Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2009: 34th International Symposium, MFCS 2009, Novy Smokovec, High Tatras, Slovakia, August 24-28, 2009, [Paperback]

Invited Papers.- Four Subareas of the Theory of Constraints, and Their Links.- Synchronization of Regular Automata.- Stochastic Process Creation.- Stochastic Games with Finitary Objectives.- Stochastic Data Streams.- Recent Advances in Population Protocols.- How to Sort a Train.- Contributed Papers.- Arithmetic Circuits, Monomial Algebras and Finite Automata.- An Improved Approximation Bound for Spanning Star Forest and Color Saving.- Energy-Efficient Communication in Multi-interface Wireless Networks.- Private Capacities in Mechanism Design.- Towards a Dichotomy of Finding Possible Winners in Elections Based on Scoring Rules.- Sampling Edge Covers in 3-Regular Graphs.- Balanced Paths in Colored Graphs.- Few Product Gates But Many Zeros.- Branching Programs for Tree Evaluation.- A Dichotomy Theorem for Polynomial Evaluation.- DP-Complete Problems Derived from Extremal NP-Complete Properties.- The Synchronization Problem for Locally Strongly Transitive Automata.- Constructing Brambles.- Self-indexed Text Compression Using Straight-Line Programs.- Security and Tradeoffs of the Akl-Taylor Scheme and Its Variants.- Parameterized Complexity Classes under Logical Reductions.- The Communication Complexity of Non-signaling Distributions.- How to Use Spanning Trees to Navigate in Graphs.- Representing Groups on Graphs.- Admissible Strategies in Infinite Games over Graphs.- A Complexity Dichotomy for Finding Disjoint Solutions of Vertex Deletion Problems.- Future-Looking Logics on Data Words and Trees.- A By-Level Analysis of Multiplicative Exponential Linear Logic.- Hyper-minimisation Made Efficient.- Regular Expressions with Counting: Weak versus Strong Determinism.- Choosability of P 5-Free Graphs.- Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity and Solovay Functions.- The Longest Path Problem Is Polynomial on Interval Graphs.- Synthesis for Structure Rewriting Systems.- On the Hybrid Extension of CTL and CTL?+?.- Bounds on Non-surjective Cellular Automata.- FO Model Checking on Nestel“+