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         Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, ECCC

   The _full version_ of this Announcement is available at
URL: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/data/amast/links/v02/i02/full/ECCCc.txt
  The _Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity_ (ECCC) is a
new forum for the rapid and widespread interchange of new ideas,
techniques, and research in computational complexity.  The purpose of
this Colloquium is to use electronic media for scientific commnication
and discussions in the computational complexity community.  The ECCC
welcomes papers, short notes, surveys, with relevance to the theory of
computation, clear mathematical profile, strictly mathematical format.
  *Central topics* are: models of computation and their complexity,
trade-off results, complexity bounds (with emphasis on lower bounds).
  *Specific areas* including complexity issues are: combinatorics,
communication complexity, cryptography, combinatorial optimization,
complexity of learning algorithms, logic.  This is not meant as an
exhaustive list. All submissions which are in the scope, look somewhat
new and interesting, contain all proofs and are in a readable form, are
stored as an ECCC Report and are immediately accessible to the reader.
  *Submissions* Publication in ECCC provides the innovative feature of
an ongoing public scientific discussion.  Corrections, improvements,
remarks etc. concerning an existing ECCC Report may be submitted by
either author or reader and are kept with the original submission, thus
being accessible to all.  Submission to ECCC does not prevent future
submission to any conference or journal.  The submissions which appear
in the archive have the status of technical reports.
  *Scientific board* ECCC activity is supervised by a scientific
board. The board makes sure that ECCC Reports, as well as the ongoing
discussion, meet the minimal standards described above. In addition,
the board may occasionally declare a ECCC Report as an important
contribution which merits special attention. These declarations will be
posted. (The members of the scientific board of ECCC are listed in the
full version of this Announcement.)
  *Online access for ECCC*
   FTP    : URL: ftp://ftp.eccc.uni-trier.de/pub/eccc/
   WWW    : URL: http://www.eccc.uni-trier.de/eccc/
   e-mail : Mail to ftpmail@ftp.eccc.uni-trier.de, subject "help eccc"