Download or read book Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science written by Jan van Leeuwen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Theoretical Computer Scienceprovides professionals and students with a comprehensive overview of the main results and developments in this rapidly evolving field. Volume A covers models of computation, complexity theory, data structures, and efficient computation in many recognized subdisciplines of theoretical computer science. Volume B takes up the theory of automata and rewriting systems, the foundations of modern programming languages, and logics for program specification and verification, and presents several studies on the theoretic modeling of advanced information processing. The two volumes contain thirty-seven chapters, with extensive chapter references and individual tables of contents for each chapter. There are 5,387 entry subject indexes that include notational symbols, and a list of contributors and affiliations in each volume.