
               Dominique Perrin   Codes and sofic constraints  . . . . . . 381--393
            Alberto Bertoni and   
           Carlo Mereghetti and   
                Beatrice Palano   Small size quantum automata recognizing
                                  some regular languages . . . . . . . . . 394--407
           Marcella Anselmo and   
           Dora Giammarresi and   
                  Maria Madonia   New operations and regular expressions
                                  for two-dimensional languages over
                                  one-letter alphabet  . . . . . . . . . . 408--431
      Julien Clément and   
          Jean-Pierre Duval and   
           Giovanna Guaiana and   
           Dominique Perrin and   
             Giuseppina Rindone   Parsing with a finite dictionary . . . . 432--442
       Jean-Éric Pin and   
                 Pedro V. Silva   A topological approach to transductions  443--456


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 341, Number 1--3, September 5, 2005

                 K. Auinger and   
                   B. Steinberg   Constructing divisions into power groups 1--21
              Eden Chlamtac and   
                    Uriel Feige   Improved approximation of the minimum
                                  cover time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--38
            Yan-Cheng Chang and   
                     Chi-Jen Lu   Oblivious polynomial evaluation and
                                  oblivious neural learning  . . . . . . . 39--54
          Clemens Heuberger and   
             Rajendra Katti and   
           Helmut Prodinger and   
                    Xiaoyu Ruan   The alternating greedy expansion and
                                  applications to computing digit
                                  expansions from left-to-right in
                                  cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--72
                      J. Sawada   Oracles for vertex elimination orderings 73--90
              Peter Gács   Uniform test of algorithmic randomness
                                  over a general space . . . . . . . . . . 91--137
             Atsuyuki Inoue and   
                  Akira Ito and   
             Katsushi Inoue and   
                  Tokio Okazaki   Some properties of one-pebble Turing
                                  machines with sublogarithmic space . . . 138--149
             Xiaochun Cheng and   
             Dantong Ouyang and   
               Jiang Yunfei and   
                  Chengqi Zhang   An improved model-based method to test
                                  circuit faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--161
                 Pieter Collins   Continuity and computability of
                                  reachable sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--195
              Cheng-Nan Lai and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Strong Rabin numbers of folded
                                  hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--215
         Guido Schäfer and   
               Naveen Sivadasan   Topology matters: Smoothed
                                  competitiveness of metrical task systems 216--246
               Blanca Cases and   
               Manuel Alfonseca   Towards a proof of the decidability of
                                  the momentary stagnation of the growth
                                  function of D  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
        Maurice H. ter Beek and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                 Victor Mitrana   Synchronized shuffles  . . . . . . . . . 263--275
               Giuseppe Pirillo   Inequalities characterizing standard
                                  Sturmian and episturmian words . . . . . 276--292
Valérie Berthé and   
             Sre\vcko Brlek and   
             Philippe Choquette   Smooth words over arbitrary alphabets    293--310
            Subhamoy Maitra and   
         Kishan Chand Gupta and   
         Ayineedi Venkateswarlu   Results on multiples of primitive
                                  polynomials and their products over
                                  GF(2)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--343
                   Zhe Dang and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                     Jianwen Su   On composition and lookahead delegation
                                  of e-services modeled by automata  . . . 344--363
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
                Kengo Iwata and   
                Toshimasa Ishii   A robust algorithm for bisecting a
                                  triconnected graph with two resource
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--378
 Zden\vek Troní\vcek and   
                Ayumi Shinohara   The size of subsequence automaton  . . . 379--384
                  Quincy Wu and   
               Chin Lung Lu and   
          Richard Chia-Tung Lee   The approximability of the weighted
                                  Hamiltonian path completion problem on a
                                  tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--397
                   Wei-Mei Chen   Probabilistic analysis of algorithms for
                                  the Dutch national flag problem  . . . . 398--410
               Ruo-Wei Hung and   
                Maw-Shang Chang   Linear-time algorithms for the
                                  Hamiltonian problems on
                                  distance-hereditary graphs . . . . . . . 411--440
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 342, Number 1, September 6, 2005

                  Eugenio Moggi   Applied semantics: Selected topics . . . 1--2
             Michael Abbott and   
        Thorsten Altenkirch and   
                     Neil Ghani   Containers: Constructing strictly
                                  positive types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--27
           Mark R. Shinwell and   
                Andrew M. Pitts   On a monadic semantics for freshness . . 28--55
              David Cachera and   
              Thomas Jensen and   
            David Pichardie and   
                      Vlad Rusu   Extracting a data flow analyser in
                                  constructive logic . . . . . . . . . . . 56--78
               Sandra Alves and   
           Mário Florido   Weak linearization of the lambda
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--103
           Philippa Gardner and   
                 Sergio Maffeis   Modelling dynamic web data . . . . . . . 104--131
                       J. Laird   Locally Boolean domains  . . . . . . . . 132--148
              Mads Sig Ager and   
              Olivier Danvy and   
                  Jan Midtgaard   A functional correspondence between
                                  monadic evaluators and abstract machines
                                  for languages with computational effects 149--172
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 342, Number 2--3, September 7, 2005

            Bruno Courcelle and   
                    Pascal Weil   The recognizability of sets of graphs is
                                  a robust property  . . . . . . . . . . . 173--228
        Esfandiar Haghverdi and   
              Paulo Tabuada and   
               George J. Pappas   Bisimulation relations for dynamical,
                                  control, and hybrid systems  . . . . . . 229--261
                  Frank J. Oles   Precedence--inclusion patterns and
                                  relational learning  . . . . . . . . . . 262--315
           Rance Cleaveland and   
      S. Purushothaman Iyer and   
               Murali Narasimha   Probabilistic temporal logics via the
                                  modal mu-calculus  . . . . . . . . . . . 316--350
                 Yann Loyer and   
               Umberto Straccia   Any-world assumptions in logic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--381
           Christos Nomikos and   
         Panos Rondogiannis and   
           Manolis Gergatsoulis   Temporal stratification tests for linear
                                  and branching-time deductive databases   382--415


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 343, Number 1--2, October 10, 2005

            Samson Abramsky and   
            Marios Mavronicolas   Game Theory Meets Theoretical Computer
                                  Science  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
          Luis López and   
      Gemma del Rey Almansa and   
   Stéphane Paquelet and   
       Antonio Fernández   A mathematical model for the TCP Tragedy
                                  of the Commons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--26
      Christoph Ambühl and   
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
                Paolo Penna and   
             Gianluca Rossi and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   On the approximability of the range
                                  assignment problem on radio networks in
                                  presence of selfish agents . . . . . . . 27--41
           Oswin Aichholzer and   
              David Bremner and   
            Erik D. Demaine and   
             Ferran Hurtado and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
             Hannes Krasser and   
          Suneeta Ramaswami and   
             Saurabh Sethia and   
                  Jorge Urrutia   Games on triangulations  . . . . . . . . 42--71
            Robert A. Hearn and   
                Erik D. Demaine   PSPACE-completeness of sliding-block
                                  puzzles and other problems through the
                                  nondeterministic constraint logic model
                                  of computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--96
                Yoav Shoham and   
              Moshe Tennenholtz   Non-cooperative computation: Boolean
                                  functions with correctness and
                                  exclusivity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
              Lance Fortnow and   
           David M. Pennock and   
                     Rahul Sami   Computation in a distributed information
                                  market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--132
                 M. Gairing and   
            T. Lücking and   
            M. Mavronicolas and   
                  B. Monien and   
                    P. Spirakis   Structure and complexity of extreme Nash
                                  equilibria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--157
                 Oleg Verbitsky   The first order definability of graphs
                                  with separators via the Ehrenfeucht game 158--176
                Olivier Laurent   Syntax vs. semantics: a polarized
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--206
            Andrzej S. Murawski   Games for complexity of second-order
                                  call-by-name programs  . . . . . . . . . 207--236
    Paul-André Melli\`es   Sequential algorithms and strongly
                                  stable functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--281
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 343, Number 3, October 17, 2005

              Frank de Boer and   
             Marcello Bonsangue   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
             J. A. Bergstra and   
                      I. Bethke   Polarized process algebra with reactive
                                  composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--304
            R\uazvan Diaconescu   Behavioural specification for
                                  hierarchical object composition  . . . . 305--331
           Jan Friso Groote and   
             Tim A. C. Willemse   Parameterised Boolean equation systems   332--369
              Yuri Gurevich and   
           Benjamin Rossman and   
                Wolfram Schulte   Semantic essence of AsmL . . . . . . . . 370--412
                Cees Pierik and   
               Frank S. de Boer   A proof outline logic for
                                  object-oriented programming  . . . . . . 413--442
             J. J. M. M. Rutten   A tutorial on coinductive stream
                                  calculus and signal flow graphs  . . . . 443--481
           Robert F. Stärk   Formal specification and verification of
                                  the C# thread model  . . . . . . . . . . 482--508
                 Heike Wehrheim   Slicing techniques for verification
                                  re-use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--528


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 344, Number 1, November 11, 2005

        Sotiris Nikoletseas and   
                     Jose Rolim   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
  Christos H. Papadimitriou and   
                David Ratajczak   On a conjecture related to geometric
                                  routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14
          Mihaela Enachescu and   
                Ashish Goel and   
            Ramesh Govindan and   
                 Rajeev Motwani   Scale-free aggregation in sensor
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
      Patrik Floréen and   
              Petteri Kaski and   
              Jukka Kohonen and   
                  Pekka Orponen   Exact and approximate balanced data
                                  gathering in energy-constrained sensor
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--46
                  R. O'Dell and   
                 R. Wattenhofer   Theoretical aspects of
                                  connectivity-based multi-hop positioning 47--68
               Pierre Leone and   
              José Rolim   Towards a dynamical model for wireless
                                  sensor networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--85
               Gideon Stupp and   
                     Moshe Sidi   The expected uncertainty of range-free
                                  localization protocols in sensor
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--99
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 344, Number 2--3, November 17, 2005

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
                 Hongtao Lu and   
               Ruiming Shen and   
                   Fu-Lai Chung   Absolute exponential stability of a
                                  class of recurrent neural networks with
                                  multiple and variable delays . . . . . . 103--119
                Oscar H. Ibarra   On determinism versus nondeterminism in
                                  P systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--133
                 Mingsheng Ying   A theory of computation based on quantum
                                  logic (I)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--207
              Simon Fischer and   
                   Ingo Wegener   The one-dimensional Ising model:
                                  Mutation versus recombination  . . . . . 208--225
                  Sergey Verlan   A boundary result on enhanced
                                  time-varying distributed H systems with
                                  parallel computations  . . . . . . . . . 226--242
               Marco Dorigo and   
                 Christian Blum   Ant colony optimization theory: a survey 243--278
          David Soloveichik and   
                   Erik Winfree   The computational power of Benenson
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--297
Aurélie Goulon-Sigwalt-Abram and   
              Arthur Duprat and   
          Gérard Dreyfus   From Hopfield nets to recursive networks
                                  to graph machines: Numerical machine
                                  learning for structured data . . . . . . 298--334
                     Yaoyun Shi   Quantum and classical tradeoffs  . . . . 335--345


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 345, Number 1, November 21, 2005

                Kurt Jensen and   
               Andreas Podelski   Special issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
             Christel Baier and   
            Holger Hermanns and   
        Joost-Pieter Katoen and   
         Boudewijn R. Haverkort   Efficient computation of time-bounded
                                  reachability probabilities in uniform
                                  continuous-time Markov decision
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--26
                  D. Lugiez and   
                 P. Niebert and   
                      S. Zennou   A partial order semantics approach to
                                  the clock explosion problem of timed
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--59
            Jaco Geldenhuys and   
                  Antti Valmari   More efficient on-the-fly LTL
                                  verification with Tarjan's algorithm . . 60--82
             Orna Kupferman and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   From complementation to certification    83--100
                 K. L. McMillan   An interpolating theorem prover  . . . . 101--121
                Zhendong Su and   
                   David Wagner   A class of polynomially solvable range
                                  constraints for interval analysis
                                  without widenings  . . . . . . . . . . . 122--138
             Luca de Alfaro and   
               Marco Faella and   
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
             Rupak Majumdar and   
        Mariëlle Stoelinga   Model checking discounted temporal
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--170
                      Anonymous   Special issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 345, Number 2--3, November 22, 2005

                  V. Koubek and   
           J. Kratochvíl   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
              Sebastian Bab and   
                Arfst Nickelsen   One query reducibilities between partial
                                  information classes  . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
         Francesca Fiorenzi and   
               Dominique Perrin   A hierarchy of shift equivalent sofic
                                  shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--205
             Martin Beaudry and   
   José M. Fernandez and   
                  Markus Holzer   A common algebraic description for
                                  probabilistic and quantum computations   206--234
           Vincent Bernardi and   
               Bruno Durand and   
            Enrico Formenti and   
                    Jarkko Kari   A new dimension sensitive property for
                                  cellular automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 235--247
          Alina Beygelzimer and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   The enumerability of P collapses P to NC 248--259
             E. Böhler and   
            C. Glaßer and   
                 B. Schwarz and   
                   K. W. Wagner   Generation problems  . . . . . . . . . . 260--295
                 Elena Czeizler   The non-parametrizability of the word
                                  equation xyz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--303
         Michael Domaratzki and   
                    Kai Salomaa   Decidability of trajectory-based
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--330
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
             David Ilcinkas and   
                   Guy Peer and   
               Andrzej Pelc and   
                    David Peleg   Graph exploration by a finite automaton  331--344
         Edith Hemaspaandra and   
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                  Harald Hempel   All superlinear inverse schemes are
                                  coNP-hard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--358
                Lucian Ilie and   
               Pascal Ochem and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   A generalization of repetition threshold 359--369
            Akinori Kawachi and   
         Hirotada Kobayashi and   
            Takeshi Koshiba and   
               Raymond H. Putra   Universal test for quantum one-way
                                  permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--385
                   Troy Lee and   
            Andrei Romashchenko   Resource bounded symmetry of information
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--405
                   Gustav Nordh   The complexity of equivalence and
                                  isomorphism of systems of equations over
                                  finite groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--424
              Alexander Okhotin   The dual of concatenation  . . . . . . . 425--447
        Victor L. Selivanov and   
                Klaus W. Wagner   A reducibility for the dot-depth
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--472
                     Klaus Wich   Sublogarithmic ambiguity . . . . . . . . 473--504


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 346, Number 1, November 23, 2005

             Antonio Cerone and   
           Alessandra Di Pierro   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Karl Lermer and   
             Colin J. Fidge and   
                   Ian J. Hayes   A theory for execution-time derivation
                                  in real-time programs  . . . . . . . . . 3--27
             Mario Bravetti and   
           Roberto Gorrieri and   
             Roberto Lucchi and   
            Gianluigi Zavattaro   Quantitative information in the tuple
                                  space coordination model . . . . . . . . 28--57
      María Alpuente and   
María del Mar Gallardo and   
           Ernesto Pimentel and   
              Alicia Villanueva   A semantic framework for the abstract
                                  model checking of tccp . . . . . . . . . 58--95
                   Joe Hurd and   
           Annabelle McIver and   
                 Carroll Morgan   Probabilistic guarded commands
                                  mechanized in HOL  . . . . . . . . . . . 96--112
                   Michael Huth   On finite-state approximants for
                                  probabilistic computation tree logic . . 113--134
     Alberto Lluch-Lafuente and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Quantitative $\mu$-calculus and CTL
                                  defined over constraint semirings  . . . 135--160
             P. G. Harrison and   
                      T. T. Lee   Separable equilibrium state
                                  probabilities via time reversal in
                                  Markovian process algebra  . . . . . . . 161--182
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 346, Number 2--3, November 28, 2005

              Elisa Pergola and   
                 Simone Rinaldi   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
                 E. Pergola and   
                     S. Rinaldi   In memoriam: Alberto Del Lungo
                                  (1965--2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--188
             Jean-Luc Baril and   
             Vincent Vajnovszki   Minimal change list for Lucas strings
                                  and some graph theoretic consequences    189--199
                   S. Brlek and   
                 G. Labelle and   
                     A. Lacasse   The discrete Green Theorem and some
                                  applications in discrete geometry  . . . 200--225
Frédéric Chavanon and   
            Matthieu Latapy and   
              Michel Morvan and   
         Eric Rémila and   
                Laurent Vuillon   Graph encoding of 2 D  . . . . . . . . . 226--253
               Anna de Mier and   
                       Marc Noy   A solution to the tennis ball problem    254--264
            Chiara Epifanio and   
                Filippo Mignosi   A multidimensional critical
                                  factorization theorem  . . . . . . . . . 265--280
       Edgar Garduño and   
                Gabor T. Herman   Implicit surface visualization of
                                  reconstructed biological molecules . . . 281--299
                      Y. Gerard   Reduction from three-dimensional
                                  discrete tomography to multicommodity
                                  flow problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--306
Dominique Gouyou-Beauchamps and   
                  Pierre Leroux   Enumeration of symmetry classes of
                                  convex polyominoes on the honeycomb
                                  lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--334
                Attila Kuba and   
                   Murice Nivat   A sufficient condition for
                                  non-uniqueness in binary tomography with
                                  absorption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--357
                   Guy Louchard   Monotone runs of uniformly distributed
                                  integer random variables: a
                                  probabilistic analysis . . . . . . . . . 358--387
    Conrado Martínez and   
                Xavier Molinero   Efficient iteration in admissible
                                  combinatorial classes  . . . . . . . . . 388--417
                P. Massazza and   
                   R. Radicioni   On computing the coefficients of
                                  bivariate holonomic formal series  . . . 418--438
                   C. Picouleau   Reconstruction of convex polyominoes
                                  from orthogonal projections of their
                                  contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--454
              Robert A. Sulanke   Three dimensional Narayana and Schröder
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--468
                Robert Tijdeman   Rauzy substitutions and
                                  multi-dimensional Sturmian words . . . . 469--489


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 347, Number 1--2, November 30, 2005

         Tatjana Petkovi\'c and   
                   Saeed Salehi   Positive varieties of tree languages . . 1--35
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
      Gianluca Della Vedova and   
                 Riccardo Dondi   Reconciling a gene tree to a species
                                  tree under the duplication cost model    36--53
           Victor D. Chepoi and   
           Feodor F. Dragan and   
                     Chenyu Yan   Additive sparse spanners for graphs with
                                  bounded length of largest induced cycle  54--75
               Frank Gurski and   
                     Egon Wanke   On the relationship between NLC-width
                                  and linear NLC-width . . . . . . . . . . 76--89
          Tomoyuki Yamakami and   
                  Toshio Suzuki   Resource bounded immunity and simplicity 90--129
          Chryssis Georgiou and   
        Dariusz R. Kowalski and   
        Alexander A. Shvartsman   Efficient gossip and robust distributed
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--166
             Peter R. J. Asveld   Fuzzy context-free languages---Part 1:
                                  Generalized fuzzy context-free grammars  167--190
             Peter R. J. Asveld   Fuzzy context-free languages---Part 2:
                                  Recognition and parsing algorithms . . . 191--213
            Krzysztof C. Kiwiel   On Floyd and Rivest's SELECT algorithm   214--238
          Kimmo Fredriksson and   
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Sequential and indexed two-dimensional
                                  combinatorial template matching allowing
                                  rotations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--275
Zoltán Fülöp and   
       Armin Kühnemann and   
                   Heiko Vogler   Linear deterministic multi bottom-up
                                  tree transducers . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--287
                Zhaohui Liu and   
              T. C. Edwin Cheng   Approximation schemes for minimizing
                                  total (weighted) completion time with
                                  release dates on a batch machine . . . . 288--298
             Éric Schost   There is no efficient reverse derivation
                                  mode for discrete derivatives  . . . . . 299--305
                H. K. Hsiao and   
                  Y. T. Yeh and   
                       S. S. Yu   Dependences related to strict binary
                                  relations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--324
        Peter Bro Miltersen and   
     Jaikumar Radhakrishnan and   
                   Ingo Wegener   On converting CNF to DNF . . . . . . . . 325--335
             G. Castiglione and   
                 A. Frosini and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                     S. Rinaldi   Enumeration of L-convex polyominoes by
                                  rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--352
          Emanuele Munarini and   
                  Damiano Torri   Cayley continuants . . . . . . . . . . . 353--369
             Andrea Frosini and   
              Maurice Nivat and   
                Laurent Vuillon   An introduction to periodical discrete
                                  sets from a tomographical perspective    370--392
              Sara Brunetti and   
                   Alain Daurat   Random generation of Q-convex sets . . . 393--414
            N. V. Vinodchandran   A note on the circuit complexity of PP   415--418
                 Tero Harju and   
          Arto Lepistö and   
                   Dirk Nowotka   A characterization of periodicity of
                                  bi-infinite words  . . . . . . . . . . . 419--422
                  Feng Feng and   
             Xianzhong Zhao and   
                  Young Bae Jun   *-$\mu$-semirings and
                                  *-$\lambda$-semirings  . . . . . . . . . 423--431
                  A. Daurat and   
           Y. Gérard and   
                       M. Nivat   Some necessary clarifications about the
                                  chords' problem and the Partial Digest
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--436
          J.-M. Champarnaud and   
                      F. Coulon   Erratum to ``NFA reduction algorithms by
                                  means of regular inequalities''
                                  [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 327 (2004)
                                  241--253]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 347, Number 3, December 1, 2005

                Samson Abramsky   A structural approach to reversible
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--464
        Zurab Khasidashvili and   
                   John Glauert   The conflict-free Reduction Geometry . . 465--497
           Ivo Düntsch and   
                 Michael Winter   A representation theorem for Boolean
                                  contact algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--512


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 348, Number 1, December 2, 2005

                 H. Arimura and   
                        S. Jain   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 Osamu Watanabe   Sequential sampling techniques for
                                  algorithmic learning theory  . . . . . . 3--14
              Steffen Lange and   
             Gunter Grieser and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Inductive inference of approximations
                                  for recursive concepts . . . . . . . . . 15--40
              Jochen Nessel and   
                  Steffen Lange   Learning erasing pattern languages with
                                  queries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--57
                      Ken Satoh   Learning taxonomic relation by
                                  case-based reasoning . . . . . . . . . . 58--69
      François Denis and   
       Rémi Gilleron and   
                Fabien Letouzey   Learning from positive and unlabeled
                                  examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--83
                 Kouichi Hirata   Prediction-hardness of acyclic
                                  conjunctive queries  . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
           Bhaskar DasGupta and   
                 Barbara Hammer   On approximate learning by multi-layered
                                  feedforward circuits . . . . . . . . . . 95--127
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 348, Number 2--3, December 8, 2005

          Josep Díaz and   
               Juhani Karhumaki   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
            Olivier Bournez and   
                Emmanuel Hainry   Elementarily computable functions over
                                  the real numbers and
                                  $\mathbb{R}$-sub-recursive functions . . 130--147
             Andrei Bulatov and   
                   Martin Grohe   The complexity of partition functions    148--186
   Zden\vek Dvo\vrák and   
        Daniel Král' and   
        Ond\vrej Pangrác   Locally consistent constraint
                                  satisfaction problems  . . . . . . . . . 187--206
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
             Sampath Kannan and   
            Andrew McGregor and   
             Siddharth Suri and   
                     Jian Zhang   On graph problems in a semi-streaming
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
                 Lisa Fleischer   Linear tolls suffice: New bounds and
                                  algorithms for tolls in single source
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--225
           Dimitris Fotakis and   
        Spyros Kontogiannis and   
                  Paul Spirakis   Selfish unsplittable flows . . . . . . . 226--239
              Eran Halperin and   
                Richard M. Karp   The minimum-entropy set cover problem    240--250
               Shlomo Hoory and   
                Avner Magen and   
               Steven Myers and   
                Charles Rackoff   Simple permutations mix well . . . . . . 251--261
         Robert Krauthgamer and   
                   James R. Lee   The black-box complexity of
                                  nearest-neighbor search  . . . . . . . . 262--276
                    Michal Kunc   Regular solutions of language
                                  inequalities and well quasi-orders . . . 277--293
          Emmanuelle Lebhar and   
              Nicolas Schabanel   Close to optimal decentralized routing
                                  in long-range contact networks . . . . . 294--310
       Dieter van Melkebeek and   
                        Ran Raz   A time lower bound for satisfiability    311--320
                 Michael Soltys   LA, permutations, and the Hajós Calculus  321--333
       Sergei Vassilvitskii and   
             Mihalis Yannakakis   Efficiently computing succinct trade-off
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--356
                  Ryan Williams   A new algorithm for optimal 2-constraint
                                  satisfaction and its implications  . . . 357--365


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 349, Number 1, December 12, 2005

      Jaroslav Ne\vset\vril and   
              Gerhard Woeginger   Graph colorings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
             Dieter Kratsch and   
           Michaël Rao and   
                 Jeremy Spinrad   On algorithms for ($P$,gem)-free graphs  2--21
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
                 Fedor V. Fomin   Equitable colorings of bounded treewidth
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--30
              Andrei A. Bulatov   H-Coloring dichotomy revisited . . . . . 31--39
          Josep Díaz and   
           Vishal Sanwalani and   
                Maria Serna and   
               Paul G. Spirakis   The chromatic and clique numbers of
                                  random scaled sector graphs  . . . . . . 40--51
         Tomás Feder and   
                 Pavol Hell and   
             Sulamita Klein and   
        Loana Tito Nogueira and   
            Fábio Protti   List matrix partitions of chordal graphs 52--66
        Ji\vrí Fiala and   
           Daniël Paulusma   A complete complexity classification of
                                  the role assignment problem  . . . . . . 67--81
            A. V. Kostochka and   
                   K. Nakprasit   On equitable $\Delta$-coloring of graphs
                                  with low average degree  . . . . . . . . 82--91
                  Anja Kohl and   
              Jens Schreyer and   
                 Zsolt Tuza and   
                   Margit Voigt   List version of $L(d,s)$-labelings . . . 92--98
            Daniel Král'   Group coloring is $\Pi_2^p$-complete . . 99--111
Edita Má\vcajová and   
              Martin \vSkoviera   Fano colourings of cubic graphs and the
                                  Fulkerson Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . 112--120
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 349, Number 2, December 14, 2005

      H. Jaap van den Herik and   
                  Hiroyuki Iida   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122
               Ryan Hayward and   
       Yngvi Björnsson and   
           Michael Johanson and   
                 Morgan Kan and   
                  Nathan Po and   
             Jack van Rijswijck   Solving 7$\times$7 Hex with domination,
                                  fill-in, and virtual connections . . . . 123--139
         M. S. Bourzutschky and   
              J. A. Tamplin and   
                G. McC. Haworth   Chess endgames: 6-man data and strategy  140--157
              R. B. Andrist and   
                 G. Mc. Haworth   Deeper model endgame analysis  . . . . . 158--167
    Erik C. D. van der Werf and   
      H. Jaap van den Herik and   
         Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk   Learning to score final positions in the
                                  game of Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--183
             Katsuhiko Nakamura   Static analysis based on formal models
                                  and incremental computation in Go
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--201
                  D. Gomboc and   
                    M. Buro and   
                 T. A. Marsland   Tuning evaluation functions by
                                  maximizing concordance . . . . . . . . . 202--229
                  Jens Lieberum   An evaluation function for the game of
                                  amazons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--244
        H. H. L. M. Donkers and   
        H. J. van den Herik and   
          J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk   Selecting evaluation functions in
                                  Opponent-Model search  . . . . . . . . . 245--267
                 A. Sadikov and   
                  I. Bratko and   
                   I. Kononenko   Bias and pathology in minimax search . . 268--281

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 349, Number 3, December 16, 2005

              Alexander Okhotin   Unresolved systems of language
                                  equations: Expressive power and decision
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--308
            R. E. L. Aldred and   
             M. D. Atkinson and   
        H. P. van Ditmarsch and   
              C. C. Handley and   
               D. A. Holton and   
                D. J. McCaughan   Permuting machines and priority queues   309--317
               F. Blanchard and   
                J. Cervelle and   
                    E. Formenti   Some results about the chaotic behavior
                                  of cellular automata . . . . . . . . . . 318--336
               Leah Epstein and   
                     Asaf Levin   The chord version for SONET ADMs
                                  minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--346
      Henrik Björklund and   
                Sergei Vorobyov   Combinatorial structure and randomized
                                  subexponential algorithms for infinite
                                  games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--360
             Mark Cieliebak and   
          Stephan Eidenbenz and   
                    Paolo Penna   Partial Digest is hard to solve for
                                  erroneous input data . . . . . . . . . . 361--381
         Edith Hemaspaandra and   
           Holger Spakowski and   
                Jörg Vogel   The complexity of Kemeny elections . . . 382--391
               Chris Bourke and   
          John M. Hitchcock and   
            N. V. Vinodchandran   Entropy rates and finite-state dimension 392--406
                     Bang Ye Wu   An analysis of the LPT algorithm for the
                                  max--min and the min--ratio partition
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--419
                  Sergey Kitaev   Segmental partially ordered generalized
                                  patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--428
             Wai-Fong Chuan and   
                    Hui-Ling Ho   Locating factors of the infinite
                                  Fibonacci word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--442
                    Martin Kutz   Conway's Angel in three dimensions . . . 443--451
                 Weigen Yan and   
              Yeong-Nan Yeh and   
                     Fuji Zhang   Graphical condensation of plane graphs:
                                  a combinatorial approach . . . . . . . . 452--461
               Marc Demange and   
          Tìnaz Ekim and   
             Dominique de Werra   $(p,k)$-coloring problems in line graphs 462--474
                  Toshio Nakata   On the expected time for Herman's
                                  probabilistic self-stabilizing algorithm 475--483
                  F. Cazals and   
                     C. Karande   An algorithm for reporting maximal
                                  $c$-cliques  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--490


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 350, Number 1, January 18, 2006

      Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi and   
      Rüdiger Reischuk and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Kazuyuki Amano and   
                  Akira Maruoka   On learning monotone Boolean functions
                                  under the uniform distribution . . . . . 3--12
              Rocco A. Servedio   On learning embedded midbit functions    13--23
           Nader H. Bshouty and   
                 Lynn Burroughs   Maximizing agreements and coagnostic
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--39
        Jürgen Forster and   
              Hans Ulrich Simon   On the smallest possible dimension and
                                  the largest possible margin of linear
                                  arrangements representing given concept
                                  classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--48
       Johannes Köbler and   
               Wolfgang Lindner   The complexity of learning concept
                                  classes with polynomial general
                                  dimension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--62
              Yusuke Suzuki and   
          Takayoshi Shoudai and   
            Tomoyuki Uchida and   
             Tetsuhiro Miyahara   Ordered term tree languages which are
                                  polynomial time inductively inferable
                                  from positive data . . . . . . . . . . . 63--90
              Daniel Reidenbach   A non-learnable class of E-pattern
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102
         Éric Martin and   
                Arun Sharma and   
                  Frank Stephan   Unifying logic, topology and learning in
                                  Parametric logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--124
                 Susumu Hayashi   Mathematics based on incremental
                                  learning---Excluded middle and inductive
                                  inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
     Bertram Fronhöfer and   
               Akihiro Yamamoto   Hypothesis finding with proof
                                  theoretical appropriateness criteria . . 140--162
                      Anonymous   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 350, Number 2--3, February 7, 2006

                Donald Sannella   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
        Mikolaj Boja\'nczyk and   
               Thomas Colcombet   Tree-walking automata cannot be
                                  determinized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--173
                 Anuj Dawar and   
          Erich Grädel and   
               Stephan Kreutzer   Backtracking games and inflationary
                                  fixed points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--187
                 Yuxin Deng and   
               Davide Sangiorgi   Towards an algebraic theory of typed
                                  mobile processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--212
                Claudia Faggian   Interactive observability in Ludics: The
                                  geometry of tests  . . . . . . . . . . . 213--233
                D. R. Ghica and   
             A. S. Murawski and   
                   C.-H. L. Ong   Syntactic control of concurrency . . . . 234--251
        Esfandiar Haghverdi and   
                   Philip Scott   A categorical model for the geometry of
                                  interaction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--274
                       J. Laird   A calculus of coroutines . . . . . . . . 275--291
                    Keye Martin   Entropy as a fixed point . . . . . . . . 292--324
             Nicole Schweikardt   On the expressive power of monadic least
                                  fixed point logic  . . . . . . . . . . . 325--344
                  Olivier Serre   Games with winning conditions of high
                                  Borel complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--372
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--373
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--384


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 351, Number 1, February 14, 2006

                Marc Daumas and   
                 Nathalie Revol   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
              Matthew W. Parker   Three concepts of decidability for
                                  general subsets of uncountable spaces    2--13
                 Martin Ziegler   Stability versus speed in a computable
                                  algebraic model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--26
              Xizhong Zheng and   
                Dianchen Lu and   
                      Kejin Bao   Divergence bounded computable real
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38
       Alberto Ciaffaglione and   
          Pietro Di Gianantonio   A certified, corecursive implementation
                                  of exact real numbers  . . . . . . . . . 39--51
           Joris van der Hoeven   Computations with effective real numbers 52--60
               Jesse Hughes and   
                    Milad Niqui   Admissible digit sets  . . . . . . . . . 61--73
                   Keith Briggs   Implementing exact real arithmetic in
                                  python, C++ and C  . . . . . . . . . . . 74--81
                    M. Hill and   
                    I. Robinson   Quadrature using 64-bit IEEE arithmetic
                                  for integrands over $[0,1]$ with a
                                  singularity at $1$ . . . . . . . . . . . 82--100
             Peter Kornerup and   
             Jean-Michel Muller   Choosing starting values for certain
                                  Newton--Raphson iterations . . . . . . . 101--110
Hervé Brönnimann and   
        Guillaume Melquiond and   
                   Sylvain Pion   The design of the Boost interval
                                  arithmetic library . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118
           Nicolas Delanoue and   
                 Luc Jaulin and   
            Bertrand Cottenceau   Using interval arithmetic to prove that
                                  a set is path-connected  . . . . . . . . 119--128
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 351, Number 2, February 21, 2006

               Savi Maharaj and   
           Carron Shankland and   
                Charles Rattray   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
             Hubert Garavel and   
                 Wendelin Serwe   State space reduction for process
                                  algebra specifications . . . . . . . . . 131--145
               Gillian Hill and   
                 Steven Vickers   A language for configuring multi-level
                                  specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--166
           Abdessamad Imine and   
   Michaël Rusinowitch and   
        Gérald Oster and   
                   Pascal Molli   Formal design and verification of
                                  operational transformation algorithms
                                  for copies convergence . . . . . . . . . 167--183
            Alexander Knapp and   
               Stephan Merz and   
             Martin Wirsing and   
             Júlia Zappe   Specification and refinement of mobile
                                  systems in MTLA and mobile UML . . . . . 184--202
     Juliana Küster-Filipe   Modelling concurrent interactions  . . . 203--220
       Bernhard Möller and   
                   Georg Struth   Algebras of modal operators and partial
                                  correctness  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--239
     M. Birna van Riemsdijk and   
       John-Jules Ch. Meyer and   
               Frank S. de Boer   Semantics of plan revision in
                                  intelligent agents . . . . . . . . . . . 240--257
        Élodie-Jane Sims   Extending separation logic with
                                  fixpoints and postponed substitution . . 258--275
                   Sun Meng and   
         Luís S. Barbosa   Components as coalgebras: The refinement
                                  dimension  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--294

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 351, Number 3, February 28, 2006

                 Rod Downey and   
              Mike Langston and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
               David Bryant and   
                 Jens Lagergren   Compatibility of unrooted phylogenetic
                                  trees is FPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--302
           Jonathan F. Buss and   
                  Tarique Islam   Simplifying the weft hierarchy . . . . . 303--313
                 Yijia Chen and   
                 Jörg Flum   On miniaturized problems in
                                  parameterized complexity theory  . . . . 314--336
                Peter Damaschke   Parameterized enumeration, transversals,
                                  and imperfect phylogeny reconstruction   337--350
         Michael R. Fellows and   
             Stefan Szeider and   
               Graham Wrightson   On finding short resolution refutations
                                  and small unsatisfiable subsets  . . . . 351--359
                Robert Haas and   
               Michael Hoffmann   Chordless paths through three vertices   360--371
      Petr Hlin\vený and   
                   Detlef Seese   Trees, grids, and MSO decidability: From
                                  graphs to matroids . . . . . . . . . . . 372--393
             Dániel Marx   Parameterized graph separation problems  394--406
             Dániel Marx   Parameterized coloring problems on
                                  chordal graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--424
Matthias Müller-Hannemann and   
                  Karsten Weihe   Moving policies in cyclic assembly line
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--436
               Elena Prieto and   
               Christian Sloper   Looking at the stars . . . . . . . . . . 437--445
            Venkatesh Raman and   
                  Saket Saurabh   Parameterized algorithms for feedback
                                  set problems and their duals in
                                  tournaments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--458


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 352, Number 1--3, March 7, 2006

