Computation, physics and beyond International Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science, WTCS 2012 dedicated to Cristian S. Calude on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Auckland, New Zealand, February 21-24, 2012 : revised selected and invited papers / Michael J. Dinneen, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, André Nies (eds.).

Other author/creatorCalude, Cristian, 1952-
Other author/creatorDinneen, M. J., 1957-
Other author/creatorKhoussainov, Bakhadyr, 1961-
Other author/creatorNies, André.
SeriesLNCS sublibrary. SL 1, Theoretical computer science and general issues
Lecture notes in computer science, 0302-9743 ; 7160. Festschrift
Lecture notes in computer science ; 7160. ^A466336
Lecture notes in computer science. Festschrift. ^A601151
Contents The art of reaching the age of sixty / Solomon Marcus -- Calude as father of one of the computer science journals / Hermann Mauer -- Random semicomputable reals revisited / Laurent Bienvenu and Alexander Shen -- Constructing the infimum of two projections / Douglas S. Bridges and Luminita S. Vîţă -- Bounded randomness / Paul Brodhead, Rod Downey, and Keng Meng Ng -- A note on blum static complexity measures / Cezar Câmpeanu -- A program-size complexity measure for mathematical problems and conjectures / Michael J. Dinneen -- On degrees of randomness and genetic randomness / Monica Dumitrescu -- Hartmanis-Stearns conjecture on real time and transcendence / Rūsin̦š Freivalds -- Learning families of closed sets in matroids / Ziyuan Gao, Frank Stephan, Guohua Wu, and Akihiro Yamamoto -- Invariance and universality of complexity / Helmut Jürgensen -- Demuth's path to randomness / Antonín Kuc̆era and André Nies -- A computability challenge: asymptotic bounds for error-correcting codes / Yuri I. Manin -- Some transfinite generalisations of Gödel's incompleteness theorem / Jacques Patarin -- On oscillation-free chaitin h-random sequences / Ludwig Staiger -- Phase transition between unidirectionality and bidirectionality / Koktaro Tadaki -- Computer runtimes and the length of proofs: with an algorithmic probabilistic application to waiting times in automatic theorem proving / Hector Zenil -- Symmetry of information: a closer look / Marius Zimand -- How much information can there be in a real number? / Gregory Chaitin -- Mathematics, metaphysics and the multiverse / S. Barry Cooper -- Exponential decay in quantum mechanics / V. Kruglov, K.A. Makarov, B. Pavlov, and A. Yafyasov -- Randomness increases order in biological evolution / Giuseppe Longo and Maël Montévil -- Haunted quantum contextuality versus value indefiniteness / Karl Svozil -- Is the Universe like [pie] or [omega]? / Stephen Wolfram -- Outerplanar graphs and Delaunay triangulations / Ashraful Alam, Igor Rivin, and Ileana Streinu -- Representing reaction systems by trees / R. Brijder, A. Ehrenfeucht, and G. Rozenberg -- Derivatives of regular expressions and an application / Haiming Chen and Sheng Yu -- Triangular and hexagonal tile self-assembly systems / Lila Kari, Shinnosuke Seki, and Zhi Xu -- dP automata versus right-linear simple matrix grammars / Gheorghe Păun and Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez -- State complexity of Kleene-Star operations on trees / Xiaoxue Piao and Kai Salomaa -- Composition sequences and synchronizing automata / Arto Salomaa -- On the connected partition dimension of a wheel related graph / Ioan Tomescu.
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