Constitutes the refereed research papers contributed to a research project on the 'General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics' that was hosted from 2001-2004 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) of Bielefeld University and also papers of several incorporated meetings thereof.

Rudolf Ahlswede — From 60 to 66.- Information Theory and Some Friendly Neighbors – Ein Wunschkonzert.- Probabilistic Models.- Identification for Sources.- On Identification.- Identification and Prediction.- Watermarking Identification Codes with Related Topics on Common Randomness.- Notes on Conditions for Successive Refinement of Information.- Coding for the Multiple-Access Adder Channel.- Bounds of E-Capacity for Multiple-Access Channel with Random Parameter.- Huge Size Codes for Identification Via a Multiple Access Channel Under a Word-Length Constraint.- Codes with the Identifiable Parent Property and the Multiple-Access Channel.- Cryptology – Pseudo Random Sequences.- Transmission, Identification and Common Randomness Capacities for Wire-Tape Channels with Secure Feedback from the Decoder.- A Simplified Method for Computing the Key Equivocation for Additive-Like Instantaneous Block Encipherers.- Secrecy Systems for Identification Via Channels with Additive-Like Instantaneous Block Encipherer.- Large Families of Pseudorandom Sequences of k Symbols and Their Complexity – Part I.- Large Families of Pseudorandom Sequences of k Symbols and Their Complexity – Part II.- On a Fast Version of a Pseudorandom Generator.- On Pseudorandom Sequences and Their Application.- Authorship Attribution of Texts: A Review.- Quantum Models.- Raum-Zeit und Quantenphysik – Ein Geburtstagsständchen für Hans-Jürgen Treder.- Quantum Information Transfer from One System to Another One.- On Rank Two Channels.- Universal Sets of Quantum Information Processing Primitives and Their Optimal Use.- An Upper Bound on the Rate of Information Transfer by Grover’s Oracle.- A Strong Converse Theorem for Quantum Multiple Access Channels.- Identification Via Quantum Channels in the Presenceof Prior Correlation and Feedback.- Additive Number Theory and the Ring of Quantum Integers.- The Proper Fiducial Argument.- On Sequential Discrimination Between Close Markov Chains.- Estimating with Randomized Encoding the Joint Empirical Distribution in a Correlated Source.- On Logarithmically Asymptotically Optimal Hypothesis Testing for Arbitrarily Varying Sources with Side Information.- On Logarithmically Asymptotically Optimal Testing of Hypotheses and Identification.- Correlation Inequalities in Function Spaces.- Lower Bounds for Divergence in the Central Limit Theorem.- Information Measures – Error Concepts – Performance Criteria.- Identification Entropy.- Optimal Information Measures for Weakly Chaotic Dynamical Systems.- Report on Models of Write–Efficient Memories with Localized Errors and Defects.- Percolation on a k-Ary Tree.- On Concepts of Performance Parameters for Channels.- Appendix: On Common Information and Related Characteristics of Correlated Information Sources.- Search – Sorting – Ordering – Planning.- Q-Ary Ulam-Renyi Game with Constrained Lies.- Search with Noisy and Delayed Responses.- A Kraft–Type Inequality for d–Delay Binary Search Codes.- Threshold Group Testing.- A Fast Suffix-Sorting Algorithm.- Monotonicity Checking.- Algorithmic Motion Planning: The Randomized Approach.- Language Evolution – Pattern Discovery – Reconstructions.- Information Theoretic Models in Language Evolution.- Zipf’s Law, Hyperbolic Distributions and Entropy Loss.- Bridging Lossy and Lossless Compression by Motif Pattern Discovery.- Reverse–Complement Similarity Codes.- On Some Applications of Information Indices in Chemical Graph Theory.- Largest Graphs of Diameter 2 and Maximum Degree 6.- Network Coding.- An Outside Opinion.- Problems inNetwork Coding and Error Correcting Codes Appended by a Draft Version of S. Riis “Utilising Public Information in Network Coding”.- Combinatorial Models.- On the Thinnest Coverings of Spheres and Ellipsoids with Balls in Hamming and Euclidean Spaces.- Appendix: On Set Coverings in Cartesian Product Spaces.- Testing Sets for 1-Perfect Code.- On Partitions of a Rectangle into Rectangles with Restricted Number of Cross Sections.- On Attractive and Friendly Sets in Sequence Spaces.- Remarks on an Edge Isoperimetric Problem.- Appendix: On Edge–Isoperimetric Theorems for Uniform Hypergraphs.- Appendix: Solution of Burnashev’s Problem and a Sharpening of the Erd?s/Ko/Rado Theorem.- Realization of Intensity Modulated Radiation Fields Using Multileaf Collimators.- Sparse Asymmetric Connectors in Communication Networks.- Problem Section.- Finding , the Identification Capacity of the AVC , if Randomization in the Encoding Is Excluded.- Intersection Graphs of Rectangles and Segments.- Cutoff Rate Enhancement.- Some Problems in Organic Coding Theory.- Generalized Anticodes in Hamming Spaces.- Two Problems from Coding Theory.- Private Capacity of Broadcast Channels.- A Short Survey on Upper and Lower Bounds for Multidimensional Zero Sums.- Binary Linear Codes That Are Optimal for Error Correction.- Capacity Problem of Trapdoor Channel.- Hotlink Assignment on the Web.- The Rigidity of Hamming Spaces.- A Conjecture in Finite Fields.- Multiparty Computations in Non-private Environments.- Some Mathematical Problems Related to Quantum Hypothesis Testing.- Designs and Perfect Codes.

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