Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science is the annual conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. The conference aims at enabling computer scientists, especially young researchers, to enter the community and to exchange theoretical ideas and results, as well as theoretically-based practical experiments and tools in computer science. This volume contains 32 papers selected from 50 submissions. The main topics include computability, automata, formal languages, term rewriting, analysis and design of algorithms, computational geometry, computational complexity, symbolic and algebraic computation, cryptography and security, data types and data structures, semantics of programming languages, program specification and verification, foundations of logic programming, parallel and distributed computation, and theory of concurrency. The work provides a view of the status of these topics and suggests directions for future research.