Accepted Conference Papers


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ICLP 2005
International Conference on Logic Programming
Sitges, Spain, October 1-5, 2005
http://www.iiia.csic.es/iclp2005/


Invited Talks

ICLP 2005 will include the following three invited talks:

  OWL: a Description Logic Based Ontology Language
  Ian Horrocks
  Preference Reasoning
  Francesca Rossi
  The G12 Project: Mapping Solver Independent Models to Efficient Solutions
  PeterStuckey

Tutorial Program

ICLP 2005 will include the following tutorial:

  Challenges in Learning Logic Programs: From Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) to Statistical Relational Learning (SRL)
  Vitor Santos Costa

Accepted Papers:
Use of Logic Programming for Complex Business Rules
Walter Wilson

Semantics of Framed Temporal Logic Programs
Zhenhua Duan, Xiaoxiao Yang and Maciej Koutny.

On the relation between Answer Set and SAT procedures (or, between smodels and cmodels)
Enrico Giunchiglia and Marco Maratea.

HYPROLOG: a new logic programming language with assumptions and abduction
Henning Christiansen and Veronica Dahl.

A Generator of Efficient Abstract Machine Implementations and its Application to Emulator Minimization
Jose Morales, Manuel Carro, German Puebla and Manuel Hermenegildo.

Nondeterminism Analysis of Functional Logic Programs
Bernd Brabel and Michael Hanus.

Testing for Termination with Size Change Graphs
Michael Codish, Vitaly Lagoon and Peter Stuckey.

Towards an Integration of Answer Set and Constraint Solving
Sabrina Baselice, Piero A. Bonatti and Michael Gelfond.

Symbolic Support Graph: A Space Efficient Data Structure For Incremental Tabled Evaluation
Diptikalyan Saha and C. R. Ramakrishnan.

Towards Implementations for Advanced Equivalence Checking in Answer-Set Programming
Hans Tompits and Stefan Woltran.

Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs With Non-monotonic Negation
Emad Saad and Enrico Pontelli.

Reducing Inductive Definitions to Propositional Satisfiability
Nikolay Pelov and Eugenia Ternovska.

A Comparison of CLP(FD) and ASP Solutions to NP-Complete Problems
Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano and Enrico Pontelli.

A Well-Founded Semantics with Disjunction
Joao Alcantara, Carlos Damasio and Luis Moniz Pereira.

An optimised Semantic Web query language implementation in Prolog
Jan Wielemaker.

Practical Higher-Order Pattern Unification via On-the-Fly Raising
Gopalan Nadathur and Natalie Linnell.

Dynamic Mixed-Strategy Evaluation of Tabled Logic Programs
Ricardo Rocha, Fernando Silva and Vitor Santos Costa.

Small proof witnesses for LF
Susmit Sarkar, Brigitte Pientka and Karl Crary.

Guard and Continuation Optimization for Occurrence Representations of CHR
Jon Sneyers, Tom Schrijvers and Bart Demoen.

Abduction of Linear Arithmetic Constraints
Michael Maher.

Coordination of Many Agents
Joxan Jaffar, Roland Yap and Kenny Zhu.

Parallelizing Union-Find in Constraint Handling Rules Using Confluence
Thom Fruehwirth.

Luca Bortolussi and Herbert Wiklicky.
A Distributed and Probabilistic Concurrent Constraint Programming Language

Deductive Multi-valued Model Checking
Ajay Mallya.

Techniques for Scaling Up Analyses Based on Pre-Interpretations
John P. Gallagher, Kim Henriksen and Gourinath Banda.

Polynomial Interpretations as a Basis for Termination An
Manh Thang Nguyen and Danny De Schreye.
Accepted Posters:
Inconsistency-based Strategy For Clarifying Vague Software Requirements
Kedian Mu, Zhi Jin and Ruqian Lu.

A Type System for CHR
Emmanuel Coquery and Francois Fages.

Decision Support for Personalization on Mobile Devices
Thomas Kleemann and Alex Sinner.

Algorithms for FO(ID) model generation
Maarten Marikn, Rudradeb Mitra and Marc Denecker.

Abstract Interpretation with Specialized Definitions
German Puebla, Elvira Albert and Manuel Hermenegildo.

Induction of causal ramifications for action descriptions in ASP
Ramon Otero.

The need for Ancestor Resolution when answering queries in Horn Clause Logic
Oliver Ray.