                   Weili Wu and   
                 Hongwei Du and   
                Xiaohua Jia and   
                 Yingshu Li and   
              Scott C.-H. Huang   Minimum connected dominating sets and
                                  maximal independent sets in unit disk
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
           Pawe\l Hitczenko and   
          Jeremy R. Johnson and   
                 Hung-Jen Huang   Distribution of a class of divide and
                                  conquer recurrences arising from the
                                  computation of the Walsh--Hadamard
                                  transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--30
                       Amy Glen   Occurrences of palindromes in
                                  characteristic Sturmian words  . . . . . 31--46
            Igor Edm. Zverovich   Satgraphs and independent domination.
                                  Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
                 Genjiro Tanaka   On syntactic monoids of biunitary
                                  submonoids determined by homomorphisms
                                  from free semigroups onto completely
                                  simple semigroups  . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70
               E. C. Xavier and   
                 F. K. Miyazawa   Approximation schemes for knapsack
                                  problems with shelf divisions  . . . . . 71--84
               Dhruv Mubayi and   
   György Turán and   
                        Yi Zhao   The DNF exception problem  . . . . . . . 85--96
       Véronique Terrier   Closure properties of cellular automata  97--107
         A. Dal Palú and   
                E. Pontelli and   
                      D. Ranjan   Sequential and parallel algorithms for
                                  the NCA problem on pure pointer machines 108--135
        Patricio V. Poblete and   
               J. Ian Munro and   
               Thomas Papadakis   The binomial transform and the analysis
                                  of skip lists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--158
         Marie Ferbus-Zanda and   
               Serge Grigorieff   Kolmogorov complexities $K_\mathrm{max},
                                  K_\mathrm{min}$ on computable partially
                                  ordered sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--180
   Periklis A. Papakonstantinou   Hierarchies for classes of priority
                                  algorithms for Job Scheduling  . . . . . 181--189
           Thomas Colcombet and   
              Damian Niwi\'nski   On the positional determinacy of
                                  edge-labeled games . . . . . . . . . . . 190--196
                 Xuewen Bao and   
             Frank K. Hwang and   
                        Qiao Li   Rearrangeability of bit permutation
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--214
   Igor É. Zverovich and   
              Olga I. Zverovich   Independent domination in hereditary
                                  classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
   T. K. Subrahmonian Moothathu   Set of periods of additive cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--231
                F. H. Chang and   
                  J. Y. Guo and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Wide-sense nonblocking for multi-$\log_d
                                  N$ networks under various routing
                                  strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--239
          Trinh N. D. Huynh and   
               Wing-Kai Hon and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
                  Wing-Kin Sung   Approximate string matching using
                                  compressed suffix arrays . . . . . . . . 240--249
       Greg N. Frederickson and   
              Roberto Solis-Oba   Efficient algorithms for robustness in
                                  resource allocation and scheduling
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--265
            Gonzalo Navarro and   
            Edgar Chávez   A metric index for approximate string
                                  matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--279
                   Zhu Zhao and   
               Zhongqi Dong and   
                    Yongge Wang   Security analysis of a password-based
                                  authentication protocol proposed to IEEE
                                  1363 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--287
              A. M. Youssef and   
                        G. Gong   On linear complexity of sequences over
                                  GF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--292
                      S. Ballet   An improvement of the construction of
                                  the D. V. and G. V. Chudnovsky algorithm
                                  for multiplication in finite fields  . . 293--305
                   S. Brlek and   
                  S. Dulucq and   
               A. Ladouceur and   
                     L. Vuillon   Combinatorial properties of smooth
                                  infinite words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--317
           M. T. Hajiaghayi and   
                   Tom Leighton   On the max-flow min-cut ratio for
                                  directed multicommodity flows  . . . . . 318--321
                 Daming Zhu and   
                   Lusheng Wang   On the complexity of unsigned
                                  translocation distance . . . . . . . . . 322--328
                   Ioan Tomescu   A characterization of the words
                                  occurring as factors in a minimum number
                                  of words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--331
              Gautam K. Das and   
                 Sandip Das and   
                Subhas C. Nandy   Range assignment for energy efficient
                                  broadcasting in linear radio networks    332--341
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                       Zhe Dang   On the solvability of a class of
                                  diophantine equations and applications   342--346
             Sven O. Krumke and   
         Willem E. de Paepe and   
             Diana Poensgen and   
                   Leen Stougie   Erratum to ``News from the online
                                  traveling repairman'' [Theoret. Comput.
                                  Sci. 295 (1--3) (2003) 279--294] . . . . 347--348
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 353, Number 1--3, March 14, 2006

             Lutz Schröder   The \sc HasCasl prologue: Categorical
                                  syntax and semantics of the partial
                                  $\lambda$-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
                    Zhaohui Zhu   Similarity between preferential models   26--52
              Sven Hartmann and   
                 Sebastian Link   On a problem of Fagin concerning
                                  multivalued dependencies in relational
                                  databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--62
                   Wenhui Zhang   Structure of proofs and the complexity
                                  of cut elimination . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
                 Shiyong Lu and   
           Arthur Bernstein and   
                   Philip Lewis   Automatic workflow verification and
                                  generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--92
           Valentin Goranko and   
           Govert van Drimmelen   Complete axiomatization and decidability
                                  of Alternating-time temporal logic . . . 93--117
           John C. Mitchell and   
           Ajith Ramanathan and   
              Andre Scedrov and   
                 Vanessa Teague   A probabilistic polynomial-time process
                                  calculus for the analysis of
                                  cryptographic protocols  . . . . . . . . 118--164
                Norihiro Kamide   Linear and affine logics with temporal,
                                  spatial and epistemic operators  . . . . 165--207
           Hanifa Boucheneb and   
                 Rachid Hadjidj   CTL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--227
       Natalia López and   
 Manuel Núñez and   
        Ismael Rodríguez   Specification, testing and
                                  implementation relations for
                                  symbolic-probabilistic systems . . . . . 228--248
             F. Laroussinie and   
                  N. Markey and   
                Ph. Schnoebelen   Efficient timed model checking for
                                  discrete-time systems  . . . . . . . . . 249--271
                  Mark Kambites   Automatic semigroups and categories  . . 272--290
                Florentin Ipate   Testing against a non-controllable
                                  stream X-machine using state counting    291--316
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 354, Number 1, March 21, 2006

                 A. Nijholt and   
                  G. Scollo and   
                U. Mönnich   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                 C. Berline and   
                     A. Salibra   Easiness in graph models . . . . . . . . 4--23
                Dana Harrington   Uniqueness logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--41
              Markus Roggenbach   CSP-CASL --- a new integration of
                                  process algebra and algebraic
                                  specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--71
                    Gerald Penn   Efficient transitive closure of sparse
                                  matrices over closed semirings . . . . . 72--81
             Stephan Kepser and   
               Uwe Mönnich   Closure properties of linear
                                  context-free tree languages with an
                                  application to optimality theory . . . . 82--97
                Helmar Gust and   
    Kai-Uwe Kühnberger and   
                     Ute Schmid   Metaphors and heuristic-driven theory
                                  projection (HDTP)  . . . . . . . . . . . 98--117
             Peter R. J. Asveld   Generating all permutations by
                                  context-free grammars in Chomsky normal
                                  form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--130
                  Marcus Kracht   Partial algebras, meaning categories and
                                  algebraization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
           Radu Gramatovici and   
      Carlos Martín-Vide   Sorted dependency insertion grammars . . 142--152
           Rohit N. Kundaji and   
             R. K. Shyamasundar   Refinement calculus: a basis for
                                  translation validation, debugging and
                                  certification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--168
                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 354, Number 2, March 28, 2006

             Hubert Garavel and   
                  John Hatcliff   TACAS 2003 Special Issue---Preface . . . 169--172
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
             Orna Kupferman and   
                 Rupak Majumdar   On the universal and existential
                                  fragments of the $\mu$-calculus  . . . . 173--186
            Sylvain Conchon and   
                  Sava Krsti\'c   Strategies for combining decision
                                  procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--210
                 Samik Basu and   
             C. R. Ramakrishnan   Compositional analysis for verification
                                  of parameterized systems . . . . . . . . 211--229
                Rajeev Alur and   
         Salvatore La Torre and   
                  P. Madhusudan   Modular strategies for recursive game
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--249
                Rajeev Alur and   
                  Thao Dang and   
             Franjo Ivan\vci\'c   Counterexample-guided predicate
                                  abstraction of hybrid systems  . . . . . 250--271
 Yasmina Abdeddaì\"m and   
              Eugene Asarin and   
                     Oded Maler   Scheduling with timed automata . . . . . 272--300
              Elena Fersman and   
           Leonid Mokrushin and   
            Paul Pettersson and   
                        Wang Yi   Schedulability analysis of
                                  fixed-priority systems using timed
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--317

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 354, Number 3, April 4, 2006

             Andrzej Lingas and   
             Leszek Ga\csieniec   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--319
    Miroslav Chlebík and   
 Janka Chlebíková   Complexity of approximating bounded
                                  variants of optimization problems  . . . 320--338
                    Takao Asano   An improved analysis of Goemans and
                                  Williamson's LP-relaxation for MAX SAT   339--353
            Grzegorz Stachowiak   Fast periodic correction networks  . . . 354--366
              Mikael Hammar and   
           Bengt J. Nilsson and   
                    Mia Persson   Competitive exploration of rectilinear
                                  polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--378
               John H. Reif and   
                      Zheng Sun   On boundaries of highly visible spaces
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--390
               Luis Antunes and   
              Lance Fortnow and   
       Dieter van Melkebeek and   
            N. V. Vinodchandran   Computational depth: Concept and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--404
               Jean Berstel and   
                Luc Boasson and   
             Olivier Carton and   
            Bruno Petazzoni and   
                  Jean-Eric Pin   Operations preserving regular languages  405--420
                Wan Fokkink and   
           Rob van Glabbeek and   
                Paulien de Wind   Compositionality of Hennessy--Milner
                                  logic by structural operational
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--440


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 355, Number 1, April 6, 2006

                 Ravi Kumar and   
                Matthieu Latapy   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
             Luca Dall'Asta and   
    Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin and   
               Alain Barrat and   
      Alexei Vázquez and   
          Alessandro Vespignani   Exploring networks with traceroute-like
                                  probes: Theory and simulations . . . . . 6--24
         Fred S. Annexstein and   
          Kenneth A. Berman and   
         Mijhalo A. Jovanovi\'c   Broadcasting in unstructured
                                  peer-to-peer overlay networks  . . . . . 25--36
           Michael Behrisch and   
                   Anusch Taraz   Efficiently covering complex networks
                                  with cliques of similar vertices . . . . 37--47
               Nima Sarshar and   
               Oscar Boykin and   
             Vwani Roychowdhury   Scalable percolation search on complex
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--64
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
                Philippe Gauron   D2B: a de Bruijn based
                                  content-addressable network  . . . . . . 65--79
      Alexandre O. Stauffer and   
              Valmir C. Barbosa   Local heuristics and the emergence of
                                  spanning subgraphs in complex networks   80--95
            Philippe Duchon and   
            Nicolas Hanusse and   
          Emmanuelle Lebhar and   
              Nicolas Schabanel   Could any graph be turned into a
                                  small-world? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--103
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 355, Number 2, April 11, 2006

             Ruy de Queiroz and   
                   Dexter Kozen   Logic, Language, Information and
                                  Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
               Fabio Alessi and   
           Franco Barbanera and   
 Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini   Intersection types and lambda models . . 108--126
                  Eric Allender   NL-printable sets and nondeterministic
                                  Kolmogorov complexity  . . . . . . . . . 127--138
        Denis Béchet and   
                    Annie Foret   k  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--152
             Marcelo Finger and   
              Renata Wassermann   The universe of propositional
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166
              Sven Hartmann and   
             Sebastian Link and   
            Klaus-Dieter Schewe   Axiomatisations of functional
                                  dependencies in the presence of records,
                                  lists, sets and multisets  . . . . . . . 167--196
                Lauri Hella and   
José María Turull-Torres   Computing queries with higher-order
                                  logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--214
                 Yngve Lamo and   
                Micha\l Walicki   Quantifier-free logic for
                                  nondeterministic theories  . . . . . . . 215--227
                      Hans Rott   Revision by comparison as a unifying
                                  framework: Severe withdrawal,
                                  irrevocable revision and irrefutable
                                  revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--242
                   Marek Zaionc   Probability distribution for simple
                                  tautologies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--260

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 355, Number 3, April 14, 2006

    Stavros G. Kolliopoulos and   
                 George Steiner   Approximation algorithms for minimizing
                                  the total weighted tardiness on a single
                                  machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--273
        António Malheiro   Finite derivation type for Rees matrix
                                  semigroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--290
                      Ke Xu and   
                         Wei Li   Many hard examples in exact phase
                                  transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--302
                   Ro-Yu Wu and   
             Jou-Ming Chang and   
                    Yue-Li Wang   A linear time algorithm for binary tree
                                  sequences transformation using left-arm
                                  and right-arm rotations  . . . . . . . . 303--314
          Gianluca De Marco and   
              Luisa Gargano and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
              Danny Krizanc and   
               Andrzej Pelc and   
                    Ugo Vaccaro   Asynchronous deterministic rendezvous in
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--326
José-Ramón Sánchez-Couso and   
María-Inés Fernández-Camacho   Reductions in binary search trees  . . . 327--353
                  Zemin Jin and   
                    Xueliang Li   On the $k$-path cover problem for cacti  354--363
         Caterina De Simone and   
                 C. P. de Mello   Edge-colouring of join graphs  . . . . . 364--370
          Philippe Flajolet and   
               Markus Nebel and   
               Helmut Prodinger   The scientific works of Rainer Kemp
                                  (1949--2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--381
              John M. Hitchcock   Hausdorff dimension and oracle
                                  constructions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--388
            Cristina Bazgan and   
                 Zsolt Tuza and   
            Daniel Vanderpooten   Degree-constrained decompositions of
                                  graphs: Bounded treewidth and planarity  389--395


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 356, Number 1--2, May 5, 2006

            Alberto Bertoni and   
         Zoltan Ésik and   
          Juhani Karhumäki   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
               Dominique Perrin   Codes, unambiguous automata and sofic
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--13
            Alberto Bertoni and   
           Carlo Mereghetti and   
                Beatrice Palano   Some formal tools for analyzing quantum
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--25
             Robert Brijder and   
      Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Reducibility of gene patterns in
                                  ciliates using the breakpoint graph  . . 26--45
          Janusz. A. Brzozowski   Representation of a class of
                                  nondeterministic semiautomata by
                                  canonical words  . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--57
          Giusi Castiglione and   
            Antonio Restivo and   
                Roberto Vaglica   A reconstruction algorithm for L-convex
                                  polyominoes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--72
             Laura Chaubard and   
       Jean-Éric Pin and   
               Howard Straubing   Actions, wreath products of
                                  $\mathcal{C}$-varieties and
                                  concatenation product  . . . . . . . . . 73--89
       Alessandra Cherubini and   
    Stefano Crespi Reghizzi and   
            Matteo Pradella and   
           Pierluigi San Pietro   Picture languages: Tiling systems versus
                                  tile rewriting grammars  . . . . . . . . 90--103
        Flavio D'Alessandro and   
        Benedetto Intrigila and   
             Stefano Varricchio   On the structure of the counting
                                  function of sparse context-free
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--117
               Aldo de Luca and   
             Alessandro De Luca   Some characterizations of finite
                                  Sturmian words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--125
             Volker Diekert and   
                    Paul Gastin   From local to global temporal logics
                                  over Mazurkiewicz traces . . . . . . . . 126--135
      Zoltán Ésik   Characterizing CTL-like logics on finite
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--152
      Massimiliano Goldwurm and   
                Violetta Lonati   Pattern statistics and Vandermonde
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--169
               Serge Grigorieff   Synchronization of a bounded degree
                                  graph of cellular automata with
                                  nonuniform delays in time $D \lfloor
                                  \log_m D \rfloor$  . . . . . . . . . . . 170--185
                 Tero Harju and   
                   Dirk Nowotka   On unique factorizations of primitive
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--189
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                 Bala Ravikumar   On partially blind multihead finite
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--199
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                Michal Kunc and   
              Alexander Okhotin   Computing by commuting . . . . . . . . . 200--211
             Michel Latteux and   
      Aurélien Lemay and   
                  Yves Roos and   
                 Alain Terlutte   Identification of biRFSA languages . . . 212--223
           Sylvain Lombardy and   
            Jacques Sakarovitch   Sequential?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--244
             Jean Néraud   Completing prefix codes in submonoids    245--254
              Wies\law Zielonka   Time-stamps for Mazurkiewicz traces  . . 255--262
                      Anonymous   Professor Choffrut . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv--xiv

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 356, Number 3, May 30, 2006

                 Jos Baeten and   
               Flavio Corradini   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
             R. J. van Glabbeek   On the expressiveness of higher
                                  dimensional automata . . . . . . . . . . 265--290
               F. Corradini and   
         M. R. Di Berardini and   
                      W. Vogler   Fairness of components in system
                                  computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--324
              Suzana Andova and   
             Tim A. C. Willemse   Branching bisimulation for probabilistic
                                  systems: Characteristics and
                                  decidability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--355
           Emmanuel Beffara and   
         François Maurel   Concurrent nets: a study of prefixing in
                                  process calculi  . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--373
                  A. Finkel and   
               G. Geeraerts and   
               J.-F. Raskin and   
                   L. Van Begin   On the $\omega$-language expressive
                                  power of extended Petri nets . . . . . . 374--386
            Rocco De Nicola and   
              Daniele Gorla and   
               Rosario Pugliese   On the expressive power of KLAIM-based
                                  calculi  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--421
           Mikkel Bundgaard and   
         Thomas Hildebrandt and   
            Jens Chr. Godskesen   A CPS encoding of name-passing in
                                  Higher-order mobile embedded resources   422--439
                    Xudong Guan   Name-passing in an ambient-like calculus
                                  and its proof using spatial logic  . . . 440--467
              Iain Phillips and   
         Maria Grazia Vigliotti   Leader election in rings of ambient
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--494


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 357, Number 1--3, July 25, 2006

             Sergei Artemov and   
                Michael Mislove   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                 Sergei Artemov   Justified common knowledge . . . . . . . 4--22
          Vladimir Brezhnev and   
                  Roman Kuznets   Making knowledge explicit: How hard it
                                  is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
                 Samuel R. Buss   Polynomial-size Frege and resolution
                                  proofs of st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52
          Nachum Dershowitz and   
                Claude Kirchner   Abstract canonical presentations . . . . 53--69
              Martin Hyland and   
             Gordon Plotkin and   
                     John Power   Combining effects: Sum and tensor  . . . 70--99
               Giorgi Japaridze   From truth to computability I  . . . . . 100--135
             Nikolai V. Krupski   On the complexity of the reflected logic
                                  of proofs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--142
            Vladimir N. Krupski   Referential logic of proofs  . . . . . . 143--166
                   Pavel Naumov   Logic of subtyping . . . . . . . . . . . 167--185
                    Mati Pentus   Lambek calculus is NP-complete . . . . . 186--201
          Helmut Schwichtenberg   An arithmetic for polynomial-time
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--214
                 Sergey Slavnov   Geometrical semantics for linear logic
                                  (multiplicative fragment)  . . . . . . . 215--229
Frédéric De Jaeger and   
Martín Escardó and   
               Gabriele Santini   On the computational content of the
                                  Lawson topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--240
           Lisbeth Fajstrup and   
        Martin Raußen and   
                  Eric Goubault   Algebraic topology and concurrency . . . 241--278
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 358, Number 1, July 31, 2006

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Anne Broadbent and   
André Allan Méthot   On the power of non-local boxes  . . . . 3--14
          Katarzyna Miakisz and   
       Edward W. Piotrowski and   
                Jan S\ladkowski   Quantization of games: Towards quantum
                                  artificial intelligence  . . . . . . . . 15--22
            Petrus H. Potgieter   Zeno machines and hypercomputation . . . 23--33
    Artur S. d'Avila Garcez and   
        Luís C. Lamb and   
                  Dov M. Gabbay   Connectionist computations of
                                  intuitionistic reasoning . . . . . . . . 34--55
                    Bo Liao and   
                    Kequan Ding   A 3D graphical representation of DNA
                                  sequences and its application  . . . . . 56--64
                  Lvzhou Li and   
                     Daowen Qiu   Determination of equivalence between
                                  quantum sequential machines  . . . . . . 65--74
                     Remco Loos   An alternative definition of splicing    75--87
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                Gheorghe P\uaun   Characterizations of context-sensitive
                                  languages and other language classes in
                                  terms of symport/antiport P systems  . . 88--103
               Rajeev Kumar and   
              Nilanjan Banerjee   Analysis of a Multiobjective
                                  Evolutionary Algorithm on the 0--1
                                  knapsack problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--120
                Alex Rogers and   
   Adam Prügel-Bennett and   
           Nicholas R. Jennings   Phase transitions and symmetry breaking
                                  in genetic algorithms with crossover . . 121--141
             Elena Czeizler and   
                 Eugen Czeizler   On the power of parallel communicating
                                  Watson--Crick automata systems . . . . . 142--147
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 358, Number 2--3, August 7, 2006

           Philippa Gardner and   
                 Nobuko Yoshida   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--149
            Benedikt Bollig and   
                 Martin Leucker   Message-passing automata are
                                  expressively equivalent to EMSO logic    150--172
            Daniele Varacca and   
          Hagen Völzer and   
                  Glynn Winskel   Probabilistic event structures and
                                  domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--199
    Paul-André Melli\`es   Asynchronous games 2: The true
                                  concurrency of innocence . . . . . . . . 200--228
          Roberto M. Amadio and   
              Silvano Dal Zilio   Resource control for synchronous
                                  cooperative threads  . . . . . . . . . . 229--254
        Mikolaj Boja\'nczyk and   
               Igor Walukiewicz   Characterizing EF and EX tree logics . . 255--272
             Nicolas Markey and   
    Jean-François Raskin   Model checking restricted sets of timed
                                  paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--292
         Luís Caires and   
                  Etienne Lozes   Elimination of quantifiers and
                                  undecidability in spatial logics for
                                  concurrency  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--314
    Antonín Ku\vcera and   
           Philippe Schnoebelen   A general approach to comparing
                                  infinite-state systems with their
                                  finite-state specifications  . . . . . . 315--333


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 359, Number 1--3, August 14, 2006

             Matthias Homeister   Lower bounds for restricted read-once
                                  parity branching programs  . . . . . . . 1--14
               Teturo Kamae and   
                    Hui Rao and   
                     Yu-Mei Xue   Maximal pattern complexity of
                                  two-dimensional words  . . . . . . . . . 15--27
               Yongcheng Wu and   
                Klaus Weihrauch   A computable version of the
                                  Daniell--Stone theorem on integration
                                  and linear functionals . . . . . . . . . 28--42
       József Balogh and   
               Dhruv Mubayi and   
    András Pluhár   On the edge-bandwidth of graph products  43--57
              Yves F. Verhoeven   A lower bound on the competitivity of
                                  memoryless algorithms for a
                                  generalization of the CNN problem  . . . 58--68
              Chiuyuan Chen and   
               James K. Lan and   
                Wen-Shiang Tang   An efficient algorithm to find a
                                  double-loop network that realizes a
                                  given L-shape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--76
Ferucio Lauren\ctiu \cTiplea and   
                Aurora \cTiplea   Petri net reactive modules . . . . . . . 77--100
            Fredrick Arnold and   
             Benjamin Steinberg   Synchronizing groups and automata  . . . 101--110
               Anton Leykin and   
             Jan Verschelde and   
                    Ailing Zhao   Newton's method with deflation for
                                  isolated singularities of polynomial
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--122
             Benjamin Doerr and   
           Nils Hebbinghaus and   
               Sören Werth   Improved bounds and schemes for the
                                  declustering problem . . . . . . . . . . 123--132
                 Taizo Sadahiro   Multiple points of tilings associated
                                  with Pisot numeration systems  . . . . . 133--147
          Emilio Di Giacomo and   
              Walter Didimo and   
            Giuseppe Liotta and   
               Matthew Suderman   k  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--175
                    Xiaoyang Gu   A note on dimensions of polynomial size
                                  circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--187
               Frank Gurski and   
                     Egon Wanke   Vertex disjoint paths on clique-width
                                  bounded graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--199
                  Vijay K. Garg   Algorithmic combinatorics based on
                                  slicing posets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--213
              Gabriele Fici and   
            Filippo Mignosi and   
            Antonio Restivo and   
            Marinella Sciortino   Word assembly through minimal forbidden
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--230
           Peter M. Higgins and   
           Christopher J. Saker   Unavoidable sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--238
          Christian Lavault and   
                   Guy Louchard   Asymptotic analysis of a leader election
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--254
            A. Barbé and   
                F. von Haeseler   Averages of automatic sequences  . . . . 255--281
        Anders Björner and   
                 Bruce E. Sagan   Rationality of the Möbius function of a
                                  composition poset  . . . . . . . . . . . 282--298
                Guangjun Xu and   
                Liying Kang and   
                Erfang Shan and   
                       Min Zhao   Power domination in block graphs . . . . 299--305
            Carl S. McTague and   
           James P. Crutchfield   Automated pattern detection---An
                                  algorithm for constructing optimally
                                  synchronizing multi-regular language
                                  filters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--328
                Markus E. Nebel   Fast string matching by using
                                  probabilities: On an optimal mismatch
                                  variant of Horspool's algorithm  . . . . 329--343
Sonia Pérez-Díaz and   
               Juana Sendra and   
               J. Rafael Sendra   Distance bounds of $\epsilon$-points on
                                  hypersurfaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--368
            Bruno Escoffier and   
           Vangelis Th. Paschos   Completeness in approximation classes
                                  beyond APX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--377
      Pawe\l Górecki and   
                   Jerzy Tiuryn   DLS-trees: a model of evolutionary
                                  scenarios  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--399
       Pavlos S. Efraimidis and   
               Paul G. Spirakis   Approximation schemes for scheduling and
                                  covering on unrelated machines . . . . . 400--417
               Leah Epstein and   
                     Asaf Levin   The conference call search problem in
                                  wireless networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 418--429
               Wun-Tat Chan and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
              Kin-Shing Liu and   
            Prudence W. H. Wong   New resource augmentation analysis of
                                  the total stretch of SRPT and SJF in
                                  multiprocessor scheduling  . . . . . . . 430--439
               Boris Ryabko and   
              Jaakko Astola and   
                 Alex Gammerman   Application of Kolmogorov complexity and
                                  universal codes to identity testing and
                                  nonparametric testing of serial
                                  independence for time series . . . . . . 440--448
     Sándor Szabó   Completing codes and the Rédei property
                                  of groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--454
              Liviu P. Dinu and   
                   Florin Manea   An efficient approach for the rank
                                  aggregation problem  . . . . . . . . . . 455--461
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 360, Number 1--3, August 21, 2006

             David Friggens and   
               Robert Goldblatt   A modal proof theory for final
                                  polynomial coalgebras  . . . . . . . . . 1--22
               Dave Binkley and   
          Sebastian Danicic and   
      Tibor Gyimóthy and   
                Mark Harman and   
           Ákos Kiss and   
                   Bogdan Korel   Theoretical foundations of dynamic
                                  program slicing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--41
             Paola Bruscoli and   
              Alessio Guglielmi   On structuring proof search for first
                                  order linear logic . . . . . . . . . . . 42--76
                    Ernie Manes   Boolean restriction categories and taut
                                  monads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--95
          Stéphane Demri   LTL over integer periodicity constraints 96--123
                   Yves Guiraud   Two polygraphic presentations of Petri
                                  nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--146
                Zhaohui Zhu and   
                 Rong Zhang and   
                        Shan Lu   A characterization theorem for injective
                                  model classes axiomatized by general
                                  rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--171
                Slawomir Lasota   Decidability of performance equivalence
                                  for basic parallel processes . . . . . . 172--192
               Gilles Dowek and   
                     Ying Jiang   Eigenvariables, bracketing and the
                                  decidability of positive minimal
                                  predicate logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--208
        Gerald Lüttgen and   
                  Walter Vogler   Bisimulation on speed: a unified
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--227
        Daniel J. Dougherty and   
       Claudio Gutiérrez   Normal forms for binary relations  . . . 228--246
                Linh Anh Nguyen   Multimodal logic programming . . . . . . 247--288
               Nikos Tzevelekos   Investigations on the Dual Calculus  . . 289--326
               Haruo Hosoya and   
                  Makoto Murata   Boolean operations and inclusion test
                                  for attribute-element constraints  . . . 327--351
                 Laura Bozzelli   Model checking for process rewrite
                                  systems and a class of action-based
                                  regular properties . . . . . . . . . . . 352--372
         Franck van Breugel and   
                  James Worrell   Approximating and computing behavioural
                                  distances in probabilistic transition
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--385
              Roberto Bruni and   
           José Meseguer   Semantic foundations for generalized
                                  rewrite theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--414
             Markus Michelbrink   Interfaces as functors, programs as
                                  coalgebras --- a final coalgebra theorem
                                  in intensional type theory . . . . . . . 415--439
            Michele Boreale and   
                 Fabio Gadducci   Processes as formal power series: a
                                  coinductive approach to denotational
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--458
              Sven Hartmann and   
             Sebastian Link and   
            Klaus-Dieter Schewe   Erratum to ``Axiomatisations of
                                  functional dependencies in the presence
                                  of records, lists, sets and multisets''  459--459
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
                      Anonymous   Master index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--472
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 361, Number 1, August 28, 2006

                Michael D. Vose   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
            Darrell Whitley and   
                  Jonathan Rowe   Subthreshold-seeking local search  . . . 2--17
                 Dirk V. Arnold   Weighted multirecombination evolution
                                  strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--37
    Jens Jägersküpper   How the (1+1) ES using isotropic
                                  mutations minimizes positive definite
                                  quadratic forms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--56
                 Marc Toussaint   Compact representations as a search
                                  strategy: Compression EDAs . . . . . . . 57--71
            Boris Mitavskiy and   
                  Jonathan Rowe   Some results about the Markov chains
                                  associated to GPs and general EAs  . . . 72--110
           Jonathan E. Rowe and   
            Michael D. Vose and   
                Alden H. Wright   Differentiable coarse graining . . . . . 111--129
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 361, Number 2--3, September 1, 2006

               Klaus Jansen and   
              Roberto Solis-Oba   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--132
             Dániel Marx   Minimum sum multicoloring on the edges
                                  of trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--149
               Piotr Krysta and   
              Krzysztof Lory\'s   Efficient approximation algorithms for
                                  the achromatic number  . . . . . . . . . 150--171
            Erik D. Demaine and   
              Dotan Emanuel and   
                  Amos Fiat and   
               Nicole Immorlica   Correlation clustering in general
                                  weighted graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--187
       Inge Li Gòrtz and   
                  Anthony Wirth   Asymmetry in $k$-center variants . . . . 188--199
            Baruch Awerbuch and   
                 Yossi Azar and   
              Yossi Richter and   
                     Dekel Tsur   Tradeoffs in worst-case equilibria . . . 200--209
           Etienne de Klerk and   
            Monique Laurent and   
               Pablo A. Parrilo   A PTAS for the minimization of
                                  polynomials of fixed degree over the
                                  simplex  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--225
                  T. Decker and   
            T. Lücking and   
                      B. Monien   A $5/4$-approximation algorithm for
                                  scheduling identical malleable tasks . . 226--240
                  R. N. Uma and   
                  Joel Wein and   
            David P. Williamson   On the relationship between
                                  combinatorial and LP-based lower bounds
                                  for NP-hard scheduling problems  . . . . 241--256
                A. A. Ageev and   
              A. V. Fishkin and   
              A. V. Kononov and   
              S. V. Sevastyanov   Open block scheduling in optical
                                  communication networks . . . . . . . . . 257--274
               Dimitris Fotakis   Incremental algorithms for Facility
                                  Location and $k$-Median  . . . . . . . . 275--313
                 Yossi Azar and   
               Amir Epstein and   
                   Leah Epstein   Load balancing of temporary tasks in the
                                  $\ell_p$ norm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--328
    Sandra Gutiérrez and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
               Nicole Megow and   
                Tjark Vredeveld   How to whack moles . . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
            Erik D. Demaine and   
    Sándor P. Fekete and   
                     Shmuel Gal   Online searching with turn cost  . . . . 342--355
                      Anonymous   Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 362, Number 1--3, October 11, 2006

              Nazim Fat\`es and   
        Éric Thierry and   
              Michel Morvan and   
              Nicolas Schabanel   Fully asynchronous behavior of
                                  double-quiescent elementary cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
            Khaled El-Fakih and   
           Nina Yevtushenko and   
            Sergey Buffalov and   
             Gregor v. Bochmann   Progressive solutions to a parallel
                                  automata equation  . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
   Francesc Rosselló and   
               Gabriel Valiente   An algebraic view of the relation
                                  between largest common subtrees and
                                  smallest common supertrees . . . . . . . 33--53
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
               Kari Pasanen and   
                Jörg Rothe   If P $\not=$ NP then some strongly
                                  noninvertible functions are invertible   54--62
                   Guizhen Yang   Computational aspects of mining maximal
                                  frequent patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . 63--85
               Beate Bollig and   
              Stephan Waack and   
                Philipp Woelfel   Parity graph-driven read-once branching
                                  programs and an exponential lower bound
                                  for integer multiplication . . . . . . . 86--99
        Pedro García and   
               José Ruiz   V  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--114
                     Min Ji and   
                    Yong He and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   Scheduling linear deteriorating jobs
                                  with an availability constraint on a
                                  single machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
                 Joan Boyar and   
               Leah Epstein and   
          Lene M. Favrholdt and   
              Jens S. Kohrt and   
              Kim S. Larsen and   
         Morten M. Pedersen and   
             Sanne Wòhlk   The maximum resource bin packing problem 127--139
    Francesco M. Malvestuto and   
              Mauro Mezzini and   
               Marina Moscarini   Minimal invariant sets in a
                                  vertex-weighted graph  . . . . . . . . . 140--161
            Chih-Huai Cheng and   
               Kuan-Yu Chen and   
              Wen-Chin Tien and   
                   Kun-Mao Chao   Improved algorithms for the
                                  $k$-maximum-sums problems  . . . . . . . 162--170
             Turlough Neary and   
                   Damien Woods   Small fast universal Turing machines . . 171--195
         Leszek G\kasieniec and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
               Andrzej Pelc and   
                        Qin Xin   Deterministic M2M multicast in radio
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--206
              Matthieu Picantin   Finite transducers for divisibility
                                  monoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
                   Arto Salomaa   Independence of certain quantities
                                  indicating subword occurrences . . . . . 222--231
                  Mark Kambites   Word problems recognisable by
                                  deterministic blind monoid automata  . . 232--237
        Mohamed Eid Hussein and   
             Uwe Schwiegelshohn   Utilization of nonclairvoyant online
                                  schedules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--247
          Maxime Crochemore and   
       Costas S. Iliopoulos and   
              Manal Mohamed and   
             Marie-France Sagot   Longest repeats with a block of $k$
                                  don't cares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--254
               Alain Bretto and   
              Alain Faisant and   
          Thierry Vallée   Compatible topologies on graphs: an
                                  application to graph isomorphism problem
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272
             T. C. E. Cheng and   
                   C. T. Ng and   
                     J. J. Yuan   Multi-agent scheduling on a single
                                  machine to minimize total weighted
                                  number of tardy jobs . . . . . . . . . . 273--281
               Aldo de Luca and   
             Alessandro De Luca   Pseudopalindrome closure operators in
                                  free monoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--300
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 363, Number 1, October 25, 2006

            Kyung-Yong Chwa and   
                   J. Ian Munro   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   Joel Ratsaby   Complexity of hyperconcepts  . . . . . . 2--10
                  Udo Adamy and   
           Michael Hoffmann and   
     József Solymosi and   
           Milo\vs Stojakovi\'c   Coloring octrees . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
                 Yossi Azar and   
                  Amos Fiat and   
                Meital Levy and   
            N. S. Narayanaswamy   An improved algorithm for online
                                  coloring of intervals with bandwidth . . 18--27
              Etsuji Tomita and   
               Akira Tanaka and   
             Haruhisa Takahashi   The worst-case time complexity for
                                  generating all maximal cliques and
                                  computational experiments  . . . . . . . 28--42
            Tatsuie Tsukiji and   
                 Zhi-Zhong Chen   Computing phylogenetic roots with
                                  bounded degrees and errors is
                                  NP-complete  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--59
             Jesper Jansson and   
                  Wing-Kin Sung   Inferring a level-1 phylogenetic network
                                  from a dense set of rooted triplets  . . 60--68
                H. F. Leung and   
                 Z. S. Peng and   
                     H. F. Ting   An efficient algorithm for online square
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
                Philipp Woelfel   A construction method for optimally
                                  universal hash families and its
                                  consequences for the existence of RBIBDs 76--84
                  Hanno Lefmann   Large triangles in the $d$-dimensional
                                  unit cube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
                 Yong Zhang and   
                      Qi Ge and   
           Rudolf Fleischer and   
                  Tao Jiang and   
                       Hong Zhu   Approximating the minimum weight weak
                                  vertex cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 363, Number 2, October 28, 2006

