Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Planar point location revisited (A guided tour of a decade of research).- Computing a viewpoint of a set of points inside a polygon.- Analysis of preflow push algorithms for maximum network flow.- A new linear algorithm for the two path problem on chordal graphs.- Extending planar graph algorithms to K 3,3-free graphs.- Constant-space string-matching.- Inherent nonslicibility of rectangular duals in VLSI floorplanning.- Path planning with local information.- Linear broadcast routing.- Predicting deadlock in store-and-forward networks.- On parallel sorting and addition with concurrent writes.- An optimal parallel algorithm for sorting presorted files.- Superlinear speedup in parallel state-space search.- Circuit definitions of nondeterministic complexity classes.- Non-uniform proof systems: A new framework to describe non-uniform and probabilistic complexity classes.- Padding, commitment and self-reducibility.- The complexity of a counting finite-state automaton.- A hierarchy theorem for pram-based complexity classes.- A natural deduction treatment of operational semantics.- Uniformly applicative structures, a theory of computability and polyadic functions.- A proof technique for register atomicity.- Relation level semantics.- A constructive set theory for program development.- McCarthy's amb cannot implement fair merge.- GHC - A language for a new age of parallel programming.- Accumulators: New logic variable abstractions for functional languages.- A resolution rule for well-formed formulae.- Algebraic and operational semantics of positive/negative conditional algebraic specifications.- Semi-unification.- A method to check knowledge base consistency.- Knowledgebases as structured theories.- On functional independencies.- A generic algorithm for transaction processing during network partitioning.