Modeling Systems in CLP with Coinductive Tabling
Joxan Jaffar, Andrew Edward Santosa and Razvan Voicu.

A Sufficient Condition for Strong Equivalence under the Well-Founded Semantics
Chistos Nomikos, Panos Rondogiannis and William Wadge.

Analyses, Optimizations and Extensions of Constraint Handling Rules: Ph.D. Summary
Tom Schrijvers.

IMPACT: Innovative Models for Prolog with Advanced Control and Tabling
Ricardo Rocha, Ricardo Lopes, Fernando Silva and Vitor Santos Costa.

Using CLP to characterise linguistic lattice boundaries in a text mining process
Alexandre Saidi.

Hybridization of Genetic Algorithms and Constraint Propagation for the BACP
Tony Lambert, Carlos Castro, Eric Monfroy, Maria Cristina Riff and Fridiric Saubion.

The MYDDAS Project: Using a Deductive Database for Traffic Characterization
Michel Ferreira.

Open World Reasoning in Datalog
Gergely Lukacsy and Zsolt Nagy.

Optimizing Queries for Heterogeneous Information Sources
Andras Gyvrgy Bikis.

Denotational semantics using Horn Concurrent Transaction Logic
Marcus Santos.

Gentra4cp: a Generic Trace Format for Constraint Programming
Ludovic Langevine and The OADymPPaC team.




CP 2005
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
October 1-5, 2005, Sitges, Spain
http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/


Invited Talks

CP 2005 will include the following four invited talks:

  Inference and Search in AI Planning
  Hector Geffner
  OWL: a Description Logic Based Ontology Language
  Ian Horrocks
  Preference Reasoning
  Francesca Rossi
  The G12 Project: Mapping Solver Independent Models to Efficient Solutions
  PeterStuckey

The last three talks will be shared with the ICLP 2005 conference.

Tutorial Program

CP 2005 will include the following tutorials:

  SAT solving and its relationship to CSPs
  Fahiem Bacchus
  Advances in Search, Inference and Hybrids for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Tasks
  Rina Dechter
  Constraint Handling Rules: Programming with a Chinese Horse
  Thom Fruehwirth
  Complete Randomized Backtrack Search Methods: Connections to Fat and Heavy-tailed distribution and Restart Strategies
  Carla Gomes

Accepted Papers

2-way vs D-way Branching for CSP
Joey Hwang and David G. Mitchell

A Linear-Logic Semantics for Constraint Handling Rules
Hariolf BETZ, Thom Fruhwirth

AC-*: A Configurable, Generic and Adaptive Arc Consistency Algorithm
Jean-Charles Regin

Ad-hoc Global Constraints for Life
Kenil C.K. Cheng, Roland H.C. Yap

Advances in Polytime Isomorph Elimination for Configuration
Laurent Henocque, Mathias Kleiner and Nicolas Prcovic

Allocation and Scheduling for MPSoCs via decomposition and no-good generation
L. Benini, D. Bertozzi, A. Guerri, M. Milano

Applying Constraint Programming to Rigid Body Protein Docking
Ludwig Krippahl and Pedro Barahona

Assumption-Based Pruning in Conditional CSP
Felix Geller and Michael Veksler

Automatic detection of variable and value symmetries
Jean-Francois Puget

Beyond Hypertree Width: Decomposition Methods Without Decompositions
Hubie Chen and Victor Dalmau

Boosting Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Georg Ringwelski and Youssef Hamadi

Breaking All Value Symmetries in Surjection Problems
Jean-Francois Puget

Caching Search States in Permutation Problems
Barbara M. Smith

Conditional Symmetry Breaking
Ian P. Gent Tom Kelsey Steve A. Linton Iain McDonald Ian Miguel Barbara Smith

CP(Graph): Introducing a Graph Computation Domain in Constraint Programming
Gregoire Dooms, Yves Deville and Pierre Dupont

Depth-First Mini-Bucket Elimination
Emma Rollon and Javier Larrosa

Distributed stable matching problems
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer

Dynamic Ordering for Asynchronous Backtracking on DisCSPs
Roie Zivan and Amnon Meisels

Eplex: An Interface to Mathematical Programming Solvers for Constraint Logic Programming Languages
Kish Shen, Joachim Schimpf

Exploiting Unit Propagation in Max-SAT
Chu Min Li, Felip Manya and Jordi Planes

Factor analytic studies of CSP heuristics
Richard J. Wallace

Generalized Conflict Learning for Hybrid Discrete/Linear Optimization
Hui Li and Brian Williams

