Theoretical Aspects of Computing - ICTAC 2006 Third International Co

The International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC) held in 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia, was the third of a series of events created by the InternationalInstituteforSoftwareTechnologyoftheUnitedNationsUniversity. The aim of the colloquium

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Kamel Barkaoui Ana Cavalcanti Antonio Cerone (Eds.)

Theoretical Aspects of Computing ICTAC 2006 Third International Colloquium Tunis, Tunisia, November 20-24, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Kamel Barkaoui Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Départment STIC 292 Rue Saint-Martin 75141 Paris Cedex 03, France E-mail: [email protected] Ana Cavalcanti University of York Department of Computer Science York YO10 5DD, England E-mail: [email protected] Antonio Cerone The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology P.O. Box 3058, Macau E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

The International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC) held in 2006 in Tunis, Tunisia, was the third of a series of events created by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present their results, and exchange experience, ideas, and solutio