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Average case complexity

  • Formal Languages And Complexity (Session 15)
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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1991)

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We attempt to motivate, justify and survey the average case reduction theory.

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  1. EECS Dept., University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Ave., 48109-2122, Ann Arbor, MI

    Yuri Gurevich

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Javier Leach Albert Burkhard Monien Mario Rodríguez Artalejo

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Gurevich, Y. (1991). Average case complexity. In: Albert, J.L., Monien, B., Artalejo, M.R. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54233-7_168

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