Theoretical Computer Science

This volume commemorates Shimon Even, one of founding fathers of Computer Science in Israel, who passed away on May 1, 2004. This Festschrift contains research contributions, surveys and educational essays in theoretical computer science, written by former students and close collaborators of Shimon. The essays address natural computational problems and are accessible to most researchers in theoretical computer science.

Inhalt

The Reduced Automata Technique for Graph Exploration Space Lower Bounds.- Concurrent Zero-Knowledge with Timing, Revisited.- Fair Bandwidth Allocation Without Per-Flow State.- Optimal Flow Distribution Among Multiple Channels with Unknown Capacities.- Parceling the Butterfly and the Batcher Sorting Network.- An Application Intersection Marketing Ontology.- How to Leak a Secret: Theory and Applications of Ring Signatures.- A New Related Message Attack on RSA.- A Tale of Two Methods.- Dinitz' Algorithm: The Original Version and Even's Version.- Survey of Disjoint NP-pairs and Relations to Propositional Proof Systems.- On Promise Problems: A Survey.- A Pebble Game for Internet-Based Computing.- On Teaching Fast Adder Designs: Revisiting Ladner & Fischer.- On Teaching the Basics of Complexity Theory.- State.