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Volume 16, Number 4, May 13, 1983
Volume 25, Number 3, May 29, 1987
Volume 27, Number 3, March 25, 1988
Volume 30, Number 4, February 27, 1989
Volume 32, Number 3, August 24, 1989
Volume 32, Number 5, September 22, 1989
Volume 33, Number 5, January 10, 1990
Volume 33, Number 6, February 10, 1990
Volume 34, Number 1, February 22, 1990
Volume 34, Number 2, March 16, 1990
Volume 34, Number 3, April 9, 1990
Volume 34, Number 4, April 24, 1990
Volume 34, Number 5, May 7, 1990
Volume 34, Number 6, May 28, 1990
Volume 35, Number 1, June 15, 1990
Volume 35, Number 2, June 29, 1990
Volume 35, Number 3, July 20, 1990
Volume 35, Number 4, August 7, 1990
Volume 35, Number 5, August 28, 1990
Volume 35, Number 6, September 15, 1990
Volume 36, Number 1, October 1, 1990
Volume 36, Number 2, October 15, 1990
Volume 36, Number 3, November 1, 1990
Volume 36, Number 4, November 15, 1990
Volume 36, Number 5, December 1, 1990
Volume 36, Number 6, December 15, 1990
Volume 37, Number 1, January 10, 1991
Volume 37, Number 2, January 31, 1991
Volume 37, Number 3, February 18, 1991
Volume 37, Number 4, February 28, 1991
Volume 37, Number 5, March 14, 1991
Volume 37, Number 6, March 28, 1991
Volume 38, Number 1, April 12, 1991
Volume 38, Number 2, April 26, 1991
Volume 38, Number 3, May 17, 1991
Volume 38, Number 4, May 31, 1991
Volume 38, Number 5, June 14, 1991
Volume 38, Number 6, June 28, 1991
Volume 39, Number 1, July 12, 1991
Volume 39, Number 2, July 31, 1991
Volume 39, Number 3, August 16, 1991
Volume 39, Number 4, August 30, 1991
Volume 39, Number 5, September 13, 1991
Volume 39, Number 6, September 27, 1991
Volume 40, Number 1, October 11, 1991
Volume 40, Number 2, October 25, 1991
Volume 40, Number 3, November 8, 1991
Volume 40, Number 4, November 25, 1991
Volume 40, Number 5, December 13, 1991
Volume 40, Number 6, December 30, 1991
Volume 41, Number 1, January 21, 1992
Volume 41, Number 2, February 14, 1992
Volume 41, Number 3, March 6, 1992
Volume 41, Number 4, March 18, 1992
Volume 41, Number 5, April 3, 1992
Volume 41, Number 6, April 17, 1992
Volume 42, Number 1, April 27, 1992
Volume 42, Number 2, May 11, 1992
Volume 42, Number 3, May 25, 1992
Volume 42, Number 4, June 19, 1992
Volume 42, Number 5, July 3, 1992
Volume 42, Number 6, July 24, 1992
Volume 43, Number 1, August 10, 1992
Volume 43, Number 2, August 24, 1992
Volume 43, Number 3, September 14, 1992
Volume 43, Number 4, September 28, 1992
Volume 43, Number 5, October 5, 1992
Volume 43, Number 6, October 19, 1992
Volume 44, Number 1, November 9, 1992
Volume 44, Number 2, November 19, 1992
Volume 44, Number 3, November 30, 1992
Volume 44, Number 4, December 10, 1992
Volume 44, Number 5, December 21, 1992
Volume 44, Number 6, December 28, 1992
Volume 45, Number 1, January 25, 1993
Volume 45, Number 2, February 26, 1993
Volume 45, Number 3, March 8, 1993
Volume 45, Number 4, March 22, 1993
Volume 45, Number 5, April 2, 1993
Volume 45, Number 6, April 16, 1993
Volume 46, Number 1, April 29, 1993
Volume 46, Number 2, May 17, 1993
Volume 46, Number 3, June 11, 1993
Volume 46, Number 4, June 25, 1993
Volume 46, Number 5, July 9, 1993
Volume 46, Number 6, July 26, 1993
Volume 47, Number 1, August 9, 1993
Volume 47, Number 2, August 20, 1993
Volume 47, Number 3, September 14, 1993
Volume 47, Number 4, September 27, 1993
Volume 47, Number 5, October 8, 1993
Volume 47, Number 6, October 18, 1993
Volume 48, Number 1, October 29, 1993
Volume 48, Number 2, November 8, 1993
Volume 48, Number 3, November 19, 1993
Volume 48, Number 4, November 29, 1993
Volume 48, Number 5, December 10, 1993
Volume 48, Number 6, December 20, 1993
Volume 49, Number 1, January 14, 1994
Volume 49, Number 2, January 28, 1994
Volume 49, Number 3, February 11, 1994
Volume 49, Number 4, February 25, 1994
Volume 49, Number 5, March 11, 1994
Volume 49, Number 6, March 22, 1994
Volume 50, Number 1, April 8, 1994
Volume 50, Number 2, April 22, 1994
Volume 50, Number 3, May 9, 1994
Volume 50, Number 4, May 25, 1994
Volume 50, Number 5, June 10, 1994
Volume 50, Number 6, June 27, 1994
Volume 51, Number 1, July 12, 1994
Volume 51, Number 2, July 26, 1994
Volume 51, Number 3, August 10, 1994
Volume 51, Number 4, August 24, 1994
Volume 51, Number 5, September 12, 1994
Volume 51, Number 6, September 26, 1994
Volume 52, Number 1, October 14, 1994
Volume 52, Number 2, October 28, 1994
Volume 52, Number 3, November 11, 1994
Volume 52, Number 4, November 25, 1994
