Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

System specification and refinement in temporal logic.- Fixed points of Büchi automata.- An automata-theoretic decision procedure for Future Interval Logic.- Improving the results of static analyses of programs by local decreasing iterations.- Implicit point location in arrangements of line segments, with an application to motion planning.- An optimal algorithm for the intersection radius of a set of convex polygons.- C-sensitive triangulations approximate the minmax length triangulation.- Superpolynomial circuits, almost sparse oracles and the exponential hierarchy.- Structural average case complexity.- On bounded truth-table, conjunctive, and randomized reductions to sparse sets.- One-way functions and isomorphism conjecture.- Solving the Lagrangian dual when the number of constraints is fixed.- Superfiniteness of query answers in deductive databases: An automata-theoretic approach.- Proving polynomials positive.- An abstract interpretation scheme for groundness, freeness, and sharing analysis of logic programs.- Polymorphic typing by abstract interpretation.- The Gallina specification language: A case study.- Verification of large software systems.- Detection of unstable predicates in distributed programs.- Fast sequential and randomised parallel algorithms for rigidity and approximate min k-cut.- Approximation through local optimality: Designing networks with small degree.- Games and full Completeness for multiplicative Linear Logic.- Real-time calculi and expansion theorems.- Branching bisimulation for context-free processes.- CCS, locations and asynchronous transition systems.- Reasoning about safety and liveness properties for probabilistic processes.- String matching under a general matching relation.- On the complexity of Certified Write All Algorithms.-Selection from read-only memory and sorting with optimum data movement.- Some observations on 2-way probabilistic finite automata.- Recent developments in algorithms for the maximum-flow problem.