SOFSEM 2015: Theory and Practice of Computer Science

Keynote Talk.- What is Computation: An Epistemic Approach.- Foundations of Computer Science.- Progress (and Lack Thereof) for Graph Coloring Approximation Problems.- Recent Results in Scalable Multi-Party Computation.- Online Bipartite Matching in Offline Time (Abstract).- Software & Web Engineering.- Quo Vadis Explicit-State Model Checking.- The Dos and Dont's of Crowdsourcing Software Development.- Data, Information and Knowledge Engineering.- Adaptively Approximate Techniques in Distributed Architectures.- Back to the Future - Should SQL Surrender to SPARQL?.- Foundations of Computer Science.- Balancing Energy Consumption for the Establishment of Multi-interface Networks.- The Maximum k-Differential Coloring Problem.- Exact Algorithms for 2-clustering with Size Constraints in the Euclidean Plane.- Local Routing in Convex Subdivisions.- Nondeterministic Modal Interfaces.- Group Search on the Line.- Online Makespan Scheduling with Sublinear Advice.- Deterministic Rendezvous in Restricted Graphs.- Fastest, Average and Quantile Schedule.- Machine Characterizations for Parameterized Complexity Classes Beyond Para-NP.- Maximally Permissive Controlled System Synthesis for Modal Logic.- Approximation Hardness of the Cross-Species Conserved Active Modules Detection Problem.- Finding Highly Connected Subgraphs.- Fixing Improper Colorings of Graphs.- Efficient Online Strategies for Renting Servers in the Cloud.- Palk is Linear Recognizable Online.- Two Grammatical Equivalents of Flip-Pushdown Automata.- On the Hierarchy Classes of Finite Ultrametric Automata.- Nash-Williams-type and Chvat´al-type Conditions in One-Conflict Graphs. -Optimal State Reductions of Automata with Partially Specified Behaviors. -Quantum Pushdown Automata with a Garbage Tape.- Towards a Characterization of Leaf Powers by Clique Arrangements.- Filling Logarithmic Gaps in Distributed Complexity for Global Problems.- On Visibly Pushdown Trace Languages.- Dominating an s-t-Cut in a Network.-