       Jacques Farré and   
                  Igor Litovsky   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
              Arnaud Bailly and   
          Mireille Clerbout and   
           Isabelle Simplot-Ryl   Component composition preserving
                                  behavioral contracts based on
                                  communication traces . . . . . . . . . . 108--123
      Cédric Bastien and   
            Jurek Czyzowicz and   
           Wojciech Fraczak and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Prime normal form and equivalence of
                                  simple grammars  . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--134
       Cezar Câmpeanu and   
              Andrei P\uaun and   
                 Jason R. Smith   Incremental construction of minimal
                                  deterministic finite cover automata  . . 135--148
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
                   Hsu-Chun Yen   Deterministic catalytic systems are not
                                  universal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--161
        Tomasz Jurdzi\'nski and   
                 Friedrich Otto   Restarting automata with restricted
                                  utilization of auxiliary symbols . . . . 162--181
              Joachim Klein and   
                 Christel Baier   Experiments with deterministic
                                  $\omega$-automata for formulas of linear
                                  temporal logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--195
              Markus Lohrey and   
               Sebastian Maneth   The complexity of tree automata and
                                  XPath on grammar-compressed trees  . . . 196--210
                Wojciech Rytter   The structure of subword graphs and
                                  suffix trees of Fibonacci words  . . . . 211--223
  Christoph Schulte Althoff and   
            Wolfgang Thomas and   
                 Nico Wallmeier   Observations on determinization of Büchi
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--233
                Hellis Tamm and   
         Matti Nykänen and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   On size reduction techniques for
                                  multitape automata . . . . . . . . . . . 234--246

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 363, Number 3, October 31, 2006

             Nimrod Megiddo and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
                     Binhai Zhu   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--247
              Mao-cheng Cai and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                    Zhongfei Li   Computation of arbitrage in frictional
                                  bond markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--256
                    Yong He and   
                Weiya Zhong and   
                      Huikun Gu   Improved algorithms for two single
                                  machine scheduling problems  . . . . . . 257--265
                 Mingen Lin and   
                Zhiyong Lin and   
                      Jinhui Xu   Graph bandwidth of weighted caterpillars 266--277
                Jianer Chen and   
                  Fenghui Zhang   On product covering in 3-tier supply
                                  chain models: Natural complete problems
                                  for W  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--288
           Adriana F. Gabor and   
     Jan-Kees C. W. van Ommeren   Approximation algorithms for facility
                                  location problems with a special class
                                  of subadditive cost functions  . . . . . 289--300


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 364, Number 1, November 2, 2006

          Richard Gavald\`a and   
                  Eiji Takimoto   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
           Ilia Nouretdinov and   
                  Vladimir Vovk   Criterion of calibration for
                                  transductive confidence machine with
                                  limited feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--9
                  Vladimir Vovk   Well-calibrated predictions from on-line
                                  compression models . . . . . . . . . . . 10--26
                  Marcus Hutter   On generalized computable universal
                                  priors and their convergence . . . . . . 27--41
                  Sandra Zilles   An approach to intrinsic complexity of
                                  uniform learning . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--61
                Eric Martin and   
                Arun Sharma and   
                  Frank Stephan   On ordinal VC-dimension and some notions
                                  of complexity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--76
                Thomas Zeugmann   From learning in the limit to stochastic
                                  finite learning  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97
                 Jin Uemura and   
                    Masako Sato   Learning of erasing primitive formal
                                  systems from positive examples . . . . . 98--114
                  John Case and   
                Sanjay Jain and   
      Rüdiger Reischuk and   
              Frank Stephan and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Learning a subclass of regular patterns
                                  in polynomial time . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131
              Genshiro Kitagawa   Signal extraction and knowledge
                                  discovery based on statistical modeling  132--142
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 364, Number 2, November 6, 2006

             Ruy de Queiroz and   
       Patrick Cégielski   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--145
           Gianluigi Bellin and   
              Martin Hyland and   
            Edmund Robinson and   
                Christian Urban   Categorical proof theory of classical
                                  propositional calculus . . . . . . . . . 146--165
                 T. Ehrhard and   
                     L. Regnier   Differential interaction nets  . . . . . 166--195
                 Olivier Finkel   On decidability properties of local
                                  sentences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--211
              Sven Hartmann and   
                 Sebastian Link   Deciding implication for functional
                                  dependencies in complex-value databases  212--240
           Michael Kaminski and   
              Julia Rubin-Mosin   Default theories over monadic languages  241--253
                     John Power   Generic models for computational effects 254--269

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 364, Number 3, November 8, 2006

             Martin Hofmann and   
            Hans-Wolfgang Loidl   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Frédéric Besson and   
              Thomas Jensen and   
                David Pichardie   Proof-carrying code from certified
                                  abstract interpretation and fixpoint
                                  compression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--291
                Peeter Laud and   
              Tarmo Uustalu and   
                     Varmo Vene   Type systems equivalent to data-flow
                                  analyses for imperative languages  . . . 292--310
                 Andrew Kennedy   Securing the .NET programming model  . . 311--317
          Dominique Cansell and   
          Dominique Méry   Formal and incremental construction of
                                  distributed algorithms: On the
                                  distributed reference counting algorithm 318--337
                 J. Niehren and   
           J. Schwinghammer and   
                      G. Smolka   A concurrent lambda calculus with
                                  futures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--356


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 365, Number 1--2, November 10, 2006

              Frank de Boer and   
             Marcello Bonsangue   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
     Luís S. Barbosa and   
        José N. Oliveira   Transposing partial components---An
                                  exercise on coalgebraic refinement . . . 2--22
        Einar Broch Johnsen and   
                   Olaf Owe and   
                Ingrid Chieh Yu   Creol: a type-safe object-oriented model
                                  for distributed concurrent systems . . . 23--66
      Krishnendu Chatterjee and   
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
            Marcin Jurdzi\'nski   Games with secure equilibria . . . . . . 67--82
                Ling Cheung and   
                Nancy Lynch and   
             Roberto Segala and   
               Frits Vaandrager   Switched PIOA: Parallel composition via
                                  distributed scheduling . . . . . . . . . 83--108
                  He Jifeng and   
                Xiaoshan Li and   
                    Zhiming Liu   rCOS: a refinement calculus of object
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--142
           David A. Naumann and   
                   Mike Barnett   Towards imperative modules: Reasoning
                                  about invariants and sharing of mutable
                                  state  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--168
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 365, Number 3, November 12, 2006

            Ralph Kopperman and   
         Prakash Panangaden and   
           Michael B. Smyth and   
              Dieter Spreen and   
                 Julian Webster   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--170
                 Samy Abbes and   
                   Klaus Keimel   Projective topology on bifinite domains
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
                     K. Abe and   
               J. Bisceglio and   
             D. R. Ferguson and   
               T. J. Peters and   
              A. C. Russell and   
                    T. Sakkalis   Computational topology for isotopic
                                  surface reconstruction . . . . . . . . . 184--198
               Lisbeth Fajstrup   Cubical local partial orders on
                                  cubically subdivided spaces---Existence
                                  and construction . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--205
            Jonathan Gratus and   
                 Timothy Porter   A spatial view of information  . . . . . 206--215
                  G. Hamrin and   
          V. Stoltenberg-Hansen   Two categories of effective continuous
                                  cpos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--236
        H.-P. A. Künzi and   
               H. Pajoohesh and   
              M. P. Schellekens   Partial quasi-metrics  . . . . . . . . . 237--246
            Martin Raußen   Deadlocks and dihomotopy in mutual
                                  exclusion models . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--257
            Victor L. Selivanov   Towards a descriptive set theory for
                                  domain-like structures . . . . . . . . . 258--282


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 366, Number 1--2, November 16, 2006

       José Fiadeiro and   
                     Jan Rutten   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
              Stefan Milius and   
               Lawrence S. Moss   The category-theoretic solution of
                                  recursive program schemes  . . . . . . . 3--59
                 Luca Aceto and   
                Wan Fokkink and   
         Anna Ingolfsdottir and   
                     Sumit Nain   Bisimilarity is not finitely based over
                                  BPA with interrupt . . . . . . . . . . . 60--81
               J. Adámek   The intersection of algebra and
                                  coalgebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--97
              Roberto Bruni and   
                Ivan Lanese and   
                  Ugo Montanari   A basic algebra of stateless connectors  98--120
            Daniel Hausmann and   
           Till Mossakowski and   
             Lutz Schröder   A coalgebraic approach to the semantics
                                  of the ambient calculus  . . . . . . . . 121--143
              Martin Hyland and   
                     John Power   Discrete Lawvere theories and
                                  computational effects  . . . . . . . . . 144--162
             Prasanna Thati and   
           José Meseguer   Complete symbolic reachability analysis
                                  using back-and-forth narrowing . . . . . 163--179
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 366, Number 3, November 20, 2006

      Zoltán Ésik   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
         Michael Domaratzki and   
                    Kai Salomaa   Codes defined by multiple sets of
                                  trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--193
Pál Dömösi and   
     Géza Horváth   Alternative proof of the
                                  Lyndon--Schützenberger Theorem  . . . . . 194--198
             Manfred Droste and   
                 Dietrich Kuske   Skew and infinitary formal power series  199--227
             Manfred Droste and   
                   Heiko Vogler   Weighted tree automata and weighted
                                  logics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--247
                Andreas Maletti   Compositions of tree series
                                  transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--271
             F. Mráz and   
                    F. Otto and   
           M. Plátek and   
                T. Jurdzi\'nski   Marcus $t$-contextual grammars and cut
                                  hierarchies and monotonicity for
                                  restarting automata  . . . . . . . . . . 272--296
                  Bianca Truthe   The finiteness of synchronous, tabled
                                  picture languages is decidable . . . . . 297--315


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 367, Number 1--2, November 24, 2006

           Pierpaolo Degano and   
                  Luca Vigan\`o   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
        Martín Abadi and   
       Véronique Cortier   Deciding knowledge in security protocols
                                  under equational theories  . . . . . . . 2--32
             Michael Backes and   
               Anupam Datta and   
                 Ante Derek and   
           John C. Mitchell and   
                Mathieu Turuani   Compositional analysis of
                                  contract-signing protocols . . . . . . . 33--56
           Frederick Butler and   
           Iliano Cervesato and   
           Aaron D. Jaggard and   
              Andre Scedrov and   
            Christopher Walstad   Formal analysis of Kerberos 5  . . . . . 57--87
             Carlos Caleiro and   
              Luca Vigan\`o and   
                    David Basin   On the semantics of Alice&Bob
                                  specifications of security protocols . . 88--122
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Probable innocence revisited . . . . . . 123--138
           C. J. F. Cremers and   
                    S. Mauw and   
                  E. P. de Vink   Injective synchronisation: an extension
                                  of the authentication hierarchy  . . . . 139--161
           Santiago Escobar and   
          Catherine Meadows and   
           José Meseguer   A rewriting-based inference system for
                                  the NRL Protocol Analyzer and its
                                  meta-logical properties  . . . . . . . . 162--202
             Sebastian Nanz and   
                   Chris Hankin   A framework for security analysis of
                                  mobile wireless networks . . . . . . . . 203--227
               R. Ramanujam and   
                   S. P. Suresh   A (restricted) quantifier elimination
                                  for security protocols . . . . . . . . . 228--256
                   Graham Steel   Formal analysis of PIN block attacks . . 257--270
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 367, Number 3, December 1, 2006

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--272
                Yiguang Liu and   
               Zhisheng You and   
                     Liping Cao   A concise functional neural network
                                  computing the largest modulus
                                  eigenvalues and their corresponding
                                  eigenvectors of a real skew matrix . . . 273--285
              Jian Cheng Lv and   
                   Zhang Yi and   
                      K. K. Tan   Global convergence of Oja's PCA learning
                                  algorithm with a non-zero-approaching
                                  adaptive learning rate . . . . . . . . . 286--307
               Oleg Izmerly and   
                        Tal Mor   Chosen ciphertext attacks on
                                  lattice-based public key encryption and
                                  modern (non-quantum) cryptography in a
                                  quantum environment  . . . . . . . . . . 308--323
              Marco Carpentieri   A genetic system based on simulated
                                  crossover of sequences of two-bit genes  324--335
           Faisal Shah Khan and   
                Marek Perkowski   Synthesis of multi-qudit hybrid and
                                  $d$-valued quantum logic circuits by
                                  decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--346
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--vii


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 368, Number 1--2, December 5, 2006

        Sophia Drossopoulou and   
           Giovanni Lagorio and   
                Susan Eisenbach   A flexible model for dynamic linking in
                                  Java and C#  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
           Markus Krötzsch   Generalized ultrametric spaces in
                                  quantitative domain theory . . . . . . . 30--49
               Michael Kaminski   Invariance under stuttering in a
                                  temporal logic of actions  . . . . . . . 50--63
       Vasco T. Vasconcelos and   
               Simon J. Gay and   
          António Ravara   Type checking a multithreaded functional
                                  language with session types  . . . . . . 64--87
                Foto Afrati and   
                    Chen Li and   
                Prasenjit Mitra   Rewriting queries using views in the
                                  presence of arithmetic comparisons . . . 88--123
              Yi-Xiang Chen and   
                     Achim Jung   A logical approach to stable domains . . 124--148
               Zaiyue Zhang and   
                 Yuefei Sui and   
                 Cungen Cao and   
                      Guohua Wu   A formal fuzzy reasoning system and
                                  reasoning mechanism based on
                                  propositional modal logic  . . . . . . . 149--160
       Stéphanie Delaune   An undecidability result for AGh . . . . 161--167
             R. J. van Glabbeek   Erratum to ``On the expressiveness of
                                  higher dimensional automata'': [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. 356 (2006) 265--290]  . . . 168--194
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 368, Number 3, December 10, 2006

     Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp and   
              Ugur Dogrusoz and   
               S. Muthukrishnan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
               Amihood Amir and   
                 Oren Kapah and   
                     Dekel Tsur   Faster two-dimensional pattern matching
                                  with rotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--204
             Eugene Davydov and   
              Serafim Batzoglou   A computational model for RNA multiple
                                  structural alignment . . . . . . . . . . 205--216
            Stefano Lonardi and   
       Wojciech Szpankowski and   
                  Qiaofeng Yang   Finding biclusters by random projections 217--230
           Richard F. Geary and   
               Naila Rahman and   
               Rajeev Raman and   
                Venkatesh Raman   A simple optimal representation for
                                  balanced parentheses . . . . . . . . . . 231--246


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 369, Number 1--3, December 15, 2006

            T. Jurdzi\'nski and   
             F. Mráz and   
                    F. Otto and   
               M. Plátek   Degrees of non-monotonicity for
                                  restarting automata  . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
              Oleg Pikhurko and   
            Jerzy Wojciechowski   Edge-bandwidth of grids and tori . . . . 35--43
                 Jing-Chao Chen   Efficient sample sort and the average
                                  case analysis of PEsort  . . . . . . . . 44--66
            Henning Bordihn and   
             Henning Fernau and   
              Markus Holzer and   
             Vincenzo Manca and   
      Carlos Martín-Vide   Iterated sequential transducers as
                                  language generating devices  . . . . . . 67--81
               Thomas Eiter and   
                  Georg Gottlob   Reasoning under minimal upper bounds in
                                  propositional logic  . . . . . . . . . . 82--115
             Martin Gairing and   
        Thomas Lücking and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
                Burkhard Monien   The price of anarchy for polynomial
                                  social cost  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--135
                     Bang Ye Wu   On the intercluster distance of a tree
                                  metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--141
       Véronique Terrier   Low complexity classes of
                                  multidimensional cellular automata . . . 142--156
                 Eric Angel and   
           Evripidis Bampis and   
                  Fanny Pascual   Truthful algorithms for scheduling
                                  selfish tasks on parallel machines . . . 157--168
               Carlo Blundo and   
             Stelvio Cimato and   
              Alfredo De Santis   Visual cryptography schemes with optimal
                                  pixel expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--182
         Michael Domaratzki and   
          Petr Sosík and   
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón   Algebraic properties of substitution on
                                  trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--196
        Farshad Rostamabadi and   
                Mohammad Ghodsi   Label updating to avoid point-shaped
                                  obstacles in fixed model . . . . . . . . 197--210
                Stephen Travers   The complexity of membership problems
                                  for circuits over sets of integers . . . 211--229
              Hans Kellerer and   
           Vitaly A. Strusevich   A fully polynomial approximation scheme
                                  for the single machine weighted total
                                  tardiness problem with a common due date 230--238
                   G. Bebek and   
              P. Berenbrink and   
                  C. Cooper and   
              T. Friedetzky and   
                  J. Nadeau and   
                 S. C. Sahinalp   The degree distribution of the
                                  generalized duplication model  . . . . . 239--249
               Jianfeng Hou and   
                Guizhen Liu and   
                  Jiansheng Cai   List edge and list total colorings of
                                  planar graphs without 4-cycles . . . . . 250--255
                 Weigen Yan and   
                  Yeong-Nan Yeh   Enumeration of subtrees of trees . . . . 256--268
                  V. Bil\`o and   
                M. Flammini and   
                 G. Melideo and   
             L. Moscardelli and   
                     A. Navarra   Sharing the cost of multicast
                                  transmissions in wireless networks . . . 269--284
               Leah Epstein and   
                 Alex Kesselman   On the remote server problem or more
                                  about TCP acknowledgments  . . . . . . . 285--299
           Michael Hoffmann and   
              Richard M. Thomas   A geometric characterization of
                                  automatic semigroups . . . . . . . . . . 300--313
                Wit Fory\'s and   
                Tomasz Krawczyk   An algorithmic approach to the problem
                                  of a semiretract base  . . . . . . . . . 314--322
             Amrinder Arora and   
                Fanchun Jin and   
                 Hyeong-Ah Choi   Scheduling resource allocation with
                                  timeslot penalty for changeover  . . . . 323--337
                Ronald Koch and   
                    Ines Spenke   Complexity and approximability of
                                  $k$-splittable flows . . . . . . . . . . 338--347
               Shlomi Dolev and   
             Roberto Segala and   
           Alexander Shvartsman   Dynamic load balancing with group
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--360
               Sylvain Pion and   
                    Chee K. Yap   Constructive root bound for $k$-ary
                                  rational input numbers . . . . . . . . . 361--376
                  D. Azriel and   
                      D. Berend   On a question of Leiss regarding the
                                  Hanoi Tower problem  . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
                 Asaf Levin and   
                    Danny Segev   Partial multicuts in trees . . . . . . . 384--395
       Vicente Acuña and   
              Gilles Didier and   
                Alejandro Maass   Coding with variable block maps  . . . . 396--405
      Mário J. J. Branco   Two algebraic approaches to variants of
                                  the concatenation product  . . . . . . . 406--426
        Teofilo F. Gonzalez and   
                   David Serena   Pairwise edge disjoint shortest paths in
                                  the $n$-cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--435
           Lakshmanan Kuppusamy   A note on ambiguity of internal
                                  contextual grammars  . . . . . . . . . . 436--441
                   Wei-Mei Chen   Cost distribution of the Chang--Roberts
                                  leader election algorithm and related
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--447
               Wenqiang Dai and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
                     Binhai Zhu   On the edge $l_\infty$ radius of Saitou
                                  and Nei's method for phylogenetic
                                  reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--455
                 Wenbo Zhao and   
                 Peng Zhang and   
                      Tao Jiang   A network flow approach to the Minimum
                                  Common Integer Partition Problem . . . . 456--462
                 A. Gajardo and   
                       E. Goles   Crossing information in two-dimensional
                                  Sandpiles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--469
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 370, Number 1--3, February 12, 2007

    François Nicolas and   
                    Eric Rivals   Longest common subsequence problem for
                                  unoriented and cyclic strings  . . . . . 1--18
               Jin Wook Kim and   
                    Kunsoo Park   An efficient alignment algorithm for
                                  masked sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
                 A. Gajardo and   
                     J. Mazoyer   One Head Machines from a symbolic
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--47
              Jeremy Avigad and   
                       Yimu Yin   Quantifier elimination for the reals
                                  with a predicate for the powers of two   48--59
     Christian Glaßer and   
             Alan L. Selman and   
                     Liyu Zhang   Canonical disjoint NP-pairs of
                                  propositional proof systems  . . . . . . 60--73
       Vassilis Giakoumakis and   
                 Stephan Olariu   All minimal prime extensions of
                                  hereditary classes of graphs . . . . . . 74--93
             Shane Saunders and   
                  Tadao Takaoka   Solving shortest paths efficiently on
                                  nearly acyclic directed graphs . . . . . 94--109
                 Yo-Sub Han and   
                    Derick Wood   Obtaining shorter regular expressions
                                  from finite-state automata . . . . . . . 110--120
                Jun-Jie Pan and   
                Gerard J. Chang   Induced-path partition on graphs with
                                  special blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
              Jorge Almeida and   
                   Marc Zeitoun   An automata-theoretic approach to the
                                  word problem for $\omega$-terms over $R$ 131--169
                  Peter Leupold   Languages generated by iterated
                                  idempotency  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--185
             Dario Catalano and   
                Rosario Gennaro   Cramer-Damgård signatures revisited:
                                  Efficient flat-tree signatures based on
                                  factoring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--200
             Andrea Frosini and   
                  Maurice Nivat   Binary matrices under the microscope: a
                                  tomographical problem  . . . . . . . . . 201--217
          L. Sunil Chandran and   
                 L. Shankar Ram   On the relationship between ATSP and the
                                  cycle cover problem  . . . . . . . . . . 218--228
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
                Van Bang Le and   
                  Suhail Mahfud   New applications of clique separator
                                  decomposition for the Maximum Weight
                                  Stable Set problem . . . . . . . . . . . 229--239
               Yongxi Cheng and   
                    Xi Chen and   
                 Yiqun Lisa Yin   On searching a table consistent with
                                  division poset . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--253
               Boaz Patt-Shamir   A note on efficient aggregate queries in
                                  sensor networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--264
                Markus Kuba and   
                Alois Panholzer   The left-right-imbalance of binary
                                  search trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--278
               Andrzej Pelc and   
                    David Peleg   Feasibility and complexity of
                                  broadcasting with random transmission
                                  failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--292
                 Chi-Jen Lu and   
              Shi-Chun Tsai and   
                   Hsin-Lung Wu   Improved hardness amplification in NP    293--298
                 Sun-Yuan Hsieh   Finding maximal leaf-agreement
                                  isomorphic descendent subtrees from
                                  phylogenetic trees with different
                                  species  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--308
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 371, Number 1--2, February 22, 2007

           Thomas Bäck and   
             Benedikt Löwe   Computing and the natural sciences at
                                  CiE 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
             Edwin J. Beggs and   
                 John V. Tucker   Can Newtonian systems, bounded in space,
                                  time, mass and energy compute all
                                  functions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--19
       Francesco Bernardini and   
            Marian Gheorghe and   
              Natalio Krasnogor   Quorum sensing P systems . . . . . . . . 20--33
    Artur S. d'Avila Garcez and   
        Luís C. Lamb and   
                  Dov M. Gabbay   Connectionist modal logic: Representing
                                  modalities in neural networks  . . . . . 34--53
Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and   
    Francisco J. Romero-Campero   A uniform solution to SAT using membrane
                                  creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--61
         Krzysztof Michalak and   
             Halina Kwa\'snicka   Influence of data dimensionality on the
                                  quality of forecasts given by a
                                  multilayer perceptron  . . . . . . . . . 62--71
               Florin Manea and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                 Victor Mitrana   Accepting networks of splicing
                                  processors: Complexity results . . . . . 72--82
     Shankara Narayanan Krishna   Universality results for P systems based
                                  on brane calculi operations  . . . . . . 83--105
         Giuseppe Trautteur and   
           Guglielmo Tamburrini   A note on discreteness and virtuality in
                                  analog computing . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--114
             John V. Tucker and   
              Jeffery I. Zucker   Computability of analog networks . . . . 115--146
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 371, Number 3, March 1, 2007

               Thomas Eiter and   
                  Leonid Libkin   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
             Vladlen Koltun and   
      Christos H. Papadimitriou   Approximately dominating representatives 148--154
                Albert Atserias   Conjunctive query evaluation by
                                  search-tree revisited  . . . . . . . . . 155--168
            Diego Calvanese and   
        Giuseppe De Giacomo and   
         Maurizio Lenzerini and   
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   View-based query processing: On the
                                  relationship between rewriting,
                                  answering and losslessness . . . . . . . 169--182
        Jan Van den Bussche and   
             Dirk Van Gucht and   
              Stijn Vansummeren   Well-definedness and semantic
                                  type-checking for the nested relational
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
               Alin Deutsch and   
     Bertram Ludäscher and   
                      Alan Nash   Rewriting queries using views with
                                  access patterns under integrity
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--226
               Yossi Matias and   
                  Daniel Urieli   Optimal workload-based weighted wavelet
                                  synopses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--246
José L. Balcázar and   
               Gemma C. Garriga   Horn axiomatizations for sequential data 247--264


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 372, Number 1, March 6, 2007

                   Igor Dolinka   Axiomatizing the identities of binoid
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
             F. Levé and   
                    G. Richomme   Quasiperiodic Sturmian words and
                                  morphisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--25
               Piotr Berman and   
            Marek Karpinski and   
                  Yakov Nekrich   Optimal trade-off for Merkle tree
                                  traversal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--36
                  Paul Bell and   
                   Igor Potapov   On the membership of invertible diagonal
                                  and scalar matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 37--45
                  Marcus Pivato   RealLife: The continuum limit of Larger
                                  than Life cellular automata  . . . . . . 46--68
                  Zhiyi Tan and   
                        Yong Wu   Optimal semi-online algorithms for
                                  machine covering . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
            Toshimasa Ishii and   
             Hitoshi Fujita and   
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   Minimum cost source location problem
                                  with local 3-vertex-connectivity
                                  requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93
                   Deshi Ye and   
                 Guochuan Zhang   On-line scheduling mesh jobs with
                                  dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--102
                Wenqing Dou and   
                       Enyu Yao   On rearrangeable multirate three-stage
                                  Clos networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
                   Frank Gurski   Characterizations for restricted graphs
                                  of NLC-width 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--114
            Paolo Ferragina and   
              Rossano Venturini   A simple storage scheme for strings
                                  achieving entropy bounds . . . . . . . . 115--121
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 372, Number 2--3, March 15, 2007

            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez   Fourth Brainstorming Week on Membrane
                                  Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124
                     Nadia Busi   Using well-structured transition systems
                                  to decide divergence for catalytic P
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--135
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
              Rudolf Freund and   
              Marion Oswald and   
               Drago\cs Sburlan   Multiset random context grammars,
                                  checkers, and transducers  . . . . . . . 136--151
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
        Maurice Margenstern and   
         György Vaszil and   
                  Sergey Verlan   On small universal antiport P systems    152--164
           Federico Fontana and   
                 Vincenzo Manca   Discrete solutions to differential
                                  equations by metabolic P systems . . . . 165--182
Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and   
Agustín Riscos-Núñez   On the degree of parallelism in membrane
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--195
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
              Andrei P\uaun and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón and   
          Petr Sosík and   
                 Sara Woodworth   Normal forms for spiking neural P
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--217
           Alberto Leporati and   
                   Sara Felloni   Three ``quantum'' algorithms to solve
                                  3-SAT  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--241
           Michael Muskulus and   
            Daniela Besozzi and   
             Robert Brijder and   
            Paolo Cazzaniga and   
            Sanne Houweling and   
              Dario Pescini and   
             Grzegorz Rozenberg   Cycles and communicating classes in
                                  membrane systems and molecular dynamics  242--266
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--v


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 373, Number 1--2, March 22, 2007

          Sebastian Danicic and   
                Mark Harman and   
                Rob Hierons and   
               John Howroyd and   
            Michael R. Laurence   Equivalence of linear, free, liberal,
                                  structured program schemas is decidable
                                  in polynomial time . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
        Gerald Lüttgen and   
                  Walter Vogler   Conjunction on processes: Full
                                  abstraction via ready-tree semantics . . 19--40
           Franco Barbanera and   
           Michele Bugliesi and   
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   Space-aware ambients and processes . . . 41--69
              Manuel Clavel and   
       José Meseguer and   
                Miguel Palomino   Reflection in membership equational
                                  logic, many-sorted equational logic,
                                  Horn logic with equality, and rewriting
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--91
                 Yuxin Deng and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Axiomatizations for probabilistic
                                  finite-state behaviors . . . . . . . . . 92--114
               Ugo Dal Lago and   
           Angelo Montanari and   
                Gabriele Puppis   Compact and tractable automaton-based
                                  representations of time granularities    115--141
                    Isar Stubbe   Towards ``dynamic domains'': Totally
                                  continuous cocomplete
                                  $\mathcal{Q}$-categories . . . . . . . . 142--160
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 373, Number 3, April 5, 2007

            Peter D. Mosses and   
                 Irek Ulidowski   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
                Oana Andrei and   
            Gabriel Ciobanu and   
                   Dorel Lucanu   A rewriting logic framework for
                                  operational semantics of membrane
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--181
                 Samuel Hym and   
               Matthew Hennessy   Adding recursion to Dpi  . . . . . . . . 182--212
       José Meseguer and   
                 Grigore Ro\csu   The rewriting logic semantics project    213--237
       MohammadReza Mousavi and   
          Michel A. Reniers and   
               Jan Friso Groote   SOS formats and meta-theory: 20 years
                                  after  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--272
                Ando Saabas and   
                  Tarmo Uustalu   A compositional natural semantics and
                                  Hoare logic for low-level languages  . . 273--302


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 374, Number 1--3, April 20, 2007

                M. Murakami and   
                    M. Hara and   
                M. Yamamoto and   
                        S. Tani   Fast algorithms for computing Jones
                                  polynomials of certain links . . . . . . 1--24
                 S. Nicolay and   
                        M. Rigo   About frequencies of letters in
                                  generalized automatic sequences  . . . . 25--40
                    Biao Wu and   
                      Enyue Yao   k-Partitioning problems with partition
                                  matroid constraint . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48
                    Ji Tian and   
                   Ruyan Fu and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   On-line scheduling with delivery time on
                                  a single batch machine . . . . . . . . . 49--57
                  Jamie Simpson   Intersecting periodic words  . . . . . . 58--65
                   Yongxi Cheng   Lattice grids and prisms are antimagic   66--73
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
                  Ion Petre and   
             György Vaszil   Self-assembly of strings and languages   74--81
            Gerard J. Chang and   
                Sen-Peng Eu and   
                 Chung-Heng Yeh   On the $(n,t)$-antipodal Gray codes  . . 82--90
        Estela M. Rodrigues and   
         Marie-France Sagot and   
            Yoshiko Wakabayashi   The maximum agreement forest problem:
                                  Approximation algorithms and
                                  computational experiments  . . . . . . . 91--110
                 Niklas Eriksen   Reversal and transposition medians . . . 111--126
                 Dietrich Kuske   Weighted asynchronous cellular automata  127--148
                  Noga Alon and   
             Andrzej Lingas and   
                  Martin Wahlen   Approximating the maximum clique minor
                                  and some subgraph homeomorphism problems 149--158
                  L. L. Liu and   
                   C. T. Ng and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   Scheduling jobs with agreeable
                                  processing times and due dates on a
                                  single batch processing machine  . . . . 159--169
                 Jun-Ho Her and   
              R. S. Ramakrishna   An external-memory depth-first search
                                  algorithm for general grid graphs  . . . 170--180
                       Qiqi Yan   Classifying regular languages by a split
                                  game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190
                Wenbin Chen and   
                  Jiangtao Meng   Hardness of approximating the Minimum
                                  Solutions of Linear Diophantine
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--195
                   Ruyan Fu and   
                    Tian Ji and   
              Jinjiang Yuan and   
                      Yixun Lin   Online scheduling in a parallel batch
                                  processing system to minimize makespan
                                  using restarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--202
       R. Královi\vc and   
                 P. Ru\vzi\vcka   Ranks of graphs: The size of acyclic
                                  orientation cover for deadlock-free
                                  packet routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--213
                Ina Mäurer   Characterizations of recognizable
                                  picture series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--228
             Dario Catalano and   
                  Ivan Visconti   Hybrid commitments and their
                                  applications to zero-knowledge proof
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--260
                  S. Cimato and   
               R. De Prisco and   
                   A. De Santis   Colored visual cryptography without
                                  color darkening  . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
                Jerzy Mycka and   
 José Félix Costa   A new conceptual framework for analog
                                  computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 375, Number 1--3, May 1, 2007

              Olivier Danvy and   
              Peter O'Hearn and   
                  Philip Wadler   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 C. Hermida and   
                  R. D. Tennent   A fibrational framework for
                                  possible-world semantics of Algol  . . . 3--19
              Martin Hyland and   
            Paul Blain Levy and   
             Gordon Plotkin and   
                     John Power   Combining algebraic effects with
                                  continuations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--40
               Andrzej Filinski   On the relations between monadic
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--75
      Ma\lgorzata Biernacka and   
                  Olivier Danvy   A syntactic correspondence between
                                  context-sensitive calculi and abstract
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--108
                    C. B. Jones   Splitting atoms safely . . . . . . . . . 109--119
              Neil D. Jones and   
                  Nils Andersen   Flow analysis of lazy higher-order
                                  functional programs  . . . . . . . . . . 120--136
              Matthew Might and   
                   Olin Shivers   Analyzing the environment structure of
                                  higher-order languages using frame
                                  strings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--168
               Eijiro Sumii and   
             Benjamin C. Pierce   A bisimulation for dynamic sealing . . . 169--192
                    Peter Freyd   Core algebra revisited . . . . . . . . . 193--200
                  Philip Wadler   The Girard--Reynolds isomorphism (second
                                  edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--226
                Stephen Brookes   A semantics for concurrent separation
                                  logic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--270
               Peter W. O'Hearn   Resources, concurrency, and local
                                  reasoning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--307
                  Hongseok Yang   Relational separation logic  . . . . . . 308--334
             F. Lockwood Morris   A few exercises in theorem processing    335--345
                  Frank J. Oles   On being a student of John Reynolds  . . 346--350
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 376, Number 1--2, May 10, 2007

                Oscar H. Ibarra   Developments in language theory  . . . . 1--2
             A. Ehrenfeucht and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Events and modules in reaction systems   3--16
              Yuri Gurevich and   
              Margus Veanes and   
                Charles Wallace   Can abstract state machines be useful in
                                  language theory? . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29
            D. S. Ananichev and   
               M. V. Volkov and   
                    Yu. I. Zaks   Synchronizing automata with a letter of
                                  deficiency 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--41
      Cédric Bastien and   
            Jurek Czyzowicz and   
           Wojciech Fraczak and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Equivalence of simple functions  . . . . 42--51
                 Olivier Carton   The growth ratio of synchronous rational
                                  relations is unique  . . . . . . . . . . 52--59
                 Yo-Sub Han and   
               Arto Salomaa and   
                Kai Salomaa and   
                Derick Wood and   
                       Sheng Yu   On the existence of prime decompositions 60--69
                  Dalia Krieger   On critical exponents in fixed points of
                                  non-erasing morphisms  . . . . . . . . . 70--88
             Manfred Kufleitner   Polynomials, fragments of temporal logic
                                  and the variety DA over traces . . . . . 89--100
              Martin Kutrib and   
                Andreas Malcher   Context-dependent nondeterminism for
                                  pushdown automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111
          Alexander Okhotin and   
                Oksana Yakimova   Language equations with complementation:
                                  Decision problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 112--126
                 Bala Ravikumar   On some variations of two-way
                                  probabilistic finite automata models . . 127--136
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 376, Number 3, May 15, 2007

              Maura Cerioli and   
           Tiziana Margaria and   
             Michel Wermelinger   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
               Juan de Lara and   
           Roswitha Bardohl and   
              Hartmut Ehrig and   
              Karsten Ehrig and   
              Ulrike Prange and   
              Gabriele Taentzer   Attributed graph transformation with
                                  node type inheritance  . . . . . . . . . 139--163
             Carlo A. Furia and   
               Matteo Rossi and   
             Dino Mandrioli and   
                Angelo Morzenti   Automated compositional proofs for
                                  real-time systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 164--184
        Gruia-Catalin Roman and   
           Christine Julien and   
                   Jamie Payton   Modeling adaptive behaviors in Context
                                  UNITY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--204
               David A. Naumann   Observational purity and encapsulation   205--224


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 377, Number 1--3, May 31, 2007