Generating Corrective Explanations for Interactive Constraint Satisfaction
Barry O'Callaghan, Barry O'Sullivan, and Eugene C. Freuder

Graph Invariants as Necessary Conditions for Global Constraints
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Mats Carlsson, Jean-Xavier Rampon, Charlotte Truchet

Handling Implication and Universal Quantification Constraints in FLUX
Michael Thielscher

Incremental Algorithms for Local Search from Second-Order Logic
Magnus Agren, Pierre Flener, and Justin Pearson

Inter-Distance Constraint: An Extension of the All-Different Constraint for Scheduling Equal Length Jobs
Konstantin Artiouchine and Philippe Baptiste

Interval analysis in scheduling
Jerome Fortin, Pawel Zielinski, Didier Dubois, Helene Fargier

Maintaining arc consistency algorithms during the search without additional cost
Jean-Charles Regin

Maintaining Longest Paths In Cyclic Graphs
Irit Katriel and Pascal Van Hentenryck

Maximum constraint satisfaction on diamonds
Andrei Krokhin and Benoit Larose

Mind The Gaps: A New Splitting Strategy for Consistency Techniques
Heikel Batnini, Claude Michel and Michel Rueher

Nonlinear Constrained Optimization through Constraint Partitioning
Benjamin W. Wah and Yixin Chen

On Solving Soft Temporal Constraints using SAT Techniques
Hossein M. Sheini, Bart Peintner, Karem A. Sakallah and Martha E. Pollack

Parallel Local Search in Comet
Laurent Michel and Pascal Van Hentenryck

Planning and Scheduling to Minimize Tardiness
J. N. Hooker

Repair-based Methods for Quantified CSPs
Kostas Stergiou

Search Heuristics and Heavy-Tailed Behaviour
Tudor Hulubei and Barry O'Sullivan

Solving Simple Planning Problems with More Inference and No Search
Vincent Vidal and Hector Geffner

Solving the MOLR and Social Golfers Problems
Warwick Harvey and Thorsten Winterer

Spread: A Balancing Constraint Based on Statistics
Gilles Pesant and Jean-Charles Regin

Sub-Optimality Approximations
Russell Bent, Irit Katriel, and Pascal Van Hentenryck

Symmetry and Consistency
I.P. Gent, Tom Kelsey, Steve Linton, Colva Roney-Dougal

Symmetry Definitions for Constraint Satisfaction Problems
David Cohen, Peter Jeavons, Christopher Jefferson, Karen E. Petrie, Barbara M. Smith

Tractable Clones of Polynomials over Semigroups
Victor Dalmau, Ricard Gavalda, Pascal Tesson, and Denis Therien

Tree decomposition with function filtering
Marti Sanchez, Javier Larrosa, Pedro Meseguer

Using SAT in QBF
Horst Samulowitz and Fahiem Bacchus

Weak Composition for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Jochen Renz, Gerard Ligozat

Accepted Posters

A Different Round Robin Constraint for Sports Scheduling
Laurent Perron

A Generic Framework for Learning Implied Constraints
Christian Bessiere, Remi Coletta and Thierry Petit

Approximate Constrained Pattern Matching
Zampelli Stephane, Yves Deville and Pierre Dupont

Approximated Consistency for the Automatic Recording Constraint
Meinolf Sellmann

Approximations in Distributed Optimization
Adrian Petcu and Boi Faltings

Benders decomposition in Constraint Programming
Hadrien Cambazard and Narendra Jussien

Beyond Finite Domains: the All Different and Global Cardinality Constraints
Claude-Guy Quimper and Toby Walsh

Bounds of Graph Characteristics
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Thierry Petit, Guillaume Rochart

Computing and exploiting tree-decompositions for solving constraint networks
Philippe Jegou and Samba Ndojh Ndiaye and Cyril Terrioux

Consistency for Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Peter Nightingale

Encoding Requests to Web Service Compositions as Constraints
Alexander Lazovik, Marco Aiello, Rosella Gennari

Evolving Variable-Ordering Heuristics for Constrained Optimisation
Stuart Bain, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar

Extending Systematic Local Search for Job Shop Scheduling Problems
Bistra Dilkina, Lei Duan and William S. Havens

Extremal CSPs
Nicolas Prcovic

Interactive Reconfiguration in Power Supply Restoration
Tarik Hadzic, Henrik Reif Andersen

