Seminář z výpočetní složitosti

 Pavel Pudlák, Jiří Sgall

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz: Improved Upper Bounds on Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval.
STOC 1999: 79-88

(Referuje Martin Mares)

Daniel Kral:
Ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) and parity order decision binary diagrams have proved their importance as data structures representing Boolean functions. In addition to parity OBDDs we study their generalization which we call parity AOBDDs, give the algebraic characterization theorem and compare their minimal size to the size of parity OBDDs.
We prove the existence of node-minimal parity (A)OBDDs without arcs testing conditions x_i=0, and give an efficient algorithm for finding such parity
(A)OBDDs. We define so-called uniqueness conditions, use them to obtain a canonical form for parity OBDDs and discuss similar results for parity AOBDDs.
Algorithms for minimalization and finding the form which satisfies the uniqueness conditions for parity OBDDs running in time O(S^3) and for parity AOBDDs running in time O(nS^3) are presented; both the algorithms are quite simple.
All our results are also extended to the case of shared parity OBDDs and shared parity AOBDDs - data structures for representation of Boolean function sequences. Valiantovy výsledky o použití argumentu z teorie grafů pro dolní odhady na Booleovské obvody.

(referuje P. Pudlak)

S. Žák: Branching programy s omezenou neurcitosti.
Netradicni pohled na sekvencni pocitani. Nova metoda dolnich odhadu pro obecne branching programy. Pokus o zachyceni pojmu "jednoducha" funkce. Dolni meze. Miklos Ajtai: Determinism versus Non-Determinism for Linear Time RAMs with Memory Restrictions
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, ECCC Report TR98-077, 1998

Miklos Ajtai: A Non-linear Time Lower Bound for Boolean Branching Programs
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, ECCC Report TR99-026, 1999

(referuje P. Pudlak a J. Sgall)

Úvodní seminář bude úvod do branching programů (přednese buď Pavel Pudlák nebo já), abychom se pak mohli pustit do Ajtaiova nového dolního odhadu.