Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2002, held in Malaga, Spain, in July 2002.;The 83 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 269 submissions.;All current aspects of theoretical computer science are addressed and major new results are presented.