Volume 52, Number 5, December 9, 1994
Volume 52, Number 6, December 23, 1994
Volume 53, Number 1, January 13, 1995
Volume 53, Number 2, January 27, 1995
Volume 53, Number 3, February 10, 1995
Volume 53, Number 4, February 24, 1995
Volume 53, Number 5, March 10, 1995
Volume 53, Number 6, March 24, 1995
Volume 54, Number 1, April 14, 1995
Volume 54, Number 2, April 28, 1995
Volume 54, Number 3, May 12, 1995
Volume 54, Number 4, May 26, 1995
Volume 54, Number 5, June 9, 1995
Volume 54, Number 6, June 23, 1995
Volume 55, Number 1, July 7, 1995
Volume 55, Number 2, July 21, 1995
Volume 55, Number 3, August 11, 1995
Volume 55, Number 4, August 25, 1995
Volume 55, Number 5, September 15, 1995
Volume 55, Number 6, September 29, 1995
Volume 56, Number 1, October 13, 1995
Volume 56, Number 2, October 27, 1995
Volume 56, Number 3, November 10, 1995
Volume 56, Number 4, November 24, 1995
Volume 56, Number 5, December 8, 1995
Volume 56, Number 6, December 22, 1995
Volume 57, Number 1, January 15, 1996
Volume 57, Number 2, January 29, 1996
Volume 57, Number 3, February 12, 1996
Volume 57, Number 4, February 26, 1996
Volume 57, Number 5, March 11, 1996
Volume 57, Number 6, March 25, 1996
Volume 58, Number 1, April 8, 1996
Volume 58, Number 2, May 13, 1996
Volume 58, Number 3, May 13, 1996
Volume 58, Number 4, May 27, 1996
Volume 58, Number 5, June 10, 1996
Volume 58, Number 6, June 24, 1996
Volume 59, Number 1, July 8, 1996
Volume 59, Number 2, July 22, 1996
Volume 59, Number 3, August 12, 1996
Volume 59, Number 4, August 26, 1996
Volume 59, Number 5, September 9, 1996
Volume 59, Number 6, September 23, 1996
Volume 60, Number 1, October 14, 1996
Volume 60, Number 2, October 28, 1996
Volume 60, Number 3, November 11, 1996
Volume 60, Number 4, November 25, 1996
Volume 60, Number 5, December 8, 1996
Volume 60, Number 6, December 23, 1996
Volume 61, Number 1, January 14, 1997
Volume 61, Number 2, February 28, 1997
Volume 61, Number 3, March 14, 1997
Volume 61, Number 4, March 27, 1997
Volume 61, Number 5, April 10, 1997
Volume 61, Number 6, April 24, 1997
Volume 62, Number 1, May 7, 1997
Volume 62, Number 2, May 21, 1997
Volume 62, Number 3, June 4, 1997
Volume 62, Number 4, June 11, 1997
Volume 62, Number 5, July 2, 1997
Volume 62, Number 6, July 16, 1997
Volume 63, Number 1, July 30, 1997
Volume 63, Number 2, August 13, 1997
Volume 63, Number 3, August 27, 1997
Volume 63, Number 4, September 10, 1997
Volume 63, Number 5, September 24, 1997
Volume 63, Number 6, October 8, 1997
Volume 64, Number 1, October 22, 1997
Volume 64, Number 2, November 5, 1997
Volume 64, Number 3, November 29, 1997
Volume 64, Number 4, December 13, 1997
Volume 64, Number 5, December 23, 1997
Volume 64, Number 6, January 15, 1998
Volume 65, Number 1, January 15, 1998
Volume 65, Number 2, January 29, 1998
Volume 65, Number 3, February 13, 1998
Volume 65, Number 4, February 27, 1998
Volume 65, Number 5, March 13, 1998
Volume 65, Number 6, March 27, 1998
Volume 66, Number 1, April 15, 1998
Volume 66, Number 2, April 29, 1998
Volume 66, Number 3, May 15, 1998
Volume 66, Number 4, May 29, 1998
Volume 66, Number 5, June 16, 1998
Volume 66, Number 6, June 30, 1998
Volume 67, Number 1, July 16, 1998
Volume 67, Number 2, July 30, 1998
Volume 67, Number 3, August 17, 1998
Volume 67, Number 4, August 31, 1998
Volume 67, Number 5, September 15, 1998
Volume 67, Number 6, September 30, 1998
Volume 68, Number 1, October 15, 1998
Volume 68, Number 2, October 30, 1998
Volume 68, Number 3, November 15, 1998
Volume 68, Number 4, November 30, 1998
Volume 68, Number 5, December 15, 1998
Volume 68, Number 6, December 30, 1998
Volume 69, Number 1, January 15, 1999
Volume 69, Number 2, January 29, 1999
Volume 69, Number 3, February 12, 1999
Volume 69, Number 4, February 26, 1999
Volume 69, Number 5, March 12, 1999
Volume 69, Number 6, March 26, 1999
Volume 70, Number 1, April 16, 1999
Volume 70, Number 2, April 30, 1999
Volume 70, Number 3, May 14, 1999
Volume 70, Number 4, May 28, 1999
Volume 70, Number 5, June 21, 1999
Volume 70, Number 6, June 30, 1999
Volume 71, Number 1, July 16, 1999
Volume 71, Number 2, July 30, 1999
Volume 71, Number 3--4, August 27, 1999
Volume 71, Number 5--6, September 30, 1999
Volume 72, Number 1--2, October 29, 1999
Volume 72, Number 3--4, November 26, 1999
Volume 72, Number 5--6, December 30, 1999
Volume 74, Number 1--2, April, 2000
Volume 74, Number 5--6, June 30, 2000
Volume 83, Number 5, September 15, 2002
Volume 46, Number 5, July ??, 1993


