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#### What we do and why

The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity is a new forum for the rapid and widespread interchange of ideas, techniques, and research in computational complexity. The purpose of this Colloquium is to use electronic media for scientific communication and discussions in the computational complexity community. The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC) welcomes papers, short notes and surveys with
• relevance to the theory of computation,
• clear mathematical profile and
• strictly mathematical format.

#### Central topics

• models of computation and their complexity,
• complexity bounds (with the emphasis on lower bounds).
Specific areas including complexity issues are
• combinatorics,
• communication complexity,
• cryptography,
• combinatorial optimization,
• complexity of learning algorithms,
• logic.

Here are some papers on the idea and concept of electronic colloquia and ECCC.
7th April 2014 13:36

#### ECCC Archive DVD 2013

191 reports have been published on ECCC in 2013. The collection of all these reports is now available on DVD. You can order the archive (and also the archive DVDs from earlier years) at the local office. Please email < href="mailto:eccc@eccc.hpi-web.de">eccc@eccc.hpi-web.de for ordering.

4th March 2013 09:03

#### ECCC Archive DVD 2012

In 2012 we had a total count of 186 published reports on ECCC. The collection of all the reports from 2012 is now available on DVD. You can order the archive (and also the archive DVDs from earlier years) at the local office. Please email to eccc@eccc.hpi-web.de for ordering.

6th March 2012 12:04

#### ECCC Archive DVD 2011

In 2011 we had a total count of 174 published reports on ECCC. The collection of all the reports from 2011 is now available on DVD. You can order the archive (and also the archive DVDs from earlier years) at the local office. Please email to eccc@eccc.hpi-web.de for ordering.

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TR15-012 | 24th January 2015
Mika Göös

#### Lower Bounds for Clique vs. Independent Set

We prove an $\omega(\log n)$ lower bound on the conondeterministic communication complexity of the Clique vs. Independent Set problem introduced by Yannakakis (STOC 1988, JCSS 1991). As a corollary, this implies superpolynomial lower bounds for the Alon--Saks--Seymour conjecture in graph theory. Our approach is to first exhibit a query complexity ... more >>>

TR15-011 | 22nd January 2015
Subhash Khot, Dor Minzer, Muli Safra

#### On Monotonicity Testing and Boolean Isoperimetric type Theorems

We show a directed and robust analogue of a boolean isoperimetric type theorem of Talagrand. As an application, we
give a monotonicity testing algorithm that makes $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}/\epsilon^2)$ non-adaptive queries to a function
$f:\{0,1\}^n \mapsto \{0,1\}$, always accepts a monotone function and rejects a function that is $\epsilon$-far from
being monotone ... more >>>

TR15-010 | 19th January 2015
Maciej Li\'skiewicz, Rüdiger Reischuk, Ulrich Wölfel

#### Security Levels in Steganography -- Insecurity does not Imply Detectability

This paper takes a fresh look at security notions for steganography --
the art of encoding secret messages into unsuspicious covertexts
such that an adversary cannot distinguish the resulting stegotexts from original covertexts.
Stegosystems that fulfill the security notion used so far, however, are quite inefficient.
This ... more >>>

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