               Saeed Salehi and   
                 Magnus Steinby   Tree algebras and varieties of tree
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24
                 Zhao Zhang and   
                         Hao Li   Algorithms for long paths in graphs  . . 25--34
                 Adi Avidor and   
               Michael Langberg   The multi-multiway cut problem . . . . . 35--42
                Jiro Uchida and   
                   Wei Chen and   
                    Koichi Wada   Acknowledged broadcasting and gossiping
                                  in ad hoc radio networks . . . . . . . . 43--54
               Leah Epstein and   
              Yanir Kleiman and   
        Ji\vrí Sgall and   
                   Rob van Stee   Paging with connections: FIFO strikes
                                  again  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--64
                  Ana Marco and   
José-Javier Martínez   Bernstein--Bezoutian matrices and curve
                                  implicitization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72
        Flavio D'Alessandro and   
Gwénaël Richomme and   
             Stefano Varricchio   Well quasi-orders generated by a
                                  word-shuffle rewriting . . . . . . . . . 73--92
               Olaf Beyersdorff   Classes of representable disjoint NP . . 93--109
                  Zhiyi Tan and   
                        Yong He   Semi-online scheduling problems on two
                                  identical machines with inexact partial
                                  information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--125
     Verónica Becher and   
          Santiago Figueira and   
                  Rafael Picchi   Turing's unpublished algorithm for
                                  normal numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--138
               Richard Nock and   
                  Frank Nielsen   Self-improved gaps almost everywhere for
                                  the agnostic approximation of monomials  139--150
             Tien-Ching Lin and   
                      D. T. Lee   Randomized algorithm for the sum
                                  selection problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 151--156
             Hanna Uscka-Wehlou   Digital lines with irrational slopes . . 157--169
             Jung-Heum Park and   
            Hyeong-Seok Lim and   
                   Hee-Chul Kim   Panconnectivity and pancyclicity of
                                  hypercube-like interconnection networks
                                  with faulty elements . . . . . . . . . . 170--180
           Florian Diedrich and   
                   Klaus Jansen   Faster and simpler approximation
                                  algorithms for mixed packing and
                                  covering problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 181--204
                  Marcus Pivato   Defect particle kinematics in
                                  one-dimensional cellular automata  . . . 205--228
          Fredrik Bengtsson and   
                   Jingsen Chen   Ranking $k$ maximum sums . . . . . . . . 229--237
              Yung-Ling Lai and   
                 Chang-Sin Tian   An extremal graph with given bandwidth   238--242
                  A. Rogers and   
                 R. K. Dash and   
             S. D. Ramchurn and   
              P. Vytelingum and   
                 N. R. Jennings   Coordinating team players within a noisy
                                  Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma tournament   243--259
               Michaël Rao   MSOL partitioning problems on graphs of
                                  bounded treewidth and clique-width . . . 260--267
              Alexander Rybalov   On the strongly generic undecidability
                                  of the Halting Problem . . . . . . . . . 268--270
          Josep Díaz and   
              Marcin Kami\'nski   MAX-CUT and MAX-BISECTION are NP-hard on
                                  unit disk graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--276
                Sean Cleary and   
            Fabrizio Luccio and   
                    Linda Pagli   Refined upper bounds for right-arm
                                  rotation distances . . . . . . . . . . . 277--281
               Takashi Yokomori   Erratum to ``Polynomial-time
                                  identification of very simple grammars
                                  from positive data'' [Theoret. Comput.
                                  Sci. 298 (2003) 179--206]  . . . . . . . 282--283
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 378, Number 1, June 3, 2007

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 Mark Daley and   
             Michael Domaratzki   On codes defined by bio-operations . . . 3--16
                     Yuriy Brun   Arithmetic computation in the tile
                                  assembly model: Addition and
                                  multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--31
              Frank Neumann and   
                   Ingo Wegener   Randomized local search, evolutionary
                                  algorithms, and the minimum spanning
                                  tree problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--40
            Andris Ambainis and   
                Kazuo Iwama and   
            Akinori Kawachi and   
               Rudy Raymond and   
              Shigeru Yamashita   Improved algorithms for quantum
                                  identification of Boolean oracles  . . . 41--53
                   S. Verel and   
                 P. Collard and   
               M. Tomassini and   
                   L. Vanneschi   Fitness landscape of the cellular
                                  automata majority problem: View from the
                                  ``Olympus''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--77
           El-Ghazali Talbi and   
              Benjamin Weinberg   Breaking the search space symmetry in
                                  partitioning problems: an application to
                                  the graph coloring problem . . . . . . . 78--86
               Dezhong Peng and   
                       Zhang Yi   Convergence analysis of the OJAn MCA
                                  learning algorithm by the deterministic
                                  discrete time method . . . . . . . . . . 87--100
              Elham Kashefi and   
             Iordanis Kerenidis   Statistical Zero Knowledge and quantum
                                  one-way functions  . . . . . . . . . . . 101--116
            Gabriel Ciobanu and   
               Linqiang Pan and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez   P systems with minimal parallelism . . . 117--130
               Florin Manea and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                 Victor Mitrana   Erratum to: ``Accepting networks of
                                  splicing processors: Complexity
                                  results'' [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 371
                                  (2007) 72--82] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 378, Number 2, June 6, 2007

                   Xiaotie Deng   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
                       Yinyu Ye   Exchange market equilibria with
                                  Leontief's utility: Freedom of pricing
                                  leads to rationality . . . . . . . . . . 134--142
                Dinesh Garg and   
                 Kamal Jain and   
               Kunal Talwar and   
              Vijay V. Vazirani   A primal-dual algorithm for computing
                                  Fisher equilibrium in the absence of
                                  gross substitutability property  . . . . 143--152
              Sanjiv Kapoor and   
              Aranyak Mehta and   
                 Vijay Vazirani   An auction-based market equilibrium
                                  algorithm for a production model . . . . 153--164
              Simon Fischer and   
          Berthold Vöcking   On the structure and complexity of
                                  worst-case equilibria  . . . . . . . . . 165--174
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
            David R. Karger and   
          Vahab S. Mirrokni and   
                     Rahul Sami   Subjective-cost policy routing . . . . . 175--189
                 Gang Cheng and   
                    Ping Li and   
                       Peng Shi   A new algorithm based on copulas for VaR
                                  valuation with empirical calculations    190--197
              Robert W. Zhu and   
                Guomin Yang and   
                 Duncan S. Wong   An efficient identity-based key exchange
                                  protocol with KGS forward secrecy for
                                  low-power devices  . . . . . . . . . . . 198--207

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 378, Number 3, June 9, 2007

             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                    Ding-zhu Du   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
                  Sumit Ganguly   Counting distinct items over update
                                  streams  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222
                Erdong Chen and   
                 Linji Yang and   
                       Hao Yuan   Longest increasing subsequences in
                                  windows based on canonical antichain
                                  partition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236
             Boaz Ben-Moshe and   
         Binay Bhattacharya and   
              Qiaosheng Shi and   
                     Arie Tamir   Efficient algorithms for center problems
                                  in cactus networks . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252
           Heiner Ackermann and   
             Alantha Newman and   
          Heiko Röglin and   
          Berthold Vöcking   Decision-making based on approximate and
                                  smoothed Pareto curves . . . . . . . . . 253--270
              Ming-Yang Kao and   
              Xiang-Yang Li and   
                   Weizhao Wang   Average case analysis for tree labelling
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--291
               Bodo Manthey and   
          Rüdiger Reischuk   Smoothed analysis of binary search trees 292--315
                    Lan Liu and   
                    Chen Xi and   
                  Jing Xiao and   
                      Tao Jiang   Complexity and approximation of the
                                  minimum recombinant haplotype
                                  configuration problem  . . . . . . . . . 316--330


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 379, Number 1--2, June 12, 2007

           Jan Friso Groote and   
                 Marc Voorhoeve   Operational semantics for Petri net
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
               Giorgi Japaridze   From truth to computability II . . . . . 20--52
              Manuel A. Martins   Closure properties for the class of
                                  behavioral models  . . . . . . . . . . . 53--83
               Max Kanovich and   
          Jacqueline Vauzeilles   Strong planning under uncertainty in
                                  domains with numerous but identical
                                  elements (a generic approach)  . . . . . 84--119
 J. Raymundo Marcial-Romero and   
Martín H. Escardó   Semantics of a sequential language for
                                  exact real-number computation  . . . . . 120--141
                  R. Chadha and   
             L. Cruz-Filipe and   
                  P. Mateus and   
                    A. Sernadas   Reasoning about probabilistic sequential
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--165
                    Lionel Vaux   The differential $\lambda \mu$ calculus  166--209
        R\uazvan Diaconescu and   
               Petros Stefaneas   Ultraproducts and possible worlds
                                  semantics in institutions  . . . . . . . 210--230
              Eugene Asarin and   
          Gerardo Schneider and   
                  Sergio Yovine   Algorithmic analysis of polygonal hybrid
                                  systems, part I: Reachability  . . . . . 231--265
                 Anuj Dawar and   
               Stephan Kreutzer   Generalising automaticity to modal
                                  properties of finite structures  . . . . 266--285
                 Laura Bozzelli   Complexity results on branching-time
                                  pushdown model checking  . . . . . . . . 286--297
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Losing recognizability . . . . . . . . . 298--304
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 379, Number 3, June 15, 2007

           Jos C. M. Baeten and   
          Jan Karel Lenstra and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
                Noam Berger and   
Béla Bollobás and   
            Christian Borgs and   
            Jennifer Chayes and   
                 Oliver Riordan   Degree distribution of the FKP network
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--316
               Vipul Bansal and   
              Aseem Agrawal and   
              Varun S. Malhotra   Polynomial time algorithm for an optimal
                                  stable assignment with multiple partners 317--328
    Jens Jägersküpper   Algorithmic analysis of a basic
                                  evolutionary algorithm for continuous
                                  optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--347
      Daniel Bleichenbacher and   
            Aggelos Kiayias and   
                      Moti Yung   Decoding interleaved Reed--Solomon codes
                                  over noisy channels  . . . . . . . . . . 348--360
           Leonid Khachiyan and   
                Endre Boros and   
          Khaled Elbassioni and   
           Vladimir Gurvich and   
                Kazuhisa Makino   Dual-bounded generating problems:
                                  Efficient and inefficient points for
                                  discrete probability distributions and
                                  sparse boxes for multidimensional data   361--376
            Manuel Bodirsky and   
         Clemens Gröpl and   
                    Mihyun Kang   Generating labeled planar graphs
                                  uniformly at random  . . . . . . . . . . 377--386
                  Alex Hall and   
            Steffen Hippler and   
                Martin Skutella   Multicommodity flows over time:
                                  Efficient algorithms and complexity  . . 387--404
            Anna Gál and   
            Peter Bro Miltersen   The cell probe complexity of succinct
                                  data structures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--417
               Yossi Matias and   
                      Ely Porat   Efficient pebbling for list traversal
                                  synopses with application to program
                                  rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--436


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 380, Number 1--2, June 21, 2007

       Giuseppe F. Italiano and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                  Chen Avin and   
                    Gunes Ercal   On the cover time and mixing time of
                                  random geometric graphs  . . . . . . . . 2--22
             Eugen Czeizler and   
                    Jarkko Kari   A tight linear bound on the
                                  synchronization delay of bijective
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
               Artur Czumaj and   
          Miros\law Kowaluk and   
                 Andrzej Lingas   Faster algorithms for finding lowest
                                  common ancestors in directed acyclic
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
      Martin Dietzfelbinger and   
             Christoph Weidling   Balanced allocation and dictionaries
                                  with tightly packed constant size bins   47--68
             Manfred Droste and   
                    Paul Gastin   Weighted automata and weighted logics    69--86
             Martin Gairing and   
            Burkhard Monien and   
                 Andreas Woclaw   A faster combinatorial approximation
                                  algorithm for scheduling unrelated
                                  parallel machines  . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
                Georg Schnitger   Comparing the size of NFAs with and
                                  without $\epsilon$-transitions . . . . . 100--114
              Pascal Koiran and   
              Vincent Nesme and   
                Natacha Portier   The quantum query complexity of the
                                  abelian hidden subgroup problem  . . . . 115--126
         Mihai Pa\utra\cscu and   
          Corina E. Tarni\ct\ua   On dynamic bit-probe complexity  . . . . 127--142
         Franck van Breugel and   
            Claudio Hermida and   
             Michael Makkai and   
                  James Worrell   Recursively defined metric spaces
                                  without contraction  . . . . . . . . . . 143--163
                    Damien Pous   New up-to techniques for weak
                                  bisimulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--180
                Michael Mislove   Discrete random variables over domains   181--198
               Martin Grohe and   
             Christoph Koch and   
             Nicole Schweikardt   Tight lower bounds for query processing
                                  on streaming and external memory data    199--217
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 380, Number 3, June 28, 2007

               Srecko Brlek and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
          Boris Adamczewski and   
             Jean-Paul Allouche   Reversals and palindromes in continued
                                  fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--237
                Petr Ambroz and   
             Christiane Frougny   On alpha-adic expansions in Pisot bases  238--250
              Pierre Arnoux and   
Valérie Berthé and   
            Thomas Fernique and   
                   Damien Jamet   Functional stepped surfaces, flips, and
                                  generalized substitutions  . . . . . . . 251--265
        Peter Balázi and   
Zuzana Masáková and   
         Edita Pelantová   Factor versus palindromic complexity of
                                  uniformly recurrent infinite words . . . 266--275
Valérie Berthé and   
                Bertrand Nouvel   Discrete rotations and symbolic dynamics 276--285
              Jean-Pierre Borel   A geometrical characterization of
                                  factors of multidimensional Billiard
                                  words and some applications  . . . . . . 286--303
               J. Cassaigne and   
                     A. E. Frid   On the arithmetical complexity of
                                  Sturmian words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--316
                Thomas Fernique   Local rule substitutions and stepped
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
                       Amy Glen   Powers in a class of
                                  $\mathcal{A}$-strict standard
                                  episturmian words  . . . . . . . . . . . 330--354
                Vesa Halava and   
                 Tero Harju and   
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                 Michel Latteux   Extension of the decidability of the
                                  marked PCP to instances with unique
                                  blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--362
        Stepán Holub and   
               Juha Kortelainen   On systems of word equations with simple
                                  loop sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
                    Lucian Ilie   A note on the number of squares in a
                                  word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--376
          Arto Lepistö and   
       Francesco Pappalardi and   
                    Kalle Saari   Transposition invariant words  . . . . . 377--387
                   Pascal Ochem   Letter frequency in infinite
                                  repetition-free words  . . . . . . . . . 388--392
                    G. Richomme   Conjugacy of morphisms and Lyndon
                                  decomposition of standard Sturmian words 393--400
        Maurice H. ter Beek and   
                   Jetty Kleijn   Infinite unfair shuffles and
                                  associativity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--410


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 381, Number 1--3, August 22, 2007

            Julien Cervelle and   
            Enrico Formenti and   
               Beno\^\it Masson   From sandpiles to sand automata  . . . . 1--28
                  Feng Wang and   
           Hongwei David Du and   
                Xiaohua Jia and   
                  Ping Deng and   
                   Weili Wu and   
                David MacCallum   Non-unique probe selection and group
                                  testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--32
      Helmut Jürgensen and   
             Ludwig Staiger and   
                Hideki Yamasaki   Finite automata encoding geometric
                                  figures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
      Dimitrios Koukopoulos and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
                  Paul Spirakis   The increase of the instability of
                                  networks due to Quasi-Static link
                                  capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--56
     C. M. H. de Figueiredo and   
                   L. Faria and   
                   S. Klein and   
                   R. Sritharan   On the complexity of the sandwich
                                  problems for strongly chordal graphs and
                                  chordal bipartite graphs . . . . . . . . 57--67
       Domingo Gómez and   
            Jaime Gutierrez and   
             Álvar Ibeas   Optimal routing in double loop networks  68--85
Frédérique Bassino and   
                   Cyril Nicaud   Enumeration and random generation of
                                  accessible automata  . . . . . . . . . . 86--104
                 David Doty and   
                  Jared Nichols   Pushdown dimension . . . . . . . . . . . 105--123
               Mingxia Chen and   
                  Jianbo Li and   
                Jianping Li and   
                 Weidong Li and   
                   Lusheng Wang   Some approximation algorithms for the
                                  clique partition problem in weighted
                                  interval graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--133
              A. Amiraslani and   
              D. A. Aruliah and   
                  R. M. Corless   Block $LU$ factors of generalized
                                  companion matrix pencils . . . . . . . . 134--147
                   Ker-I Ko and   
                     Fuxiang Yu   Jordan curves with polynomial inverse
                                  moduli of continuity . . . . . . . . . . 148--161
       Tamás Fleiner and   
           Robert W. Irving and   
               David F. Manlove   Efficient algorithms for generalized
                                  Stable Marriage and Roommates problems   162--176
              Dalia Krieger and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   Every real number greater than 1 is a
                                  critical exponent  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
              Michal Parnas and   
                       Dana Ron   Approximating the minimum vertex cover
                                  in sublinear time and a connection to
                                  distributed algorithms . . . . . . . . . 183--196
            Carme \`Alvarez and   
                Rafel Cases and   
          Josep Díaz and   
                Jordi Petit and   
                    Maria Serna   Communication tree problems  . . . . . . 197--217
             Cheng-Kuan Lin and   
            Jimmy J. M. Tan and   
               D. Frank Hsu and   
                  Lih-Hsing Hsu   On the spanning connectivity and
                                  spanning laceability of hypercube-like
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--229
              Jian-Liang Wu and   
              Jian-Feng Hou and   
                   Gui-Zhen Liu   The linear arboricity of planar graphs
                                  with no short cycles . . . . . . . . . . 230--233
                   Cheng He and   
                  Yixun Lin and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   Bicriteria scheduling on a batching
                                  machine to minimize maximum lateness and
                                  makespan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--240
              Weiping Shang and   
                Pengjun Wan and   
                Frances Yao and   
                    Xiaodong Hu   Algorithms for minimum $m$-connected
                                  $k$-tuple dominating set problem . . . . 241--247
             Katerina Asdre and   
        Stavros D. Nikolopoulos   NP-completeness results for some
                                  problems on subclasses of bipartite and
                                  chordal graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--259
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
           Elaine M. Eschen and   
                   R. Sritharan   The induced matching and chain subgraph
                                  cover problems for convex bipartite
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--265
    Sylvain Lavallée and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   On a zeta function associated with
                                  automata and codes . . . . . . . . . . . 266--273
         Christian Choffrut and   
        Flavio D'Alessandro and   
             Stefano Varricchio   On the separability of sparse
                                  context-free languages and of bounded
                                  rational relations . . . . . . . . . . . 274--279
              Vincenzo Bonifaci   An adversarial queueing model for online
                                  server routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--287
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                Shih-Cheng Yang   Approximating the selected-internal
                                  Steiner tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--291
                Xinmao Wang and   
                      Yaokun Wu   Minimum light number of lit-only
                                  $\sigma$-game on a tree  . . . . . . . . 292--300
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 382, Number 1, August 28, 2007

       Alessandra Di Pierro and   
               Herbert Wiklicky   Preface: Quantitative aspects of
                                  programming languages  . . . . . . . . . 1--2
          Alessandro Aldini and   
                 Marco Bernardo   Mixing logics and rewards for the
                                  component-oriented specification of
                                  performance measures . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
                 Anne Remke and   
     Boudewijn R. Haverkort and   
                    Lucia Cloth   CSL model checking algorithms for QBDs   24--41
            Rocco De Nicola and   
        Joost-Pieter Katoen and   
              Diego Latella and   
             Michele Loreti and   
                  Mieke Massink   Model checking mobile stochastic logic   42--70
                Osman Hasan and   
                Sofi\`ene Tahar   Formalization of the Standard Uniform
                                  random variable  . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--83
                      Anonymous   Preface: Quantitative aspects of
                                  programming languages  . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 382, Number 2, August 31, 2007

                 Mary Cryan and   
           Martin Farach-Colton   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
             Mihai B\uadoiu and   
               Richard Cole and   
            Erik D. Demaine and   
                    John Iacono   A unified access bound on
                                  comparison-based dynamic dictionaries    86--96
           Saverio Caminiti and   
             Irene Finocchi and   
             Rossella Petreschi   On coding labeled trees  . . . . . . . . 97--108
             Olivier Carton and   
            Chloé Rispal   Complementation of rational sets on
                                  scattered linear orderings of finite
                                  rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--119
             J. Díaz and   
                M. J. Serna and   
                  N. C. Wormald   Bounds on the bisection width for random
                                  $d$-regular graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 120--130
          Claudio Gutierrez and   
           Flavio Gutierrez and   
           Maria-Cecilia Rivara   Complexity of the bisection method . . . 131--138
           Leonid Khachiyan and   
                Endre Boros and   
          Khaled Elbassioni and   
               Vladimir Gurvich   On the dualization of hypergraphs with
                                  bounded edge-intersections and other
                                  related classes of hypergraphs . . . . . 139--150
                 Kirk Pruhs and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Approximation schemes for a class of
                                  subset selection problems  . . . . . . . 151--156
                        Ke Yang   On the (im)possibility of
                                  non-interactive correlation distillation 157--166

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 382, Number 3, September 6, 2007

             Shai Ben-David and   
                   JohnCase and   
                Thomas Zeugmann   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--169
                Eric Martin and   
                Arun Sharma and   
                  Frank Stephan   On the data consumption benefits of
                                  accepting increased uncertainty  . . . . 170--182
Jérôme Besombes and   
               Jean-Yves Marion   Learning tree languages from positive
                                  examples and membership queries  . . . . 183--197
            Robert H. Sloan and   
Balázs Szörényi and   
       György Turán   Revising threshold functions . . . . . . 198--208
             Andrei Bulatov and   
                 Hubie Chen and   
           Víctor Dalmau   Learning intersection-closed classes
                                  with signatures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220
          Nicol\`o Cesa-Bianchi   Applications of regularized least
                                  squares to pattern classification  . . . 221--231
          Amiran Ambroladze and   
Emilio Parrado-Hernández and   
              John Shawe-Taylor   Complexity of pattern classes and the
                                  Lipschitz property . . . . . . . . . . . 232--246
              Marcus Hutter and   
                 Andrej Muchnik   On semimeasures predicting Martin-Löf
                                  random sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--261
              Hans Ulrich Simon   On the complexity of working set
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--279


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 383, Number 1, September 12, 2007

    Rastislav Královi\vc   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                      Anonymous   Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
          Bogdan S. Chlebus and   
             Mariusz A. Rokicki   Centralized asynchronous broadcast in
                                  radio networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
           Aleksej Di Salvo and   
                 Guido Proietti   Swapping a failing edge of a shortest
                                  paths tree by minimizing the average
                                  stretch factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
            Yon Dourisboure and   
           Feodor F. Dragan and   
             Cyril Gavoille and   
                     Chenyu Yan   Spanners for bounded tree-length graphs  34--44
         Leszek G\kasieniec and   
               Igor Potapov and   
                        Qin Xin   Time efficient centralized gossiping in
                                  radio networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58
          Chryssis Georgiou and   
            Peter M. Musial and   
        Alexander A. Shvartsman   Long-lived Rambo: Trading knowledge for
                                  communication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--85
         Flaminia L. Luccio and   
                  Jop F. Sibeyn   Feedback vertex sets in mesh-based
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--101
            Rachel Matichin and   
                    David Peleg   Approximation algorithm for hotlink
                                  assignment in the greedy model . . . . . 102--110
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 383, Number 2--3, September 18, 2007

                Mark Burgin and   
             Cristian S. Calude   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
              Chris Pollett and   
                  Norman Danner   Circuit principles and weak pigeonhole
                                  variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--131
                James M. Calvin   A lower bound on complexity of
                                  optimization on the Wiener space . . . . 132--139
               Arto Salomaa and   
                Kai Salomaa and   
                       Sheng Yu   State complexity of combined operations  140--152
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
                   Mayur Thakur   Query-monotonic Turing reductions  . . . 153--186
                 Ludwig Staiger   The Kolmogorov complexity of infinite
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--199
                Eugene Eberbach   The \$-calculus process algebra for
                                  problem solving: a paradigmatic shift in
                                  handling hard computational problems . . 200--243
                    Mark Burgin   Algorithmic complexity as a criterion of
                                  unsolvability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--259
       Ji\vrí Wiedermann   Autopoietic automata: Complexity issues
                                  in offspring-producing evolving
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--269
                 Kevin T. Kelly   Ockham's razor, empirical complexity,
                                  and truth-finding efficiency . . . . . . 270--289


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 384, Number 1, September 24, 2007

               Barry Cooper and   
                    Angsheng Li   Preface: Theory and applications of
                                  models of computation  . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   Jan Arpe and   
          Rüdiger Reischuk   Learning juntas in the presence of noise 2--21
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
                Vinay Choudhary   Valiant's Holant Theorem and matchgate
                                  tensors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--32
                  Marcus Hutter   On universal prediction and Bayesian
                                  confirmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
                Sanjay Jain and   
              Jochen Nessel and   
                  Frank Stephan   Invertible classes . . . . . . . . . . . 49--65
           Lisa Hellerstein and   
              Rocco A. Servedio   On PAC learning algorithms for rich
                                  Boolean function classes . . . . . . . . 66--76
             Andrej Muchnik and   
             Alexander Shen and   
            Mikhail Ustinov and   
       Nikolai Vereshchagin and   
                 Michael Vyugin   Non-reducible descriptions for
                                  conditional Kolmogorov complexity  . . . 77--86
                   Xiaoming Sun   Block sensitivity of weakly symmetric
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--91
                     Xuehou Tan   A linear-time $2$-approximation
                                  algorithm for the watchman route problem
                                  for simple polygons  . . . . . . . . . . 92--103
              Alasdair Urquhart   Width versus size in resolution proofs   104--110
                 Mingji Xia and   
                 Peng Zhang and   
                     Wenbo Zhao   Computational complexity of counting
                                  problems on 3-regular planar graphs  . . 111--125
                     Peng Zhang   A new approximation algorithm for the
                                  $k$-facility location problem  . . . . . 126--135
                      Anonymous   Preface: Theory and applications of
                                  models of computation  . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 384, Number 2--3, October 1, 2007

               Andrzej Pelc and   
                David Peleg and   
                  Michel Raynal   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138
        Jean-Claude Bermond and   
              Laurent Braud and   
                  David Coudert   Traffic grooming on the path . . . . . . 139--151
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
         Aleksei V. Fishkin and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
                Evi Papaioannou   A tight bound for online colouring of
                                  disk graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--160
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
            Miriam Di Ianni and   
             Massimo Lauria and   
               Angelo Monti and   
             Gianluca Rossi and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   On the bounded-hop MST problem on random
                                  Euclidean instances  . . . . . . . . . . 161--167
               Yefim Dinitz and   
                   Noam Solomon   Two absolute bounds for distributed bit
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--183
          Markus Hinkelmann and   
                 Andreas Jakoby   Communications in unknown networks:
                                  Preserving the secret of topology  . . . 184--200
               Ralf Klasing and   
           Euripides Markou and   
              Tomasz Radzik and   
               Fabiano Sarracco   Hardness and approximation results for
                                  Black Hole Search in arbitrary networks  201--221
              Giuseppe Prencipe   Impossibility of gathering by a set of
                                  autonomous mobile robots . . . . . . . . 222--231
             Nicola Santoro and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Agreement in synchronous networks with
                                  ubiquitous faults  . . . . . . . . . . . 232--249
           Mordechai Shalom and   
                    Shmuel Zaks   Minimization of the number of ADMs in
                                  SONET rings with maximum throughput with
                                  implications to the traffic grooming
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--262
                   Rui Wang and   
              Francis C. M. Lau   Optimal gossiping in square $2$D meshes  263--286


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 385, Number 1--3, October 15, 2007

                Xueliang Li and   
                  Xiaoyan Zhang   On the minimum monochromatic or
                                  multicolored subgraph partition problems 1--10
            Y. André and   
                A. C. Caron and   
              D. Debarbieux and   
                    Y. Roos and   
                       S. Tison   Path constraints in semistructured data  11--33
               Shantanu Das and   
            Paola Flocchini and   
                Shay Kutten and   
                Amiya Nayak and   
                 Nicola Santoro   Map construction of unknown graphs by
                                  multiple agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--48
                 My T. Thai and   
                 Ning Zhang and   
                Ravi Tiwari and   
                    Xiaochun Xu   On approximation algorithms of
                                  $k$-connected $m$-dominating sets in
                                  disk graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
              Hajo Broersma and   
                    Xueliang Li   On the complexity of dominating set
                                  problems related to the minimum all-ones
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--70
                Weifan Wang and   
                   Yongzhu Chen   A sufficient condition for a planar
                                  graph to be class 1  . . . . . . . . . . 71--77
            Giulia Galbiati and   
             Francesco Maffioli   Approximation algorithms for maximum cut
                                  with limited unbalance . . . . . . . . . 78--87
              Ming Yu Hsieh and   
                  Shi-Chun Tsai   On the fairness and complexity of
                                  generalized $k$-in-a-row games . . . . . 88--100
                 Maleq Khan and   
          Gopal Pandurangan and   
               V. S. Anil Kumar   A simple randomized scheme for
                                  constructing low-weight $k$-connected
                                  spanning subgraphs with applications to
                                  distributed algorithms . . . . . . . . . 101--114
                   V. Yu. Popov   Multiple genome rearrangement by swaps
                                  and by element duplications  . . . . . . 115--126
              Joong Chae Na and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Alphabet-independent linear-time
                                  construction of compressed suffix arrays
                                  using $o(n \log n)$-bit working space    127--136
                   Arturo Carpi   On Dejean's conjecture over large
                                  alphabets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--151
                C. Epifanio and   
                A. Gabriele and   
                 F. Mignosi and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                   M. Sciortino   Languages with mismatches  . . . . . . . 152--166
                   A. Pavan and   
             Alan L. Selman and   
             Samik Sengupta and   
            N. V. Vinodchandran   Polylogarithmic-round interactive proofs
                                  for coNP collapse the exponential
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--178
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
              Nathan D. Wetzler   Partial words and the critical
                                  factorization theorem revisited  . . . . 179--192
     Verónica Becher and   
               Serge Grigorieff   Random reals \`a la Chaitin with or
                                  without prefix-freeness  . . . . . . . . 193--201
        André Berger and   
            Takuro Fukunaga and   
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
                    Ojas Parekh   Approximability of the capacitated
                                  $b$-edge dominating set problem  . . . . 202--213
               Nicolas Bedaride   Classification of rotations on the torus
                                  $\mathcal{T}^2$  . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--225
             Dieter Kratsch and   
               Mathieu Liedloff   An exact algorithm for the minimum
                                  dominating clique problem  . . . . . . . 226--240
             Guillaume Blin and   
           Guillaume Fertin and   
       Stéphane Vialette   Extracting constrained 2-interval
                                  subsets in 2-interval sets . . . . . . . 241--263
    Francesco M. Malvestuto and   
              Mauro Mezzini and   
               Marina Moscarini   An analytical approach to the inference
                                  of summary data of additive type . . . . 264--285
                  Jywe-Fei Fang   The bipanconnectivity and
                                  $m$-panconnectivity of the folded
                                  hypercube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--300
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 386, Number 1--2, October 28, 2007

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
              Chris Barrett and   
          Harry B. Hunt III and   
          Madhav V. Marathe and   
                 S. S. Ravi and   
      Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and   
         Richard E. Stearns and   
                   Mayur Thakur   Predecessor existence problems for
                                  finite discrete dynamical systems  . . . 3--37
                     Daowen Qiu   Automata theory based on quantum logic:
                                  Reversibilities and pushdown automata    38--56
             Andrew Carnell and   
              Daniel Richardson   Parallel computation in spiking neural
                                  nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--72
              Thomas Jansen and   
                   Ingo Wegener   A comparison of simulated annealing with
                                  a simple evolutionary algorithm on
                                  pseudo-boolean functions of unitation    73--93
                 W. Benfold and   
                  J. Hallam and   
         A. Prügel-Bennett   Optimal parameters for search using a
                                  barrier tree Markov model  . . . . . . . 94--113
                  Tobias Storch   Finding large cliques in sparse
                                  semi-random graphs by simple randomized
                                  search heuristics  . . . . . . . . . . . 114--131
                 Remco Loos and   
              Mitsunori Ogihara   Complexity theory for splicing systems   132--150
                  Yuan Feng and   
                Runyao Duan and   
               Zhengfeng Ji and   
                 Mingsheng Ying   Proof rules for the correctness of
                                  quantum programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--166
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 386, Number 3, November 1, 2007

           Jos C. M. Baeten and   
            Iain C. C. Phillips   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
      Sibylle Fröschle and   
               S\lawomir Lasota   Causality versus true-concurrency  . . . 169--187
             Luca de Alfaro and   
        Thomas A. Henzinger and   
                 Orna Kupferman   Concurrent reachability games  . . . . . 188--217
             D. Cacciagrano and   
               F. Corradini and   
                 C. Palamidessi   Separation of synchronous and
                                  asynchronous communication via testing   218--235
    Sébastien Briais and   
                   Uwe Nestmann   Open bisimulation, revisited . . . . . . 236--271


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 387, Number 1, November 6, 2007

          Hans Ulrich Simon and   
                  Etsuji Tomita   Guest editors' foreword  . . . . . . . . 1--3
            Kazuho Watanabe and   
                 Sumio Watanabe   Stochastic complexity for mixture of
                                  exponential families in generalized
                                  variational Bayes  . . . . . . . . . . . 4--17
                Nick Palmer and   
               Paul W. Goldberg   PAC-learnability of probabilistic
                                  deterministic finite state automata in
                                  terms of variation distance  . . . . . . 18--31
               Rotem Bennet and   
               Nader H. Bshouty   Learning attribute-efficiently with
                                  corrupt oracles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--50
                Sanjay Jain and   
              Steffen Lange and   
                  Sandra Zilles   A general comparison of language
                                  learning from examples and from queries  51--66
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Efim Kinber   Learning multiple languages in groups    67--76
                  Vladimir Vovk   Non-asymptotic calibration and
                                  resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 387, Number 2, November 12, 2007

                 Hing Leung and   
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
              Marco Almeida and   
              Nelma Moreira and   
            Rogério Reis   Enumeration and generation with a string
                                  automata representation  . . . . . . . . 93--102
          Franziska Biegler and   
         Michael J. Burrell and   
                     Mark Daley   Regulated RNA rewriting: Modelling RNA
                                  editing with guided insertion  . . . . . 103--112
          Franziska Biegler and   
              Ian McQuillan and   
                    Kai Salomaa   An infinite hierarchy induced by depth
                                  synchronization  . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124
              Brendan Cordy and   
                    Kai Salomaa   On the existence of regular
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--135
         Jürgen Dassow and   
                  Bianca Truthe   On the number of components for some
                                  parallel communicating grammar systems   136--146
         Michael Domaratzki and   
                    Kai Salomaa   Transition complexity of language
                                  operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--154
             Hermann Gruber and   
                  Markus Holzer   On the average state and transition
                                  complexity of finite languages . . . . . 155--166
             Hermann Gruber and   
              Markus Holzer and   
                  Martin Kutrib   The size of Higman--Haines sets  . . . . 167--176
           Carlo Mereghetti and   
                Beatrice Palano   Quantum automata for some multiperiodic
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--186
        Frank Nießner and   
           Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche   A complete characterization of
                                  deterministic regular liveness
                                  properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--195

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 387, Number 3, November 22, 2007

            Paolo Ferragina and   
           Giovanni Manzini and   
               S. Muthukrishnan   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
                  Peter Fenwick   Burrows--Wheeler compression: Principles
                                  and reflections  . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--219
                Haim Kaplan and   
                Shir Landau and   
                    Elad Verbin   A simpler analysis of
                                  Burrows--Wheeler-based compression . . . 220--235
               R. Giancarlo and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                   M. Sciortino   From first principles to the Burrows and
                                  Wheeler transform and beyond, via
                                  combinatorial optimization . . . . . . . 236--248
      Juha Kärkkäinen   Fast BWT in small space by blockwise
                                  suffix sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--257
          N. Jesper Larsson and   
              Kunihiko Sadakane   Faster suffix sorting  . . . . . . . . . 258--272
                Binh Dao Vo and   
                  Kiem-Phong Vo   Compressing table data with column
                                  dependency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--283
Jérémy Barbay and   
         Alexander Golynski and   
               J. Ian Munro and   
               S. Srinivasa Rao   Adaptive searching in succinctly encoded
                                  binary relations and tree-structured
                                  documents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--297
                 S. Mantaci and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                  G. Rosone and   
                   M. Sciortino   An extension of the Burrows--Wheeler
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--312
                Ankur Gupta and   
               Wing-Kai Hon and   
                 Rahul Shah and   
           Jeffrey Scott Vitter   Compressed data structures: Dictionaries
                                  and data-aware measures  . . . . . . . . 313--331
          Veli Mäkinen and   
                Gonzalo Navarro   Rank and select revisited and extended   332--347
             Alexander Golynski   Optimal lower bounds for rank and select
                                  indexes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--359