Lookahead Saturation with Restriction for SAT
Anbulagan and John Slaney

Multi-Point Constructive Search
J. Christopher Beck

Neighbourhood Clause Weight Redistribution in Local Search for SAT
Abdelraouf Ishtaiwi, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar and Duc Nghia Pham

Test Instance Generation for MAX 2SAT
Mitsuo Motoki

Towards an Optimal CNF Encoding of Boolean Cardinality Constraints
Carsten Sinz

Using Boolean Constraint Propagation for Sub-clause Deduction
S. Darras, G. Dequen, L. Devendeville, B. Mazure, R. Ostrowski, L. Sais

Views and Iterators for Generic Constraint Implementations
Christian Schulte and Guido Tack




CICLOPS 2005
Colloqium on Implementation of Constraint LOgic Programming Systems
Sitges, Spain, October 5, 2005

http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/ciclops05/


Accepted Papers:

The Implementation of Minimal Model Tabling in Mercury
Zoltan Somogyi and Konstantinos Sagonas

Pruning Extensional Predicates in Deductive Databases
Tiago Soares, Ricardo Rocha and Michel Ferreira

Functional Notation and Lazy Evaluation in Ciao
Amadeo Casas, Daniel Cabeza and Manuel Hermenegildo

Views and Iterators for Generic Constraint Implementations
Christian Schulte and Guido Tack

Closures for Closed Module Systems
Rémy Haemmerlé and François Fages

Speeding up constrained path solvers with a reachability propagator
Luis Quesada, Peter Van Roy,Yves Deville






WCB 2005
Workshop on Constraint Based Methods in Bioinformatics
Sitges, Spain, October 5, 2005

http://www.dimi.uniud.it/dovier/WCB05/



ACCEPTED PAPERS:
  1. Maryam Bavarian and Veronica Dahl.
    RNA Secondary Structure Design Using Constraint Handling Rules
  2. Luca Bortolussi and Andrea Sgarro.
    Constraint Satisfaction Problems over DNA Strings
  3. Fabien Corblin, Laurent Trilling, and Eric Fanchon
    Constraint Logic Programming for modeling a biological system described by a logical network
  4. Gregoire Dooms, Yves Deville, and Pierre Dupont
    Constrained metabolic network analysis: discovering pathways using CP(Graph)
  5. Christine Gaspin, Simon de Givry, Thomas Schiex, Patricia Thebault, Matthias Zytnicki.
    A new local consistency for weighted CSP applied to ncRNA detection
  6. S. de Givry, Z. Vitezica, and Thomas Schiex.
    Mendelian error detection in complex pedigree using weighted constraint satisfaction techniques
  7. Ingrid Jacquemin and Jacques Nicolas
    Disulfide bonds prediction using inductive logic programming
  8. Sebastian Will, Anke Busch, and Rolf Backofen.
    Efficient Constraint-based Sequence Alignment by Cluster Tree Elimination
  9. Marco Zantoni, Emiliano Dalla, and Alberto Policriti.
    Biological constraints for the consensus subsequence problem.



WLPE 2005
Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
Sitges, Spain, October 5, 2005

http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~susana/Conferences/WLPE05/


Accepted Papers



MoVeLog'05
Mobile Code Safety and Program Verification using Computational Logic Tools
Sitges, Spain, October 5, 2005

http://babel.ls.fi.upm.es/movelog05/


Program:

9:30 Opening Comments Jim Lipton
10:00 Invited Talk: Abstract Interpretation-based Verification/Certification in the CiaoPP System German Puebla
Elvira Albert
Manuel Hermenegildo
10:45 Break
11:15 Contributed Talk: Mixing Finite Success and Finite Failure in an Automatic Prover Alwen Tiu
Dale Miller
Gopalan Nadathur
12:00 Contributed Talk: Snapshots Generation via Constructive Logic Mario Ornaghi
Camillo Fiorentini
Alberto Momigliano
12:45 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Invited Talk: Tabled Higher-Order Logic Programming. Brigitte Pientka
15:00 Invited Talk: TBA Gopalan Nadathur
15:45 Invited Talk: TBA Dale Miller




CHR 2005
Second Workshop on Constraint Handling Rules
Sitges, Spain, October 5, 2005

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~toms/CHR2005/








Workshops at CP'2005
Sitges, Spain, October 1, 2005



International Conference on Applications of Constraint Satisfaction and Programming to Computer Security (CPSec)
October 1st, 2005, Sitges, Spain

