Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2010

New Developments in Quantum Algorithms.- Persistent Homology under Non-uniform Error.- Information Complexity of Online Problems.- Algorithmic Lower Bounds for Problems on Decomposable Graphs.- Do We Really Understand the Crossing Numbers?.- Balanced Queries: Divide and Conquer.- Slowly Synchronizing Automata and Digraphs.- Weights of Exact Threshold Functions.- Proof Systems and Transformation Games.- Scheduling Real-Time Mixed-Criticality Jobs.- A dexptime-Complete Dolev-Yao Theory with Distributive Encryption.- On Problem Kernels for Possible Winner Determination under the k-Approval Protocol.- Counting Minimum (s,t)-Cuts in Weighted Planar Graphs in Polynomial Time.- Finding Best Swap Edges Minimizing the Routing Cost of a Spanning Tree.- Improved Approximability and Non-approximability Results for Graph Diameter Decreasing Problems.- Distance Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Faster Algorithms on Branch and Clique Decompositions.- Exponential Space Complexity for Symbolic Maximum Flow Algorithms in 0-1 Networks.- Robust Computations with Dynamical Systems.- On Factor Universality in Symbolic Spaces.- Toward a Deterministic Polynomial Time Algorithm with Optimal Additive Query Complexity.- Resource Combinatory Algebras.- Randomness for Free.- Qualitative Analysis of Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes.- All Symmetric Predicates in NSPACE(n 2) Are Stably Computable by the Mediated Population Protocol Model.- Online Clustering with Variable Sized Clusters.- Deterministic Rendezvous of Asynchronous Bounded-Memory Agents in Polygonal Terrains.- Counting Classes and the Fine Structure between NC 1 and L.- The Average Complexity of Moore's State Minimization Algorithm Is O( n loglogn).- Connected Searching of Weighted Trees.- Iterated Regret Minimization inGame Graphs.- Properties of Visibly Pushdown Transducers.- Second-Order Algebraic Theories.- Frame Definability for Classes of Trees in the ?-calculus.- Evaluating Non-square Sparse Bilinear Forms on Multiple Vector Pairs in the I/O-Model.- Finding and Counting Vertex-Colored Subtrees.- Limiting Negations in Bounded Treewidth and Upward Planar Circuits.- On the Topological Complexity of MSO+U and Related Automata Models.- Least and Greatest Solutions of Equations over Sets of Integers.- Improved Simulation of Nondeterministic Turing Machines.- The Prize-Collecting Edge Dominating Set Problem in Trees.- The Multivariate Resultant Is NP-hard in Any Characteristic.- Parameterized Complexity and Kernelizability of Max Ones and Exact Ones Problems.- Meta-Envy-Free Cake-Cutting Protocols.- Two Variables and Two Successors.- Harnessing ML F with the Power of System F.- Describing Average- and Longtime-Behavior by Weighted MSO Logics.- Solving minones-2-sat as Fast as vertex cover.- Unambiguous Finite Automata over a Unary Alphabet.- The Complexity of Finding Reset Words in Finite Automata.- Does Treewidth Help in Modal Satisfiability?.- Asynchronous Omega-Regular Games with Partial Information.- Parity Games with Partial Information Played on Graphs of Bounded Complexity.- Revisiting Ackermann-Hardness for Lossy Counter Machines and Reset Petri Nets.- Enumeration of the Monomials of a Polynomial and Related Complexity Classes.- Faster Approximation Schemes and Parameterized Algorithms on H-Minor-Free and Odd-Minor-Free Graphs.- Semi-linear Parikh Images of Regular Expressions via Reduction.- Breaking the Rectangle Bound Barrier against Formula Size Lower Bounds.- Mesh Deformation of Dynamic Smooth Manifolds with Surface Correspondences.- Counting Dependent and IndependentStrings.- Impossibility of Independence Amplification in Kolmogorov Complexity Theory.