Information, coding, and mathematics : : Proceedings of workshop honoring Prof. Bob McEliece on his 60th birthday

Includes bibliography and references.

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1. A Computational Theory of Surprise -- Pierre Baldi 1 -- 2. Dynamic Key Distribution Using MDS Codes -- Lihao Xu27 -- 3. Worst-Case Mutual Information Trajectories in Concate- -- nated Codes with Asymptotic Interleavers -- Dariush Divsalar and Shlomo Shamai 45 -- 4. Results to get Maximal Quasihermitian Curves. New pos- -- sibilities for AG Codes -- Robert J. McEliece and Mari Cruz Rodriguez-Palanquex 55 -- 5. On Asymmetric Error Detection with Feedback -- Paul Oprisan and Bella Bose 63 -- 6. Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers and Weight Divisibility of -- Some Binary Codes -- Anne Canteaut, Pascale Charpin and Marion Videau 75 -- 7. Sloppy Alice attacks! Adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks -- on the McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem -- Eric R. Verheul, Jeroen M. Doumen and -- Henk C. A. van Tilborg99 -- 8. Reducible Rank Codes and Applications to Cryptography -- Ernst M. Gabidulin, Alexei Ourivski, Bassem Ammar and -- Bahram Honary121 -- 9. On a Boolean Maximization Problem -- Solomon W. Golomb and Wensong Chu 133 -- 10. On the Security of the McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem -- Nicolas Sendrier141 -- 11. Performance of MIMO Space Time-Coding with Discrete -- Modulations -- Jung-Fu (Thomas) Chen165 -- 12. Coding for Slow-Frequency-Hop Transmission: Variations -- on a Theme of McEliece -- Thomas G. Macdonald and Michael B. Pursley 183 -- 13. On Graph Constructions for LDPC Codes by Quasi-Cyclic -- Extension -- R. M ichael Tanner 209 -- 14. On the Channel Memory-Diversity Tradeoff in Communi- -- cation Systems -- Andrew P. Worthen and Wayne E. Stark221 -- 15. Duality, Dirty Paper Coding, and Capacity for Multiuser -- Wireless Channels -- Nihar Jindal, Sriram Vishwanath and Andrea Goldsmith 239 -- 16. Stability Analysis of the Turbo Decoding Algorithm Using -- Max-Log-MAP -- Wei-Sheng Wu, Chung-Hsuan Wang, Mao-Ching Chiu and -- Chi-chao Chao257 -- 17. Recursive List Decoding for Reed-Muller Codes and their -- Subcodes -- Ilya Dumer and Kirill Shabunov 279 -- 18. Adaptive Soft-Decision Decoding In Two Dimensions -- Xiao-Hong Peng, Paddy G. Farrell and Paul Coulton 299 -- 19. On the Theory of Linear Trellises -- Ralf Koetter and Alex Vardy 323 -- 20. Coding Over Graphs -- Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang and Jehoshua Bruck355 -- 21. On Approaching the Capacity of Finite-State Intersymbol -- Interference Channels -- Joseph B. Soriaga, Henry D. Pfister and Paul H. Siegel 365.