Accepted Papers:

International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints
October 1st, 2005, Sitges, Spain

Accepted Papers:





LPNMR 2005
International Conference on Logic Programming and NonMonotonic Reasoning
Diamante, Italy, September 5-8, 2005

http://sv.mat.unical.it/home.html


Accepted Papers:


  • Sergei Odintsov and David Pearce. Routley Semantics for Answer Sets
    Paolo Ferraris. Answer Sets for Propositional Theories
    Francesco Buccafurri and Gianluca Caminiti. A Social Semantics for Multi-Agent Systems
    Martin Gebser and Torsten Schaub. Loops: Relevant or Redundant?
    Federico Banti, José Alferes, Antonio Brogi and Pascal Hitzler. A well supported semantics for multidimensional dynamic logic programs
    Marek Sergot and Robert Craven. Some logical properties of nonmonotonic causal theories
    Wolfgang Faber. Unfounded Sets for Disjunctive Logic Programs with Arbitrary Aggregates
    Victor W. Marek, Inna Pivkina and Miroslaw Truszczynski. Approximating answer sets of unitary Lifschitz-Woo programs
    Joost Vennekens and Marc Denecker. An Algebraic Account of Modularity in ID-logic
    Paolo Ferraris. On Modular Translations and Strong Equivalence
    Alberto Finzi and Thomas Lukasiewicz. Game-Theoretic Reasoning about Actions in Nonmonotonic Causal Theories
    Jean Gressmann, Tomi Janhunen, Robert Mercer, Torsten Schaub, Richard Tichy and Sven Thiele. Platypus: A platform for distributed answer set solving
    Tran Cao Son, Phan Huy Tu, Michael Gelfond and A. Ricardo Morales. An Approximation of Action Theories of AL and its Application to Conformant Planning
    Antonis Kakas, Loizos Michael and Rob Miller. Modular-E: an Elaboration Tolerant Approach to the Ramification and Qualification Problems
    Wolfgang Faber and Francesco Ricca. Solving Hard ASP Programs Efficiently
    Alex Dekhtyar and Michael I. Dekhtyar. Revisiting the Semantics of Interval Probabilistic Logic Programs
    Jia-Huai You, Guohua Liu, Li Yuan Yuan and Curtis Onuczko. Lookahead in Smodels Compared to Local Consistencies in CSP
    Francesco Calimeri and Giovambattista Ianni. External sources of computation for Answer Set Solvers
    Alvaro Cortes-Calabuig, Marc Denecker, Ofer Arieli, Bert Van Nuffelen and Maurice Bruynooghe. On the Local Closed-World Assumption of Data-Sources
    Iseline Engan, Tore Langholm, Espen Lian and Arild Waaler. Default Reasoning with Preference within Only Knowing Logic
    Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Cortes-Calabuig and Maurice Bruynooghe. An ID-Logic Formalization of the Composition of Autonomous Databases
    Hai-Feng Guo. Mode-Directed Fixed Point Computation
    Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh and Dirk Vermeir. Guarded Open Answer Set Programming
    Carlos Iván Chesñevar, Guillermo Ricardo Simari and Lluis Godo. Computing Dialectical Trees Efficiently in Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming
    Kewen Wang and Yan Zhang. Nested Epistemic Logic Programs







  • FDPE 2005
    Functional and Declarative Programming in Education
    Tallin, Estonia, September 25, 2005

    http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt/fdpe05


    FDPE'05 Programme

    9-10:30 Session 1: Keynote Address Session Chair: Simon Thompson (University of Kent)

    Invited Talk: How to Design Class Hierarchies Matthias Felleisen, Northeastern University

    11:00-12:30 Session 2: Submitted papers Session Chair: Michael Hanus (University of Kiel)

    From Functional to Object-oriented Programming -- A Smooth Transition for Beginners, Rudolf Berghammer, Frank Huch

    Laziness Without All the Hard Work: Combining Lazy and Strict Languages for Teaching, Eli Barzilay, John Clements

    Word Puzzles in Haskell, Sharon A. Curtis

    2:30-4:00 Session 3: Submitted papers Session Chair: Robby Findler (University of Chicago)

    Teaching of Image Synthesis in Functional Style, Jerzy Karczmarczuk

    MinCaml: A Simple and Efficient Compiler for a Minimal Functional Language, Eijiro Sumii

    Engineering Software Correctness, Rex Page

    4:30-6:00 Session 4: Discussions and 'Tips and Tricks' Session Chairs: The organisers

    'Tips and Tricks' session: contributions from attendees.