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 388, Number 1--3, December 5, 2007

              Hongliang Lai and   
                    Dexue Zhang   Complete and directed complete
                                  $\Omega$-categories  . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
           Dominique Geniet and   
          Gaëlle Largeteau   WCET free time analysis of hard
                                  real-time systems on multiprocessors: a
                                  regular language-based model . . . . . . 26--52
                   Fausto Spoto   Optimality and condensing of information
                                  flow through linear refinement . . . . . 53--82
          Corina C\u\irstea and   
                 Dirk Pattinson   Modular construction of complete
                                  coalgebraic logics . . . . . . . . . . . 83--108
            Michael Johnson and   
               Robert Rosebrugh   Fibrations and universal view
                                  updatability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
Ji\vrí Adámek and   
              Stefan Milius and   
          Ji\vrí Velebil   Algebras with parametrized iterativity   130--151
                L. Birkedal and   
     R. E. Mògelberg and   
                 R. L. Petersen   Domain-theoretical models of parametric
                                  polymorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--172
              Andrew R. Plummer   S4 enriched multimodal categorial
                                  grammars are context-free  . . . . . . . 173--180
          Krishnendu Chatterjee   Concurrent games with tail objectives    181--198
                Jan Komenda and   
            Jan H. van Schuppen   Control of discrete-event systems with
                                  modular or distributed structure . . . . 199--226
                 Byron Cook and   
            Daniel Kroening and   
              Natasha Sharygina   Verification of Boolean programs with
                                  unbounded thread creation  . . . . . . . 227--242
              Mark Schaefer and   
                  Walter Vogler   Component refinement and CSC-solving for
                                  STG decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . 243--266
     Maria Grazia Vigliotti and   
              Iain Phillips and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Tutorial on separation results in
                                  process calculi via leader election
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--289
     Janis Voigtländer and   
                Patricia Johann   Selective strictness and parametricity
                                  in structural operational semantics,
                                  inequationally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--318
                Alban Ponse and   
          Mark B. van der Zwaag   Belnap's logic and conditional
                                  composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--336
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 389, Number 1--2, December 10, 2007

            Ramtin Khosravi and   
                Mohammad Ghodsi   Query-point visibility constrained
                                  shortest paths in simple polygons  . . . 1--11
              Julien Bernat and   
Zuzana Masáková and   
         Edita Pelantová   On a class of infinite words with affine
                                  factor complexity  . . . . . . . . . . . 12--25
               James Aspnes and   
            Joan Feigenbaum and   
       Aleksandr Yampolskiy and   
                    Sheng Zhong   Towards a theory of data entanglement    26--43
                Ilan Gronau and   
                   Shlomo Moran   On the hardness of inferring phylogenies
                                  from triplet-dissimilarities . . . . . . 44--55
            Tomasz Jurdzi\'nski   On complexity of grammars related to the
                                  safety problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--72
           Alexander Meduna and   
           Ji\vrí Techet   Canonical scattered context generators
                                  of sentences with their parses . . . . . 73--81
                 Minh Ha Le and   
              Thi Ha Duong Phan   Strict partitions and discrete dynamical
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--90
         Caterina De Simone and   
                 Anna Galluccio   Edge-colouring of regular graphs of
                                  large degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--99
                 Javier Herranz   Identity-based ring signatures from RSA  100--117
                         Bo Tan   Mirror substitutions and palindromic
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--124
              Dimitrios Michail   Reducing rank-maximal to maximum weight
                                  matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--132
Fábio Viduani Martinez and   
 José Coelho de Pina and   
             José Soares   Algorithms for terminal Steiner trees    133--142
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
               Wenqiang Dai and   
                Naoki Katoh and   
                  Makoto Ohsaki   Triangulating a convex polygon with
                                  fewer number of non-standard bars  . . . 143--151
                 Oddvar Kloster   A solution to the Angel Problem  . . . . 152--161
            Ryan C. Harkins and   
              John M. Hitchcock   Upward separations and weaker hypotheses
                                  in resource-bounded measure  . . . . . . 162--171
              Pascal Koiran and   
                Sylvain Perifel   The complexity of two problems on
                                  arithmetic circuits  . . . . . . . . . . 172--181
              Hsiao-Fei Liu and   
                   Kun-Mao Chao   A tight analysis of the
                                  Katriel--Bodlaender algorithm for online
                                  topological ordering . . . . . . . . . . 182--189
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Efim Kinber   Learning languages from positive data
                                  and a limited number of short
                                  counterexamples  . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--218
             V. E. Alekseev and   
                  R. Boliac and   
           D. V. Korobitsyn and   
                    V. V. Lozin   NP-hard graph problems and boundary
                                  classes of graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 219--236
                Vesa Halava and   
                 Tero Harju and   
                Tomi Kärki   Relational codes of words  . . . . . . . 237--249
                   Rui Wang and   
          Francis C. M. Lau and   
                    Yan Yan Liu   On the hardness of minimizing space for
                                  all-shortest-path interval routing
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--264
               Florin Manea and   
                Robert Merca\cs   Freeness of partial words  . . . . . . . 265--277
                Dirk Strothmann   The affix array data structure and its
                                  applications to RNA secondary structure
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--294
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
        Chính T. Ho\`ang   On clique separators, nearly chordal
                                  graphs, and the Maximum Weight Stable
                                  Set Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--306
                 Yo-Sub Han and   
                 Yajun Wang and   
                    Derick Wood   Prefix-free regular languages and
                                  pattern matching . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--317
                    Yossi Moshe   On the subword complexity of Thue--Morse
                                  polynomial extractions . . . . . . . . . 318--329
                Van Bang Le and   
             Bert Randerath and   
               Ingo Schiermeyer   On the complexity of 4-coloring graphs
                                  without long induced paths . . . . . . . 330--335
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 389, Number 3, December 15, 2007

            Donald Sannella and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   Semantic and logical foundations of
                                  global computing: Papers from the EU-FET
                                  global computing initiative (2001--2005) 337--340
            Alexander Ahern and   
                 Nobuko Yoshida   Formalising Java RMI with explicit code
                                  mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--410
             David Aspinall and   
           Lennart Beringer and   
             Martin Hofmann and   
        Hans-Wolfgang Loidl and   
             Alberto Momigliano   A program logic for resources  . . . . . 411--445
                  P. Baldan and   
               A. Bracciali and   
                       R. Bruni   A semantic framework for open processes  446--483
    Sébastien Briais and   
                   Uwe Nestmann   A formal semantics for protocol
                                  narrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--511
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   A framework for analyzing probabilistic
                                  protocols and its application to the
                                  Partial Secrets Exchange . . . . . . . . 512--527
                Karl Krukow and   
                   Andrew Twigg   The complexity of fixed point models of
                                  trust in distributed networks  . . . . . 528--549


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 390, Number 1, January 22, 2008

             Eugene Asarinp and   
                Gordon Pace and   
          Gerardo Schneider and   
                  Sergio Yovine   Algorithmic analysis of polygonal hybrid
                                  systems, Part II: Phase portrait and
                                  tools  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
               Ralf Klasing and   
           Euripides Markou and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Gathering asynchronous oblivious mobile
                                  robots in a ring . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
         Alberto Apostolico and   
               Laxmi Parida and   
                Simona E. Rombo   Motif patterns in $2$D . . . . . . . . . 40--55
              Victor Chepoi and   
              Karim Nouioua and   
                   Yann Vax\`es   A rounding algorithm for approximating
                                  minimum Manhattan networks . . . . . . . 56--69
                 Jung-Heum Park   Panconnectivity and edge-pancyclicity of
                                  faulty recursive circulant G . . . . . . 70--80
                 Ehab Morsy and   
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   An improved approximation algorithm for
                                  capacitated multicast routings in
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91
                Liesbeth De Mol   Tag systems and Collatz-like functions   92--101
            Adrian Atanasiu and   
              Radu Atanasiu and   
                      Ion Petre   Parikh matrices and amiable words  . . . 102--109
              Yongqiang Shi and   
                       Deshi Ye   Online bin packing with arbitrary
                                  release times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--119
               Yongxi Cheng and   
                   Ker-I Ko and   
                       Weili Wu   On the complexity of non-unique probe
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--125
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 390, Number 2--3, January 28, 2008

              Vladimiro Sassone   Foundations of Software Science and
                                  Computational Structures: Selected
                                  papers from FOSSACS 2005 . . . . . . . . 127--128
                 Samy Abbes and   
              Albert Benveniste   True-concurrency probabilistic models:
                                  Markov nets and a law of large numbers   129--170
               Alan Jeffrey and   
                  Julian Rathke   Full abstraction for polymorphic
                                  $\pi$-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--196
      Kim Guldstrand Larsen and   
          Jacob Illum Rasmussen   Optimal reachability for multi-priced
                                  timed automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--213
        Andrzej S. Murawski and   
               Igor Walukiewicz   Third-order Idealized Algol with
                                  iteration is decidable . . . . . . . . . 214--229
             Lutz Schröder   Expressivity of coalgebraic modal logic:
                                  The limits and beyond  . . . . . . . . . 230--247
                      Ian Stark   Free-algebra models for the
                                  $\pi$-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--270


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 391, Number 1--2, February 4, 2008

Valérie Berthé and   
             Pierre Lecomte and   
                    Michel Rigo   Preface to the special issue dedicated
                                  to combinatorics, automata and number
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                  Paul Bell and   
                   Igor Potapov   On undecidability bounds for matrix
                                  decision problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13
                 Elena Czeizler   Multiple constraints on three and four
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--19
                      F. Durand   Cobham--Semenov theorem and
                                  $\mathbb{N}^d$-subshifts . . . . . . . . 20--38
               D. Frettlöh   Self-dual tilings with respect to
                                  star-duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
                       Amy Glen   A characterization of fine words over a
                                  finite alphabet  . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--60
                   Juha Honkala   Cancellation and periodicity properties
                                  of iterated morphisms  . . . . . . . . . 61--64
            Christoph Koutschan   Regular languages and their generating
                                  functions: The inverse problem . . . . . 65--74
                   S. Brlek and   
                 G. Labelle and   
                     A. Lacasse   Shuffle operations on discrete paths . . 75--89
             Jean Néraud   Completing circular codes in regular
                                  submonoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--98
                   I. V. Petrov   An algorithm for recognition of
                                  $n$-collapsing words . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
               Guy Louchard and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Generalized approximate counting
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--125
                 Jui-Yi Kao and   
            Narad Rampersad and   
            Jeffrey Shallit and   
                   Manuel Silva   Words avoiding repetitions in arithmetic
                                  progressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--137
               B. Schratzberger   A conversion algorithm based on the
                                  technique of singularization . . . . . . 138--149
            Robert Brignall and   
               Nik Ru\vskuc and   
                 Vincent Vatter   Simple permutations: Decidability and
                                  unavoidable substructures  . . . . . . . 150--163
                  Julien Bernat   Symmetrized $\beta$-integers . . . . . . 164--177
             S. A. Puzynina and   
            S. V. Avgustinovich   On periodicity of two-dimensional words  178--187
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 391, Number 3, February 14, 2008

                 Corrado Priami   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
                  Luca Cardelli   On process rate semantics  . . . . . . . 190--215
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
               Radu Mardare and   
                  Sean Sedwards   A multiset-based model of synchronizing
                                  agents: Computability and robustness . . 216--238
                 John Heath and   
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
               David Parker and   
              Oksana Tymchyshyn   Probabilistic model checking of complex
                                  biological pathways  . . . . . . . . . . 239--257
              Heike Siebert and   
             Alexander Bockmayr   Temporal constraints in the logical
                                  analysis of regulatory networks  . . . . 258--275
            Hila Amir-Kroll and   
               Avital Sadot and   
              Irun R. Cohen and   
                    David Harel   GemCell: a generic platform for modeling
                                  multi-cellular biological systems  . . . 276--290
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--v


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 392, Number 1--3, February 28, 2008

        Laurent Busé and   
             Mohamed Elkadi and   
               Bernard Mourrain   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
           André Galligo   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
                S. Biasotti and   
                  D. Giorgi and   
               M. Spagnuolo and   
                  B. Falcidieno   Reeb graphs for shape analysis and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
                   David A. Cox   The moving curve ideal and the Rees
                                  algebra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
               Xavier Dahan and   
                    Xin Jin and   
           Marc Moreno Maza and   
             Éric Schost   Change of order for regular chains in
                                  positive dimension . . . . . . . . . . . 37--65
                    James Damon   Swept regions and surfaces: Modeling and
                                  volumetric properties  . . . . . . . . . 66--91
                   D. Haviv and   
                      Y. Yomdin   Uniform approximation of near-singular
                                  surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--100
         Vladimir Petrov Kostov   On multiplier sequences  . . . . . . . . 101--112
             Henri Lombardi and   
           Claude Quitté   Seminormal rings (following Thierry
                                  Coquand) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--127
                 Carlos Simpson   Algebraic cycles from a computational
                                  point of view  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--140
      Zbyn\vek \vSír and   
              Jens Gravesen and   
              Bert Jüttler   Curves and surfaces represented by
                                  polynomial support functions . . . . . . 141--157
        Elias P. Tsigaridas and   
              Ioannis Z. Emiris   On the complexity of real root isolation
                                  using continued fractions  . . . . . . . 158--173
                   Ihsen Yengui   Making the use of maximal ideals
                                  constructive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--178
                      Anonymous   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 393, Number 1--3, March 20, 2008

               Tian-Ming Bu and   
                      Qi Qi and   
                  Aries Wei Sun   Unconditional competitive auctions with
                                  copy and budget constraints  . . . . . . 1--13
              Wolfgang Bein and   
      José R. Correa and   
                        Xin Han   A fast asymptotic approximation scheme
                                  for bin packing with rejection . . . . . 14--22
         Michelangelo Bucci and   
               Aldo de Luca and   
         Alessandro De Luca and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   On different generalizations of
                                  episturmian words  . . . . . . . . . . . 23--36
        Alessandro Ferrante and   
                  Mimmo Parente   Mixed Nash equilibria in selfish routing
                                  problems with dynamic constraints  . . . 37--53
               Piotr Berman and   
               Bhaskar DasGupta   Approximating the online set multicover
                                  problems via randomized winnowing  . . . 54--71
         Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan and   
               Michel Habib and   
                Christophe Paul   Competitive graph searches . . . . . . . 72--80
                     Hao Li and   
               Huifang Miao and   
                     Li Liu and   
                    Lian Li and   
                   Heping Zhang   Energy conservation in wireless sensor
                                  networks and connectivity of graphs  . . 81--89
              Tomoko Suzuki and   
              Taisuke Izumi and   
           Fukuhito Ooshita and   
         Hirotsugu Kakugawa and   
            Toshimitsu Masuzawa   Move-optimal gossiping among mobile
                                  agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--101
                  Lingfa Lu and   
              Jinjiang Yuan and   
                     Liqi Zhang   Single machine scheduling with release
                                  dates and job delivery to minimize the
                                  makespan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--108
                 Peter Buchholz   Bisimulation relations for weighted
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123
                   Z. Nedev and   
               S. Muthukrishnan   The Magnus--Derek game . . . . . . . . . 124--132
          Hiroshi Nagamochi and   
               Takaharu Ohnishi   Approximating a vehicle scheduling
                                  problem with time windows and handling
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146
         Symeon Bozapalidis and   
            Antonios Kalampakas   Graph automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
                   S. Brlek and   
                   D. Jamet and   
                      G. Paquin   Smooth words on 2-letter alphabets
                                  having same parity . . . . . . . . . . . 166--181
              Hajo Broersma and   
            Matthew Johnson and   
       Daniël Paulusma and   
                Iain A. Stewart   The computational complexity of the
                                  parallel knock-out problem . . . . . . . 182--195
               Jean Berstel and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   Another proof of Soittola's theorem  . . 196--203
               Wen-Hung Kuo and   
                    Dar-Li Yang   Parallel-machine scheduling with time
                                  dependent processing times . . . . . . . 204--210
           Enrico Angelelli and   
      Maria Grazia Speranza and   
                     Zsolt Tuza   Semi-online scheduling on two uniform
                                  processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--219
        Alessandro Ferrante and   
          Gopal Pandurangan and   
                    Kihong Park   On the hardness of optimization in
                                  power-law graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--230
               Jussi Kujala and   
                   Tapio Elomaa   The cost of offline binary search tree
                                  algorithms and the complexity of the
                                  request sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--239
               E. C. Xavier and   
                 F. K. Miyazawa   The class constrained bin packing
                                  problem with applications to
                                  video-on-demand  . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--259
  Hervé Daudé and   
         Marc Mézard and   
               Thierry Mora and   
              Riccardo Zecchina   Pairs of SAT-assignments in random
                                  Boolean formulæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--279
                    Y. B. Huang   About the number of $C^\infty$-words of
                                  form $\tilde{w} \times w$  . . . . . . . 280--286
                    Ji Tian and   
                   Ruyan Fu and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   A best on-line algorithm for single
                                  machine scheduling with small delivery
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--293
              Michael Segal and   
                    Eli Zeitlin   Computing closest and farthest points
                                  for a query segment  . . . . . . . . . . 294--300
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 394, Number 1--2, March 31, 2008

            Bruno Courcelle and   
      Christian Delhommé   The modular decomposition of countable
                                  graphs. Definition and construction in
                                  monadic second-order logic . . . . . . . 1--38
                       Yu Zhang   Cryptographic logical relations  . . . . 39--63
                       J. Laird   Decidability and syntactic control of
                                  interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--83
                   Toon Calders   Itemset frequency satisfiability:
                                  Complexity and axiomatization  . . . . . 84--111
           Flavio D. Garcia and   
               Peter van Rossum   Sound and complete computational
                                  interpretation of symbolic hashes in the
                                  standard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--133
Mojmír K\vretínský and   
   Vojt\vech \vRehák and   
                 Jan Strej\vcek   Petri nets are less expressive than
                                  state-extended PA  . . . . . . . . . . . 134--140
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 394, Number 3, April 8, 2008

            Arnold Beckmann and   
                Edwin Beggs and   
             Benedikt Löwe   From Gödel to Einstein: Computability
                                  between logic and physics at CiE 2006    141--143
                    Arnon Avron   Constructibility and decidability versus
                                  domain independence and absoluteness . . 144--158
             Paul Cockshott and   
            Lewis Mackenzie and   
                Greg Michaelson   Physical constraints on hypercomputation 159--174
        Willem L. Fouché   Dynamics of a generic Brownian motion:
                                  Recursive aspects  . . . . . . . . . . . 175--186
                 Viv Kendon and   
                Olivier Maloyer   Optimal computation with non-unitary
                                  quantum walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--196
               Peter Koepke and   
                    Ryan Siders   Minimality considerations for ordinal
                                  computers modeling constructibility  . . 197--207
               Benedek Nagy and   
     Sándor Vályi   Interval-valued computations and their
                                  connection with PSPACE . . . . . . . . . 208--222
                Philip D. Welch   Bounding lemmata for non-deterministic
                                  halting times of transfinite Turing
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 395, Number 1, April 17, 2008

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                     Yuriy Brun   Nondeterministic polynomial time
                                  factoring in the tile assembly model . . 3--23
             Miika Langille and   
                      Ion Petre   Sequential vs. parallel complexity in
                                  simple gene assembly . . . . . . . . . . 24--30
                     Yuriy Brun   Solving NP-complete problems in the tile
                                  assembly model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--46
                  Shile Gao and   
                    Kequan Ding   A graphical criterion of planarity for
                                  RNA secondary structures with
                                  pseudoknots in Rivas--Eddy class . . . . 47--56
       Ioannis D. Zaharakis and   
             Achilles D. Kameas   Modeling spiking neural networks . . . . 57--76
            Roberto Barbuti and   
  Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini and   
              Paolo Milazzo and   
                    Simone Tini   Compositional semantics and behavioral
                                  equivalences for $P$ Systems . . . . . . 77--100
                 Kenichi Morita   Reversible computing and cellular
                                  automata --- a survey  . . . . . . . . . 101--131
              Chris Barrett and   
          Harry B. Hunt III and   
          Madhav V. Marathe and   
                 S. S. Ravi and   
      Daniel J. Rosenkrantz and   
         Richard E. Stearns and   
                   Mayur Thakur   Errata for the paper ``Predecessor
                                  existence problems for finite discrete
                                  dynamical systems'' [Theoret. Comput.
                                  Sci. 386 (1--2) (2007) 3--37]  . . . . . 132--133
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 395, Number 2--3, May 1, 2008

         Raffaele Giancarlo and   
                Stefano Lonardi   Foreword: Special issue in honor of the
                                  60th Birthday of Professor Alberto
                                  Apostolico: Work is for people who do
                                  not know how to: SAIL --- String
                                  Algorithms, Information and Learning . . 135--136
               Cinzia Pizzi and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Fast profile matching algorithms --- a
                                  survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--157
               Matteo Comin and   
                   Laxmi Parida   Detection of subtle variations as
                                  consensus motifs . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--170
            Claire Lemaitre and   
             Marie-France Sagot   A small trip in the untranquil world of
                                  genomes: a survey on the detection and
                                  analysis of genome rearrangement
                                  breakpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--192
           Max A. Alekseyev and   
               Pavel A. Pevzner   Multi-break rearrangements and
                                  chromosomal evolution  . . . . . . . . . 193--202
           Philippe Jacquet and   
            Gadiel Seroussi and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   On the entropy of a hidden Markov
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--219
 Klaus-Bernd Schürmann and   
                     Jens Stoye   Counting suffix arrays and strings . . . 220--234
          Mark-Jan Nederhof and   
                  Giorgio Satta   Computation of distances for regular and
                                  context-free probabilistic languages . . 235--254
       Costas S. Iliopoulos and   
                M. Sohel Rahman   Algorithms for computing variants of the
                                  longest common subsequence problem . . . 255--267
               Jin Wook Kim and   
               Amihood Amir and   
              Gad M. Landau and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Computing similarity of run-length
                                  encoded strings with affine gap penalty  268--282
          Maxime Crochemore and   
             Danny Hermelin and   
              Gad M. Landau and   
                Dror Rawitz and   
       Stéphane Vialette   Approximating the 2-interval pattern
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--297
               Amihood Amir and   
            Eran Chencinski and   
          Costas Iliopoulos and   
            Tsvi Kopelowitz and   
                      Hui Zhang   Property matching and weighted matching  298--310


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 396, Number 1--3, May 10, 2008

                WenBin Chen and   
              Jiangtao Meng and   
                    Dengpan Yin   An improved lower bound for
                                  approximating minimum GCD multiplier in
                                  $\ell_\infty$ norm (GCDM$_\infty$) . . . 1--9
                 L. Salinas and   
                       E. Goles   Covering by squares  . . . . . . . . . . 10--27
              Longcheng Liu and   
                       Enyu Yao   Inverse min--max spanning tree problem
                                  under the Weighted sum-type Hamming
                                  distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--34
             W. M. B. Dukes and   
             M. F. Flanagan and   
                 T. Mansour and   
                  V. Vajnovszki   Combinatorial Gray codes for classes of
                                  pattern avoiding permutations  . . . . . 35--49
            Min-Zheng Shieh and   
                  Shi-Chun Tsai   Jug measuring: Algorithms and complexity 50--62
            Bruno Escoffier and   
     Jérôme Monnot   A better differential approximation
                                  ratio for symmetric TSP  . . . . . . . . 63--70
            Miguel Couceiro and   
                 Maurice Pouzet   On a quasi-ordering on Boolean functions 71--87
              Trevor Fenner and   
                Mark Levene and   
                  George Loizou   Modelling the navigation potential of a
                                  web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--96
       Xavier Défago and   
                  Samia Souissi   Non-uniform circle formation algorithm
                                  for oblivious mobile robots with
                                  convergence toward uniformity  . . . . . 97--112
              Paul E. Dunne and   
                Yann Chevaleyre   The complexity of deciding reachability
                                  properties of distributed negotiation
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--144
                 Raphael Yuster   All-pairs disjoint paths from a common
                                  ancestor in $\tilde{O}(n^\omega)$ time   145--150
                Xueliang Li and   
                     Wenli Zhou   The 2nd-order conditional 3-coloring of
                                  claw-free graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
                Sandy Irani and   
                    Vitus Leung   Probabilistic analysis for scheduling
                                  with conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--179
                  Chen Wang and   
              Myung-Ah Park and   
              James Willson and   
               Yongxi Cheng and   
              Andras Farago and   
                       Weili Wu   On approximate optimal dual power
                                  assignment for biconnectivity and
                                  edge-biconnectivity  . . . . . . . . . . 180--190
              Ying-You Chen and   
               Dyi-Rong Duh and   
                Tai-Ling Ye and   
                  Jung-Sheng Fu   Weak-vertex-pancyclicity of $(n,k)$-star
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
          Regant Y. S. Hung and   
                     H. F. Ting   Competitive analysis of
                                  most-request-first for scheduling
                                  broadcasts with start-up delay . . . . . 200--211
          David B. Chandler and   
            Maw-Shang Chang and   
                  Ton Kloks and   
                 Jiping Liu and   
                Sheng-Lung Peng   Partitioned probe comparability graphs   212--222
                 Joan Boyar and   
            René Peralta   Tight bounds for the multiplicative
                                  complexity of symmetric functions  . . . 223--246
                   E. Goles and   
                     L. Salinas   Comparison between parallel and serial
                                  dynamics of Boolean networks . . . . . . 247--253
                James D. Currie   Palindrome positions in ternary
                                  square-free words  . . . . . . . . . . . 254--257
                Guizhen Liu and   
                        Ping Li   Paths in circuit graphs of matroids  . . 258--263
                  Lila Kari and   
              Petr Sosík   On the weight of universal insertion
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--270
             Samuel R. Buss and   
                   Jan Hoffmann   The NP-hardness of finding a directed
                                  acyclic graph for regular resolution . . 271--276
                  Gregory Neven   A simple transitive signature scheme for
                                  directed trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
                  Lingfa Lu and   
                 Liqi Zhang and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   The unbounded parallel batch machine
                                  scheduling with release dates and
                                  rejection to minimize makespan . . . . . 283--289
                Young-Soo Myung   On the clique partitioning problem in
                                  weighted interval graphs . . . . . . . . 290--293
                 Oleg Verbitsky   On the obfuscation complexity of planar
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--300
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 397, Number 1--3, May 20, 2008

                  John Case and   
          Takeshi Shinohara and   
            Thomas Zeugmann and   
                  Sandra Zilles   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
            Thomas Zeugmann and   
                  Sandra Zilles   Learning recursive functions: a survey   4--56
                 Gunter Grieser   Reflective inductive inference of
                                  recursive functions  . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
               R. Freivalds and   
                   R. F. Bonner   Quantum inductive inference by finite
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--76
                     Jan Poland   Nonstochastic bandits: Countable
                                  decision set, unbounded costs and
                                  reactive environments  . . . . . . . . . 77--93
               Frank J. Balbach   Measuring teachability using variants of
                                  the teaching dimension . . . . . . . . . 94--113
                Sanjay Jain and   
                Eric Martin and   
                  Frank Stephan   Absolute versus probabilistic
                                  classification in a logical setting  . . 114--128
           M. R. K. Krishna Rao   Some classes of term rewriting systems
                                  inferable from positive data . . . . . . 129--149
                Yen Kaow Ng and   
              Takeshi Shinohara   Developments from enquiries into the
                                  learnability of the pattern languages
                                  from positive data . . . . . . . . . . . 150--165
              Daniel Reidenbach   Discontinuities in pattern inference . . 166--193
              Steffen Lange and   
            Thomas Zeugmann and   
                  Sandra Zilles   Learning indexed families of recursive
                                  languages from positive data: a survey   194--232
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Efim Kinber   Learning and extending sublanguages  . . 233--246
                      Anonymous   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 398, Number 1--3, May 28, 2008

            Stefano Berardi and   
                 Ugo de'Liguoro   Calculi, types and applications: Essays
                                  in honour of M. Coppo, M.
                                  Dezani-Ciancaglini and S. Ronchi Della
                                  Rocca  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
                Henk Barendregt   Towards the range property for the
                                  lambda theory $\mathcal{H}$  . . . . . . 12--15
            Jan Willem Klop and   
        Vincent van Oostrom and   
                 Roel de Vrijer   Lambda calculus with patterns  . . . . . 16--31
               Ugo Dal Lago and   
                 Simone Martini   The weak lambda calculus as a reasonable
                                  machine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--50
                   Luca Paolini   Parametric $\lambda$-theories  . . . . . 51--62
           Gérard Boudol   On strong normalization and type
                                  inference in the intersection type
                                  discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
              Steffen van Bakel   The heart of intersection type
                                  assignment: Normalisation proofs
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--94
               Viviana Bono and   
              Betti Venneri and   
                Lorenzo Bettini   A typed lambda calculus with
                                  intersection types . . . . . . . . . . . 95--113
        Daniel J. Dougherty and   
            Silvia Ghilezan and   
                Pierre Lescanne   Characterizing strong normalization in
                                  the Curien--Herbelin symmetric lambda
                                  calculus: Extending the Coppo--Dezani
                                  heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--128
                   Fabio Alessi   An irregular filter model  . . . . . . . 129--149
      Pietro Di Gianantonio and   
              Furio Honsell and   
                  Marina Lenisa   A type assignment system for game
                                  semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--169
             Mathieu Hoyrup and   
         Arda Kolçak and   
                 Giuseppe Longo   Computability and the morphological
                                  complexity of some dynamics on
                                  continuous domains . . . . . . . . . . . 170--182
              Ines Margaria and   
               Maddalena Zacchi   Access control in mobile ambient
                                  calculi: a comparative view  . . . . . . 183--202
         Adriana Compagnoni and   
             Elsa L. Gunter and   
              Philippe Bidinger   Role-based access control for boxed
                                  ambients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216
          Giuseppe Castagna and   
            Rocco De Nicola and   
                Daniele Varacca   Semantic subtyping for the pi-calculus   217--242
              Luigi Liquori and   
                 Arnaud Spiwack   Extending FeatherTrait Java with
                                  Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--260
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 399, Number 1--2, June 3, 2008

            Paola Flocchini and   
          Leszek A. G\kasieniec   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
              Amotz Bar-Noy and   
          Richard E. Ladner and   
                     Tami Tamir   Optimal delay for media-on-demand with
                                  pre-loading and pre-buffering  . . . . . 3--11
          Lélia Blin and   
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
              Nicolas Nisse and   
                  Sandrine Vial   Distributed chasing of network intruders 12--37
         Tiziana Calamoneri and   
      Andrea E. F. Clementi and   
            Miriam Di Ianni and   
             Massimo Lauria and   
               Angelo Monti and   
             Riccardo Silvestri   Minimum-Energy Broadcast and disk cover
                                  in grid wireless networks  . . . . . . . 38--53
 Jérémie Chalopin   Election and rendezvous with
                                  incomparable labels  . . . . . . . . . . 54--70
               Reuven Cohen and   
                    David Peleg   Local spreading algorithms for
                                  autonomous robot systems . . . . . . . . 71--82
               Bilel Derbel and   
                 Cyril Gavoille   Fast deterministic distributed
                                  algorithms for sparse spanners . . . . . 83--100
              Stefan Dobrev and   
Rastislav Královi\vc and   
  Richard Královi\vc and   
                 Nicola Santoro   On fractional dynamic faults with
                                  thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
              Wayne Goddard and   
      Stephen T. Hedetniemi and   
            David P. Jacobs and   
                Vilmar Trevisan   Distance-$k$ knowledge in
                                  self-stabilizing algorithms  . . . . . . 118--127
                Adrian Kosowski   The maximum edge-disjoint paths problem
                                  in complete graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 128--140
        Dariusz R. Kowalski and   
                Adam Malinowski   How to meet in anonymous network . . . . 141--156
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 399, Number 3, June 6, 2008

             Fedor V. Fomin and   
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   Forewords: Special issue on graph
                                  searching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157
              Brian Alspach and   
                 Danny Dyer and   
               Denis Hanson and   
                    Boting Yang   Time constrained graph searching . . . . 158--168
Frédéric Mazoit and   
                  Nicolas Nisse   Monotonicity of non-deterministic graph
                                  searching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--178
               Volkan Isler and   
                  Nikhil Karnad   The role of information in the
                                  cop-robber game  . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--190
            M. E. Messinger and   
           R. J. Nowakowski and   
                     P. Pra\lat   Cleaning a network with brushes  . . . . 191--205
                Paul Hunter and   
               Stephan Kreutzer   Digraph measures: Kelly decompositions,
                                  games, and orderings . . . . . . . . . . 206--219
          Adrian Dumitrescu and   
              Ichiro Suzuki and   
            Pawe\l \.Zyli\'nski   Offline variants of the ``lion and man''
                                  problem: ---Some problems and techniques
                                  for measuring crowdedness and for safe
                                  path planning--- . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--235
             Fedor V. Fomin and   
          Dimitrios M. Thilikos   An annotated bibliography on guaranteed
                                  graph searching  . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--245


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 400, Number 1--3, June 9, 2008

                 Mathieu Sablik   Directional dynamics for cellular
                                  automata: a sensitivity to initial
                                  condition approach . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
               Achim Blumensath   On the structure of graphs in the Caucal
                                  hierarchy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--45
                 Philippe Moser   Martingale families and dimension in P   46--61
                    Yossi Moshe   On some questions regarding $k$-regular
                                  and $k$-context-free sequences . . . . . 62--69
       Claribet Piña and   
        Carlos Uzcátegui   Reconstruction of a word from a multiset
                                  of its factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--83
            Christine Cheng and   
              Eric McDermid and   
                  Ichiro Suzuki   A unified approach to finding good
                                  stable matchings in the
                                  hospitals/residents setting  . . . . . . 84--99
               Jurijs Kirillovs   Polyomino coloring and complex numbers   100--112
                P. Ambro\'z and   
  Z. Masáková and   
            E. Pelantová   Matrices of $3$-iet preserving morphisms 113--136
                Caixia Jing and   
               Guochun Tang and   
                   Xingsan Qian   Heuristic algorithms for two machine
                                  re-entrant flow shop . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
               Jean Berstel and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   Extension of Brzozowski's derivation
                                  calculus of rational expressions to
                                  series over the free partially
                                  commutative monoids  . . . . . . . . . . 144--158
                    Ojas Parekh   Approximation algorithms for partially
                                  covering with edges  . . . . . . . . . . 159--168
                  Dalia Krieger   On stabilizers of infinite words . . . . 169--181
                John Rhodes and   
                 Pedro V. Silva   Turing machines and bimachines . . . . . 182--224
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein and   
               Michel Coornaert   A generalization of the Curtis--Hedlund
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--229
              Zhendong Shao and   
                    David Zhang   Improved upper bounds on the
                                  $L(2,1)$-labeling of the skew and
                                  converse skew product graphs . . . . . . 230--233
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 401, Number 1--3, July 23, 2008

        Gregory Karagiorgos and   
          Nikolaos M. Missirlis   Convergence of the diffusion method for
                                  weighted torus graphs using Fourier
                                  analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
        Christian J. Michel and   
           Giuseppe Pirillo and   
               Mario A. Pirillo   A relation between trinucleotide
                                  comma-free codes and trinucleotide
                                  circular codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
            Jörg Rothe and   
                 Amitabh Saxena   Enforcing and defying associativity,
                                  commutativity, totality, and strong
                                  noninvertibility for worst-case one-way
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
             David A. Cohen and   
           Martin C. Cooper and   
               Peter G. Jeavons   Generalising submodularity and horn
                                  clauses: Tractable optimization problems
                                  defined by tournament pair
                                  multimorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--51
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                    Ze Feng and   
                 Minming Li and   
                    Frances Yao   Optimizing deletion cost for secure
                                  multicast key management . . . . . . . . 52--61
             Dániel Marx   Complexity of unique list colorability   62--76
                 Hing-Fung Ting   A near optimal scheduler for on-demand
                                  data broadcasts  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84
                  Yumei Huo and   
         Joseph Y.-T. Leung and   
                       Xin Wang   Online scheduling of
                                  equal-processing-time task systems . . . 85--95
             Janina Brenner and   
             Guido Schäfer   Group-strategyproof cost sharing
                                  mechanisms for makespan and other
                                  scheduling problems  . . . . . . . . . . 96--106
         Rodolphe Giroudeau and   
          Jean-Claude Konig and   
       Farida Kamila Moulai and   
    Jérôme Palaysi   Complexity and approximation for
                                  precedence constrained scheduling
                                  problems with large communication delays 107--119
             Eduardo Sany Laber   A randomized competitive algorithm for
                                  evaluating priced AND/OR trees . . . . . 120--130
              Victor Chepoi and   
          Bertrand Estellon and   
                   Yann Vax\`es   Approximation algorithms for forests
                                  augmentation ensuring two disjoint paths
                                  of bounded length  . . . . . . . . . . . 131--143
          Vincenzo Bonifaci and   
               Ugo Di Iorio and   
                    Luigi Laura   The complexity of uniform Nash
                                  equilibria and related regular subgraph
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--152
               Iyad A. Kanj and   
               Luay Nakhleh and   
                 Cuong Than and   
                         Ge Xia   Seeing the trees and their branches in
                                  the network is hard  . . . . . . . . . . 153--164
           Simon J. Puglisi and   
              Jamie Simpson and   
                    W. F. Smyth   How many runs can a string contain?  . . 165--171
              Eitan Bachmat and   
                Tao Kai Lam and   
                    Avner Magen   Analysis of set-up time models: a metric
                                  perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--180
              Chang-Hsiung Tsai   Embedding of meshes in Möbius cubes . . . 181--190
       André Hernich and   
             Nicole Schweikardt   Reversal complexity revisited  . . . . . 191--205
   José Carlos Costa and   
Conceição Nogueira   On bases of identities for the
                                  $\omega$-variety generated by locally
                                  testable semigroups  . . . . . . . . . . 206--216
                  Manuel Kauers   Solving difference equations whose
                                  coefficients are not transcendental  . . 217--227
           Ching-Lueh Chang and   
              Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and   
                      Yen-Wu Ti   The complexity of Tarski's fixed point
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--235
                 David Ilcinkas   Setting port numbers for fast graph
                                  exploration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--242
                 Dietrich Kuske   Schützenberger's theorem on formal power
                                  series follows from Kleene's theorem . . 243--248
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 402, Number 1, July 28, 2008

