Books
- "Computability and Complexity Theory, 2nd Edition", with S. Homer, Texts in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, December 2011 (Expanded with five new chapters)
- "Theoretical Computer Essays in Memory of Shimon Even", co-editor with O. Goldreich and A. Rosenberg, Springer-Verlag, Festschrift series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3895, March 2006
- "Computability and Complexity Theory", with S. Homer, Springer-Verlag, Texts in Computer Science, 2001
- "Complexity Theory Retrospective II", co-editor with L. Hemaspaandra, Springer-Verlag, 1997
- "Complexity Theory Retrospective", editor, Springer-Verlag, 1990
- "Structure in Complexity Theory", editor, Proceedings of the Conference held June 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 223, Springer-Verlag
Research Areas
Theory and Algorithms

Methods and techniques for developing efficient algorithms, especially graph algorithms, parallel algorithms and architectures, graph drawing, computational geometry, and group testing algorithms. Obstacles to proving non-trivial lower bounds in complexity theory. Properties of complexity classes, with relationships between classes and with identification of properties of problems that affect their computational complexity. | More »
Technical Reports
- 2011-06
- Homer, Steven; Selman, Alan L.. Turing and the Development of Computational Complexity, September 8, 2011.
- 2006-14
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Travers, Stephen; Wagner, Klaus. The Complexity of Unions of Disjoint Sets., June 26, 2006.
- 2006-13
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Travers, Stephen; Zhang, Liyu. Non-Mitotic Sets., June 22, 2006.
- 2005-19
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Zhang, Liyu. Survey of Disjoint NP-Pairs and Relations to Propositional Proof Systems, July 7, 2005.
- 2005-18
- Glasser, Christian; Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.; Zhang, Liyu. Redundancy in Complete Sets, July 7, 2005.
- 2004-22
- Glasser, Christian; Ogihara, Mitsunori; Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.; Zhang, Liyu. Autoreducibility, Mitoticity, and Immunity, December 21, 2004.
- 2004-17
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Zhang, Liyu. Canonical Disjoint NP-Pairs of Propositional Proof Systems, November 19, 2004.
- 2004-03
- Glasser, Christian; Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.; Sengupta, Samik. Properties of NP-Complete Sets, January 15, 2004.
- 2003-04
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Sengupta, S.. Reductions between Disjoint NP-Pairs, April 21, 2003.
- 2003-02
- Glasser, Christian; Selman, Alan L.; Sengupta, Samik; Zhang, Liyu. Disjoint NP-Pairs, February 17, 2003.
- 2004-01
- Selman, Alan L.; Sengupta, S.. Polylogarithmic-round Interactive Proofs for coNP, September 2, 2003.
- 2001-02
- Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.. Separation of NP-completeness Notions, January 16, 2001.
- 99-02
- Fortnow, L.; Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.. Distributionally-Hard Languages, April 26, 1999.
- 97-13
- Naik, Ashish V.; Rogers, John, D.; Royer, James S.; Selman, Alan L.. A Hierarchy Based on Output Multiplicity, August 5, 1997.
- 97-01
- Pavan, A.; Selman, Alan L.. Complete Distributional Problems, Hard Languages, and Resource-Bounded Measure, February 6, 1997.
- 95-51
- Fenner, Stephen; Green, Frederic; Homer, Stephen; Selman, Alan L.; Thierauf, Thomas; Vollmer, Heribe. Complements of Multivalued Functions, November 6, 1995.
- 95-16
- Cai, Jin-Yi; Selman, Alan L.. Average Time Complexity Classes, March 31, 1995.
- 94-02
- Cai, Jin-Yi; Naik, Ashish V.; Selman, Alan L.. On P-selective sets and Adaptive versus Nonadaptive Queries to NP, February 2, 1994.
- 93-29
- Hemaspaandra, Lane A.; Hoene, Albrecht; Naik, Ashish V.; Ogiwara, Mitsunori; Selman, Alan L.; Thiera. Selectivity: Reductions, Nondeterminism, and Function Classes, August 18, 1993.
- 93-28
- Hemaspaandra, Lane A.; Naik, Ashish V.; Ogiwara, Mitsunori; Selman, Alan L.. Computing Solutions Uniquely Collapses the Polynomial Hierarchy, August 17, 1993.
- 93-21
- Hemaspaandra, Edith; Naik, Ashish V.; Ogiwara, Mitsunori; Selman, Alan L.. P-Selective Sets, and Reducing Search to Decision vs. Self-Reducibility, July 30, 1993.
- 93-05
- Fenner, Stephen; Homer, Stephen; Ogiwara, Mitsunori; Selman, Alan L.. On Using Oracles That Compute Values, February 17, 1993.
- 91-12
- Selman, Alan L.. A Taxonomy of Complexity Class of Functions, June 1, 1992.
- 91-04
- Homer, Stephen; Selman, Alan L.. Complexity Theory, June 8, 1992.