Journal of the ACM: Upcoming Articles

The Performance of Difference Coding for Sets and Relational Tables, by W.B. Wu and C.V. Ravishankar

Counterexample-guided Abstraction Refinement for Symbolic Model Checking, by E. Clarke, O. Grumberg, S. Jha, Y. Lu and H. Veith

Reasoning About Temporal Relations: The Tractable Subalgebras of Allen's Interval Algebra, by A. Krokhin, P. Jeavons, and P. Jonsson

The Geometric Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem, by A. Barvinok, D.S. Johnson, G.J. Woeginger, S.P. Fekete, A. Tamir, and R. Woodroofe

Definable Relations and First-Order Query Languages Over Strings, by M. Benedikt, L. Libkin, T. Schwentick, L. Segoufin

On the Generating Sequences of Regular Languages on k Symbols, by M-P. Beal and D. Perrin

Containment and Equivalence for a Fragment of XPath, by G. Miklau and D. Suciu

Existential Second-Order Logic over Graphs: Charting the Tractability Frontier, by G. Gottlob, P.G. Kolaitis, and T. Schwentick

Lenses in Arrangements of Pseudo-Circles and Their Applications, by P.K. Agarwal, E. Nevo, J. Pach, R. Pinchasi, M. Sharir, and S. Smorodinsky

Conditions on Input Vectors for Consensus Solvability in Asynchronous Distributed Systems, by A. Mostefaoui, S. Rajsbaum, M. Raynal

Magic Functions, by C. Dwork, M. Naor, O. Reingold, L. Stockmeyer

Improving Table Compression with Combinatorial Optimization, by A.L. Buchsbaum, G.S. Fowler, R. Giancarlo

Greedy Facility Location Algorithms Analyzed using Dual Fitting with Factor-Revealing LP, by K. Jain, M. Mahdian, E. Markakis, A. Saberi, V.V. Vazirani

The Security of all RSA and Discrete Log Bits, by J. Hastad and M. Naslund

Resolution Lower Bounds for the Weak Pigeonhole Principle, by R. Raz