Peter Ruzicka - Böcker

With the rapid developments in hardware technologies, distributed computing and the interconnected world became realities, and the term "communication" became central in computer science. Solving communication tasks under different circumstances is the topic of this textbook. It provides an introduction to the theory of design and the analysis of algorithms for the dissemination of information in interconnection networks, with a special emphasis on broadcast and gossip. The book starts with the classic telegraph and telephone communication modes and follows the technology up to optical switches. Despite the rigorous presentation, simplicity and transparency are the main learning features of this book. All ideas, concepts, algorithms, analyses and arguments are first explained in an informal way in order to develop the right intuition, and then they are carefully specified in detail. This makes the content accessible for beginners as well as specialists.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM 2001, held in Piestany, Slovak Republic, in November/December 2001. Teh volume presents 12 invited lectures and one keynote paper by leading researchers together with 18 revised full research papers selected from 46 submissions. The papers span the whole range of informatics with emphasis on trends in informatics, enabling technologies for global computing, and practical systems engineering.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Computer Science, MFCS '94, held in Kosice, Slovakia in August 1994.MFCS '94 brought together specialists in theoretical fields of computer science from various countries in order to stimulate mathematical research in theoretical computer science. Besides 12 papers based on invited talks by renowned experts, the book contains 42 research contributions selected from a total of 112 submissions. All areas of theoretical computer science are presented, some from a particular mathematical point of view.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS '97, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in August 1997.The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 94 submissions. Also included are nine invited papers and two abstracts of invited talks. The papers cover the whole range of theoretical computer science including programming theory, complexity theory, mathematical logic, rewriting, grammars, formal languages, theory of algorithms, computational graph theory, etc.