        Sotiris Nikoletseas and   
                     Jose Rolim   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
           Alan A. Bertossi and   
             Stephan Olariu and   
            Cristina M. Pinotti   Efficient corona training protocols for
                                  sensor networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--15
                J. Cicho\'n and   
             M. Kuty\lowski and   
                      M. Zawada   Adaptive initialization algorithm for ad
                                  hoc radio networks with carrier sensing  16--28
Magnús M. Halldórsson and   
               Takeshi Tokuyama   Minimizing interference of a wireless
                                  ad-hoc network in a plane  . . . . . . . 29--42
              Davide Bil\`o and   
                 Guido Proietti   On the complexity of minimizing
                                  interference in ad-hoc and sensor
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55
        Sotiris Nikoletseas and   
                  Paul Spirakis   Efficient sensor network design for
                                  continuous monitoring of moving objects  56--66
            Paola Flocchini and   
          Giuseppe Prencipe and   
                 Nicola Santoro   Self-deployment of mobile sensors on a
                                  ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--80
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 402, Number 2--3, August 8, 2008

              Ugo Montanari and   
                Donald Sannella   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
              Aslan Askarov and   
               Daniel Hedin and   
               Andrei Sabelfeld   Cryptographically-masked flows . . . . . 82--101
              Roberto Bruni and   
                    Ivan Lanese   Parametric synchronizations in mobile
                                  nominal calculi  . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--119
             Luís Caires   Spatial-behavioral types for concurrency
                                  and resource control in distributed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--141
        Ioannis Caragiannis and   
        Christos Kaklamanis and   
   Panagiotis Kanellopoulos and   
                Evi Papaioannou   Scheduling to maximize participation . . 142--155
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
            Silvia Ghilezan and   
         Jovanka Pantovi\'c and   
                Daniele Varacca   Security types for dynamic web data  . . 156--171
         Reiner Hähnle and   
                   Jing Pan and   
        Philipp Rümmer and   
                  Dennis Walter   Integration of a security type system
                                  into a program logic . . . . . . . . . . 172--189
            Nicolas Hanusse and   
         Dimitris Kavvadias and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
                  Danny Krizanc   Memoryless search algorithms in a
                                  network with faulty advice . . . . . . . 190--198
                    Damien Pous   Using bisimulation proof techniques for
                                  the analysis of distributed abstract
                                  machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--220
            Francesco Silvestri   On the limits of cache-oblivious
                                  rational permutations  . . . . . . . . . 221--233
                Ian Wehrman and   
              David Kitchin and   
            William R. Cook and   
                  Jayadev Misra   A timed semantics of Orc . . . . . . . . 234--248


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 403, Number 1, August 20, 2008

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                Zhiguo Yang and   
                       Daoyi Xu   Global dynamics for non-autonomous
                                  reaction-diffusion neural networks with
                                  time-varying delays  . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
                  J. Timmis and   
                    A. Hone and   
                  T. Stibor and   
                       E. Clark   Theoretical advances in artificial
                                  immune systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--32
           P. A. Borisovsky and   
                  A. V. Eremeev   Comparing evolutionary algorithms to the
                                  $(1+1)$-EA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--41
                  Lvzhou Li and   
                     Daowen Qiu   Determining the equivalence for one-way
                                  quantum finite automata  . . . . . . . . 42--51
      François Fages and   
                Sylvain Soliman   Abstract interpretation and types for
                                  systems biology  . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--70
            Tommaso Toffoli and   
          Silvio Capobianco and   
             Patrizia Mentrasti   When--and how--can a cellular automaton
                                  be rewritten as a lattice gas? . . . . . 71--88
           M. V. Panduranga Rao   Interference automata  . . . . . . . . . 89--103
                   Carsten Witt   Population size versus runtime of a
                                  simple evolutionary algorithm  . . . . . 104--120
       Willem Fouché and   
           Johannes Heidema and   
                 Glyn Jones and   
            Petrus H. Potgieter   Universality and programmability of
                                  quantum computers  . . . . . . . . . . . 121--129
           Faisal Shah Khan and   
                Marek Perkowski   Erratum to: ``Synthesis of multi-qudit
                                  hybrid and $d$-valued quantum logic
                                  circuits by decomposition'' [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. 367 (3) (2006) 336--346]    130--131
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 403, Number 2--3, August 28, 2008

   Jean-François Dufourd   Polyhedra genus theorem and Euler
                                  formula: a hypermap-formalized
                                  intuitionistic proof . . . . . . . . . . 133--159
              Matthias Baaz and   
               Stefan Hetzl and   
          Alexander Leitsch and   
            Clemens Richter and   
                  Hendrik Spohr   CERES: an analysis of Fürstenberg's proof
                                  of the infinity of primes  . . . . . . . 160--175
            Florentin Ipate and   
                  Mike Holcombe   Testing data processing-oriented systems
                                  from stream X-machine models . . . . . . 176--191
                Sanjiang Li and   
                 Mingsheng Ying   Soft constraint abstraction based on
                                  semiring homomorphism  . . . . . . . . . 192--201
           B. Bérard and   
                  F. Cassez and   
                  S. Haddad and   
                    D. Lime and   
                     O. H. Roux   When are Timed Automata weakly timed
                                  bisimilar to Time Petri Nets?  . . . . . 202--220
        Torsten Stüber and   
                   Heiko Vogler   Weighted monadic datalog . . . . . . . . 221--238
       José Meseguer and   
            Miguel Palomino and   
     Narciso Martí-Oliet   Equational abstractions  . . . . . . . . 239--264
                Dan Olteanu and   
             Christoph Koch and   
                Lyublena Antova   World-set decompositions: Expressiveness
                                  and efficient algorithms . . . . . . . . 265--284
        Christophe Calv\`es and   
       Maribel Fernández   A polynomial nominal unification
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--306
           Étienne Payet   Loop detection in term rewriting using
                                  the eliminating unfoldings . . . . . . . 307--327
           Agata Ciabattoni and   
                George Metcalfe   Density elimination  . . . . . . . . . . 328--346
             Thomas Ehrhard and   
                Laurent Regnier   Uniformity and the Taylor expansion of
                                  ordinary lambda-terms  . . . . . . . . . 347--372
           Alexander Rabinovich   Arity hierarchy for temporal logics  . . 373--381
             Laura Bozzelli and   
         Salvatore La Torre and   
                  Adriano Peron   Verification of well-formed
                                  communicating recursive state machines   382--405
              Andrew R. Plummer   S4 enriched multimodal categorial
                                  grammars are context-free: Corrigendum   406--408
              Stefan Milius and   
               Lawrence S. Moss   Corrigendum to: ``The category theoretic
                                  solution of recursive program schemes''
                                  [Theoret. Comput. Sci. 366 (2006) 3--59] 409--415


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 404, Number 1--2, September 6, 2008

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 Nadia Busi and   
                Claudio Zandron   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
                  Luca Cardelli   Bitonal membrane systems: Interactions
                                  of biological membranes  . . . . . . . . 5--18
                Gheorghe P\uaun   Membrane computing and brane calculi.
                                  Old, new, and future bridges . . . . . . 19--25
             Robert Brijder and   
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
Agustín Riscos-Núñez and   
         Grzegorz Rozenberg and   
               Drago\cs Sburlan   Membrane systems with proteins embedded
                                  in membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--39
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
                  Sean Sedwards   Decision problems in membrane systems
                                  with peripheral proteins, transport and
                                  evolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--51
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
             György Vaszil   (Mem)brane automata  . . . . . . . . . . 52--60
        Pierre-Louis Curien and   
              Vincent Danos and   
               Jean Krivine and   
                      Min Zhang   Computational self-assembly  . . . . . . 61--75
  Daniel Díaz-Pernil and   
Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo and   
Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez and   
Agustín Riscos-Núñez   A uniform family of tissue P systems
                                  with cell division solving 3-COL in a
                                  linear time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--87
            Giuditta Franco and   
            Maurice Margenstern   A DNA computing inspired computational
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--96
            Nil Geisweiller and   
              Jane Hillston and   
                  Marco Stenico   Relating continuous and discrete PEPA
                                  models of signalling pathways  . . . . . 97--111
               Jetty Kleijn and   
                  Maciej Koutny   Processes of membrane systems with
                                  promoters and inhibitors . . . . . . . . 112--126
              Cosimo Laneve and   
                Fabien Tarissan   A simple calculus for proteins and cells 127--141
                 Vincenzo Manca   The metabolic algorithm for P systems:
                                  Principles and applications  . . . . . . 142--155
                 A. Romanel and   
                      C. Priami   On the decidability and complexity of
                                  the structural congruence for
                                  beta-binders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--169
              Sergey Verlan and   
       Francesco Bernardini and   
            Marian Gheorghe and   
            Maurice Margenstern   Generalized communicating P systems  . . 170--184
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 404, Number 3, September 28, 2008

           Tiziana Margaria and   
               Bernhard Steffen   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--185
              Altaf Hussain and   
                   Michael Huth   On model checking multiple hybrid views  186--201
           Shoham Ben-David and   
                Dana Fisman and   
                  Sitvanit Ruah   Embedding finite automata within regular
                                  expressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--218
                Shady Copty and   
                  Shai Fine and   
                  Shmuel Ur and   
               Elad Yom-Tov and   
                        Avi Ziv   A probabilistic alternative to
                                  regression suites  . . . . . . . . . . . 219--234
                  M. Calder and   
                      A. Miller   An automatic abstraction technique for
                                  verifying featured, parameterised
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--255
         Franjo Ivan\vci\'c and   
               Zijiang Yang and   
             Malay K. Ganai and   
                Aarti Gupta and   
                   Pranav Ashar   Efficient SAT-based bounded model
                                  checking for software verification . . . 256--274
            Saddek Bensalem and   
                Doron Peled and   
                Hongyang Qu and   
               Stavros Tripakis   Automatic generation of path conditions
                                  for concurrent timed systems . . . . . . 275--292
        Jens Schönherr and   
           Martin Freibothe and   
              Bernd Straube and   
              Jörg Bormann   Semi-formal verification of the steady
                                  state behavior of mixed-signal circuits
                                  by SAT-based property checking . . . . . 293--307


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 405, Number 1--2, October 6, 2008

            Ralph Kopperman and   
         Prakash Panangaden and   
           Michael B. Smyth and   
                  Dieter Spreen   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
            Douglas Bridges and   
            Hajime Ishihara and   
          Peter M. Schuster and   
         Lumini\cta V\^\i\ct\ua   Apartness, compactness and nearness  . . 3--10
          Francesco Ciraulo and   
                Giovanni Sambin   Finitary formal topologies and Stone's
                                  representation theorem . . . . . . . . . 11--23
               K. A. Hardie and   
                  P. J. Witbooi   Finite relational structure models of
                                  topological spaces and maps  . . . . . . 24--34
             Fangping Huang and   
                    Jihua Liang   On computational environments of
                                  topological spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40
               K. E. Jordan and   
            Lance E. Miller and   
             E. L. F. Moore and   
               T. J. Peters and   
              Alexander Russell   Modeling time and topology for animation
                                  and visualization with examples on
                                  parametric geometry  . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
          Vladik Kreinovich and   
                 Olga Kosheleva   Computational complexity of determining
                                  which statements about causality hold in
                                  different space--time models . . . . . . 50--63
   Hans-Peter A. Künzi and   
              Vladik Kreinovich   Static space--times naturally lead to
                                  quasi-pseudometrics  . . . . . . . . . . 64--72
               Jimmie D. Lawson   Metric spaces and $FS$-domains . . . . . 73--74
                    Keye Martin   Topology in information theory in
                                  topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--87
                 Timothy Porter   Enriched categories and models for
                                  spaces of evolving states  . . . . . . . 88--100
                 Peter Schuster   The Zariski spectrum as a formal
                                  geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--115
            Victor L. Selivanov   Fine hierarchies and $m$-reducibilities
                                  in theoretical computer science  . . . . 116--163
                 Josef \vSlapal   A quotient-universal digital topology    164--175
              Dieter Spreen and   
                 Luoshan Xu and   
                      Xuxin Mao   Information systems revisited --- the
                                  general continuous case  . . . . . . . . 176--187
                   Sumati Surya   Causal set topology  . . . . . . . . . . 188--197
              Hideki Tsuiki and   
                Yasunao Hattori   Lawson topology of the space of formal
                                  balls and the hyperbolic topology  . . . 198--205
                      Anonymous   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 405, Number 3, October 17, 2008

             Philip M. Long and   
                  Frank Stephan   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
    Alp Atìcì and   
              Rocco A. Servedio   Learning unions of
                                  $\omega(1)$-dimensional rectangles . . . 209--222
 Leonid (Aryeh) Kontorovich and   
             Corinna Cortes and   
                  Mehryar Mohri   Kernel methods for learning languages    223--236
                 Andreas Maurer   Unsupervised slow subspace-learning from
                                  stationary processes . . . . . . . . . . 237--255
                     Jan Poland   Consistency of discrete Bayesian
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--273
              Daniil Ryabko and   
                  Marcus Hutter   On the possibility of learning in
                                  reactive environments with arbitrary
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--284
                  Vladimir Vovk   Leading strategies in competitive
                                  on-line prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 406, Number 1--2, October 28, 2008

       Kees Joost Batenburg and   
                 Antal Nagy and   
                  Maurice Nivat   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
       Kees Joost Batenburg and   
                 Antal Nagy and   
                  Maurice Nivat   In Memoriam: Attila Kuba (1953--2006)    2--7
                    Eric Andres   The supercover of an $m$-flat is a
                                  discrete analytical object . . . . . . . 8--14
     Péter Balázs   A framework for generating some discrete
                                  sets with disjoint components by using
                                  uniform distributions  . . . . . . . . . 15--23
        Valentin E. Brimkov and   
              Reneta P. Barneva   On the polyhedral complexity of the
                                  integer points in a hyperball  . . . . . 24--30
                   S. Brlek and   
                 G. Labelle and   
                     A. Lacasse   Discrete sets with minimal moment of
                                  inertia  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
                 S. Brocchi and   
                 A. Frosini and   
                   C. Picouleau   Reconstruction of binary matrices under
                                  fixed size neighborhood constraints  . . 43--54
              Sara Brunetti and   
                   Alain Daurat   Reconstruction of convex lattice sets
                                  from tomographic projections in quartic
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
                S. Brunetti and   
               A. Del Lungo and   
               P. Gritzmann and   
                    S. de Vries   On the reconstruction of binary and
                                  permutation matrices under (binary)
                                  tomographic constraints  . . . . . . . . 63--71
           David Coeurjolly and   
  Jérôme Hulin and   
              Isabelle Sivignon   Finding a minimum medial axis of a
                                  discrete shape is NP-hard  . . . . . . . 72--79
                    Paolo Dulio   Convex decomposition of $U$-polygons . . 80--89
             Andrea Frosini and   
              Maurice Nivat and   
                 Simone Rinaldi   Scanning integer matrices by means of
                                  two rectangular windows  . . . . . . . . 90--96
                   T. Yung Kong   Minimal non-deletable sets and minimal
                                  non-codeletable sets in binary images    97--118
Kálmán Palágyi   A $3$D fully parallel surface-thinning
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
             Miguel Santoyo and   
                Ernesto Vallejo   Additivity obstructions for integral
                                  matrices and pyramids  . . . . . . . . . 136--145
         Daniel Vainsencher and   
           Alfred M. Bruckstein   On isoperimetrically optimal polyforms   146--159
                   Rafal Zdunek   On image reconstruction algorithms for
                                  binary electromagnetic geotomography . . 160--170
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 406, Number 3, October 31, 2008

            Christos Kaklamanis   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
          Pasquale Ambrosio and   
               Vincenzo Auletta   Deterministic monotone algorithms for
                                  scheduling on related machines . . . . . 173--186
        Thomas Lücking and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
            Burkhard Monien and   
                    Manuel Rode   A new model for selfish routing  . . . . 187--206
    Miroslav Chlebík and   
 Janka Chlebíková   The Steiner tree problem on graphs:
                                  Inapproximability results  . . . . . . . 207--214
             S. Nikoletseas and   
             C. Raptopoulos and   
                    P. Spirakis   Large independent sets in general random
                                  intersection graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 215--224
               Ralf Klasing and   
             Nelson Morales and   
Stéphane Pérennes   On the complexity of bandwidth
                                  allocation in radio networks . . . . . . 225--239
            Carme \`Alvarez and   
          Josep Díaz and   
                Jordi Petit and   
          José Rolim and   
                    Maria Serna   High level communication functionalities
                                  for wireless sensor networks . . . . . . 240--247
               Colin Cooper and   
               Ralf Klasing and   
                  Tomasz Radzik   A randomized algorithm for the joining
                                  protocol in dynamic distributed networks 248--262


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 407, Number 1--3, November 6, 2008

            Stefan Eckhardt and   
                 Sven Kosub and   
       Moritz G. Maaß and   
          Hanjo Täubig and   
             Sebastian Wernicke   Combinatorial network abstraction by
                                  trees and distances  . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
                 Junlei Zhu and   
                      Yuehua Bu   Equitable list colorings of planar
                                  graphs without short cycles  . . . . . . 21--28
            Maurice Margenstern   The domino problem of the hyperbolic
                                  plane is undecidable . . . . . . . . . . 29--84
               Leah Epstein and   
                 Asaf Levin and   
                   Rob van Stee   Online unit clustering: Variations on a
                                  theme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
      Hervé Fournier and   
                Guillaume Malod   Universal relations and #P-completeness  97--109
                  Meijie Ma and   
                Guizhen Liu and   
                    Jun-Ming Xu   Fault-tolerant embedding of paths in
                                  crossed cubes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--116
              Marion Le Gonidec   On complexity functions of infinite
                                  words associated with generalized Dyck
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--133
        Charilaos Efthymiou and   
               Paul G. Spirakis   Random sampling of colourings of sparse
                                  random graphs with a constant number of
                                  colours  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--154
                Alin Bostan and   
    Claude-Pierre Jeannerod and   
             Éric Schost   Solving structured linear systems with
                                  large displacement rank  . . . . . . . . 155--181
               Tian-Ming Bu and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                          Qi Qi   Arbitrage opportunities across sponsored
                                  search markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--191
        Pedro García and   
Manuel Vázquez de Parga and   
   Gloria I. Álvarez and   
               José Ruiz   Universal automata and NFA learning  . . 192--202
               Leah Epstein and   
                    Meital Levy   Online interval coloring with packing
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--212
          Alfredo De Santis and   
          Anna Lisa Ferrara and   
                Barbara Masucci   New constructions for provably-secure
                                  time-bound hierarchical key assignment
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--230
             Sven O. Krumke and   
         Willem E. de Paepe and   
           Jörg Rambau and   
                   Leen Stougie   Bincoloring  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--241
           Andrew Beveridge and   
                 Tom Bohman and   
                Alan Frieze and   
                  Oleg Pikhurko   Game chromatic index of graphs with
                                  given restrictions on degrees  . . . . . 242--249
                   Arto Salomaa   Subword histories and associated
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--257
            Jonathan K. Lee and   
              Jens Palsberg and   
Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira   Aliased register allocation for
                                  straight-line programs is NP-complete    258--273
             M. Chiarandini and   
            I. S. Kotsireas and   
             C. Koukouvinos and   
                     L. Paquete   Heuristic algorithms for Hadamard
                                  matrices with two circulant cores  . . . 274--277
      Ond\vrej Klíma and   
             Libor Polák   On varieties of meet automata  . . . . . 278--289
        Élise Prieur and   
                 Thierry Lecroq   On-line construction of compact suffix
                                  vectors and maximal repeats  . . . . . . 290--301
            A. L. Buchsbaum and   
               R. Giancarlo and   
                        B. Racz   New results for finding common
                                  neighborhoods in massive graphs in the
                                  data stream model  . . . . . . . . . . . 302--309
                 Jiang Chen and   
                          Ke Yi   A dynamic data structure for top-$k$
                                  queries on uncertain data  . . . . . . . 310--317
                  Jung-Sheng Fu   Fault-free Hamiltonian cycles in twisted
                                  cubes with conditional link faults . . . 318--329
                   Marcin Kozik   A finite set of functions with an
                                  EXPTIME-complete composition problem . . 330--341
           C. A. A. Sanches and   
                 N. Y. Soma and   
                  H. H. Yanasse   Parallel time and space upper-bounds for
                                  the subset-sum problem . . . . . . . . . 342--348
              Hsiao-Fei Liu and   
                   Kun-Mao Chao   Algorithms for finding the
                                  weight-constrained $k$-longest paths in
                                  a tree and the length-constrained $k$
                                  maximum-sum segments of a sequence . . . 349--358
              Elitza Maneva and   
              Alistair Sinclair   On the satisfiability threshold and
                                  clustering of solutions of random 3-SAT
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--369
                Guomin Yang and   
                  Jing Chen and   
             Duncan S. Wong and   
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                 Dongsheng Wang   A new framework for the design and
                                  analysis of identity-based
                                  identification schemes . . . . . . . . . 370--388
               Rongjun Chen and   
              Wanzhen Huang and   
                   Guochun Tang   Dense open-shop schedules with release
                                  times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
     Katherine P. Benedetto and   
              Nicholas A. Loehr   Tiling problems, automata, and tiling
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--411
            Paola Flocchini and   
          Giuseppe Prencipe and   
             Nicola Santoro and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Arbitrary pattern formation by
                                  asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious
                                  robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--447
    Hans Kleine Büning and   
                    Xishun Zhao   Computational complexity of quantified
                                  Boolean formulas with fixed maximal
                                  deficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--457
                Matthieu Latapy   Main-memory triangle computations for
                                  very large (sparse (power-law)) graphs   458--473
               Kei Uchizawa and   
                  Eiji Takimoto   Exponential lower bounds on the size of
                                  constant-depth threshold circuits with
                                  small energy complexity  . . . . . . . . 474--487
                  J. Balogh and   
             S. L. Bezrukov and   
               L. H. Harper and   
                      A. Seress   On the bandwidth of 3-dimensional
                                  Hamming graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--495
             Qianchuan Zhao and   
               Jianfeng Mao and   
                         Tao Ye   Time separations of cyclic event rule
                                  systems with min--max timing constraints 496--510
          Scott C.-H. Huang and   
                Frances Yao and   
                 Minming Li and   
                       Weili Wu   Lower bounds and new constructions on
                                  secure group communication schemes . . . 511--523
             Hung-Lung Wang and   
                   Kun-Mao Chao   The 2-radius and 2-radiian problems on
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524--531
                Boting Yang and   
                         Yi Cao   Monotonicity in digraph search problems  532--544
               Hong-Yiu Lin and   
              Yuh-Dauh Lyuu and   
                 Tak-Man Ma and   
                      Yen-Wu Ti   Testing whether a digraph contains
                                  $H$-free $k$-induced subgraphs . . . . . 545--553
                Jin-Ju Hong and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Efficient on-line repetition detection   554--563
                  F. Cazals and   
                     C. Karande   A note on the problem of reporting
                                  maximal cliques  . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--568
               Aldo de Luca and   
                   Amy Glen and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   Rich, Sturmian, and trapezoidal words    569--573
     Mieczys\law Borowiecki and   
Katarzyna Jesse-Józefczyk   Matching cutsets in graphs of diameter 2 574--582
                          Ye Du   On the complexity of deciding bimatrix
                                  games similarity . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--586
                Benny Porat and   
                  Ely Porat and   
                       Asaf Zur   Pattern matching with pair correlation
                                  distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--590
Gábor Horváth and   
     Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and   
             Csaba Szabó   An assertion concerning functionally
                                  complete algebras and NP-completeness    591--595
                  Eero Lehtonen   Two undecidable variants of Collatz's
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--600
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 408, Number 1, November 17, 2008

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
               Muffy Calder and   
                Stephen Gilmore   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
                  Mark Girolami   Bayesian inference for differential
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--16
                   A. Credi and   
               M. Garavelli and   
                  C. Laneve and   
               S. Pradalier and   
                   S. Silvi and   
                   G. Zavattaro   \tt nano$\kappa$: a calculus for the
                                  modeling and simulation of nano devices  17--30
                Raya Khanin and   
              Desmond J. Higham   Chemical Master Equation and Langevin
                                  regimes for a gene transcription model   31--40
        Federica Ciocchetta and   
              Jane Hillston and   
                 Martin Kos and   
                David Tollervey   Modelling co-transcriptional cleavage in
                                  the synthesis of yeast pre-rRNA  . . . . 41--54
      François Fages and   
           Aurélien Rizk   On temporal logic constraint solving for
                                  analyzing numerical data time series . . 55--65
           Andrea Bracciali and   
          Marcello Brunelli and   
             Enrico Cataldo and   
               Pierpaolo Degano   Synapses as stochastic concurrent
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--82
          L. Dematté and   
                  C. Priami and   
                 A. Romanel and   
                       O. Soyer   Evolving BlenX programs to simulate the
                                  evolution of biological networks . . . . 83--96
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 408, Number 2--3, November 28, 2008

             Nancy M. Amato and   
               Der-Tsai Lee and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
               Roberto Tamassia   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
            Franco P. Preparata   The unpredictable deviousness of models  99--105
         Alberto Apostolico and   
            Claudia Tagliacollo   Incremental discovery of the irredundant
                                  motif bases for all suffixes of a string
                                  in O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--115
               Luca Allulli and   
           Giorgio Ausiello and   
          Vincenzo Bonifaci and   
                    Luigi Laura   On the power of lookahead in on-line
                                  server routing problems  . . . . . . . . 116--128
             Melanie Badent and   
          Emilio Di Giacomo and   
                Giuseppe Liotta   Drawing colored graphs on colored points 129--142
           Sandeep N. Bhatt and   
         Gianfranco Bilardi and   
                  Geppino Pucci   Area-time tradeoffs for universal VLSI
                                  circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--150
            Mary Ellen Bock and   
            Claudio Garutti and   
              Concettina Guerra   Cavity detection and matching for
                                  binding site recognition . . . . . . . . 151--162
     Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and   
            Camille Wormser and   
                Mariette Yvinec   Anisotropic diagrams: Labelle Shewchuk
                                  approach revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 163--173
        L. Castelli Aleardi and   
               O. Devillers and   
                   G. Schaeffer   Succinct representations of planar maps  174--187
            Bruno Codenotti and   
                Amin Saberi and   
        Kasturi Varadarajan and   
                       Yinyu Ye   The complexity of equilibria: Hardness
                                  results for economies via a
                                  correspondence with games  . . . . . . . 188--198
            Michael T. Goodrich   Pipelined algorithms to detect cheating
                                  in long-term grid computations . . . . . 199--207
                Kazuo Iwama and   
            Hiroki Morizumi and   
                      Jun Tarui   Reductions for monotone Boolean circuits 208--212
               Irit Katriel and   
      Claire Kenyon-Mathieu and   
                      Eli Upfal   Commitment under uncertainty: Two-stage
                                  stochastic matching problems . . . . . . 213--223
    Charalampos Papamanthou and   
              Ioannis G. Tollis   Algorithms for computing a parameterized
                                  st . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--240
               Eric Rachlin and   
                 John E. Savage   Nanowire addressing with
                                  randomized-contact decoders  . . . . . . 241--261


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 409, Number 1, December 6, 2008

                    Peter Hines   Machine semantics  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
      Stéphane Demri and   
            Régis Gascon   Verification of qualitative $\mathbb{Z}$
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--40
        Alessandro Avellone and   
              Guido Fiorino and   
                    Ugo Moscato   Optimization techniques for
                                  propositional intuitionistic logic and
                                  their implementation . . . . . . . . . . 41--58
               Lucia Acciai and   
                Michele Boreale   Responsiveness in process calculi  . . . 59--93
             Nicola Gambino and   
                 Richard Garner   The identity type weak factorisation
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--109
                Xiaojun Liu and   
                  Edward A. Lee   CPO semantics of timed interactive actor
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--125
                      W. Reisig   The computable kernel of Abstract State
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--136
             David A. Cohen and   
           Peter G. Jeavons and   
       Stanislav \vZivný   The expressive power of valued
                                  constraints: Hierarchies and collapses   137--153
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 409, Number 2, December 17, 2008

          Dario Andrea Bini and   
              Victor Y. Pan and   
                 Jan Verschelde   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
                   T. Bella and   
                Y. Eidelman and   
                 I. Gohberg and   
                   V. Olshevsky   Computations with quasiseparable
                                  polynomials and matrices . . . . . . . . 158--179
                 Annie Cuyt and   
                   Wen-shin Lee   A new algorithm for sparse interpolation
                                  of multivariate polynomials  . . . . . . 180--185
          Ioannis Z. Emiris and   
            Elias P. Tsigaridas   Real algebraic numbers and polynomial
                                  systems of small degree  . . . . . . . . 186--199
                     Bin Li and   
                Jiawang Nie and   
                     Lihong Zhi   Approximate GCDs of polynomials and
                                  sparse SOS relaxations . . . . . . . . . 200--210
             Gregory Leibon and   
         Daniel N. Rockmore and   
                Wooram Park and   
             Robert Taintor and   
          Gregory S. Chirikjian   A fast Hermite transform . . . . . . . . 211--228
           Bernard Mourrain and   
      Philippe Trébuchet   Stable normal forms for polynomial
                                  system solving . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240
        Marc Eric Normandin and   
                 Adam Vajda and   
               Sree Ram Valluri   Gravitational wave signal templates,
                                  pattern recognition, and reciprocal
                                  Eulerian gamma functions . . . . . . . . 241--254
                  V. Y. Pan and   
                   D. Grady and   
                  B. Murphy and   
                    G. Qian and   
              R. E. Rosholt and   
                 A. D. Ruslanov   Schur aggregation for linear systems and
                                  determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268
             Helfried Peyrl and   
               Pablo A. Parrilo   Computing sum of squares decompositions
                                  with rational coefficients . . . . . . . 269--281
               Hiroshi Sekigawa   The nearest polynomial with a zero in a
                                  given domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--291
                  Vikram Sharma   Complexity of real root isolation using
                                  continued fractions  . . . . . . . . . . 292--310
        Kiyoshi Shirayanagi and   
               Hiroshi Sekigawa   A new Gröbner basis conversion method
                                  based on stabilization techniques  . . . 311--317
                 Zhonggang Zeng   A numerical elimination method for
                                  polynomial computations  . . . . . . . . 318--331

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 409, Number 3, December 28, 2008

               Edgar Fisher and   
           Nándor Sieben   Rectangular polyomino set weak (1,
                                  2)-achievement games . . . . . . . . . . 333--340
            Antoniy Ganchev and   
             Lata Narayanan and   
                   Sunil Shende   Games to induce specified equilibria . . 341--350
             Mark Cieliebak and   
             Alexander Hall and   
                 Riko Jacob and   
                 Marc Nunkesser   Sequential vector packing  . . . . . . . 351--363
              Sarmad Abbasi and   
                   Numan Sheikh   Complexity of question/answer games  . . 364--381
                J. L. Baril and   
                    J. M. Pallo   The pruning-grafting lattice of binary
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--393
               Cees Elzinga and   
               Sven Rahmann and   
                       Hui Wang   Algorithms for subsequence combinatorics 394--404
                 Weigen Yan and   
                     Fuji Zhang   A quadratic identity for the number of
                                  perfect matchings of plane graphs  . . . 405--410
                Alan Deckelbaum   Simulating one-reversal multicounter
                                  machines by partially blind multihead
                                  finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
           Cagdas E. Gerede and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
             Bala Ravikumar and   
                     Jianwen Su   Minimum-cost delegation in service
                                  composition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--431
            James D. Currie and   
              Terry I. Visentin   Long binary patterns are Abelian
                                  $2$-avoidable  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--437
               Amihood Amir and   
             Tzvika Hartman and   
                 Oren Kapah and   
             B. Riva Shalom and   
                     Dekel Tsur   Generalized LCS  . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--449
             Ping-Ying Tsai and   
              Jung-Sheng Fu and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Edge-fault-tolerant Hamiltonicity of
                                  pancake graphs under the conditional
                                  fault model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--460
           Christian Kassel and   
          Christophe Reutenauer   A palindromization map for the free
                                  group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--470
                   Stasys Jukna   Expanders and time-restricted branching
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--476
               Xiaojun Shen and   
                 Jianyu Lou and   
                Weifa Liang and   
                    Junzhou Luo   Deadline guaranteed packet scheduling
                                  for overloaded traffic in input-queued
                                  switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--485
               Philip Bille and   
           Martin Farach-Colton   Fast and compact regular expression
                                  matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--496
           A. Abouelaoualim and   
                 K. Ch. Das and   
                   L. Faria and   
             Y. Manoussakis and   
               C. Martinhon and   
                        R. Saad   Paths and trails in edge-colored graphs  497--510
           Petra Berenbrink and   
             Tom Friedetzky and   
                Zengjian Hu and   
                 Russell Martin   On weighted balls-into-bins games  . . . 511--520
        Joseph Wun-Tat Chan and   
                Tak-Wah Lam and   
            Prudence W. H. Wong   Dynamic bin packing of unit fractions
                                  items  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--529
   A. Fúster-Sabater and   
               P. Caballero-Gil   Strategic attack on the shrinking
                                  generator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--536
                 Pedro V. Silva   Rational subsets of partially reversible
                                  monoids  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--548
     Jérôme Leroux   Structural Presburger digit vector
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--556
           Emmanuel Jeandel and   
               Nicolas Ollinger   Playing with Conway's problem  . . . . . 557--564
             Peter R. J. Asveld   Generating all permutations by
                                  context-free grammars in Greibach normal
                                  form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--577
                   Amy Glen and   
       Florence Levé and   
   Gwénaël Richomme   Quasiperiodic and Lyndon episturmian
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578--600
                 Anne Berry and   
             Elias Dahlhaus and   
            Pinar Heggernes and   
            Genevi\`eve Simonet   Sequential and parallel triangulating
                                  algorithms for Elimination Game and new
                                  insights on Minimum Degree . . . . . . . 601--616
          Maurice J. Jansen and   
               Kenneth W. Regan   A nonlinear lower bound for constant
                                  depth arithmetical circuits via the
                                  discrete uncertainty principle . . . . . 617--622


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 1, January 28, 2009

            Pinar Heggernes and   
            Charis Papadopoulos   Single-edge monotonic sequences of
                                  graphs and linear-time algorithms for
                                  minimal completions and deletions  . . . 1--15
         Christian Choffrut and   
               Serge Grigorieff   Finite $n$-tape automata over possibly
                                  infinite alphabets: Extending a theorem
                                  of Eilenberg et al.  . . . . . . . . . . 16--34
               Karol Suchan and   
                   Ioan Todinca   Minimal interval completion through
                                  graph exploration  . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
            James D. Currie and   
                   Ali Aberkane   A cyclic binary morphism avoiding
                                  Abelian fourth powers  . . . . . . . . . 44--52
         Michael R. Fellows and   
             Danny Hermelin and   
           Frances Rosamond and   
       Stéphane Vialette   On the parameterized complexity of
                                  multiple-interval graph problems . . . . 53--61
             Maryam Shoaran and   
                     Alex Thomo   Fault-tolerant computation of
                                  distributed regular path queries . . . . 62--77
                Ruifang Liu and   
                Zhonghua Lu and   
                    Jinlong Shu   The minimal Laplacian spectral radius of
                                  trees with a given diameter  . . . . . . 78--83
           Surender Baswana and   
              Vishrut Goyal and   
                    Sandeep Sen   All-pairs nearly 2-approximate shortest
                                  paths in $\O(n^2 \polylog n)$ time . . . 84--93
              Satoshi Ikeda and   
                 Izumi Kubo and   
             Masafumi Yamashita   The hitting and cover times of random
                                  walks on finite graphs using local
                                  degree information . . . . . . . . . . . 94--100
          Piotr Faliszewski and   
              Lane Hemaspaandra   The complexity of power-index comparison 101--107
        Tomá\vs Masopust   On the descriptional complexity of
                                  scattered context grammars . . . . . . . 108--112
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . v--ix

