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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FST&TCS '96, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 1996. The volume presents 28 revised full papers selected from a total of 98 submissions; also included are four invited contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computational geometry, process algebras, program semantics, algorithms, rewriting and equational-temporal logics, complexity theory, and type theory.

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Author:   Vijay Chandru ,  V. Vinay
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   1180
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.260kg
ISBN:  

9783540620341

ISBN 10:   3540620346
Pages:   395
Publication Date:   27 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Circuit complexity before the dawn of the new millennium.- A lambda calculus with letrecs and barriers.- Tables.- Mechanized formal methods: Progress and prospects.- The parameter space of the d-step conjecture.- On the complexity of approximating Euclidean traveling salesman tours and minimum spanning trees.- Efficient computation of rectilinear geodesic voronoi neighbor in presence of obstacles.- Weak bisimulation and model checking for Basic Parallel Processes.- Testing processes for efficiency.- Regularity is decidable for normed PA processes in polynomial time.- Dynamic maintenance of shortest path trees in simple polygons.- Close approximations of minimum rectangular coverings.- A new competitive algorithm for agent searching in unknown streets.- On the design of hybrid control systems using automata models.- Constraint retraction in FD.- Winskel is (almost) right.- An optimal deterministic algorithm for online b-matching.- Tight bounds for prefetching and buffer management algorithms for parallel I/O systems.- Complexity of the gravitational method for linear programming.- Optimal and information theoretic syntactic Pattern Recognition involving traditional and transposition errors.- Minimal relative normalization in orthogonal expression reduction systems.- Trace consistency and inevitability.- Finite state implementations of knowledge-based programs.- Higher-order proof by consistency.- Advocating ownership.- Non-cancellative Boolean circuits: A generalization of monotone Boolean circuits.- Limitations of the QRQW and EREW PRAM models.- Pinpointing computation with modular queries in the Boolean hierarchy.- Characterization of the principal type of normal forms in an intersection type system.- Correcting type errors in the Curry System.- Immediate fixpoints and their use in groundness analysis.- Graph types for monadic mobile processes.

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