FST TCS 2000 Preliminary Programme

13 December 2000 

9:00-9:30 Opening
9:30-10:30 Invited Talk: E Allen Emerson
Model Checking: Theory into Practice
10:30-11:00 Tea 
11:00-12:30 Fast On-line/Off-line Algorithms for Optimal Reinforcement of a Network and its Connections with Principal Partition 
H. Narayanan and Sachin B. Patkar  
Model checking CTL Properties of Pushdown Systems  
Igor Walukiewicz 
On-Line Edge-Coloring with a Fixed Number of Colors 
Lene Monrad Favrholdt and Morten Nyhave Nielsen 
A Decidable Dense Branching-time Temporal Logic 
Salvatore La Torre and Margherita Napoli 
On Approximability of the Independent/Connected Edge Dominating Set Problems  
Toshihiro Fujito 
Fair Equivalence Relations
Orna Kupferman, Nir Piterman and Moshe Vardi 
12:30-14:00 Lunch 
14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Philip Wadler 
An Algebra for XML Query
15:00-15:30 Tea 
15:30-17:00 Arithmetic Circuits and Polynomial Replacement Systems 
Pierre McKenzie, Heribert Vollmer and Klaus W. Wagner 
Combining Semantics with Non-Standard Interpreter Hierarchies  
Sergei Abramov and Robert Glueck 
Depth-3 arithmetic circuits for S(2,n)(X) and extensions of the Graham-Pollack theorem 
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Pranab Sen and Sundar Vishwanathan 
Using Modes to Ensure Subject Reduction for Typed Logic Programs with Subtyping 
Jan-Georg Smaus, Francois Fages and Pierre Deransart 
The Weak Monadic Quantifier Alternation Hierarchy of Equational Graphs is Infinite 
Ly Olivier 
Dynamically Ordered Probabilistic Choice Logic Programming 
Marina De Vos and Dirk Vermeir 
18:30-20:00 IARCS Business Meeting 

14 December 2000 

9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Bernard Chazelle
Irregularities of Distribution, Derandomization, and Complexity Theory
10:10-11:10 Coordinatized Kernels and Catalytic Reductions: Improved FPT Algorithms for Max Leaf Spanning Tree and Other Problems
Michael R. Fellows, Catherine McCartin, Ulrike Stege and Frances A. Rosamond 
A Complete Fragment of Higher-Order Duration $\mu$-Calculus 
Dimitar P. Guelev  
Planar Graph Blocking for External Searching 
Surender Baswana and Sandeep Sen 
A Complete Axiomatisation for Timed Automata 
Huimin Lin and Wang Yi 
11:10-11:30 Tea 
11:30-12:30 Text Sparsification via Local Maxima 
Pierluigi Cresceznzi, Alberto Del Lungo, Roberto Grossi, Elena Lodi, Linda Palgi and Gianluca Rossi 
Semantic Theory for Heterogeneous System Design, 
Rance Cleaveland and Gerald Luettgen 
Approximate Swapped Matching 
A Amir, M Lewenstein and E. Porat 
Formal Verification of the Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm 
Ekaterina Sedletsky, Amir Pnueli and Mordechai Ben-Ari 
12:30-14:00

Lunch 

14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Jose Meseguer
Rewriting Logic as a Metalogical Framework
15:00-15:30 Tea 
15:30-17:00 On distribution-specific learning with membership queries versus pseudorandom generation 
Johannes Köbler and Wolfang Lindner 
A General Framework for Types in Graph Rewriting 
Barbara Koenig 
$\Theta_2^p$-completeness: A classical approach for new results 
Joel Vogel and Holger Spakowski 
The Ground Congruence for Chi Calculus  
Yuxi Fu and Zhenrong Yang 
Is the Standard Proof System for SAT P-optimal? 
Johannes Köbler and Jochen Messner 
Inheritance in the Join Calculus 
Cedric Fournet, Cosimo Laneve, Luc Maranget and Didier Remy 
15 December 2000 
9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Martin Grötschel 
Frequency Assignment in Mobile Phone Systems
10:10-11:10 Approximation Algorithms for Bandwidth and Storage Allocation Problems under Real Time Constraints  
Stefano Leonardi, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Andrea Vitaletti 
The Fine Structure of Game Lambda Models 
Pietro Di Gianantonio and Gianluca Franco 
Dynamic Spectrum Allocation: The Impotency of Duration Notification 
Bala Kalyanasundaram and Kirk Pruhs 
Strong Normalisation of Second Order Symmetric Lambda-calculus 
Michel Parigot 
11:10-11:30

Tea 

11:30-12:30 Scheduling to minimize the average completion time of dedicated tasks 
Foto Afrati, Eviripidis Bampis, Aleksei V. Fishin, Klaus Jansen and Claire Keyon 
Keeping Track of the Latest Gossip in Shared Memory Systems 
Bharat Adsul, Aranyak Mehta and Milind Sohoni 
Hunting for Functionally Analogous Genes 
M. T. Hallett and J. Lagergren 
On Concurrent Knowledge and Logical Clock Abstractions  
Ajay Kshemkalyani 
12:30-14:00

Lunch 

14:00-15:00 Invited Talk: Peter Buneman 
Data Provenance: Some Basic Issues 
15:00-15:30

Tea

15:30-16:30 Decidable Hierarchies of Starfree Languages 
Christian Glasser and Heinz Schmitz 
Prefix languages of Church-Rosser languages 
Jens R. Woinowski 
16:30-17:00 Closing