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Information Theory, Combinatorics, and Search Theory

In Memory of Rudolf Ahlswede

  • Provides a comprehensive picture of the vision Rudolf Ahlswede had and put forward of a broad and systematic theory of search
  • One third of the papers originated in framework of the ZiF cooperation group "Search Methodologies"
  • Includes obituaries and several stories and anecdotes to Rudolf Ahlswede's life

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7777)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Information Theory

    1. Strong Secrecy for Multiple Access Channels

      • Moritz Wiese, Holger Boche
      Pages 71-122
    2. Capacity Results for Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels

      • Igor Bjelaković, Holger Boche, Jochen Sommerfeld
      Pages 123-144
    3. On Oblivious Transfer Capacity

      • Rudolf Ahlswede, Imre Csiszár
      Pages 145-166
    4. Uniformly Generating Origin Destination Tables

      • David M. Einstein, Lee K. Jones
      Pages 209-216
    5. Identification via Quantum Channels

      • Andreas Winter
      Pages 217-233
    6. Classical-Quantum Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channel

      • Vladimir Blinovsky, Minglai Cai
      Pages 234-246
    7. Arbitrarily Varying and Compound Classical-Quantum Channels and a Note on Quantum Zero-Error Capacities

      • Igor Bjelaković, Holger Boche, Gisbert Janßen, Janis Nötzel
      Pages 247-283
    8. How to Read a Randomly Mixed Up Message

      • Matthias Löwe
      Pages 298-312
    9. Multiple Objects: Error Exponents in Hypotheses Testing and Identification

      • Evgueni Haroutunian, Parandzem Hakobyan
      Pages 313-345
  3. Combinatorics

    1. Family Complexity and VC-Dimension

      • Christian Mauduit, András Sárközy
      Pages 346-363
    2. The Restricted Word Shadow Problem

      • Rudolf Ahlswede, Vladimir Lebedev
      Pages 364-370
    3. Mixed Orthogonal Arrays, k-Dimensional M-Part Sperner Multifamilies, and Full Multitransversals

      • Harout Aydinian, Éva Czabarka, László A. Székely
      Pages 371-401
    4. Generic Algorithms for Factoring Strings

      • David E. Daykin, Jacqueline W. Daykin, Costas S. Iliopoulos, W. F. Smyth
      Pages 402-418
    5. On Data Recovery in Distributed Databases

      • Sergei L. Bezrukov, Uwe Leck, Victor P. Piotrowski
      Pages 419-431

About this book

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Ahlswede, who passed away in December 2010. The Festschrift contains 36 thoroughly refereed research papers from a memorial symposium, which took place in July 2011.

The four macro-topics of this workshop: theory of games and strategic planning; combinatorial group testing and database mining; computational biology and string matching; information coding and spreading and patrolling on networks; provide a comprehensive picture of the vision Rudolf Ahlswede put forward of a broad and systematic theory of search.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Harout Aydinian, Christian Deppe

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Ferdinando Cicalese

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