Rainbow of Computer Science

• Algorithmics.- Improved Approximations for Hard Optimization Problems via Problem Instance Classification.- Covering and Packing with Spheres by Diagonal Distortion in Rn.- Counting Plane Graphs with Exponential Speed-Up.- Formal Languages and Automata.- Ancient Typefaces and Parametric Weighted Finite Automata.- On Language Decompositions and Primality.- Ancient Typefaces and Parametric Weighted Finite Automata.- On Language Decompositions and Primality.- A Unifying Kleene Theorem for Weighted Finite Automata.- Local Squares, Periodicity and Finite Automata.- P and dP Automata: A Survey.- On the General Coloring Problem.- Learning.- Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Lifelong Learning: Fostering and Supporting New Learning Opportunities.- Towards an Open Learning Infrastructure for Open Educational Resources: Abundance as a Platform for Innovation.- Why E-Learning as It Stands Is Not Enough.- The Practice of Informatics.- Domains: Their Simulation, Monitoring and Control—A Divertimento of Ideas and Suggestions.- Roots and Stimuli to a New Perception of Informatics.- Towards a New Shape Description Paradigm Using the Generative Modeling Language.- Name Resolution by Rewriting in Dynamic Networks of Mobile Entities.- Maintaining the Personal Style and Flair of Handwriting in Presentation Recordings.- TGV-Fusion.- Secure and Privacy-Preserving eGovernment—Best Practice Austria.- The Quest for Uncertainty.

From the reviews: "In the tradition of all Festschriften, this volume in tribute to Hermann Maurer collects short contributions on a variety of topics of particular relevance to the honoree. Given the diversity of Maurer's published work, these topics range over many areas, which the editors have organized into sections about algorithms, formal languages and automata, learning, and the practice of informatics. ... Nearly every practitioner of computer science or informatics will find something interesting in this volume." (R. Roos, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2011)