Automata, Languages, and Programming: 11th Colloquium, Antwerp, Belgium, July 16-20, 1984 (EATCS sign). Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 172)

The theory of data dependencies - An overview.- The VLSI revolution in theoretical circles.- Tuple sequences and indexes.- The complexity of cubical graphs.- P-generic sets.- Functional dependencies and disjunctive existence constraints in database relations with null values.- The algebra of recursively defined processes and the algebra of regular processes.- Algebraic specification of exception handling and error recovery by means of declarations and equations.- Building the minimal DFA for the set of all subwords of a word on-line in linear time.- The complexity and decidability of separation.- Concurrent transmissions in broadcast networks.- Linear searching for a square in a word.- Domain algebras.- Principality results about some matrix languages families.- Oriented equational clauses as a programming language.- Relational algebra operations and sizes of relations.- Some results about finite and infinite behaviours of a pushdown automaton.- On the relationship of CCS and petri nets.- Communicating finite state machines with priority channels.- A modal characterization of observational congruence on finite terms of CCS.- Communication complexity.- Space and time efficient simulations and characterizations of some restricted classes of PDAS.- A complete axiom system for algebra of closed-regular expression.- The complexity of finding minimum-length generator sequences.- On probabilistic tape complexity and fast circuits for matrix inversion problems.- On three-element codes.- Recursion depth analysis for special tree traversal algorithms.- Performance analysis of Shamir's attack on the basic Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem.- Measures of presortedness and optimal sorting algorithms.- Languages and inverse semigroups.- Area-time optimal vlsi integer multiplier with minimum computation time.- On the interpretation of infinite computations in logic programming.- A linear time algorithm to solve the single function coarsest partition problem.- Complexité des facteurs des mots infinis engendrés par morphismes itérés.- Automates boustrophedon, semi-groupe de birget et monoide inversif libre.- Probabilistic bidding gives optimal distributed resource allocation.- Partial order semantics versus interleaving semantics for CSP - like languages and its impact on fairness.- Cancellation, pumping and permutation in formal languages.- A hardware implementation of the CSP primitives and its verification.- Factorization of univariate integer polynomials by diophantine approximation and an improved basis reduction algorithm.- Robust A different approach to oracles.- Node weighted matching.- The propositional mu-calculus is elementary.- AVL-trees for localized search.- The simple roots of real-time computation hierarchies.- Computational complexity of an optical disk interface.- Encoding graphs by derivations and implications for the theory of graph grammars.- Sampling algorithms for differential batch retrieval problems (extended abstract).