Information Processing Letters
Volume 16, Number 4, May 13, 1983

           Greg N. Frederickson   Scheduling Unit-Time Tasks with Integer
                                  Release Times and Deadlines  . . . . . . 171--173


Information Processing Letters
Volume 25, Number 3, May 29, 1987

               J. Pierre Verjus   On the proof of a distributed algorithm  145--147


Information Processing Letters
Volume 27, Number 3, March 25, 1988

                  Kurt Mehlhorn   A faster approximation algorithm for the
                                  Steiner problem in graphs  . . . . . . . 125--128


Information Processing Letters
Volume 30, Number 4, February 27, 1989

                  Kerry Raymond   A distributed algorithm for multiple
                                  entries to a critical section  . . . . . 189--193


Information Processing Letters
Volume 32, Number 3, August 24, 1989

                  Martin Kochol   Efficient monotone circuits for
                                  threshold functions  . . . . . . . . . . 121--122

Information Processing Letters
Volume 32, Number 5, September 22, 1989

             Erkki Mäkinen   On the subtree isomorphism problem for
                                  ordered trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--273


Information Processing Letters
Volume 33, Number 5, January 10, 1990

               P. Crescenzi and   
                   R. Silvestri   Relative complexity of evaluating the
                                  optimum cost and constructing the
                                  optimum for maximization problems  . . . 221--226
             Hitoshi Suzuki and   
            Naomi Takahashi and   
                Takao Nishizeki   A linear algorithm for bipartition of
                                  biconnected graphs . . . . . . . . . . . 227--231
                  Yijie Han and   
             Yoshihide Igarashi   Time lower bounds for sorting on
                                  multi-dimensional mesh-connected
                                  processor arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--238
        Jürgen Kämper   A result relating disjunctive
                                  self-reducibility to $P$-immunity  . . . 239--242
               C. S. Kannan and   
             Henry Y. H. Chuang   Fast Hough transform on a mesh connected
                                  processor array  . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
             Laurence Boxer and   
                    Russ Miller   Common intersections of polygons . . . . 249--254
          Divyakant Agrawal and   
                  Amr El Abbadi   Exploiting logical structures in
                                  replicated databases . . . . . . . . . . 255--260
                   Victor Shoup   On the deterministic complexity of
                                  factoring polynomials over finite fields 261--267
        Richard J. Anderson and   
                 Gary L. Miller   A simple randomized parallel algorithm
                                  for list-ranking . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--273

Information Processing Letters
Volume 33, Number 6, February 10, 1990

           Alan A. Bertossi and   
                Sabrina Moretti   Parallel algorithms on circular-arc
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
         Michael B. Dillencourt   Realizability of Delaunay triangulations 283--287
            Neil J. Gunther and   
                   John G. Shaw   Path integral evaluation of ALOHA
                                  network transients . . . . . . . . . . . 289--295
                 Tom Altman and   
              Bogdan S. Chlebus   Sorting roughly sorted sequences in
                                  parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--300
                 Stephan Olariu   A generalization of Chvatal's
                                  star-cutset lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . 301--303
             Torben Hagerup and   
             Christine Rüb   A guided tour of Chernoff bounds . . . . 305--308
                  Zvi Galil and   
                    Kunsoo Park   A linear-time algorithm for concave
                                  one-dimensional dynamic programming  . . 309--311
           Philips Hingston and   
                 Ross Wilkinson   A distributed join algorithm . . . . . . 313--317
              Samir Khuller and   
          Joseph S. B. Mitchell   On a triangle counting problem . . . . . 319--321
                    Edgar Knapp   A predicate transformer for progress . . 323--330


Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 1, February 22, 1990

          Masahito Kurihara and   
                      Ikuo Kaji   Modular term rewriting systems and the
                                  termination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
                    Mohan Ahuja   Flush primitives for asynchronous
                                  distributed systems  . . . . . . . . . . 5--12
                  Shai Simonson   Routing with critical paths  . . . . . . 13--19
             Arne Andersson and   
                Svante Carlsson   Construction of a tree from its
                                  traversals in optimal time and space . . 21--25
                   Jeremy Jacob   Separability and the detection of hidden
                                  channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--29
      Alejandro D. Martinez and   
       Rosita Wachenchauzer and   
                 Rafael D. Lins   Cyclic reference counting with local
                                  mark-scan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
               O. J. Murphy and   
                   S. M. Selkow   Finding nearest neighbors with Voronoi
                                  tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41
   Carla Neaderhouser Purdy and   
                George B. Purdy   The area-time complexity of the greatest
                                  common divisor problem: a lower bound    43--46
         Joseph Y.-T. Leung and   
               Gilbert H. Young   Preemptive scheduling to minimize mean
                                  weighted flow time . . . . . . . . . . . 47--50
                R. Morrison and   
             M. P. Atkinson and   
                A. L. Brown and   
                      A. Dearle   On the classification of binding
                                  mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--55

Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 2, March 16, 1990

                  Simeon Ntafos   The robber route problem . . . . . . . . 59--63
                 Pradip Dey and   
          Barrett R. Bryant and   
                  Tadao Takaoka   Lexical ambiguity in tree adjoining
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--69
               Young C. Wee and   
               Seth Chaiken and   
                 Dan E. Willard   On the angle restricted nearest neighbor
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--76
                    Sandeep Sen   Finding an approximate median with high
                                  probability in constant parallel time    77--80
               Stephen Cook and   
                Toniann Pitassi   A feasibly constructive lower bound for
                                  resolution proofs  . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
              Jean-Paul Laumond   Connectivity of plane triangulations . . 87--96
                 Stephan Olariu   On the closure of triangle-free graphs
                                  under substitution . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
             Michel Cosnard and   
                Jean Duprat and   
             Afonso G. Ferreira   The complexity of searching in X+Y and
                                  other multisets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109

Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 3, April 9, 1990

                 C. A. R. Hoare   Fixed points of increasing functions . . 111--112
                    J. M. Pallo   A distance metric on binary trees using
                                  lattice-theoretic measures . . . . . . . 113--116
                 A. Bertoni and   
                M. Goldwurm and   
                    P. Massazza   Counting problems and algebraic formal
                                  power series in noncommuting variables   117--121
                  Lein Harn and   
                 Thomas Kiesler   An efficient probabilistic encryption
                                  scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--129
              Moon Hwa Park and   
                  Myunghwan Kim   A distributed synchronization scheme for
                                  fair multi-process handshakes  . . . . . 131--138
                    Henk Goeman   Towards a theory of (self) applicative
                                  communicating processes. A short note    139--142
               Christoph Meinel   Logic vs. complexity theoretic
                                  properties of the graph accessibility
                                  problem for directed graphs of bounded
                                  degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--146
                 Shang-Hua Teng   Space efficient Processor Identity
                                  protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--154
                 John C. Tipper   A straightforward iterative algorithm
                                  for the planar Voronoi diagram . . . . . 155--160
              Jürgen Plehn   Preemptive scheduling of independent
                                  jobs with release times and deadlines on
                                  a hypercube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166

Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 4, April 24, 1990

                     Udi Manber   Recognizing breadth-first search trees
                                  in linear time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--171
                     L. V. Kale   An almost perfect heuristic for the
                                  $N$-nonattacking queens problem  . . . . 173--178
                    Earlin Lutz   Some proofs of data refinement . . . . . 179--185
            Biing-Feng Wang and   
              Gen-Huey Chen and   
                Ferng-Ching Lin   Constant time sorting on a processor
                                  array with a reconfigurable bus system   187--192
              James H. Bradford   Sequence matching with binary codes  . . 193--196
                  A. Bagchi and   
               S. L. Hakimi and   
                 J. Mitchem and   
                  E. Schmeichel   Parallel algorithms for gossiping by
                                  mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
                  Samir Khuller   Coloring algorithms for K$_5$-minor free
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
               James Cooper and   
                 Leslie Kitchen   CASOP: A fast algorithm for computing
                                  the $n$-ary composition of a binary
                                  associative operator . . . . . . . . . . 209--213
              G. Ramalingam and   
                C. Pandu Rangan   New sequential and parallel algorithms
                                  for interval graph recognition . . . . . 215--219

Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 5, May 7, 1990

                    P. E. Dunne   Comment on Kochol's paper ``Efficient
                                  monotone circuits for threshold
                                  functions'' [Inform. Process. Lett. \bf
                                  32(3), 24 August 1989, pp. 121--122] . . 221--222
                Stefan Ronn and   
               Heikki Saikkonen   Distributed termination detection with
                                  counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
                     Zsolt Tuza   Periodic string division generated by
                                  deterministic $L$ systems  . . . . . . . 229--234
                  Sung Kwon Kim   A parallel algorithm for finding a
                                  maximum clique of a set of circular arcs
                                  of a circle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--241
                    Owen Murphy   A unifying framework for trie design
                                  heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--249
                   William Pugh   Slow optimally balanced search
                                  strategies vs. cached fast uniformly
                                  balanced search strategies . . . . . . . 251--254
                  A. Pombortsis   Sharing special purpose resources in a
                                  multiprocessor environment . . . . . . . 255--260
                  R. T. Kuo and   
                    S. S. Tseng   The necessary and sufficient condition
                                  for the worst-case male optimal stable
                                  matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--263
                   J. M. Robson   Random access machines with
                                  multi-dimensional memories . . . . . . . 265--266
           Mark Allen Weiss and   
               Robert Sedgewick   More on Shellsort increment sequences    267--270
           Gaston H. Gonnet and   
         Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates   An analysis of the Karp-Rabin string
                                  matching algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 271--274
             Ingo Althöfer   Tight lower bounds on the length of word
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276

Information Processing Letters
Volume 34, Number 6, May 28, 1990

                 Oded Goldreich   A note on computational
                                  indistinguishability . . . . . . . . . . 277--281
             N. Chandrasekharan   Isomorphism testing of $k$-trees is in
                                  NC, for fixed $k$  . . . . . . . . . . . 283--287
               Jan Chomicki and   
             V. S. Subrahmanian   Generalized closed world assumption is
                                  $\Pi_2^0$-complete . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
               Lenwood S. Heath   Covering a set with arithmetic
                                  progressions is NP-complete  . . . . . . 293--298
              M. R. Zargham and   
                   K. J. Danhof   Toward a definition of fault analysis
                                  for Petri nets models  . . . . . . . . . 299--305
               Philip Klein and   
                 Clifford Stein   A parallel algorithm for eliminating
                                  cycles in undirected graphs  . . . . . . 307--312
          Gabriel Matsliach and   
                   Oded Shmueli   Distributing a $B^+$-tree in a loosely
                                  coupled environment  . . . . . . . . . . 313--321
                A. Sengupta and   
               S. Bandyopadhyay   Deadlock-free routing in $k$-ary
                                  hypercube network in presence of
                                  processor failures . . . . . . . . . . . 323--328


Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 1, June 15, 1990

                  Mitchell Wand   A short proof of the lexical addressing
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
                Mohan Ahuja and   
                      Yahui Zhu   An $O(n\log n)$ feasibility algorithm
                                  for preemptive scheduling of $n$
                                  independent jobs on a hypercube  . . . . 7--11
              Alok Aggarwal and   
                   Subhash Suri   Computing the longest diagonal of a
                                  simple polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--18
                   Jeremy Jacob   A model of reconfiguration in
                                  communicating sequential processes . . . 19--22
        Chanderjit L. Bajaj and   
                      Tamal Dey   Polygon nesting and robustness . . . . . 23--32
             Rani Siromoney and   
                    Lisa Mathew   A public key cryptosystem based on
                                  Lyndon words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--36
               Yu-Tai Ching and   
              Kurt Mehlhorn and   
             Michiel H. M. Smid   Dynamic deferred data structuring  . . . 37--40
                    E. Lodi and   
                  F. Luccio and   
                       L. Pagli   Routing in times square mode . . . . . . 41--48
               Ronitt Rubinfeld   The cover time of a regular expander is
                                  $O(n\log n)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
                   L. Boxer and   
                      R. Miller   Corrigenda: ``Common intersections of
                                  polygons'' [Inform. Process. Lett. \bf
                                  33(5), 10 January 1990, pp. 249--254]    53--53
                   D. Kumar and   
              S. S. Iyengar and   
                   M. B. Sharma   Corrections to a distributed depth-first
                                  search algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56

Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 2, June 29, 1990

                     Anna Lubiw   Counterexample to a conjecture of
                                  Szymanski on hypercube routing . . . . . 57--61
                     Ted Herman   Probabilistic self-stabilization . . . . 63--67
                 G. R. Guenther   Efficient expansion of factored
                                  expressions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
                   Maurice Maes   On a cyclic string-to-string correction
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--78
              D. T. Barnard and   
               D. B. Skillicorn   Pipelining tree-structured algorithms on
                                  SIMD architectures . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
              Khun Yee Fung and   
            Tina M. Nicholl and   
           Robert E. Tarjan and   
         Christopher J. Van Wyk   Simplified linear-time Jordan sorting
                                  and polygon clipping . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
                 Ching-Lin Wang   Obtaining lazy evaluation with
                                  continuations in Scheme  . . . . . . . . 93--97
                   Ingo Wegener   Efficient simulation of circuits by EREW
                                  PRAMs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
                 Martha Sideris   On attribute grammars without attribute
                                  synthesis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109

Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 3, July 20, 1990

                 Tom Altman and   
              George Logothetis   A note on ambiguity in context-free
                                  grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
            Erik Lambrichts and   
                 Peter Nees and   
              Jan Paredaens and   
              Peter Peelman and   
                  Letizia Tanca   Checking functional consistency in
                                  deductive databases  . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
          Maxime Crochemore and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Parallel construction of minimal suffix
                                  and factor automata  . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
           Marta Z. Kwiatkowska   A metric for traces  . . . . . . . . . . 129--135
                K. Mehlhorn and   
              S. Näher and   
                       C. Uhrig   Hidden line elimination for isooriented
                                  rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
                 Moshe Y. Vardi   Endmarkers can make a difference . . . . 145--148
      Srinivasa Rao Arikati and   
                C. Pandu Rangan   Linear algorithm for optimal path cover
                                  problem on interval graphs . . . . . . . 149--153
                John Launchbury   Strictness analysis aids inductive
                                  proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
            Jerzy A. Piotrowski   A functional model of a simplified
                                  sequential machine . . . . . . . . . . . 161--166

Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 4, August 7, 1990

                    Chau-Jy Lin   Parallel algorithm for generating
                                  permutations on linear array . . . . . . 167--170
           Mohamed G. Gouda and   
                     Ted Herman   Stabilizing unison . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
                Shyan-Ming Yuan   The communication complexity for
                                  decentralized evaluation of functions    177--182
              Kurt Mehlhorn and   
              Stefan Näher   Bounded ordered dictionaries in $O(\log
                                  \log n)$ time and $O(n)$ space . . . . . 183--189
               P. Inverardi and   
                        M. Nesi   A rewriting strategy to verify
                                  observational congruence . . . . . . . . 191--199
                      Noga Alon   Generating pseudo-random permutations
                                  and maximum flow algorithms  . . . . . . 201--204
          Glenn K. Manacher and   
         Terrance A. Mankus and   
               Carol Joan Smith   An optimum $\Theta (n \log n)$ algorithm
                                  for finding a canonical Hamiltonian path
                                  and a canonical Hamiltonian circuit in a
                                  set of intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--211
                   Xiaotie Deng   An optimal parallel algorithm for linear
                                  programming in the plane . . . . . . . . 213--217

Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 5, August 28, 1990

              Kenneth Block and   
                    Tai-Kuo Woo   A more efficient generalization of
                                  Peterson's mutual exclusion algorithm    219--222
            Michael C. Loui and   
               Milind A. Sohoni   An algorithm for load balancing in
                                  multiprocessor systems . . . . . . . . . 223--228
                 Seinosuke Toda   On the complexity of topological sorting 229--233
              Erich Grädel   Simple interpretations among complicated
                                  theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
                  Ken Grigg and   
               Serge Miguet and   
                    Yves Robert   Symmetric matrix-vector product on a
                                  ring of processors . . . . . . . . . . . 239--248
           Robert J. Cimikowski   Finding Hamiltonian cycles in certain
                                  planar graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--254
            Maw Shang Chang and   
               Nen-Fu Huang and   
                  Chuan-Yi Tang   An optimal algorithm for constructing
                                  oriented Voronoi diagrams and geographic
                                  neighborhood graphs  . . . . . . . . . . 255--260
           Lisa Hellerstein and   
               Philip Klein and   
                  Robert Wilber   On the time-space complexity of
                                  reachability queries for preprocessed
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--267
       Matthew T. Dickerson and   
               R. Scot Drysdale   Fixed-radius near neighbors search
                                  algorithms for points and segments . . . 269--273

Information Processing Letters
Volume 35, Number 6, September 15, 1990

      A. J. M. Van Gasteren and   
                         G. Tel   Comments on ``On the proof of a
                                  distributed algorithm'': always-true is
                                  not invariant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279
            David B. Shmoys and   
            David P. Williamson   Analyzing the Held-Karp TSP bound. A
                                  monotonicity property with application   281--285
                A. W. Mostowski   Alternating automata with start formulas 287--290
                  George Karner   A note on terminal balancing of
                                  algebraic systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 291--293
             Chain-Chin Yen and   
                   R. C. T. Lee   The weighted perfect domination problem  295--299
              Alok Aggarwal and   
                   Tom Leighton   A tight lower bound for the train
                                  reversal problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--304
               Chwan-Hwa Wu and   
              Chia-Jiu Wang and   
                  Heng-Ming Tai   Application of exponential
                                  hetero-associative memory on frequency
                                  classifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--311
             Jang-Ping Sheu and   
                 Jyh-Shyan Tang   Efficient parallel $k$ selection
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--316
                     Sun Wu and   
                 Udi Manber and   
                 Gene Myers and   
                    Webb Miller   $O(NP)$ sequence comparison algorithm    317--323
                    Andrew Chin   On the depth complexity of the counting
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--328


Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 1, October 1, 1990

                       Zhen Liu   A Note on Graham's Bound . . . . . . . . 1--5
              Wen-Huei Chen and   
              Ching-Sung Lu and   
         Elben R. Brozovsky and   
                   Jin-Tuu Wang   An optimization technique for protocol
                                  conformance testing using multiple UIO
                                  sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--11
      Joanna J\polhkedrzejowicz   Infinite hierarchy of shuffle
                                  expressions over a finite alphabet . . . 13--17
                     Haklin Kim   Finding a maximum independent set in a
                                  permutation graph  . . . . . . . . . . . 19--23
            Frank Dederichs and   
                   Rainer Weber   Safety and liveness from a
                                  methodological point of view . . . . . . 25--30
            Biing-Feng Wang and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   Two-Dimensional processor array with a
                                  reconfigurable bus system is at least as
                                  powerful as CRCW model . . . . . . . . . 31--36
             Stanley Burris and   
                  John Lawrence   Unification in commutative rings is not
                                  finitary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38
          Malcolm C. Fields and   
           Greg N. Frederickson   A faster algorithm for the maximum
                                  weighted tardiness problem . . . . . . . 39--44
             Oded Goldreich and   
                   Erez Petrank   The best of both worlds: guaranteeing
                                  termination in fast randomized Byzantine
                                  Agreement protocols  . . . . . . . . . . 45--49
                     Ke Qiu and   
                    Henk Meijer   A note on diameter of acyclic directed
                                  hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
         Hans L. Bodlaender and   
                     Gerard Tel   Bit-optimal election in synchronous
                                  rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56

Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 2, October 15, 1990

             Torben Hagerup and   
                      Hong Shen   Improved nonconservative sequential and
                                  parallel integer sorting . . . . . . . . 57--63
                    Miklos Biro   Object-oriented interaction in resource
                                  constrained scheduling . . . . . . . . . 65--67
                 Anna Slobodova   One-way globally deterministic
                                  synchronized alternating finite automata
                                  recognize exactly deterministic
                                  context-sensitive languages  . . . . . . 69--72
             Stephen A. Vavasis   Quadratic programming is in NP . . . . . 73--77
                     Jin-yi Cai   Lower bounds for constant-depth circuits
                                  in the presence of help bits . . . . . . 79--83
               Jae Moon Lee and   
              Jong Soo Park and   
                  Myunghwan Kim   An upper bound on buffer size for join
                                  operation using nonclustered indexes . . 85--90
          Richard J. Lipton and   
                     Arvin Park   The processor identity problem . . . . . 91--94
             Chandan Haldar and   
                  L. M. Patnaik   Oracle complexities for computational
                                  geometry of semi-algebraic sets and
                                  Voronoi diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
               G. M. Megson and   
                F. M. F. Gaston   Improved matrix triangularisation using
                                  a double pipeline systolic array . . . . 103--109

Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 3, November 1, 1990

                     De-Lei Lee   Efficient address generation in a
                                  parallel processor . . . . . . . . . . . 111--116
                   Jingde Cheng   An algebraic semantics of notional
                                  entailment logic Cn  . . . . . . . . . . 117--121
          Aphrodite Tsalgatidou   Modelling and animating information
                                  systems dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
             Shuo-Yen Robert Li   On full utilization of multi-channel
                                  capacity with priority protocol  . . . . 129--133
               Laura A. Sanchis   On the complexity of test case
                                  generation for NP-hard problems  . . . . 135--140
            John G. Kollias and   
        Yannis Manolopoulos and   
      Christos H. Papadimitriou   The optimum execution order of queries
                                  in linear storage  . . . . . . . . . . . 141--145
            Lawrence L. Larmore   An optimal algorithm with unknown time
                                  complexity for convex matrix searching   147--151
                     R. Lin and   
                      S. Olariu   A fast parallel algorithm to recognize
                                  partitionable graphs . . . . . . . . . . 153--157
                      A. Paulik   Worst-case analysis of a generalized
                                  heapsort algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . 159--165

Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 4, November 15, 1990

               Kim-Heng Teo and   
                 Tai-Ching Tuan   Performance analysis of greedy heuristic
                                  to find a minimum total-jogs layout for
                                  river routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--170
              Valmir C. Barbosa   Blocking versus nonblocking interprocess
                                  communication. A note on the effect on
                                  concurrency  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
        Hans Kleine Büning   Existence of simple propositional
                                  formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--182
                   Xiaolei Qian   An Axiom System for Database
                                  Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
              Gerhard Woeginger   A simple solution to the two paths
                                  problem in planar graphs . . . . . . . . 191--192
             Edsger W. Dijkstra   Making a fair roulette from a possibly
                                  biased coin  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
                      S. Ramesh   On the completeness of modular proof
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--201
                  Erkki Makinen   The grammatical inference problem for
                                  the Szilard languages of linear grammars 203--206
    Bernd-Jürgen Falkowski   Perceptrons revisited  . . . . . . . . . 207--213
          Miros\law Kuty\lowski   Remarks on sorting and one-way multihead
                                  finite automata  . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
                   Jozef Vyskoc   Making bubblesort recursive  . . . . . . 219--220

Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 5, December 1, 1990

           Hyoung Joong Kim and   
                   Jang Gyu Lee   Partial sum problem mapping into a
                                  hypercube  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
                 Jin Ho Hur and   
                    Kilnam Chon   Self and selftype  . . . . . . . . . . . 225--230
            Peter Damaschke and   
          Haiko Müller and   
                 Dieter Kratsch   Domination in convex and chordal
                                  bipartite graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--236
                  Ursula Martin   A note on division orderings on strings  237--240
             Jang-Ping Sheu and   
                  Zen-Fu Chiang   Efficient allocation of chain-like task
                                  on chain-like network computers  . . . . 241--245
                   Carsten Damm   Problems complete for $\oplus L$ . . . . 247--250
             Siu Wing Cheng and   
                  Ravi Janardan   Efficient dynamic algorithms for some
                                  geometric intersection problems  . . . . 251--258
               Marc Gyssens and   
              Jan Paredaens and   
                 Dirk Van Gucht   On a hierarchy of classes for nested
                                  databases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--266
                  O. M. Makarov   On the synthesis of fast algorithms for
                                  signal processing  . . . . . . . . . . . 267--272
                     P. Dublish   Some comments on the subtree isomorphism
                                  problem for ordered trees  . . . . . . . 273--275

Information Processing Letters
Volume 36, Number 6, December 15, 1990

          Subir Kumar Ghosh and   
                Anil Maheshwari   An optimal algorithm for computing a
                                  minimum nested nonconvex polygon . . . . 277--280
                  F. Kocsis and   
               J. F. Böhme   Rotation-based computations for
                                  ray-tracing second-order surfaces and
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
              Antonio Brogi and   
              Evelina Lamma and   
                    Paola Mello   Hypothetical reasoning in logic
                                  programming. A semantic approach . . . . 285--291
         Z. Fülöp and   
       S. Vágvölgyi   The emptiness problem is undecidable for
                                  domains of partial monadic $2$-modular
                                  tree transformations . . . . . . . . . . 293--296
             Rob R. Hoogerwoord   A calculational derivation of the CASOP
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--299
              Gabriel Matsliach   Performance analysis of file
                                  organizations that use multi-bucket data
                                  leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--310
                Kai Salomaa and   
                       Sheng Yu   The immortality problem for Lag systems  311--315
       Giuseppe Di Battista and   
               Wei-Ping Liu and   
                     Ivan Rival   Bipartite graphs, upward drawings, and
                                  planarity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--322
                  Sung Kwon Kim   Parallel algorithms for the segment
                                  dragging problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--327


Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 1, January 10, 1991

            Chung-Kuo Chang and   
                    M. G. Gouda   On the minimum requirements for
                                  independent recovery in distributed
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
                     Xubo Zhang   Overlap closures do not suffice for
                                  termination of general term rewriting
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
             Soma Chaudhuri and   
              Richard E. Ladner   Safety and liveness of
                                  $\omega$-context-free languages  . . . . 13--20
                 Stephan Olariu   An optimal greedy heuristic to color
                                  interval graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--25
                     Viggo Kann   Maximum bounded $3$-dimensional matching
                                  is MAX SNP-complete  . . . . . . . . . . 27--35
        Yannis Manolopoulos and   
                  Athina Vakali   Seek distances in disks with two
                                  independent heads per surface  . . . . . 37--42
               U. K. Sarkar and   
          P. P. Chakrabarti and   
                   S. Ghose and   
                S. C. De Sarkar   Multiple stack branch and bound  . . . . 43--48
           Douglas Campbell and   
                   John Higgins   Minimal visibility graphs  . . . . . . . 49--53
                     Bin Yu and   
               Xinggang Lin and   
                     Youshou Wu   The tree representation of the graph
                                  used in binary image processing  . . . . 55--59

Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 2, January 31, 1991

                  Igor Litovsky   Prefix-free languages as
                                  $\omega$-generators  . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
            Fabrizio Luccio and   
       Andrea Pietracaprina and   
                  Geppino Pucci   Analysis of Parallel Uniform Hashing . . 67--69
             Timothy Law Snyder   Lower bounds for rectilinear Steiner
                                  trees in bounded space . . . . . . . . . 71--74
                  C. C. Handley   A space efficient distributive sort  . . 75--78
               Roberto Tamassia   An incremental reconstruction method for
                                  dynamic planar point location  . . . . . 79--83
               Yoshihiro Tanaka   A dual algorithm for the satisfiability
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--89
             Richard Beigel and   
        Lane A. Hemachandra and   
                  Gerd Wechsung   Probabilistic polynomial time is closed
                                  under parity reductions  . . . . . . . . 91--94
                  J. von Wright   Program inversion in the refinement
                                  calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
               Alan Gibbons and   
                    Ridha Ziani   The balanced binary tree technique on
                                  mesh-connected computers . . . . . . . . 101--109
                         Xin He   An efficient parallel algorithm for
                                  finding minimum weight matching for
                                  points on a convex polygon . . . . . . . 111--116
                Svante Carlsson   An optimal algorithm for deleting the
                                  root of a heap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120

Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 3, February 18, 1991

                     Sven Skyum   A simple algorithm for computing the
                                  smallest enclosing circle  . . . . . . . 121--125
            Jurek Czyzowicz and   
           K. B. Lakshmanan and   
                   Andrzej Pelc   Searching with a forbidden lie pattern
                                  in responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132
                 Udi Manber and   
            Ricardo Baeza-Yates   An algorithm for string matching with a
                                  sequence of don't cares  . . . . . . . . 133--136
                Pavol Duris and   
                    Imrich Vrto   Semelectivity is not sufficient  . . . . 137--141
                      Bin Jiang   Traversing graphs in a paging
                                  environment, BFS or DFS? . . . . . . . . 143--147
                 Frederic Green   Oracle separating $\oplus P$ from
                                  $PP^{PH}$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
            A. J. E. M. Janssen   An optimization problem related to
                                  neural networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
                   Galen Sasaki   The Effect of the Density of States on
                                  the Metropolis Algorithm . . . . . . . . 159--163
              D\~ung T. H\`uynh   The effective entropies of some
                                  extensions of context-free languages . . 165--169
            Wladyslaw M. Turski   On starvation and some related issues    171--174
                Micha Hofri and   
                 Hadas Shachnai   On the optimality of the counter scheme
                                  for dynamic linear lists . . . . . . . . 175--179\$

Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 4, February 28, 1991

                   Zhaofang Wen   Parallel multiple search . . . . . . . . 181--186
                   D. P. Jacobs   Probabilistic checking of associativity
                                  in algebras  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--191
               Xiaotie Deng and   
                Sanjeev Mahajan   Server problems and resistive spaces . . 193--196
               Robert W. Irving   On approximating the minimum independent
                                  dominating set . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--200
                Xue-Hou Tan and   
               Tomio Hirata and   
              Yasuyoshi Inagaki   The intersection searching problem for
                                  $c$-oriented polygons  . . . . . . . . . 201--204
                 C. Huizing and   
                W. P. de Roever   Introduction to design choices in the
                                  semantics of Statecharts . . . . . . . . 205--213
                       U. Zwick   An extension of Khrapchenko's theorem    215--217
                   Y. Liang and   
                    C. Rhee and   
                S. K. Dhall and   
              S. Lakshmivarahan   A new approach for the domination
                                  problem on permutation graphs  . . . . . 219--224
           Peter F. Corbett and   
              Isaac D. Scherson   A unified algorithm for sorting on
                                  multidimensional mesh-connected
                                  processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--231
                    Maria Serna   Approximating linear programming is
                                  log-space complete for P . . . . . . . . 233--236
                     H. Alt and   
                    N. Blum and   
                K. Mehlhorn and   
                        M. Paul   Computing a maximum cardinality matching
                                  in a bipartite graph in time
                                  $O(n^{1.5}\sqrt m/log n)$  . . . . . . . 237--240

Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 5, March 14, 1991

                Shyan Ming Yuan   Topological properties of supercube  . . 241--245
                James K. Mullin   A Caution on Universal Classes of Hash
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--256
            Dani\`ele Beauquier   An undecidable problem about rational
                                  sets and contour words of polyominoes    257--263
             Anne Kaldewaij and   
             Berry Schoenmakers   The derivation of a tighter bound for
                                  top-down skew heaps  . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
                   Toshiya Itoh   Characterization for a family of
                                  infinitely many irreducible equally
                                  spaced polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . 273--277
            Yasubumi Sakakibara   On learning from queries and
                                  counterexamples in the presence of noise 279--284
                Gadi Taubenfeld   On the nonexistence of resilient
                                  consensus protocols  . . . . . . . . . . 285--289
              Qingzhou Wang and   
                  Kam Hoi Cheng   List scheduling of parallel tasks  . . . 291--297

Information Processing Letters
Volume 37, Number 6, March 28, 1991

                   Dirk Taubner   A note on the notation of recursion in
                                  process algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
               Kim-Heng Teo and   
                 Tai-Ching Tuan   An improved upper bound on the number of
                                  intersections between two rectangular
                                  paths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--309
               Sabri A. Mahmoud   Motion estimation based on modified
                                  Fourier spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
                  Olivier Danvy   Semantics-directed compilation of
                                  nonlinear patterns . . . . . . . . . . . 315--322
                 K. Vidyasankar   A very simple construction of $1$-writer
                                  multireader multivalued atomic variable  323--326
            Biing-Feng Wang and   
           Chuen-Liang Chen and   
                  Gen-Huey Chen   A simple approach to implementing
                                  multiplication with small tables . . . . 327--329
                  Zvi Galil and   
           Giuseppe F. Italiano   A note on set union with arbitrary
                                  deunions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--335
             Myung-Joon Lee and   
                 Kwang-Moo Choe   ${\rm SLR}(k)$ covering for ${\rm
                                  LR}(k)$ grammars . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--347
                 R. Srikant and   
             Kamala Krithivasan   Fastest path across constrained moving
                                  rectilinear obstacles  . . . . . . . . . 349--353
        Nageswara S. V. Rao and   
                 Weixiong Zhang   Building heaps in parallel . . . . . . . 355--358


Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 1, April 12, 1991

        Victor J. Dielissen and   
                 Anne Kaldewaij   Rectangular partition is polynomial in
                                  two dimensions but NP-complete in three  1--6
       P. Goral\vcík and   
A. Goral\vcíková and   
                      V. Koubek   Alternation with a pebble  . . . . . . . 7--13
             Ivan Stojmenovi\'c   Bisections and ham-sandwich cuts of
                                  convex polygons and polyhedra  . . . . . 15--21
        Ahmed K. Elmagarmid and   
                     Wei Min Du   Integrity aspects of quasi
                                  serializability  . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--28
             Shi-Jinn Horng and   
             Wen-Tsuen Chen and   
                   Ming-Yi Fang   Optimal speed-up algorithms for template
                                  matching on SIMD hypercube
                                  multiprocessors with restricted local
                                  memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--37
                   Victor Shoup   Smoothness and factoring polynomials
                                  over finite fields . . . . . . . . . . . 39--42
                       Xu Cheng   A graph transformation algorithm for
                                  concurrency control in a partitioned
                                  database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
          Calvin C.-Y. Chen and   
               Sajal K. Das and   
                   Selim G. Akl   A unified approach to parallel
                                  depth-first traversals of general trees  49--55

Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 2, April 26, 1991

          Maxime Crochemore and   
                Wojciech Rytter   Efficient parallel algorithms to test
                                  square-freeness and factorize strings    57--60
               C. \`Alvarez and   
              J. Gabarró   The parallel complexity of two problems
                                  on concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70
                   Hsu Chun Yen   A polynomial time algorithm to decide
                                  pairwise concurrency of transitions for
                                  $1$-bounded conflict-free Petri nets . . 71--76
               Giovanni Manzini   Radix sort on the hypercube  . . . . . . 77--81
     João Meidânis   Lower bounds for arithmetic problems . . 83--87
               Xavier Messeguer   Dynamic behaviour in updating process
                                  over BST of size two with probabilistic
                                  deletion algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
                  Jayadev Misra   Phase synchronization  . . . . . . . . . 101--105
                 Steven Minsker   The Towers of Antwerpen problem  . . . . 107--111

Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 3, May 17, 1991

              Ming-Yang Kao and   
                Stephen R. Tate   Online matching with blocked input . . . 113--116
David Fernández-Baca and   
               Mark A. Williams   On matroids and hierarchical graphs  . . 117--121
               Günter Rote   Computing the minimum Hausdorff distance
                                  between two-point sets on a line under
                                  translation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
                  Lars Langemyr   Circuits for computing the GCD of two
                                  polynomials over an algebraic number
                                  field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134
                 Charles Martel   Self-adjusting multi-way search trees    135--141
      Subbiah Rajanarayanan and   
           Sitharama S. Iyengar   A new optimal distributed algorithm for
                                  the set intersection problem . . . . . . 143--148
           Günter Rote and   
          Gerhard Woeginger and   
                 Binhai Zhu and   
                  Zhengyan Wang   Counting $k$-subsets and convex $k$-gons
                                  in the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
                    Michal Mnuk   A div($n$) depth Boolean circuit for
                                  smooth modular inverse . . . . . . . . . 153--156
                P. Pramanik and   
                  P. K. Das and   
        A. K. Bandyopadhyay and   
                   D. Q. M. Fay   A deadlock-free communication kernel for
                                  loop architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . 157--161
           Dragan M. Acketa and   
          Jovi\vsa D. \vZuni\'c   On the number of linear partitions of
                                  the $(m,n)$-grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168

Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 4, May 31, 1991

          James H. Bradford and   
                  T. A. Jenkyns   On the inadequacy of tournament
                                  algorithms for the $N$-SCS problem . . . 169--171
              Marek Chrobak and   
            Lawrence L. Larmore   A note on the server problem and a
                                  benevolent adversary . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
                    Rolf Floren   A note on: ``A faster approximation
                                  algorithm for the Steiner problem in
                                  graphs'' [Inform. Process. Lett. \bf 27
                                  (1988), no. 3, 125--128; MR 89d:68031]
                                  by K. Mehlhorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--178
             Andrew V. Goldberg   Processor-efficient implementation of a
                                  maximum flow algorithm . . . . . . . . . 179--185
           Laurent Siklossy and   
                    Eduard Tulp   The space reduction method: a method to
                                  reduce the size of search spaces . . . . 187--192
             William I. Gasarch   On selecting the $k$ largest with
                                  restricted quadratic queries . . . . . . 193--195
             Ernst L. Leiss and   
                  Hari N. Reddy   Embedding complete binary trees into
                                  hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
                  R. Shonkwiler   Computing the Hausdorff set distance in
                                  linear time for any $L_p$ point distance 201--207
                   J. M. Basart   Some upper bounds for minimal trees  . . 209--213
                 Jin-yi Cai and   
            Lane A. Hemachandra   A note on enumerative counting . . . . . 215--219
                Markku Sakkinen   Selftype is a special case . . . . . . . 221--224

Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 5, June 14, 1991

                  W. Rytter and   
                      A. Saoudi   On the complexity of the recognition of
                                  parallel $2$D-image languages  . . . . . 225--229
               John Hershberger   A new data structure for shortest path
                                  queries in a simple polygon  . . . . . . 231--235
                 Andrzej Lingas   Bit complexity of matrix products  . . . 237--242
              Myoung Ho Kim and   
                 Sakti Pramanik   The FX distribution method for parallel
                                  processing of partial match queries  . . 243--252
              Gerhard Woeginger   On minimizing the sum of $k$ tardinesses 253--256
          Susanne Hambrusch and   
                   Michael Luby   Parallel asynchronous connected
                                  components in a mesh . . . . . . . . . . 257--263
          T. Z. Kalamboukis and   
                S. L. Mantzaris   Towards optimal distributed election on
                                  chordal rings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--270
            Farshad Fotouhi and   
                 Sakti Pramanik   Problem of optimizing the number of
                                  block accesses in performing relational
                                  join is NP-hard  . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--275
                  Jiri Matousek   Computing dominances in $E^n$  . . . . . 277--278
             Timothy Law Snyder   Corrigendum: ``Lower bounds for
                                  rectilinear Steiner trees in bounded
                                  space'' [Inform. Process. Lett. \bf
                                  37(2), 31 January 1991, pp. 71--74]  . . 279--279
             Myung-Joon Lee and   
                 Kwang-Moo Choe   Corrigenda: ``${\rm SLR}(k)$ covering
                                  for ${\rm LR}(k)$ grammars'' . . . . . . 281--281

Information Processing Letters
Volume 38, Number 6, June 28, 1991

                Peter B. Danzig   A cooperative game with applications to
                                  computer networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 283--289
            Franco P. Preparata   Inverting a Vandermonde matrix in
                                  minimum parallel time  . . . . . . . . . 291--294
                 Robert Kennedy   Parallel cardinality stacks and an
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--299
                    Sandy Irani   Two results on the list update problem   301--306
                Kenneth Luo and   
       William Klostermeyer and   
            Yuan-Chieh Chow and   
           Richard Newman-Wolfe   Optimal deadlock resolutions in
                                  edge-disjoint reducible wait-for graphs  307--313
                 Shahram Latifi   Distributed subcube identification
                                  algorithms for reliable hypercubes . . . 315--321
              Jerzy R. Nawrocki   Conflict detection and resolution in a
                                  lexical analyzer generator . . . . . . . 323--328
               Kieran T. Herley   A note on the token distribution problem 329--334
                David Zuckerman   On the time to traverse all edges of a
                                  graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--337
                 Dejan Zivkov