    Round table discussion on links between FDPE and CUFP.







    LOPSTR 2005
    International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation
    London, UK, September 7-9 2005

    http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/lopstr05/


    List of Accepted Papers:

    
    





    SAS 2005
    Static Analysis Symposium
    London, UK, September 7-9, 2005

    http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sas2005/


    Accepted Papers:





    WCFLP 2005
    Workshop on Curry and Functional Logic Programming
    Tallinn, Estonia, September 29, 2005

    http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mh/wcflp2005/


    Thursday, September 29
    Session 1 (Chair: Michael Hanus)
    9.15-9.30 Opening
    9.30-10.30 Claudio Ochoa, Josep Silva and Germán Vidal
    Lightweight Program Specialization via Dynamic Slicing
    Rafael Caballero
    A Declarative Debugger of Incorrect Answers for Constraint Functional-Logic Programs
    10.30-11.00 Coffee
    Session 2 (Chair: Germán Vidal)
    11.00-12.30 Julio Mariño and Jose Maria Rey
    Adding Constraints to Curry via Flat Guards
    Sonia Estevez Martin and Rafael del Vado Virseda
    Designing an Efficient Computation Strategy in CFLP(FD) Using Definitional Trees
    Jesus M. Almendros-Jimenez
    Constraint Logic Programming over Sets of Spatial Objects
    12.30-14.30 Lunch
    Session 3 (Chair: Julio Mariño)
    14.30-16.00 Michael Hanus
    A Generic Analysis Environment for Declarative Programs
    J. Guadalupe Ramos, Josep Silva and Germán Vidal
    An Offline Partial Evaluator for Curry Programs
    Sebastian Fischer
    A Functional Logic Database Library
    16.00-16.30 Coffee
    Session 4 (Chair: Francisco J. López-Fraguas)
    16.30-18.00 Bernd Braßel and Frank Huch
    Translating Curry To Haskell
    Emilio Gallego and Julio Mariño
    An Overview of the Sloth2005 Curry System
    Individual system demonstrations, closing






    PPSWR 2005
    Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning
    Dagstuhl, Germany, September 11-16, 2005

    http://contraintes.inria.fr/~fages/PPSWR05/


    Accepted Papers:





    FTP 2005
    International Workshop on First Order Theorem Proving
    Koblenz, Germany, September 14-17, 2005

    http://ftp2005.uni-koblenz.de/


    Accepted Papers:





    FroCos 2005
    International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems
    Vienna, Austria, September 19-21, 2005

    http://www.logic.at/frocos05/accepted.shtml


    Accepted Papers:





    FORMATS 2005
    International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
    Uppsala, Sweden, September 26-28, 2005

    http://www.it.uu.se/formats05/


    Accepted Papers:

    K. Subramani, D. Desovski
    A New Verification Procedure for Partially Clairvoyant Scheduling

    Flavio Corradini, Walter Vogler
    Performance of Pipelined Asynchronous Systems

    Martijn Hendriks
    Model Checking the Time to Reach Agreement

    Wan Fokkink, Jun Pang, Anton Wijs
    Is Timed Branching Bisimilarity an Equivalence Indeed?

    Thomas Chatain, Claude Jard
    Time Supervision of Concurrent Systems using Symbolic Unfoldings of Time Petri Nets

    Laurent Doyen, Thomas Henzinger, Jean-François Raskin
    Automatic Rectangular Refinement of Affine Hybrid Systems

    Hongping Lim, Dilsun Kaynar, Nancy Lynch, Sayan Mitra
    Translating Timed I/O Automata Specifications for Theorem Proving in PVS

    Patricia Bouyer, François Laroussinie, Pierre-Alain Reynier
    Diagonal Constraints in Timed Automata - Forward Analysis of Timed Systems

    Thomas Brihaye, Véronique Bruyère, Jean-François Raskin
    On Optimal Timed Strategies

    Husain Aljazzar, Holger Hermanns, Stefan Leue
    Counterexamples for Timed Probabilistic Reachability

    Oded Maler, Dejan Nickovic, Amir Pnueli
    Real-time Temporal Logic: Past, Present, Future

    Karine Altisen, Stavros Tripakis
    Implementation of Timed Automata: An Issue of Semantics or Modeling?

