Preface. Numbers and Combinatorics. 1. On Prefix-free and Suffix-free Sequences of Integers; R. Ahlswede, et al. 2. Almost Arithmetic Progressions; E. Harzheim. 3. A Method to Estimate Partial-Period Correlations; A. Tietavaainen. 4. Splitting Properties in Partially Ordered Sets and Set Systems; R. Ahlswede, L.H. Khachatrian. 5. Old and New Results for the Weighted t-Intersection Problem via AK-Methods; C. Bey, K. Engel. 6. Some New Results on Macaulay Posets; S.L. Bezrukov, U. Leck. 7. Minimizing the Absolute Upper Shadow; B. Bollobas, I. Leader. 8. Convex Bounds for the 0,1 Co-ordinate Deletions Function; D.E. Daykin. 9. The Extreme Points of the Probabilistic Capacities Cone Problem; D.E. Daykin. 10. On Shifts of Cascades; D.E. Daykin. 11. Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorems of Higher Order; P.L. Erdos, L.A. Szekely. 12. On the Prague Dimension of Kneser Graphs; Z. Furedi. 13. The cycly method and its limits; G.O.H. Katona. 14. Extremal Problems on Delta-Systems; A.V. Kostochka. Information Theory. Channels and Networks. 15. The AVC with Noiseless Feedback; R. Ahlswede, N. Cai. 16. Calculation of the Asymptotically Optimal Capacity of a T-User M-Frequency Noiseless Multiple-Access Channel; L. Bassalygo, M. Pinsker. 17. A Survey of Coding Methods for the Adder Channel; G.H. Khachatrian. 18. Communication Network with Self-Similar Traffic; B. Tsybakov. 19. Error Probabilities for Identification Coding and Least Length Single Sequence Hopping; E.C. van der Meulen, S. Csibi. Combinatorial and Algebraic Coding. 20. A New Upper Bound On Codes Decodable Into Size-2 Lists; A. Ashikmin, et al. 21. Constructions of Optimal Linear Codes; S. Dodunekov, J. Simonis. 22. New Applications and Results of Superimposed Code Theory Arising from the Potentialities of Molecular Biology; A.G. D'yachkov, et al. 23. Rudified Convolutional Encoders; R. Johannesson. 24. Check Digit Systems Using Anti-symmetric Mappings; R.-H. Schulz. 25. Switching and Perfect Codes; F.I. Solov'eva. 26. On Superimposed Codes; A.J. Han Vinck, S. Martirossian. 27. The MacWilliams Identity for Linear Codes over Galois Rings; Z.-X. Wan. Cryptology. 28. Structure of a Common Knowledge Created by Correlated Observations and Transmission over Helping Channels; V.B. Balakirsky. 29. How to Broadcast Privacy: Secret Coding for Deterministic Broadcast Channels; N. Cai, K.Y. Lam. 30. Additive-Like Instantaneous Block Encipheres; Z. Zhang. Information Theory and the Related Fields Data Compression, Entropy Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, Probability and Statistics. 31. Space Efficient Linear Time Computation of the Burrows and Wheeler-Transformation; S. Kurtz, B. Balkenhol. 32. Sequences Incompressible by SLZ (LZW), yet Fully Compressible by ULZ; L.A. Pierce II, P.C. Shields. 33. Universal Coding of Non-Prefix Context Tree Sources; Y.M. Shtarkov. 34. How Much Can You Win When Your Adversary is Handicapped?; L. Staiger. 35. On Random-Access Data Compaction; F.M.J. Willems, et al. 36. Universal Lossless Coding of Sources with Large and Unbounded Alphabets; E. Yang, Y. Jia. 37. Metric Entropy Conditions for Kernels; B. Carl. 38. On Subshifts and Topological Markov Chains; W. Krieger. 39. Large Deviations Problem for the Shape of a Random Young Diagram with Restrictions; V. Blinovsky. 40. BSC: Testing of Hypotheses with Information Constraints; M.V. Burnashev, et al. 41. The Ahlswede-Daykin Theorem; P.C. Fischburn, L. Shepp. 42. Some Aspects of Random Shapes; H. Ziezold. Complexity. 43. Decision Support Systems with Multiple Choice Structure; I. Althofer. 44. Quantum Computers and Quantum Automata; R. Freivalds. 45. Routing in All-Optical Networks; L. Gargano, U. Vaccaro. 46. Proving the Correctness of Processors with Delayed Branch Using Delayed PC; S.M. Mueller, et al. 47. Communication Complexity of Functions on Direct Sums; U. Tamm. 48. Ordering in Sequence Spaces: an Overview; P. Vanroose. 49. Communication Complexity and BDD Lower Bound Techniques; I. Wegener. 50. Reminiscences About Professor Ahlswede And A Last Word By Thomas Mann. 51. List of Invited Lectures held at the Symposium 'Numbers, Information and Complexity' in Bielefeld, October 8-11, 1998. 52. Bibliography of Publications by Rudolf Ahlswede. Index.
