Deep-inelastic scattering and the value of ${\alpha }_s$

Abstract

The brief overview of the definite determinations of the QCD coupling constant ${\alpha }_s$ from the characteristics of deep-inelastic scattering processes is given.

Comments: LATEX, 6 pages; Invited talk at the DPF-96 Meeting of APS, Minneapolis, MN, August 10-15, 1996; The current situtaion with the extarction of ${\alpha }_s$ from HERA data is clarified