Product Description: The papers in this volume were presented at the Second Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, held in February 1994 in Rome. This biannual conference series is intended to present research contributions in theory and applications of sequential, parallel, and distributed algorithms, data structures, and computational complexity...read more

Product Description: Reviewing in a systematic way the most significant results obtained in the study of computational complexity, this book follows a balanced approach which is partly algorithmic and partly structuralist, assuming a basic knowledge of computational theory, elementary logic and programming techniques...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, CIAC'97, held in Rome, Italy in March 1997. The 25 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 74 submissions; also included is an invited paper and an invited abstract...read more

Explains the operating system's hidden processes, covering memory management, the Virtual Filesystem, process creation and scheduling, signals, essential interfaces, timing, and synchronization in the kernel.