Theory and Applications of Models of Computation

Plenary Lectures.- On-Line Algorithms, Real Time, the Virtue of Laziness, and the Power of Clairvoyance.- Similarity of Objects and the Meaning of Words.- Totally ? ? Computably Enumerable and m-topped Degrees.- Mitosis in Computational Complexity.- Models of Intuitionistic Set Theories over Partial Combinatory Algebras.- Width Versus Size in Resolution Proofs.- Recent Progress in Quantum Computational Complexity.- Algorithm.- On Several Scheduling Problems with Rejection or Discretely Compressible Processing Times.- LS-SVM Based on Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization with Simulated Annealing.- A Bounded Item Bin Packing Problem over Discrete Distribution.- Scheduling Jobs on a Flexible Batching Machine: Model, Complexity and Algorithms.- Faster Algorithms for Sorting by Transpositions and Sorting by Block-Interchanges.- An ACO-Based Approach for Task Assignment and Scheduling of Multiprocessor Control Systems.- Adversary Immune Size Approximation of Single-Hop Radio Networks.- On Load-Balanced Semi-matchings for Weighted Bipartite Graphs.- Analyzing Chain Programs over Difference Constraints.- Linear-Time 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Watchman Route Problem.- Further Properties of Cayley Digraphs and Their Applications to Interconnection Networks.- Real Time Critical Edge of the Shortest Path in Transportation Networks.- Finding Min-Sum Disjoint Shortest Paths from a Single Source to All Pairs of Destinations.- A New Approximation Algorithm for the k-Facility Location Problem.- Computational Complexity.- Alternative Measures of Computational Complexity with Applications to Agnostic Learning.- Disjoint NP-Pairs from Propositional Proof Systems.- Valiant's Holant Theorem and Matchgate Tensors.- Variable Minimal Unsatisfiability.- A New Lower Bound of CriticalFunction for (k,s)-SAT.- Cluster Computing and the Power of Edge Recognition.- Quadratic Lower Bounds on Matrix Rigidity.- Non-reducible Descriptions for Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity.- Generalized Counters and Reversal Complexity.- Multisource Algorithmic Information Theory.- Block Sensitivity of Weakly Symmetric Functions.- Optimization Problems in the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy.- #3-Regular Bipartite Planar Vertex Cover is #P-Complete.- Group Theory Based Synthesis of Binary Reversible Circuits.- On Some Complexity Issues of NC Analytic Functions.- Learning Theory.- Learning Juntas in the Presence of Noise.- Grey Reinforcement Learning for Incomplete Information Processing.- On the Foundations of Universal Sequence Prediction.- Some Recent Results in U-Shaped Learning.- Learning Overcomplete Representations with a Generalized Gaussian Prior.- On PAC Learning Algorithms for Rich Boolean Function Classes.- On-Line Regression Competitive with Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.- Inductive Inference and Language Learning.- Time Series Predictions Using Multi-scale Support Vector Regressions.- Bioinformatics.- Identification and Comparison of Motifs in Brain-Specific and Muscle-Specific Alternative Splicing.- On Probe Permutation Graphs.- Automatic Classification of Protein Structures Based on Convex Hull Representation by Integrated Neural Network.- Protein Structure Comparison Based on a Measure of Information Discrepancy.- Succinct Text Indexes on Large Alphabet.- Security.- Identity-Based Threshold Proxy Signature Scheme with Known Signers.- Secure Computations in a Minimal Model Using Multiple-Valued ESOP Expressions.- Formal Method.- Towards Practical Computable Functions on Context-Free Languages.- The Extended Probabilistic Powerdomain Monad over Stably CompactSpaces.- Analysis of Properties of Petri Synthesis Net.- A Tree Construction of the Preferable Answer Sets for Prioritized Basic Disjunctive Logic Programs.- Object-Oriented Specification Composition and Refinement Via Category Theoretic Computations.- Improved SAT Based Bounded Model Checking.- Models of Computation.- Encodings and Arithmetic Operations in Membrane Computing.- The General Purpose Analog Computer and Computable Analysis are Two Equivalent Paradigms of Analog Computation.- Forecasting Black Holes in Abstract Geometrical Computation is Highly Unpredictable.- The Trade-Off Theorem and Fragments of Gödel's T.- On Non-binary Quantum BCH Codes.- Maximal Models of Assertion Graph in GSTE.- Computatability.- Immunity Properties and the n-C.E. Hierarchy.- On Rogers Semilattices.- Invertible Classes.- Universal Cupping Degrees.- On the Quotient Structure of Computably Enumerable Degrees Modulo the Noncuppable Ideal.- Enumeration Degrees of the Bounded Total Sets.- A Generic Set That Does Not Bound a Minimal Pair.- Lowness for Weakly 1-generic and Kurtz-Random.- On Differences Among Elementary Theories of Finite Levels of Ershov Hierarchies.- Computable Mathematics.- On Mass Problems of Presentability.- Beyond the First Main Theorem - When Is the Solution of a Linear Cauchy Problem Computable?.