Complexity Theory Retrospective II (Springer Series in Statistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387949739 ISBN 13: 9780387949734

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

Readers of Complexity Theory Retrospective (published by Springer-Verlag in 1990) will remember that the collection consisted primarily of articles that first ap­ peared in preliminary form at one of the meetings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory. In particular, Complexity Theory Retrospective contained final versions of high-quality technical expository presentations, includ­ ing talks that honored Juris Hartmanis on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. We began planning for the current collection some months before the scheduled meeting in 1994 of the Tenth Annual IEEE Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory. As with the original volume, several of the papers in this book originated as presentations at one of the meetings of the Structure in Complexity Theory con­ ference. We are pleased to provide this forum for final, polished versions of these papers. As it turns out, 1994 was a watershed year for the Structures conference, for at this meeting the conference attendees voted to change the conference name to its current name, the Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complex­ ity. In voting to remove the expression "Structure in," the conferees recognized the recent explosion of techniques and results in computational complexity, and expressed concern that the original conference name might not accurately reflect the current status. We approached this volume in the same spirit.

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Synopsis

Complexity theory has been a flourishing area of research in the last ten years and currently provides one of the most active subjects for future research problems in computer science. This volume provides a survey of the subject in the form of a collection of articles written by experts that to- gether provide a comprehensive guide to research. The editors' aim has been to provide an accessible description of the current state of complexity theory,and to demonstrate the breadth of techniques and results that make the subject exciting. Thus, papers run the gamut from sublogarithmic space to exponential time and from new combinatorial techniques to interactive proof systems. As a result, researchers in computer science will find this an excellent starting point for study in the subject and a useful source of the key results known.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387949739
• ISBN 13: 9780387949734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Hemaspaandra Lane A., Selman Alan L.