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 2--3, February 6, 2009

         Marcello Bonsangue and   
        Einar Broch Johnsen and   
                 Amy Murphy and   
                      Jan Vitek   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
          Philippe Bidinger and   
             Adriana Compagnoni   Pict correctness revisited . . . . . . . 114--127
                  F. S. de Boer   A shared-variable concurrency analysis
                                  of multi-threaded object-oriented
                                  programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--141
              Sara Capecchi and   
                Mario Coppo and   
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini and   
        Sophia Drossopoulou and   
                 Elena Giachino   Amalgamating sessions and methods in
                                  object-oriented languages with generics  142--167
                 John Field and   
   Maria-Cristina Marinescu and   
            Christian Stefansen   Reactors: a data-oriented
                                  synchronous/asynchronous programming
                                  model for distributed applications . . . 168--201
             Philipp Haller and   
                 Martin Odersky   Scala Actors: Unifying thread-based and
                                  event-based programming  . . . . . . . . 202--220
         Jean-Marie Jacquet and   
                Isabelle Linden   Fully abstract models and refinements as
                                  tools to compare agents in timed
                                  coordination languages . . . . . . . . . 221--253
  Peter Csaba Ölveczky and   
              Stian Thorvaldsen   Formal modeling, performance estimation,
                                  and model checking of wireless sensor
                                  network algorithms in Real-Time Maude    254--280

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 4--5, February 17, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
            Paola Bonizzoni and   
            S. Barry Cooper and   
         Benedikt Löwe and   
                   Andrea Sorbi   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
                Claudio Zandron   Nadia Busi (1968--2007)  . . . . . . . . 285--285
                 Nadia Busi and   
                Claudio Zandron   Computational expressiveness of Genetic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--293
                Anne Condon and   
                  Hosna Jabbari   Computational prediction of nucleic acid
                                  secondary structure: Methods,
                                  applications, and challenges . . . . . . 294--301
                  Ellie D'Hondt   Quantum approaches to graph colouring    302--309
             A. Ehrenfeucht and   
                   G. Rozenberg   Introducing time in reaction systems . . 310--322
           Carmine Garzillo and   
             Giuseppe Trautteur   Computational virtuality in biological
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--331
           Nata\vsa Jonoska and   
              Gregory L. McColm   Complexity classes for self-assembling
                                  flexible tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--346
  Bjòrn Kjos-Hanssen and   
                    Anil Nerode   Effective dimension of points visited by
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
     Shankara Narayanan Krishna   Membrane computing with transport and
                                  embedded proteins  . . . . . . . . . . . 355--375
                  James Ladyman   What does it mean to say that a physical
                                  system implements a computation? . . . . 376--383
           James I. Lathrop and   
               Jack H. Lutz and   
               Scott M. Summers   Strict self-assembly of discrete
                                  Sierpinski triangles . . . . . . . . . . 384--405
                 Remco Loos and   
               Florin Manea and   
                 Victor Mitrana   On small, reduced, and fast universal
                                  accepting networks of splicing
                                  processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--416
               Florin Manea and   
             Victor Mitrana and   
               Takashi Yokomori   Two complementary operations inspired by
                                  the DNA hairpin formation: Completion
                                  and reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--425
                    P. D. Welch   Characteristics of discrete transfinite
                                  time Turing machine models: Halting
                                  times, stabilization times, and Normal
                                  Form theorems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--442
               Damien Woods and   
                 Turlough Neary   The complexity of small universal Turing
                                  machines: a survey . . . . . . . . . . . 443--450
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 6--7, February 28, 2009

       Ivan Lavallée and   
        Alexander A. Shvartsman   Editors' preface . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--452
            Baruch Awerbuch and   
           Christian Scheideler   Robust random number generation for
                                  peer-to-peer systems . . . . . . . . . . 453--466
              Rida A. Bazzi and   
              Young-ri Choi and   
               Mohamed G. Gouda   Hop chains: Secure routing and the
                                  establishment of distinct identities . . 467--480
            Jurek Czyzowicz and   
         Leszek G\kasieniec and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Gathering few fat mobile robots in the
                                  plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--499
             Murat Demirbas and   
                Anish Arora and   
      Vinodkrishnan Kulathumani   \sc Glance: a lightweight querying
                                  service for wireless sensor networks . . 500--513
               Shlomi Dolev and   
                    Nir Tzachar   Empire of colonies: Self-stabilizing and
                                  self-organizing distributed algorithm    514--532
               Burkhard Englert   On the cost of uniform protocols whose
                                  memory consumption is adaptive to
                                  interval contention  . . . . . . . . . . 533--545
               Seth Gilbert and   
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
                 Calvin Newport   Of malicious motes and suspicious
                                  sensors: On the efficiency of malicious
                                  interference in wireless networks  . . . 546--569
           Rachid Guerraoui and   
            Maurice Herlihy and   
                 Bastian Pochon   A topological treatment of
                                  early-deciding set-agreement . . . . . . 570--580
             Colette Johnen and   
                  Le Huy Nguyen   Robust self-stabilizing weight-based
                                  clustering algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 581--594
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
             Loizos Michael and   
                  Paul Spirakis   Computing on a partially eponymous ring  595--613
              Neeraj Mittal and   
     Kuppahalli L. Phaneesh and   
              Felix C. Freiling   Safe termination detection in an
                                  asynchronous distributed system when
                                  processes may crash and recover  . . . . 614--628
                 Heinrich Moser   Towards a real-time distributed
                                  computing model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--659

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 8--10, March 1, 2009

                  Deying Li and   
                 Hongwei Du and   
               Peng-Jun Wan and   
               Xiaofeng Gao and   
                 Zhao Zhang and   
                       Weili Wu   Construction of strongly connected
                                  dominating sets in asymmetric multihop
                                  wireless networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 661--669
                    M. Kiwi and   
                    M. Soto and   
                     C. Thraves   Adversarial queuing theory with setups   670--687
                       Yong Gao   The degree distribution of random
                                  $k$-trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--695
                 Selma Djelloul   Treewidth and logical definability of
                                  graph products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696--710
           Wolfgang W. Bein and   
        Lawrence L. Larmore and   
              Linda Morales and   
              I. Hal Sudborough   A quadratic time 2-approximation
                                  algorithm for block sorting  . . . . . . 711--717
                      Jiong Guo   A more effective linear kernelization
                                  for cluster editing  . . . . . . . . . . 718--726
               Yuchen Zhang and   
                   Xiaoming Sun   The antimagicness of the Cartesian
                                  product of graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 727--735
                   Willy Susilo   Short fail-stop signature scheme based
                                  on factorization and discrete logarithm
                                  assumptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736--744
              A. C. Kaporis and   
                 P. G. Spirakis   The price of optimum in Stackelberg
                                  games on arbitrary single commodity
                                  networks and latency functions . . . . . 745--755
                Decheng Dai and   
                   Changyuan Yu   A $5 + \epsilon$-approximation algorithm
                                  for minimum weighted dominating set in
                                  unit disk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756--765
             Ping-Ying Tsai and   
              Jung-Sheng Fu and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Fault-free longest paths in star
                                  networks with conditional link faults    766--775
                   C. T. Ng and   
                  Zhiyi Tan and   
                    Yong He and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   Two semi-online scheduling problems on
                                  two uniform machines . . . . . . . . . . 776--792
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
            Robert Merca\cs and   
                 Geoffrey Scott   A generalization of Thue freeness for
                                  partial words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--800
             Tzu-Liang Kung and   
             Cheng-Kuan Lin and   
                 Tyne Liang and   
              Lih-Hsing Hsu and   
                Jimmy J. M. Tan   On the bipanpositionable
                                  bipanconnectedness of hypercubes . . . . 801--811
                 Zhao Zhang and   
               Xiaofeng Gao and   
                       Weili Wu   Algorithms for connected set cover
                                  problem and fault-tolerant connected set
                                  cover problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--817
                Jianer Chen and   
               Iyad A. Kanj and   
                   Jie Meng and   
                     Ge Xia and   
                  Fenghui Zhang   On the pseudo-achromatic number problem  818--829
                Xianglai Qi and   
                Shiguo Zhou and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   Single machine parallel-batch scheduling
                                  with deteriorating jobs  . . . . . . . . 830--836
         A\"\ida Ouangraoua and   
                 Pascal Ferraro   A constrained edit distance algorithm
                                  between semi-ordered trees . . . . . . . 837--846
            Mathilde Bouvel and   
               Dominique Rossin   A variant of the tandem duplication ---
                                  random loss model of genome
                                  rearrangement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--858
                 Vera Asodi and   
              Christopher Umans   The complexity of the matroid--greedoid
                                  partition problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 859--866
              Chi-Yuan Chan and   
              Shan-Chyun Ku and   
                 Chi-Jen Lu and   
                Biing-Feng Wang   Efficient algorithms for two generalized
                                  2-median problems and the group median
                                  problem on trees . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--876
                Jianping Li and   
                 Weidong Li and   
             Tongquan Zhang and   
                  Zhongxu Zhang   The subdivision-constrained minimum
                                  spanning tree problem  . . . . . . . . . 877--885
        Alessandro Ferrante and   
            Gennaro Parlato and   
       Francesco Sorrentino and   
                 Carmine Ventre   Fast payment schemes for truthful
                                  mechanisms with verification . . . . . . 886--899
           Wataru Matsubara and   
           Shunsuke Inenaga and   
               Akira Ishino and   
            Ayumi Shinohara and   
          Tomoyuki Nakamura and   
                Kazuo Hashimoto   Efficient algorithms to compute
                                  compressed longest common substrings and
                                  compressed palindromes . . . . . . . . . 900--913
                   Hisashi Koga   Dynamic TCP acknowledgment with sliding
                                  window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914--925
             Sun-Yuan Hsieh and   
                   Chang-Jen Tu   Constructing edge-disjoint spanning
                                  trees in locally twisted cubes . . . . . 926--932
     Spyros C. Kontogiannis and   
               Paul G. Spirakis   On the support size of stable strategies
                                  in random games  . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--942
                Vesa Halava and   
                 Tero Harju and   
            Tomi Kärki and   
  Patrice Séébold   Overlap-freeness in infinite partial
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--948
              Jean Cardinal and   
           Stefan Langerman and   
                    Eythan Levy   Improved approximation bounds for edge
                                  dominating set in dense graphs . . . . . 949--957
                   Travis Gagie   Compressed depth sequences . . . . . . . 958--962
              Sung-Pil Hong and   
             Myoung-Ju Park and   
                   Soo Y. Chang   Approximation of the $k$-batch
                                  consolidation problem  . . . . . . . . . 963--967
          F. Blanchet-Sadri and   
    Raphaël M. Jungers and   
                 Justin Palumbo   Testing avoidability on sets of partial
                                  words is hard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--972
              Pablo Sáez   A quadratic algorithm for the 2-cyclic
                                  robotic scheduling problem . . . . . . . 973--976
           Yury L. Orlovich and   
           Valery S. Gordon and   
             Dominique de Werra   On the inapproximability of independent
                                  domination in 2 P  . . . . . . . . . . . 977--982
                   Cinzia Pizzi   k  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--987
                 Tsung-Hsi Tsai   Efficient computation of the iteration
                                  of functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988--993
           Martin Wahlén   On the complexity of approximating the
                                  Hadwiger number  . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--996
                   Juha Honkala   On the simplification of infinite
                                  morphic words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997--1000

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 11, March 6, 2009

            S. Barry Cooper and   
                       Hong Zhu   Preface: Algorithms, complexity and
                                  models of computation  . . . . . . . . . 1001--1002
              Vincent Danos and   
            Linus J. Schumacher   How liquid is biological signalling? . . 1003--1012
                 Minming Li and   
                    Ze Feng and   
                   Nan Zang and   
           Ronald L. Graham and   
                 Frances F. Yao   Approximately optimal trees for group
                                  key management with batch updates  . . . 1013--1021
               Wangsen Feng and   
               Li'ang Zhang and   
                    Hanpin Wang   Approximation algorithm for maximum edge
                                  coloring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1029
             Andreas Jakoby and   
        Maciej Li\'skiewicz and   
      Rüdiger Reischuk and   
        Christian Schindelhauer   Improving the average delay of sorting   1030--1041
                    Angsheng Li   Elementary differences among jump
                                  classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042--1053
            Hiroki Morizumi and   
                      Jun Tarui   Linear-size log-depth negation-limited
                                  inverter for $k$-tonic binary sequences  1054--1060
          Akifumi Kawaguchi and   
              Hiroshi Nagamochi   Drawing slicing graphs with face areas   1061--1072
                     He Sun and   
               Chung Keung Poon   Two improved range-efficient algorithms
                                  for $F_0$-estimation . . . . . . . . . . 1073--1080
              Yingchao Zhao and   
                 Shang-hua Teng   Combinatorial and spectral aspects of
                                  nearest neighbor graphs in doubling
                                  dimensional and nearly-Euclidean spaces  1081--1092
                 Peng Zhang and   
                     Mingji Xia   An approximation algorithm to the
                                  $k$-Steiner Forest problem . . . . . . . 1093--1098
           Andrew C. C. Yao and   
             Frances F. Yao and   
                    Yunlei Zhao   A note on universal composable
                                  zero-knowledge in the common reference
                                  string model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099--1108

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 12--13, March 17, 2009

             Andrei Popescu and   
Traian Florin \cSerb\uanu\ct\ua and   
                 Grigore Ro\csu   A semantic approach to interpolation . . 1109--1128
                  H. Peter Gumm   Copower functors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1142
                Simone Bova and   
                Franco Montagna   The consequence relation in the logic of
                                  commutative GBL  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143--1158
              Murdoch J. Gabbay   A study of substitution, using nominal
                                  techniques and Fraenkel--Mostowksi sets  1159--1189
              Robert Lorenz and   
       Gabriel Juhás and   
           Robin Bergenthum and   
            Jörg Desel and   
               Sebastian Mauser   Executability of scenarios in Petri nets 1190--1216
         Lutz Schröder and   
               Till Mossakowski   \sc HasCasl: Integrated higher-order
                                  specification and program development    1217--1260
             J. A. Bergstra and   
               Y. Hirshfeld and   
                   J. V. Tucker   Meadows and the equational specification
                                  of division  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261--1271
          Marta Kwiatkowska and   
              Gethin Norman and   
               David Parker and   
         Maria Grazia Vigliotti   Probabilistic Mobile Ambients  . . . . . 1272--1303

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 14, March 28, 2009

          Giuseppe Prencipe and   
                    Shmuel Zaks   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305--1306
              Nicolas Nisse and   
                   David Soguet   Graph searching with advice  . . . . . . 1307--1318
              Hajo Broersma and   
            Matthew Johnson and   
           Daniël Paulusma   Upper bounds and algorithms for parallel
                                  knock-out numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . 1319--1327
                  Eli Gafni and   
   Achour Mostéfaoui and   
              Michel Raynal and   
               Corentin Travers   From adaptive renaming to set agreement  1328--1335
              Fredrik Manne and   
              Morten Mjelde and   
            Laurence Pilard and   
       Sébastien Tixeuil   A new self-stabilizing maximal matching
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336--1345
             Peter Korteweg and   
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and   
               Leen Stougie and   
               Andrea Vitaletti   Data aggregation in sensor networks:
                                  Balancing communication and delay costs  1346--1354
                Asaf Efrima and   
                    David Peleg   Distributed algorithms for partitioning
                                  a swarm of autonomous mobile robots  . . 1355--1368
                   Guy Even and   
                 Tamir Levi and   
                     Ami Litman   Optimal conclusive sets for comparator
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1369--1376
Rastislav Královi\vc and   
      Richard Královi\vc   Rapid almost-complete broadcasting in
                                  faulty networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377--1387
               J. Czyzowicz and   
                  S. Dobrev and   
                E. Kranakis and   
                 J. Opatrny and   
                     J. Urrutia   Local edge colouring of Yao-like
                                  subgraphs of Unit Disk Graphs  . . . . . 1388--1400
                Amos Korman and   
                    Shay Kutten   A note on models for graph
                                  representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401--1412

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 15, April 1, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413--1414
           Nata\vsa Jonoska and   
                    Jarkko Kari   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415--1416
              Sam Greenberg and   
                   Dana Randall   Convergence rates of Markov chains for
                                  some self-assembly and non-saturated
                                  Ising models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417--1427
               John H. Reif and   
                   Sudheer Sahu   Autonomous programmable DNA nanorobotic
                                  devices using DNAzymes . . . . . . . . . 1428--1439
              N. E. Grayson and   
                A. Taormina and   
                     R. Twarock   DNA duplex cage structures with
                                  icosahedral symmetry . . . . . . . . . . 1440--1447
           Nata\vsa Jonoska and   
          Nadrian C. Seeman and   
                        Gang Wu   On existence of reporter strands in
                                  DNA-based graph structures . . . . . . . 1448--1460
                 Yuriy Brun and   
                 Dustin Reishus   Path finding in the tile assembly model  1461--1472

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 16, April 2, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473--1474
           Nata\vsa Jonoska and   
                    Jarkko Kari   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475--1476
           Marcella Anselmo and   
                  Maria Madonia   Deterministic and unambiguous
                                  two-dimensional languages over
                                  one-letter alphabet  . . . . . . . . . . 1477--1485
             Robert Brijder and   
          Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom   Perfectly quilted rectangular snake
                                  tilings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486--1494
                 Florent Becker   Pictures worth a thousand tiles, a
                                  geometrical programming language for
                                  self-assembly  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1495--1515
                Ville Lukkarila   The 4-way deterministic tiling problem
                                  is undecidable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1516--1533
          Chaim Goodman-Strauss   Regular production systems and triangle
                                  tilings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1534--1549
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 17, April 6, 2009

           Paul G. Spirakis and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
         Spyros C. Kontogiannis   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551--1551
           Heiner Ackermann and   
          Heiko Röglin and   
          Berthold Vöcking   Pure Nash equilibria in player-specific
                                  and weighted congestion games  . . . . . 1552--1563
              Davide Bil\`o and   
            Luciano Gual\`a and   
                 Guido Proietti   Dynamic mechanism design . . . . . . . . 1564--1572
                    Xi Chen and   
               Li-Sha Huang and   
                 Shang-Hua Teng   Market equilibria with hybrid
                                  linear-Leontief utilities  . . . . . . . 1573--1580
    Constantinos Daskalakis and   
              Aranyak Mehta and   
         Christos Papadimitriou   A note on approximate Nash equilibria    1581--1588
           Nicole Immorlica and   
              Li (Erran) Li and   
          Vahab S. Mirrokni and   
              Andreas S. Schulz   Coordination mechanisms for selfish
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589--1598
     Spyros C. Kontogiannis and   
  Panagiota N. Panagopoulou and   
               Paul G. Spirakis   Polynomial algorithms for approximating
                                  Nash equilibria of bimatrix games  . . . 1599--1606
                Paolo Penna and   
             Guido Proietti and   
                 Peter Widmayer   Strongly polynomial-time truthful
                                  mechanisms in one shot . . . . . . . . . 1607--1615

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 18, April 17, 2009

                  Lars Arge and   
           Christian Cachin and   
               Andrzej Tarlecki   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1617--1617
                 Jin-Yi Cai and   
                      Pinyan Lu   Holographic algorithms: The power of
                                  dimensionality resolved  . . . . . . . . 1618--1628
           Beno\^\it Larose and   
                  Pascal Tesson   Universal algebra and hardness results
                                  for constraint satisfaction problems . . 1629--1647
       Johannes Blömer and   
                 Stefanie Naewe   Sampling methods for shortest vectors,
                                  closest vectors and successive minima    1648--1665
            Albert Atserias and   
             Andrei Bulatov and   
                     Anuj Dawar   Affine systems of equations and counting
                                  infinitary logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666--1683
            Manuel Bodirsky and   
                 Hubie Chen and   
            Jan Kára and   
               Timo von Oertzen   Maximal infinite-valued constraint
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684--1693
           Bernard Boigelot and   
                 Julien Brusten   A generalization of Cobham's theorem to
                                  automata over real numbers . . . . . . . 1694--1703
              Marcelo Fiore and   
                  Chung-Kil Hur   On the construction of free algebras for
                                  equational systems . . . . . . . . . . . 1704--1729
                Yuval Ishai and   
                 Tal Malkin and   
          Martin J. Strauss and   
              Rebecca N. Wright   Private multiparty sampling and
                                  approximation of vector combinations . . 1730--1745

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 19, April 28, 2009

              Marcus Hutter and   
              Rocco A. Servedio   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1747--1748
               Markus Maier and   
              Matthias Hein and   
             Ulrike von Luxburg   Optimal construction of
                                  $k$-nearest-neighbor graphs for
                                  identifying noisy clusters . . . . . . . 1749--1764
                 Kevin L. Chang   Multiple pass streaming algorithms for
                                  learning mixtures of distributions in
                                  $\mathbb{R}^d$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1765--1780
            Vladimir V. V'yugin   On calibration error of randomized
                                  forecasting algorithms . . . . . . . . . 1781--1795
                Sanjay Jain and   
              Frank Stephan and   
                         Nan Ye   Prescribed learning of r.e. classes  . . 1796--1806
                  Ryo Yoshinaka   Learning efficiency of very simple
                                  grammars from positive data  . . . . . . 1807--1825
            M. M. Hassan Mahmud   On universal transfer learning . . . . . 1826--1846
                 Kilho Shin and   
               Tetsuji Kuboyama   Polynomial summaries of positive
                                  semidefinite kernels . . . . . . . . . . 1847--1862
                  John Case and   
          Samuel E. Moelius III   Parallelism increases iterative learning
                                  power  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863--1875
         Jean-Yves Audibert and   
          Rémi Munos and   
        Csaba Szepesvári   Exploration--exploitation tradeoff using
                                  variance estimates in multi-armed
                                  bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1876--1902
             Vitaly Feldman and   
                   Shrenik Shah   Separating models of learning with
                                  faulty teachers  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1903--1912

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 20, May 1, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1913--1914
                Mika Hirvensalo   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1915--1915
            Andris Ambainis and   
              Nikolajs Nahimovs   Improved constructions of quantum
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1916--1922
     R\=usi\cn\vs Freivalds and   
              M\=aris Ozols and   
              Laura Man\vcinska   Improved constructions of mixed state
                                  quantum automata . . . . . . . . . . . . 1923--1931
  Abuzer Yakaryìlmaz and   
                  A. C. Cem Say   Efficient probability amplification in
                                  two-way quantum finite automata  . . . . 1932--1941
           Marats Golovkins and   
            Maksim Kravtsev and   
              Vasilijs Kravcevs   On a class of languages recognizable by
                                  probabilistic reversible decide-and-halt
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1942--1951
        Ilze Dzelme-B\=erzi\cna   Mathematical logic and quantum finite
                                  state automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1952--1959
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 21--23, May 17, 2009

           Alexander Meduna and   
           Ji\vrí Techet   An infinite hierarchy of language
                                  families generated by scattered context
                                  grammars with $n$-limited derivations    1961--1969
          Pierre Fraigniaud and   
             Cyril Gavoille and   
            Adrian Kosowski and   
          Emmanuelle Lebhar and   
                     Zvi Lotker   Universal augmentation schemes for
                                  network navigability . . . . . . . . . . 1970--1981
              Guanghui Wang and   
                    Guizhen Liu   Paths, cycles and circular colorings in
                                  digraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1982--1985
              Marcus Oswald and   
                Gerhard Reinelt   The simultaneous consecutive ones
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1986--1992
                Isaac Elias and   
                 Jens Lagergren   Fast neighbor joining  . . . . . . . . . 1993--2000
           Jinn-Shyong Yang and   
             Jou-Ming Chang and   
            Shyue-Ming Tang and   
                    Yue-Li Wang   On the independent spanning trees of
                                  recursive circulant graphs G . . . . . . 2001--2010
     Christian Glaßer and   
             Alan L. Selman and   
            Stephen Travers and   
                     Liyu Zhang   Non-mitotic sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011--2023
                Wenbin Chen and   
         Matthew C. Schmidt and   
             Nagiza F. Samatova   On parameterized complexity of the
                                  Multi-MCS problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 2024--2032
            Adrien Guignard and   
             Éric Sopena   Compound Node--Kayles on paths . . . . . 2033--2044
         Herbert Fleischner and   
              Egbert Mujuni and   
       Daniël Paulusma and   
                 Stefan Szeider   Covering graphs with few complete
                                  bipartite subgraphs  . . . . . . . . . . 2045--2053
            Stefan Dantchev and   
             Barnaby Martin and   
                    Mark Rhodes   Tight rank lower bounds for the
                                  Sherali--Adams proof system  . . . . . . 2054--2063
            Takayuki Nagoya and   
                 Seinosuke Toda   Computational complexity of computing a
                                  partial solution for the Graph
                                  Automorphism problems  . . . . . . . . . 2064--2071
       Liliana Alcón and   
              Luerbio Faria and   
 Celina M. H. de Figueiredo and   
               Marisa Gutierrez   The complexity of clique graph
                                  recognition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2072--2083
                 Ilya Goldstein   Asymptotic subword complexity of fixed
                                  points of group substitutions  . . . . . 2084--2098
                   Ming Liu and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
               Chengbin Chu and   
                  Feifeng Zheng   Online scheduling on two uniform
                                  machines to minimize the makespan  . . . 2099--2109
            Roberto Baldoni and   
              Silvia Bonomi and   
          Leonardo Querzoni and   
        Sara Tucci Piergiovanni   Investigating the existence and the
                                  regularity of Logarithmic Harary Graphs  2110--2121
                Yuval Lando and   
                     Zeev Nutov   Inapproximability of survivable networks 2122--2125
         M.-A. Jacob-Da Col and   
                     P. Tellier   Quasi-linear transformations and
                                  discrete tilings . . . . . . . . . . . . 2126--2134
               A. Cherubini and   
                 A. Kisielewicz   Collapsing words, permutation conditions
                                  and coherent colorings of trees  . . . . 2135--2147
          Daniel Reidenbach and   
          Johannes C. Schneider   Morphically primitive words  . . . . . . 2148--2161
                 Xingwu Liu and   
                  Zhiwei Xu and   
                  Jianzhong Pan   Classifying rendezvous tasks of
                                  arbitrary dimension  . . . . . . . . . . 2162--2173
                Amos Beimel and   
             Boaz Ben-Moshe and   
          Yehuda Ben-Shimol and   
                  Paz Carmi and   
                 Eldad Chai and   
             Itzik Kitroser and   
                      Eran Omri   Matrix columns allocation problems . . . 2174--2183
               N. Bourgeois and   
               B. Escoffier and   
                 V. Th. Paschos   Efficient approximation of min set cover 2184--2195
                   Changyuan Yu   Truthful mechanisms for two-range-values
                                  variant of unrelated scheduling  . . . . 2196--2206
           Stefano Galatolo and   
             Mathieu Hoyrup and   
         Cristóbal Rojas   A constructive Borel--Cantelli lemma.
                                  Constructing orbits with required
                                  statistical properties . . . . . . . . . 2207--2222
                    Chih-Wei Yi   Maximum scan statistics and channel
                                  assignment problems in homogeneous
                                  wireless networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 2223--2233
Benjamin Lévêque and   
Frédéric Maffray and   
                 Bruce Reed and   
              Nicolas Trotignon   Coloring Artemis graphs  . . . . . . . . 2234--2240
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
              Joachim Kneis and   
                  Joachim Kupke   Approximation hardness of deadline-TSP
                                  reoptimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2241--2249
Sándor Vágvölgyi   Deterministic bottom-up tree transducers
                                  and ground term rewrite systems  . . . . 2250--2278
    Conrado Martínez and   
               Helmut Prodinger   Moves and displacements of particular
                                  elements in Quicksort  . . . . . . . . . 2279--2284
             Shang-Wei Zhao and   
                  Xiao-Shan Gao   Minimal achievable approximation ratio
                                  for MAX-MQ in finite fields  . . . . . . 2285--2290
                    Ji Tian and   
                   Ruyan Fu and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   A best online algorithm for scheduling
                                  on two parallel batch machines . . . . . 2291--2294
                   Jan Hoffmann   Finding a tree structure in a resolution
                                  proof is NP-complete . . . . . . . . . . 2295--2300

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 24--25, May 28, 2009

                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301--2307
             Artiom Alhazov and   
                  Ion Petre and   
               Vladimir Rogojin   The parallel complexity of signed
                                  graphs: Decidability results and an
                                  improved algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 2308--2315
                   Ying Cai and   
                  Cunsheng Ding   Binary sequences with optimal
                                  autocorrelation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2316--2322
         Cristian S. Calude and   
      Helmut Jürgensen and   
                 Ludwig Staiger   Topology on words  . . . . . . . . . . . 2323--2335
       Cezar Câmpeanu and   
                Nicolae Santean   On the intersection of regex languages
                                  with regular languages . . . . . . . . . 2336--2344
           Julien Cassaigne and   
      Juhani Karhumäki and   
                  Petri Salmela   Conjugacy of finite biprefix codes . . . 2345--2351
           Matteo Cavaliere and   
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
            Gheorghe P\uaun and   
             Omer Egecioglu and   
              Mihai Ionescu and   
                 Sara Woodworth   Asynchronous spiking neural P systems    2352--2364
               Shihyen Chen and   
                     Bin Ma and   
                 Kaizhong Zhang   On the similarity metric and the
                                  distance metric  . . . . . . . . . . . . 2365--2376
         Michael Domaratzki and   
              Alexander Okhotin   State complexity of power  . . . . . . . 2377--2392
                  Lila Kari and   
         Kalpana Mahalingam and   
                Shinnosuke Seki   Twin-roots of words and their properties 2393--2400
              Dalia Krieger and   
               Avery Miller and   
            Narad Rampersad and   
             Bala Ravikumar and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   Decimations of languages and state
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401--2409
             Shuai Cheng Li and   
                        Ming Li   On two open problems of 2-interval
                                  patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410--2423
              Andrei P\uaun and   
             Mihaela P\uaun and   
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón   On the Hopcroft's minimization technique
                                  for DFA and DFCA . . . . . . . . . . . . 2424--2430
            Narad Rampersad and   
            Nicolae Santean and   
            Jeffrey Shallit and   
                 Bala Ravikumar   State complexity of unique rational
                                  operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431--2441
               Hsu-Chun Yen and   
               Chien-Liang Chen   On minimal elements of upward-closed
                                  sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2442--2452

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 26, June 6, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2453--2454
           Tobias Friedrich and   
           Nils Hebbinghaus and   
                  Frank Neumann   Comparison of simple diversity
                                  mechanisms on plateau functions  . . . . 2455--2462
                 Rahul Jain and   
                  Shengyu Zhang   New bounds on classical and quantum
                                  one-way communication complexity . . . . 2463--2477
               Xingyi Zhang and   
            Xiangxiang Zeng and   
                   Linqiang Pan   On languages generated by asynchronous
                                  spiking neural P systems . . . . . . . . 2478--2488
             Anne Broadbent and   
                  Elham Kashefi   Parallelizing quantum circuits . . . . . 2489--2510
                   Dirk Sudholt   The impact of parametrization in memetic
                                  evolutionary algorithms  . . . . . . . . 2511--2528
                  Lvzhou Li and   
                     Daowen Qiu   A note on quantum sequential machines    2529--2535
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 27--29, June 28, 2009

                 Yo-Sub Han and   
                    Kai Salomaa   State complexity of basic operations on
                                  suffix-free regular languages  . . . . . 2537--2548
           Petra Berenbrink and   
               Colin Cooper and   
                    Zengjian Hu   Energy efficient randomised
                                  communication in unknown AdHoc networks  2549--2561
                Sanjay Jain and   
                    Efim Kinber   One-shot learners using negative
                                  counterexamples and nearest positive
                                  examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2562--2580
              Chi-Shiang Su and   
       Jason Chao-Hsien Pan and   
                 Tsung-Shin Hsu   A new heuristic algorithm for the
                                  machine scheduling problem with job
                                  delivery coordination  . . . . . . . . . 2581--2591
               Mayur Thakur and   
                 Rahul Tripathi   Linear connectivity problems in directed
                                  hypergraphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2592--2618
                  Weiwei Wu and   
                 Minming Li and   
                    Enhong Chen   Optimal tree structures for group key
                                  tree management considering insertion
                                  and deletion cost  . . . . . . . . . . . 2619--2631
             Jung-Heum Park and   
                  Sang Hyuk Son   Conditional matching preclusion for
                                  hypercube-like interconnection networks  2632--2640
                Jianer Chen and   
               Iyad A. Kanj and   
                         Ge Xia   On parameterized exponential time
                                  complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2641--2648
                   David Harvey   A cache-friendly truncated FFT . . . . . 2649--2658
               Sanchit Garg and   
             Éric Schost   Interpolation of polynomials given by
                                  straight-line programs . . . . . . . . . 2659--2662
                     Bin Fu and   
                  Yumei Huo and   
                   Hairong Zhao   Exponential inapproximability and FPTAS
                                  for scheduling with availability
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663--2674
                Soonjo Hong and   
                     Sujin Shin   Cyclic renewal systems . . . . . . . . . 2675--2684
           Jean B. Lasserre and   
            Monique Laurent and   
              Philipp Rostalski   A prolongation--projection algorithm for
                                  computing the finite real variety of an
                                  ideal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685--2700
                F. De Carli and   
                 A. Frosini and   
                 S. Rinaldi and   
                       A. Sorbi   Lattices of local two-dimensional
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701--2713
           Ching-Lueh Chang and   
                  Yuh-Dauh Lyuu   Spreading messages . . . . . . . . . . . 2714--2724
                 Josep Diaz and   
          Fabrizio Grandoni and   
   Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela   Balanced cut approximation in random
                                  geometric graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2725--2731
                Zhigang Cao and   
                 Xiaoguang Yang   A PTAS for parallel batch scheduling
                                  with rejection and dynamic job arrivals  2732--2745
                   Hong Liu and   
                 Haodi Feng and   
                 Daming Zhu and   
                   Junfeng Luan   Parameterized computational complexity
                                  of control problems in voting systems    2746--2753
    Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan and   
             Behrooz Karimi and   
          S. M. T. Fatemi Ghomi   A note on minimizing makespan on a
                                  single batch processing machine with
                                  nonidentical job sizes . . . . . . . . . 2754--2758
                Yoshifumi Sakai   Computing the longest topological common
                                  subsequence of a symbol-wise totally
                                  ordered directed acyclic graph and a
                                  sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2759--2766
                N. Ollinger and   
                     G. Richard   Automata on the plane vs particles and
                                  collisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767--2773
                    Mark Rhodes   On the Chvátal rank of the Pigeonhole
                                  Principle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2774--2778
L'ubomíra Balková and   
         Edita Pelantová   A note on symmetries in the Rauzy graph
                                  and factor frequencies . . . . . . . . . 2779--2783
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 30--32, August 20, 2009

