Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science: Seventh Conference, Pune, India, December 17-19, 1987. Proceedings

by Kesav V. Nori (Editor)

Overview

This volume gives the proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. These conferences are organized and run by the computer science research community in India, and their purpose is to provide a forum for professional interaction between members of this research community and their counterparts in different parts of the world. The volume includes four invited papers on: - reasoning about linear constraints using parametric queries, - the parallel evaluation of classes of circuits, - a theory of commonsense visual reasoning, - natural language processing, complexity theory and logic. The 26 submitted papers are organized into sections on logic, automata and formal languages, theory of programming, parallel algorithms, geometric algorithms, concurrency, distributed computing, and semantics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540186250
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/10/1987
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #287
Edition description:	1987
Pages:	541
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Algebraic operational semantics.- On ambiguity of DTOL systems.- The equivalence problem for n-tape finite automata with simple cycles.- Relating the degree of ambiguity of finite automata to the succinctness of their representation.- Automata, games, and positive monadic theories of trees.- An algorithm for colouring perfect planar graphs.- Efficient algorithms for domination and Hamilton circuit problems on permutation graphs.- Fast parallel algorithms for the subgraph homeomorphism and the subgraph isomorphism problem for classes of planar graphs.- Improved bounds for covering general polygons with rectangles.- Submodule construction as equation solving in CCS.- Computations in undistinguished networks.- A distributed algorithm to implement n-party rendezvous.- Merge and termination in process algebra.- Parallelism and programming: A perspective.- On optimal parallelization of sorting networks.- Parallel algorithms for approximate edge colouring of simple graphs.- An optimal randomized routing algorithm for the Mesh and a class of efficient Mesh-like routing networks.- An O(n2) algorithm for fan-out free query optimization.- Weak consistency of read-only transactions: A tool to improve concurrency in heterogeneous locking prools.- Optimizing join queries in distributed databases.- Reasoning in systems of equations and inequations.- Specification=program+types.- Paraconsistent logic programming.- Semantics of distributed Horn clause programs.- The calculus of constructions : State of the art.- Modules for re-use.- Hierarchical refinement of A Z specification.- Lazy pattern matching in the ML language.- Program development using lambda abstraction.- Relativized Arthur-Merlin versus Merlin-Arthur games.- Probabilistic quantifiers vs. distrustful adversaries.- On certain bandwidth restricted versions of the satisfiability problem of propositional CNF formulas.- A look-ahead interpreter for sequential Prolog and its implementation.- Extension of weakest precondition formalism to a low level language.- Retrospection on the PQCC compiler structure.- Some recent applications of knowledge.

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science held in Pune, India in December 1988. Includes 30 papers on topics that include: algorithms, semantics, complexity, logic, and databases. No index. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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