                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2785--2794
         Jean-Paul Allouche and   
            Narad Rampersad and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   Periodicity, repetitions, and orbits of
                                  an automatic sequence  . . . . . . . . . 2795--2803
              Pawe\l Baturo and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Compressed string-matching in standard
                                  Sturmian words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2804--2810
               Jean Berstel and   
                Luc Boasson and   
                 Olivier Carton   Continuant polynomials and worst-case
                                  behavior of Hopcroft's minimization
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2811--2822
         Vincent D. Blondel and   
           Julien Cassaigne and   
        Raphaël M. Jungers   On the number of $\alpha$-power-free
                                  binary words for $2 < \alpha \leq 7/3$    2823--2833
                  Dongbo Bu and   
                    Ming Li and   
             Shuai Cheng Li and   
                Jianbo Qian and   
                       Jinbo Xu   Finding compact structural motifs  . . . 2834--2839
         Michelangelo Bucci and   
               Aldo de Luca and   
             Alessandro De Luca   Characteristic morphisms of generalized
                                  episturmian words  . . . . . . . . . . . 2840--2859
         Michelangelo Bucci and   
         Alessandro De Luca and   
                   Amy Glen and   
                Luca Q. Zamboni   A new characteristic property of rich
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2860--2863
               Yann Bugeaud and   
      Christophe Reutenauer and   
                   Samir Siksek   A Sturmian sequence related to the
                                  uniqueness conjecture for Markoff
                                  numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2864--2869
         Christian Choffrut and   
               Serge Grigorieff   The ``equal last letter'' predicate for
                                  words on infinite alphabets and classes
                                  of multitape automata  . . . . . . . . . 2870--2884
               James Currie and   
                Narad Rampersad   Dejean's conjecture holds for $n \geq
                                  30$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2885--2888
             Elena Czeizler and   
            Wojciech Plandowski   On systems of word equations over three
                                  unknowns with at most six occurrences of
                                  one of the unknowns  . . . . . . . . . . 2889--2909
         Jürgen Dassow and   
      Gema M. Martín and   
              Francisco J. Vico   Some operations preserving primitivity
                                  of words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2910--2919
             J. Díaz and   
                L. Kirousis and   
                 D. Mitsche and   
 X. Pérez-Giménez   On the satisfiability threshold of
                                  formulas with three literals per clause  2920--2934
             Volker Diekert and   
                  Dalia Krieger   Some remarks about stabilizers . . . . . 2935--2946
                     A. E. Frid   Simple equations on binary factorial
                                  languages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947--2956
                Vesa Halava and   
                Jarkko Kari and   
              Yuri Matiyasevich   On post correspondence problem for
                                  letter monotonic languages . . . . . . . 2957--2960
                 Yo-Sub Han and   
                    Kai Salomaa   Nondeterministic state complexity of
                                  nested word automata . . . . . . . . . . 2961--2971
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
            Holger Petersen and   
                Georg Schnitger   On the limits of the communication
                                  complexity technique for proving lower
                                  bounds on the size of minimal NFA's  . . 2972--2981
            Oscar H. Ibarra and   
              Andrei P\uaun and   
Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón   Sequential SNP systems based on min/max
                                  spike number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2982--2991
           I. A. Mikhailova and   
                   M. V. Volkov   Pattern avoidance by palindromes . . . . 2992--2998
    François Nicolas and   
          Veli Mäkinen and   
                   Esko Ukkonen   Efficient construction of maximal and
                                  minimal representations of motifs of a
                                  string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2999--3005
                 Daowen Qiu and   
                       Sheng Yu   Hierarchy and equivalence of
                                  multi-letter quantum finite automata . . 3006--3017
            Antonio Restivo and   
                Giovanna Rosone   Burrows--Wheeler transform and
                                  palindromic richness . . . . . . . . . . 3018--3026
                R. Tijdeman and   
                  L. Q. Zamboni   Fine and Wilf words for any periods II   3027--3034
                      Anonymous   Editorial Board  . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi
                      Anonymous   Juhani Karhumaki with a capercaillie . . xi--xi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 33--34, August 21, 2009

                   G. Rozenberg   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3035--3036
             Nicola Cannata and   
               Emanuela Merelli   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3037--3038
           Cristian Versari and   
                     Nadia Busi   Stochastic biological modelling in the
                                  presence of multiple compartments  . . . 3039--3064
        Federica Ciocchetta and   
                  Jane Hillston   Bio-PEPA: a framework for the modelling
                                  and analysis of biological systems . . . 3065--3084
            Roberto Barbuti and   
           Giulio Caravagna and   
  Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini and   
                  Paolo Milazzo   An intermediate language for the
                                  stochastic simulation of biological
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3085--3109
                   Chiara Bodei   A Control Flow Analysis for Beta-binders
                                  with and without static compartments . . 3110--3127
                  J. Barnat and   
                    L. Brim and   
          I. \vCerná and   
                S. Dra\vzan and   
        J. Fabriková and   
           D. \vSafránek   On algorithmic analysis of
                                  transcriptional regulation by LTL model
                                  checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128--3148
                E. Bartocci and   
               F. Corradini and   
         M. R. Di Berardini and   
                E. Entcheva and   
               S. A. Smolka and   
                       R. Grosu   Modeling and simulation of cardiac
                                  tissue using hybrid I/O automata . . . . 3149--3165
              Luca Cardelli and   
           Emmanuelle Caron and   
           Philippa Gardner and   
Ozan Kahramano\=gullarì and   
                Andrew Phillips   A process model of Rho GTP-binding
                                  proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3166--3185
                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--vi

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 35, August 28, 2009

       Cezar Câmpeanu and   
            Giovanni Pighizzini   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3187--3187
             Artiom Alhazov and   
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú and   
  Carlos Martín-Vide and   
                 Yurii Rogozhin   On the size of computationally complete
                                  hybrid networks of evolutionary
                                  processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3188--3197
          Franziska Biegler and   
                    Kai Salomaa   On the synchronized derivation depth of
                                  context-free grammars  . . . . . . . . . 3198--3208
            Henning Bordihn and   
              Markus Holzer and   
                  Martin Kutrib   Determination of finite automata
                                  accepting subregular languages . . . . . 3209--3222
          Janusz Brzozowski and   
         Stavros Konstantinidis   State-complexity hierarchies of uniform
                                  languages of alphabet-size length  . . . 3223--3235
          Janusz Brzozowski and   
                Nicolae Santean   Predictable semiautomata . . . . . . . . 3236--3249
             Elena Czeizler and   
             Eugen Czeizler and   
                  Lila Kari and   
                    Kai Salomaa   On the descriptional complexity of
                                  Watson--Crick automata . . . . . . . . . 3250--3260
         Jürgen Dassow and   
                Ralf Stiebe and   
                  Bianca Truthe   Two collapsing hierarchies of
                                  subregularly tree controlled languages   3261--3271
  Zoltán Ésik and   
                   Yuan Gao and   
                Guangwu Liu and   
                       Sheng Yu   Estimation of state complexity of
                                  combined operations  . . . . . . . . . . 3272--3280
             Hermann Gruber and   
                  Markus Holzer   Language operations with regular
                                  expressions of polynomial size . . . . . 3281--3289
               Xiaoxue Piao and   
                    Kai Salomaa   Operational state complexity of nested
                                  word automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3290--3302

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 36, August 31, 2009

            Marios Mavronicolas   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303--3304
           Dimitris Fotakis and   
        Spyros Kontogiannis and   
          Elias Koutsoupias and   
        Marios Mavronicolas and   
                  Paul Spirakis   The structure and complexity of Nash
                                  equilibria for a selfish routing game    3305--3326
       George Christodoulou and   
          Elias Koutsoupias and   
                 Akash Nanavati   Coordination mechanisms  . . . . . . . . 3327--3336
               Costas Busch and   
            Malik Magdon-Ismail   Atomic routing games on maximum
                                  congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3337--3347
           Vincenzo Auletta and   
          Roberto De Prisco and   
                Paolo Penna and   
              Giuseppe Persiano   On designing truthful mechanisms for
                                  online scheduling  . . . . . . . . . . . 3348--3356
              Simon Fischer and   
          Berthold Vöcking   Adaptive routing with stale information  3357--3371
                B. Chitturi and   
                   W. Fahle and   
                    Z. Meng and   
                 L. Morales and   
              C. O. Shields and   
           I. H. Sudborough and   
                        W. Voit   An $(18/11) n$ upper bound for sorting
                                  by prefix reversals  . . . . . . . . . . 3372--3390
      Jaros\law Kuty\lowski and   
  Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide   Optimal strategies for maintaining a
                                  chain of relays between an explorer and
                                  a base camp  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3391--3405
           Giorgio Ausiello and   
         Paolo G. Franciosa and   
           Giuseppe F. Italiano   Small stretch $(\alpha, \beta)$-spanners
                                  in the streaming model . . . . . . . . . 3406--3413
           R. Elsässer and   
                   T. Sauerwald   On the runtime and robustness of
                                  randomized broadcasting  . . . . . . . . 3414--3427
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer and   
          Juraj Hromkovi\vc and   
  Richard Královi\vc and   
          Tobias Mömke and   
               Peter Rossmanith   Reoptimization of Steiner trees:
                                  Changing the terminal set  . . . . . . . 3428--3435

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 37, September 1, 2009

                      Jan Holub   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3437--3437
                Kai Salomaa and   
                   Sheng Yu and   
                    Jinfeng Zan   Deciding determinism of caterpillar
                                  expressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3438--3446
              Martin Kutrib and   
            Andreas Malcher and   
                Larissa Werlein   Regulated nondeterminism in pushdown
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3447--3460
         Margareta Ackerman and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   Efficient enumeration of words in
                                  regular languages  . . . . . . . . . . . 3461--3470
              M. Crochemore and   
                C. Epifanio and   
                A. Gabriele and   
                     F. Mignosi   From Nerode's congruence to suffix
                                  automata with mismatches . . . . . . . . 3471--3480
             Manfred Droste and   
                 George Rahonis   Weighted automata and weighted logics
                                  with discounting . . . . . . . . . . . . 3481--3494
             Magnus Steinby and   
C\uat\ualin Ionu\ct T\^\irn\uauc\ua   Defining syntax-directed translations by
                                  tree bimorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 3495--3503
           Nata\vsa Jonoska and   
                 Joni B. Pirnot   Finite state automata representing
                                  two-dimensional subshifts  . . . . . . . 3504--3512
                   M. V. Volkov   Synchronizing automata preserving a
                                  chain of partial orders  . . . . . . . . 3513--3519
           Marcella Anselmo and   
           Dora Giammarresi and   
                  Maria Madonia   A computational model for tiling
                                  recognizable two-dimensional languages   3520--3529
             F. Mráz and   
                    F. Otto and   
               M. Plátek   The degree of word-expansion of
                                  lexicalized RRWW-automata --- a new
                                  measure for the degree of nondeterminism
                                  of (context-free) languages  . . . . . . 3530--3538
       Johanna Högberg and   
            Andreas Maletti and   
                   Jonathan May   Backward and forward bisimulation
                                  minimization of tree automata  . . . . . 3539--3552
              Mehryar Mohri and   
               Pedro Moreno and   
               Eugene Weinstein   General suffix automaton construction
                                  algorithm and space bounds . . . . . . . 3553--3562
            Shmuel T. Klein and   
          Miri Kopel Ben-Nissan   Accelerating Boyer--Moore searches on
                                  binary texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3563--3571

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 38--40, September 6, 2009

                    Yossi Moshe   On the joint subword complexity of
                                  automatic sequences  . . . . . . . . . . 3573--3588
  Z. Masáková and   
            E. Pelantová   Relation between powers of factors and
                                  the recurrence function characterizing
                                  Sturmian words . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3589--3596
                   An Zhang and   
                Yiwei Jiang and   
                      Zhiyi Tan   Online parallel machines scheduling with
                                  two hierarchies  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3597--3605
       Johannes Müller and   
               Christoph Spandl   A Curtis--Hedlund--Lyndon theorem for
                                  Besicovitch and Weyl spaces  . . . . . . 3606--3615
               Marni Mishna and   
              Andrew Rechnitzer   Two non-holonomic lattice walks in the
                                  quarter plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3616--3630
              Wolfgang Bein and   
               Leah Epstein and   
        Lawrence L. Larmore and   
                      John Noga   Optimally competitive list batching  . . 3631--3639
      Christian Komusiewicz and   
          Falk Hüffner and   
               Hannes Moser and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Isolation concepts for efficiently
                                  enumerating dense subgraphs  . . . . . . 3640--3654
             Hanna Uscka-Wehlou   Two equivalence relations on digital
                                  lines with irrational slopes. A
                                  continued fraction approach to upper
                                  mechanical words . . . . . . . . . . . . 3655--3669
    Raphaël M. Jungers and   
       Vladimir Y. Protasov and   
             Vincent D. Blondel   Overlap-free words and spectra of
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3670--3684
               Luigi Acerbi and   
          Alberto Dennunzio and   
                Enrico Formenti   Conservation of some dynamical
                                  properties for operations on cellular
                                  automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3685--3693
              Reza Dorrigiv and   
Alejandro López-Ortiz and   
                   J. Ian Munro   On the relative dominance of paging
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3694--3701
              Toru Hasunuma and   
            Toshimasa Ishii and   
               Hirotaka Ono and   
                      Yushi Uno   An $O(n^{1.75})$ $L(2,1)$-labeling of
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3702--3710
          Franziska Biegler and   
                 Mark Daley and   
              Markus Holzer and   
                  Ian McQuillan   On the uniqueness of shuffle on words
                                  and finite languages . . . . . . . . . . 3711--3724
                 Tamir Levi and   
                     Ami Litman   Accelerating certain outputs of merging
                                  and sorting networks . . . . . . . . . . 3725--3732
                \Lukasz Kowalik   Improved edge-coloring with three colors 3733--3742
            Dominique Foata and   
                    Guo-Niu Han   New permutation coding and
                                  equidistribution of set-valued
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3743--3750
                 Omid Amini and   
Stéphane Pérennes and   
                     Ignasi Sau   Hardness and approximation of traffic
                                  grooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3751--3760
                     Min Ji and   
                 T. C. E. Cheng   Parallel-machine scheduling of simple
                                  linear deteriorating jobs  . . . . . . . 3761--3768
                  Tao Jiang and   
                Zevi Miller and   
                   Dan Pritikin   Separation numbers of trees  . . . . . . 3769--3781
             Genevi\`eve Paquin   On a generalization of Christoffel
                                  words: epichristoffel words  . . . . . . 3782--3791
             John Augustine and   
         Sudarshan Banerjee and   
                    Sandy Irani   Strip packing with precedence
                                  constraints and strip packing with
                                  release times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3792--3803
                Zi-Long Liu and   
                  Fang Tian and   
                    Jun-Ming Xu   Probabilistic analysis of upper bounds
                                  for $2$-connected distance
                                  $k$-dominating sets in graphs  . . . . . 3804--3813
               Miki Hermann and   
               Reinhard Pichler   Complexity of counting the optimal
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3814--3825
        Dominik M. Wittmann and   
             Daniel Schmidl and   
        Florian Blöchl and   
                Fabian J. Theis   Reconstruction of graphs based on random
                                  walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3826--3838
           Olaf Beyersdorff and   
       Johannes Köbler and   
                 Jochen Messner   Nondeterministic functions and the
                                  existence of optimal proof systems . . . 3839--3855
              Peter Jonsson and   
             Andrei Krokhin and   
               Fredrik Kuivinen   Hard constraint satisfaction problems
                                  have hard gaps at location 1 . . . . . . 3856--3874
                   Ming Liu and   
               Chengbin Chu and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
                  Feifeng Zheng   Online scheduling on $m$ uniform
                                  machines to minimize total (weighted)
                                  completion time  . . . . . . . . . . . . 3875--3881
            Qiang-Sheng Hua and   
               Yuexuan Wang and   
                Dongxiao Yu and   
              Francis C. M. Lau   Set multi-covering via
                                  inclusion--exclusion . . . . . . . . . . 3882--3892
            Veikko Keränen   A powerful abelian square-free
                                  substitution over $4$ letters  . . . . . 3893--3900
            Gianluigi Greco and   
            Francesco Scarcello   On the complexity of constrained Nash
                                  equilibria in graphical games  . . . . . 3901--3924
        Marek Tomasz Biskup and   
            Wojciech Plandowski   Shortest synchronizing strings for
                                  Huffman codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3925--3941
                  J. J. Liu and   
                G. S. Huang and   
                     Y. L. Wang   A fast algorithm for finding the
                                  positions of all squares in a run-length
                                  encoded string . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3942--3948
             Andrei Bulatov and   
                Martin Dyer and   
        Leslie Ann Goldberg and   
           Markus Jalsenius and   
                 David Richerby   The complexity of weighted Boolean #CSP
                                  with mixed signs . . . . . . . . . . . . 3949--3961
          Alberto Dennunzio and   
             Pierre Guillon and   
               Beno\^\it Masson   Sand automata as cellular automata . . . 3962--3974
                Kangbok Lee and   
         Joseph Y.-T. Leung and   
              Michael L. Pinedo   Online scheduling on two uniform
                                  machines subject to eligibility
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3975--3981
            Christian Mathissen   Existential MSO over two successors is
                                  strictly weaker than over linear orders  3982--3987
                Hiroki Morizumi   Limiting negations in non-deterministic
                                  circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3988--3994
Gábor Erdélyi and   
       Lane A. Hemaspaandra and   
            Jörg Rothe and   
               Holger Spakowski   Generalized juntas and NP-hard sets  . . 3995--4000

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 41, September 15, 2009

              Marco Carbone and   
        Pawe\l Soboci\'nski and   
              Frank D. Valencia   Foreword: Festschrift for Mogens
                                  Nielsen's 60th birthday  . . . . . . . . 4001--4005
             Romain Beauxis and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Probabilistic and nondeterministic
                                  aspects of anonymity . . . . . . . . . . 4006--4025
                 N. Bene\vs and   
J. K\vretínský and   
               K. G. Larsen and   
                        J. Srba   On determinism in modal transition
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4026--4043
             Filippo Bonchi and   
                  Ugo Montanari   Reactive systems, (semi-)saturated
                                  semantics and coalgebras on presheaves   4044--4066
           Ehab ElSalamouny and   
  Karl Tikjòb Krukow and   
              Vladimiro Sassone   An analysis of the exponential decay
                                  principle in probabilistic trust models  4067--4084
 Gudmund Skovbjerg Frandsen and   
          Peter Frands Frandsen   Dynamic matrix rank  . . . . . . . . . . 4085--4093
          Thomas Gazagnaire and   
              Blaise Genest and   
Lo\"\ic Hélouët and   
          P. S. Thiagarajan and   
                    Shaofa Yang   Causal Message Sequence Charts . . . . . 4094--4110
         R. J. van Glabbeek and   
                  G. D. Plotkin   Configuration structures, event
                                  structures and Petri nets  . . . . . . . 4111--4159
                  Glynn Winskel   Prime algebraicity . . . . . . . . . . . 4160--4168

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 42, September 28, 2009

               Rohit Chadha and   
             Mahesh Viswanathan   Deciding branching time properties for
                                  asynchronous programs  . . . . . . . . . 4169--4179
              Peter Niebert and   
                    Doron Peled   Efficient model checking for LTL with
                                  partial order snapshots  . . . . . . . . 4180--4189
             Lo\"\ic Colson and   
                   David Michel   Pedagogical second-order
                                  $\lambda$-calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 4190--4203
              René David   A direct proof of the confluence of
                                  combinatory strong reduction . . . . . . 4204--4215
               Viorel Preoteasa   Frame rule for mutually recursive
                                  procedures manipulating pointers . . . . 4216--4233
                  Xuxin Mao and   
                     Luoshan Xu   Meet continuity properties of posets . . 4234--4240
             Rachid Hadjidj and   
               Hanifa Boucheneb   On-the-fly TCTL model checking for time
                                  Petri nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4241--4261
       Georgios E. Fainekos and   
               George J. Pappas   Robustness of temporal logic
                                  specifications for continuous-time
                                  signals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4262--4291

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 43, October 6, 2009

          Costas Iliopoulos and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Foreword: Special issue in honor of the
                                  60th birthday of Prof. Maxime Crochemore 4293--4294
                W. F. Smyth and   
                       Shu Wang   A new approach to the periodicity lemma
                                  on strings with holes  . . . . . . . . . 4295--4302
                 Shay Mozes and   
                 Dekel Tsur and   
               Oren Weimann and   
             Michal Ziv-Ukelson   Fast algorithms for computing tree LCS   4303--4314
                 Oren Kapah and   
              Gad M. Landau and   
                Avivit Levy and   
                      Nitsan Oz   Interchange rearrangement: The
                                  element-cost model . . . . . . . . . . . 4315--4326
         Giovanni Battaglia and   
           Davide Cangelosi and   
             Roberto Grossi and   
                  Nadia Pisanti   Masking patterns in sequences: a new
                                  class of motif discovery with don't
                                  cares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4327--4340
                   Esko Ukkonen   Maximal and minimal representations of
                                  gapped and non-gapped motifs of a string 4341--4349
                  M. Salson and   
                  T. Lecroq and   
          M. Léonard and   
                    L. Mouchard   A four-stage algorithm for updating a
                                  Burrows--Wheeler transform . . . . . . . 4350--4359
         Alberto Apostolico and   
                   Fabio Cunial   The subsequence composition of a string  4360--4371
             G. Castiglione and   
                 A. Restivo and   
                   M. Sciortino   Circular Sturmian words and Hopcroft's
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4372--4381
               Amihood Amir and   
             Yonatan Aumann and   
                Piotr Indyk and   
                Avivit Levy and   
                      Ely Porat   Efficient computations of $\ell_1$ and
                                  $\ell_\infty$ rearrangement distances    4382--4390
             Maria Federico and   
                  Nadia Pisanti   Suffix tree characterization of maximal
                                  motifs in biological sequences . . . . . 4391--4401
                  Sunho Lee and   
                    Kunsoo Park   Dynamic rank/select structures with
                                  applications to run-length encoded texts 4402--4413
    Rodrigo González and   
                Gonzalo Navarro   Rank/select on dynamic compressed
                                  sequences and applications . . . . . . . 4414--4422
   Marie-Pierre Béal and   
               Dominique Perrin   Completing codes in a sofic shift  . . . 4423--4431
        Ricardo Baeza-Yates and   
 Véronique Bruy\`ere and   
          Olivier Delgrange and   
              Rodrigo Scheihing   On the size of Boyer--Moore automata . . 4432--4443

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 44, October 17, 2009

                Anna Gál   Preface: Special Issue of ICALP 2006 ---
                                  dedicated to the memory of Ingo Wegener  4445--4445
          Martin Dietzfelbinger   In memoriam: Prof. Dr. math. Ingo
                                  Wegener, 1950--2008  . . . . . . . . . . 4446--4447
                    Xi Chen and   
                   Xiaotie Deng   On the complexity of $2$D discrete fixed
                                  point problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4448--4456
             Irene Finocchi and   
          Fabrizio Grandoni and   
           Giuseppe F. Italiano   Optimal resilient sorting and searching
                                  in the presence of memory faults . . . . 4457--4470
             Dániel Marx   A parameterized view on matroid
                                  optimization problems  . . . . . . . . . 4471--4479
                Piotr Sankowski   Maximum weight bipartite matching in
                                  matrix multiplication time . . . . . . . 4480--4488
         Kamalika Chaudhuri and   
                 Satish Rao and   
        Samantha Riesenfeld and   
                   Kunal Talwar   A push--relabel approximation algorithm
                                  for approximating the minimum-degree MST
                                  problem and its generalization to
                                  matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4489--4503
                    Rolf Harren   Approximation algorithms for orthogonal
                                  packing problems for hypercubes  . . . . 4504--4532

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 45, October 28, 2009

           Rudolf Fleischer and   
                      Jinhui Xu   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4533--4533
                 Eric Angel and   
           Evripidis Bampis and   
              Laurent Gourv\`es   On the minimum hitting set of bundles
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4534--4542
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                 Ruka Tanahashi   Approximating maximum edge 2-coloring in
                                  simple graphs via local improvement  . . 4543--4553
              Nadja Betzler and   
         Michael R. Fellows and   
                  Jiong Guo and   
           Rolf Niedermeier and   
            Frances A. Rosamond   Fixed-parameter algorithms for Kemeny
                                  rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4554--4570
              Gregory Gutin and   
                Igor Razgon and   
                   Eun Jung Kim   Minimum leaf out-branching and related
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4571--4579
              Nikhil Bansal and   
              Ho-Leung Chan and   
                     Kirk Pruhs   Speed scaling with a solar cell  . . . . 4580--4587
              Naoto Miyoshi and   
           Takeya Shigezumi and   
              Ryuhei Uehara and   
                 Osamu Watanabe   Scale free interval graphs . . . . . . . 4588--4600

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 46, November 1, 2009

            Moreno Falaschi and   
        Maurizio Gabbrielli and   
           Catuscia Palamidessi   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4601--4602
                Roberto Barbuti   Giorgio Levi in Pisa . . . . . . . . . . 4603--4604
              Alessio Guglielmi   Personal portrait of Giorgio Levi  . . . 4605--4607
      María Alpuente and   
           Santiago Escobar and   
             José Iborra   Termination of narrowing revisited . . . 4608--4625
             Gianluca Amato and   
               James Lipton and   
                 Robert McGrail   On the algebraic structure of
                                  declarative programming languages  . . . 4626--4671
            Roberto Bagnara and   
           Patricia M. Hill and   
                Enea Zaffanella   Applications of polyhedral computations
                                  to the analysis and verification of
                                  hardware and software systems  . . . . . 4672--4691
                 Annalisa Bossi   S-semantics for logic programming: a
                                  retrospective look . . . . . . . . . . . 4692--4703
         Daniel Cabeza Gras and   
         Manuel V. Hermenegildo   Non-strict independence-based program
                                  parallelization using sharing and
                                  freeness information . . . . . . . . . . 4704--4723
             Patrick Cousot and   
              Radhia Cousot and   
             Roberto Giacobazzi   Abstract interpretation of
                                  resolution-based semantics . . . . . . . 4724--4746
                Chuck Liang and   
                    Dale Miller   Focusing and polarization in linear,
                                  intuitionistic, and classical logics . . 4747--4768
               Michael J. Maher   Local consistency for extended CSPs  . . 4769--4783
                  Kazunori Ueda   LMNtal as a hierarchical logic
                                  programming language . . . . . . . . . . 4784--4800

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 47--49, November 6, 2009

          Ali Çivril and   
            Malik Magdon-Ismail   On selecting a maximum volume sub-matrix
                                  of a matrix and related problems . . . . 4801--4811
               Daniel Bayer and   
                Van Bang Le and   
                H. N. de Ridder   Probe threshold and probe trivially
                                  perfect graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4812--4822
               A. Dennunzio and   
                 P. Di Lena and   
                E. Formenti and   
                     L. Margara   On the directional dynamics of additive
                                  cellular automata  . . . . . . . . . . . 4823--4833
             Pim van 't Hof and   
       Daniël Paulusma and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   Partitioning graphs into connected parts 4834--4843
            Damien Regnault and   
          Nicolas Schabanel and   
            Éric Thierry   Progresses in the analysis of stochastic
                                  $2$D cellular automata: a study of
                                  asynchronous $2$D minority . . . . . . . 4844--4855
                Shisheng Li and   
                  Jinjiang Yuan   Scheduling with families of jobs and
                                  delivery coordination under job
                                  availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4856--4863
               Tamás Kis   Scheduling multiprocessor UET tasks of
                                  two sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4864--4873
Pál Dömösi and   
 Géza Horváth and   
                Laurent Vuillon   On the Shyr--Yu theorem  . . . . . . . . 4874--4877
            Jakob Grue Simonsen   On the computational complexity of the
                                  languages of general symbolic dynamical
                                  systems and beta-shifts  . . . . . . . . 4878--4891
                   Yunbao Huang   The complexity of $C^{b \omega}$-words
                                  of the form $\tilde{w} \times w$ . . . . 4892--4904
              Yingchao Zhao and   
                   Wei Chen and   
                 Shang-hua Teng   The isolation game: a game of distances  4905--4919
                  Noga Alon and   
                       Uri Stav   Hardness of edge-modification problems   4920--4927
                  V. Arvind and   
       Johannes Köbler and   
               Wolfgang Lindner   Parameterized learnability of juntas . . 4928--4936
           Clelia De Felice and   
              Gabriele Fici and   
                  Rosalba Zizza   A characterization of regular circular
                                  languages generated by marked splicing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4937--4960
        Pedro García and   
Manuel Vázquez de Parga and   
               Antonio Cano and   
     Damián López   On locally reversible languages  . . . . 4961--4974
           Gennaro Cordasco and   
                  Luisa Gargano   Navigable Small-World networks with few
                                  random bits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4975--4988
          Elisabeth Gassner and   
             Johannes Hatzl and   
             Sven O. Krumke and   
              Heike Sperber and   
           Gerhard J. Woeginger   How hard is it to find extreme Nash
                                  equilibria in network congestion games?  4989--4999
            \Lukasz Kowalik and   
                   Marcin Mucha   Deterministic 7/8-approximation for the
                                  metric maximum TSP . . . . . . . . . . . 5000--5009
                 Jui-Yi Kao and   
            Narad Rampersad and   
                Jeffrey Shallit   On NFAs where all states are final,
                                  initial, or both . . . . . . . . . . . . 5010--5021
                   Alan J. Cain   Automaton semigroups . . . . . . . . . . 5022--5038
                   Ming Liu and   
                 Yinfeng Xu and   
               Chengbin Chu and   
                  Feifeng Zheng   Online scheduling to minimize modified
                                  total tardiness with an availability
                                  constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5039--5046
                Xingyu Chen and   
               Leah Epstein and   
                      Zhiyi Tan   Semi-online machine covering for two
                                  uniform machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 5047--5062
                   Lei Chen and   
               Changhong Lu and   
                  Zhenbing Zeng   Hardness results and approximation
                                  algorithms for (weighted)
                                  paired-domination in graphs  . . . . . . 5063--5071
                   Lei Chen and   
               Changhong Lu and   
                  Zhenbing Zeng   Distance paired-domination problems on
                                  subclasses of chordal graphs . . . . . . 5072--5081
              Tu\=gkan Batu and   
           Petra Berenbrink and   
               Christian Sohler   A sublinear-time approximation scheme
                                  for bin packing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 5082--5092
                 Eike Kiltz and   
                  David Galindo   Direct chosen-ciphertext secure
                                  identity-based key encapsulation without
                                  random oracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5093--5111
        Ji\vrí Sgall and   
             Hadas Shachnai and   
                     Tami Tamir   Periodic scheduling with obligatory
                                  vacations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5112--5121
           Soheir M. Khamis and   
             Sameh S. Daoud and   
               Hanaa A. E. Essa   A randomized algorithm for determining
                                  dominating sets in graphs of maximum
                                  degree five  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5122--5127
               J. Spoerhase and   
                    H.-C. Wirth   $(r,p)$-centroid problems on paths and
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5128--5137
  Jòrgen Bang-Jensen and   
              Matthias Kriesell   Disjoint directed and undirected paths
                                  and cycles in digraphs . . . . . . . . . 5138--5144
   Cristina T\^\irn\uauc\ua and   
              Satoshi Kobayashi   Necessary and sufficient conditions for
                                  learning with correction queries . . . . 5145--5157
        Flavio D'Alessandro and   
        Benedetto Intrigila and   
             Stefano Varricchio   The Parikh counting functions of sparse
                                  context-free languages are
                                  quasi-polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . 5158--5181
                  Wenjie Li and   
              Jinjiang Yuan and   
                 Jianfa Cao and   
                      Hailin Bu   Online scheduling of unit length jobs on
                                  a batching machine to maximize the
                                  number of early jobs with lookahead  . . 5182--5187
                    Ada Che and   
              Vladimir Kats and   
                  Eugene Levner   A note on a quadratic algorithm for the
                                  2-cyclic robotic scheduling problem  . . 5188--5190
             Art\=uras Dubickas   Binary words with a given Diophantine
                                  exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5191--5195
                Dongxiao Yu and   
               Jianfeng Hou and   
                Guizhen Liu and   
                    Bin Liu and   
                         Lan Xu   Acyclic edge coloring of planar graphs
                                  with large girth . . . . . . . . . . . . 5196--5200

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 50, November 17, 2009

               Lud\vek Ku\vcera   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5201--5201
         Markus Bläser and   
      Andreas Meyer de Voltaire   Semisimple algebras of almost minimal
                                  rank over the reals  . . . . . . . . . . 5202--5214
                Paul Bonsma and   
                  Luis Cereceda   Finding Paths between graph colourings:
                                  PSPACE-completeness and superpolynomial
                                  distances  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5215--5226
          Maxime Crochemore and   
                Lucian Ilie and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Repetitions in strings: Algorithms and
                                  combinatorics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5227--5235
          William Duckworth and   
                   Michele Zito   Large independent sets in random regular
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5236--5243
              Pascal Koiran and   
                Sylvain Perifel   VPSPACE and a transfer theorem over the
                                  complex field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5244--5251
         Luc Longpré and   
                Pierre McKenzie   The complexity of Solitaire  . . . . . . 5252--5260
             S. Nikoletseas and   
             C. Raptopoulos and   
                 P. G. Spirakis   Expander properties and the cover time
                                  of random intersection graphs  . . . . . 5261--5272
           Gábor Salamon   Approximating the Maximum Internal
                                  Spanning Tree problem  . . . . . . . . . 5273--5284
                 Seiichiro Tani   Claw finding algorithms using quantum
                                  walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5285--5297

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 51, November 28, 2009

            Paolo Ferragina and   
                  Gad M. Landau   Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5299--5299
              Anne Bergeron and   
             Julia Mixtacki and   
                     Jens Stoye   A new linear time algorithm to compute
                                  the genomic distance via the double cut
                                  and join distance  . . . . . . . . . . . 5300--5316
            Christian Hundt and   
        Maciej Li\'skiewicz and   
                 Ragnar Nevries   A combinatorial geometrical approach to
                                  two-dimensional robust pattern matching
                                  with scaling and rotation  . . . . . . . 5317--5333
               Amihood Amir and   
             Yonatan Aumann and   
                 Oren Kapah and   
                Avivit Levy and   
                      Ely Porat   Approximate string matching with address
                                  bit errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5334--5346
               Orgad Keller and   
            Tsvi Kopelowitz and   
               Moshe Lewenstein   On the longest common parameterized
                                  subsequence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5347--5353
           Johannes Fischer and   
          Veli Mäkinen and   
                Gonzalo Navarro   Faster entropy-bounded compressed suffix
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5354--5364
             Roman Kolpakov and   
               Gregory Kucherov   Searching for gapped palindromes . . . . 5365--5373
                         Bin Ma   Why greed works for shortest common
                                  superstring problem  . . . . . . . . . . 5374--5381

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 410, Number 52, December 6, 2009

                Boting Yang and   
                    Cao An Wang   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5383--5383
          Falk Hüffner and   
      Christian Komusiewicz and   
               Hannes Moser and   
               Rolf Niedermeier   Isolation concepts for clique
                                  enumeration: Comparison and
                                  computational experiments  . . . . . . . 5384--5397
                 Zhao Zhang and   
               Xiaofeng Gao and   
                       Weili Wu   PTAS for connected vertex cover in unit
                                  disk graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5398--5402
             Peter Danziger and   
            Eric Mendelsohn and   
                Lucia Moura and   
                  Brett Stevens   Covering arrays avoiding forbidden edges 5403--5414
                Zhipeng Cai and   
             Zhi-Zhong Chen and   
                     Guohui Lin   A $3.4713$-approximation algorithm for
                                  the capacitated multicast tree routing
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415--5424
              Nadja Betzler and   
               Johannes Uhlmann   Parameterized complexity of candidate
                                  control in elections and related digraph
                                  problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5425--5442
    Andreas Brandstädt and   
                    Van Bang Le   Simplicial powers of graphs  . . . . . . 5443--5454
             Marjan Marzban and   
               Qian-Ping Gu and   
                    Xiaohua Jia   Computational study on planar dominating
                                  set problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5455--5466
             S. Böcker and   
           S. Briesemeister and   
               Q. B. A. Bui and   
                       A. Truss   Going weighted: Parameterized algorithms
                                  for cluster editing  . . . . . . . . . . 5467--5480
              Zhizhang Shen and   
                     Ke Qiu and   
                    Eddie Cheng   On the surface area of the $(n, k)$-star
                                  graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5481--5490
          Jeannette Janssen and   
                 Pawe\l Pra\lat   Protean graphs with a variety of ranking
                                  schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5491--5504
               Peter Wagner and   
        Andreas Brandstädt   The complete inclusion structure of leaf
                                  power classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5505--5514
         Binay Bhattacharya and   
             Mike Burmester and   
                Yuzhuang Hu and   
         Evangelos Kranakis and   
              Qiaosheng Shi and   
                  Andreas Wiese   Optimal movement of mobile sensors for
                                  barrier coverage of a planar region  . . 5515--5528


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 412, Number 43, October 7, 2011

          David Soloveichik and   
                   Erik Winfree   Erratum to ``The computational power of
                                  Benenson automata'' [Theoret. Comput.
                                  Sci. 344 (2005) 279--297]  . . . . . . . 6112--6113

Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 412, Number 45, October 21, 2011

                    Wei Ren and   
                      Qing Zhao   A note on `Algorithms for connected set
                                  cover problem and fault-tolerant
                                  connected set cover problem' . . . . . . 6451--6454


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 475, Number ??, March 4, 2013

               Achim Blumensath   Erratum to ``On the structure of graphs
                                  in the Caucal hierarchy'' [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. \bf 400 (2008) 19--45]  . . 126--127


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 492, Number ??, June 24, 2013

         Franck van Breugel and   
            Claudio Hermida and   
             Michael Makkai and   
                  James Worrell   Addendum to ``Recursively defined metric
                                  spaces without contraction'' [Theoret.
                                  Comput. Sci. \bf 380 (1/2) (2007)
                                  143--163]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--122