    Gerd Behrmann, Kim Larsen, Jacob Rasmussen
    Beyond Liveness - Efficient Parameter Synthesis for Time Bounded Liveness

    Raffaella Gentilini
    Reachability Problems on Extended o-minimal Hybrid Automata

    Roberto Giacobazzi, Isabella Mastroeni
    Timed Abstract Non-Interference

    Beatrice Berard, Franck Cassez, Serge Haddad, Didier Lime, Olivier H. Roux
    Comparison of the Expressiveness of Timed Automata and Time Petri Nets

    Thomas Henzinger, Rupak Majumdar, Vinayak Prabhu
    Quantifying Similarities Between Timed Systems

    Atle Refsdal, Knut Husa, Ketil Stølen
    Specification and Refinement of Soft Real-time Requirements Using Sequence Diagrams

    Bo Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faella
    Average Reward Timed Games







    ATVA 2005
    International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
    Taipei, Taiwan, October 4-7, 2005

    http://www.im.ntu.edu.tw/~atva2005/


    HIGHLIGHTS 
    . Co-location with FORTE 2005
    . Three Keynote Speeches:
    . Amir Pnueli (joint with FORTE 2005)
    . Zohar Manna
    . Wolfgang Thomas
    . Three Two-Hour Tutorials, given also by the keynote speakers
    . 33 Contributed Papers
    . Proceedings as LNCS 3707 of Springer
    . Early Registration: Friday September 1

    Please visit the conference Web site for details.


    PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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    Tutorial Day
    Tuesday, October 4, 2005
    (Barry Lam Hall, read "Bo Li Guan" in Chinese, Conference Room 201)
    0830-1000: Registration and Refreshment
    1000-1200: Tutorial I
    Title: TBA
    Speaker: Amir Pnueli
    1200-1330: Lunch
    1330-1530: Tutorial II
    Title: Decision Procedure: Classical Techniques
    Speaker: Zohar Manna
    1530-1600: Coffee Break
    1600-1800: Tutorial III
    Title: TBA
    Speaker: Wolfgang Thomas
    1830-1900: Bus ride to the Reception
    1900-2130: Opening and Reception (joint with FORTE 2005 Banquet)

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    Day One of Main Symposium
    Wednesday, October 5, 2005
    (Barry Lam Hall, Auditorium 101)
    0830-0930: Keynote Speech I (joint with FORTE 2005)
    Title: Ranking Abstraction as a Companion to Predicate Abstraction
    Speaker: Amir Pnueli
    0930-1000: Coffee Break
    1000-1200: Model Checking
    Verifying Very Large Industrial Circuits Using 100 Processes and Beyond
    Authors: Limor Fix, Orna Grumberg, Amnon Heyman, Tamir Heyman, and Assaf Schuster

    A New Reachability Algorithm for Symmetric Multi-processor Architecture
    Authors: Debashis Sahoo, Jawahar Jain, Subramanian Iyer, and David Dill

    Comprehensive Verification Framework for Dependability of Self-optimizing Systems
    Authors: Y. Zhao and M. Kardos and S. Oberthuer and F.J. Rammig

    Exploiting Hub States in Automatic Verification
    Authors: Giuseppe Della Penna, Igor Melatti, Benedetto Intrigila, and Enrico Tronci

    1200-1230: Coffee Break (quick lunch now or after the next short session)
    1230-1330: Combined Methods
    An Approach for the Verification of SystemC Designs using AsmL
    Authors: Ali Habibi and Sofiene Tahar

    Decomposition-Based Verification of Cyclic Workflows
    Authors: Yongsun Choi and J. Leon Zhao

    1400-1800: Excursion (joint with FORTE 2005)
    1830-2030: Committees Meeting

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    Day Two of Main Symposium
    Thursday, October 6, 2005
    (Barry Lam Hall, Auditorium 101)
    0830-0930: Keynote Speech II
    Title: Termination and Invariance Analysis of Loops
    Speaker: Zohar Manna
    0930-1000: Coffee Break
    1000-1200: Timed, Embedded, and Hybrid Systems (I)
    Guaranteed Termination in the Verification of LTL Properties of Non-linear Robust
    Discrete Time Hybrid Systems
    Authors: Werner Damm, Guilherme Pinto, and Stefan Ratschan

    Computation Platform for Automatic Analysis of Embedded Software Systems Using
    Model Based Approach
    Authors: A. Dubey, X. Wu, H. Su, and T.J. Koo

    Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Temporal Aspects of Complex Activities
    Authors: Andrei Voinikonis

    Automatic Test Case Generation with Region-Related Coverage Annotations for
    Real-time Systems
    Authors: Geng-Dian Huang and Farn Wang

    1200-1330: Lunch
    1330-1530: Abstraction and Reduction Techniques
    Selective Search in Bounded Model Checking of Reachability Properties
    Authors: Maciej Szreter

    Predicate Abstraction of RTL Verilog Descriptions using Constraint Logic Programming
    Authors: Tun Li, Yang Guo, SiKun Li, and GongJie Liu

    State Space Exploration of Object-Based Systems using Equivalence Reduction and the
    Sweepline Method
    Authors: Charles A. Lakos and Lars M. Kristensen

    Title: Syntactical Colored Petri Nets Reductions
    Authors: S. Evangelista, S.Haddad, J.-F. Pradat-Peyre

    1530-1600: Coffee Break
    1600-1800: Decidability and Complexity (Parallel Session)
    Algorithmic Algebraic Model Checking II: Decidability of Semi-Algebraic Model Checking
    and its Applications to Systems Biology
    Authors: V. Mysore, C. Piazza, and B. Mishra

    A Static Analysis using Tree Automata for XML Access Control
    Authors: Isao Yagi, Yoshiaki Takata, and Hiroyuki Seki

    Reasoning about Transfinite Sequences
    Authors: Stephane Demri and David Nowak

    Semi-Automatic Distributed Synthesis
    Authors: Bernd Finkbeiner and Sven Schewe

    1600-1800: Established Formalisms and Standards (Parallel Session)
    A New Graph of Classes for the Preservation of Quantitative Temporal Constraints
    Authors: Xiaoyu Mao, Janette Cardoso, and Robert Valette

    Comparison of Different Semantics for Time Petri Nets
    Authors: B. Berard, F. Cassez, S. Haddad, Didier Lime, and O.H. Roux

    Introducing Dynamic Properties with Past Temporal Operators in the B Refinement
    Authors: Mouna Saad and Leila Jemni Ben Ayed

    Approximate Reachability for Dead Code Elimination in Esterel*
    Authors: Olivier Tardieu and Stephen A. Edwards

    1830-1900: Bus ride to the Banquet
    1900-2130: Banquet

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    Day Three of Main Symposium
    Friday, October 7, 2005
    (Barry Lam Hall, Auditorium 101)
    0830-0930: Keynote Speech III
    Title: Some Perspectives of Infinite-State Verification
    Authors: Wolfgang Thomas
    0930-1000: Coffee Break
    1000-1100: Compositional Verification and Games
    Synthesis of Interface Automata
    Authors: Purandar Bhaduri

    Multi-Valued Model Checking Games
    Authors: Sharon Shoham and Orna Grumberg

    1100-1200: Timed, Embedded, and Hybrid Systems (II)
    Model Checking Prioritized Timed Automata
    Authors: Shang-Wei Lin, Pao-Ann Hsiung, Chun-Hsian Huang, and Yean-Ru Chen

    An MTBDD-based Implementation of Forward Reachability for Probabilistic Timed Automata
    Authors: Fuzhi Wang and Marta Kwiatkowska

    1200-1330: Lunch
    1330-1530: Protocols Analysis, Case Studies, and Tools
    An EFSM-based Intrusion Detection System for Ad Hoc Networks
    Authors: Jean-Marie Orset, Baptiste Alcalde, and Ana Cavalli

    Modeling and Verification of a Telecommunication Application using Live Sequence Charts
    and the Play-Engine Tool
    Authors: Pierre Combes, David Harel, and Hillel Kugler

    Formal Construction and Verification of Home Service Robots: A Case Study
    Authors: Moonzoo Kim and Kyo Chul Kang

    Model Checking Real Time Java Using Java PathFinder
    Authors: Gary Lindstrom, Peter C. Mehlitz, and Willem Visser

    1530-1600: Coffee Break
    1600-1730: Infinite-State and Parameterized Systems
    Using Parametric Automata for the Verification of the Stop-and-Wait Class of Protocols
    Authors: Guy Edward Gallasch and Jonathan Billington

    Flat Acceleration in Symbolic Model Checking
    Authors: Sebastien Bardin, Alain Finkel, Jerome Leroux, and Philippe Schnoebelen

    Flat Counter Automata Almost Everywhere!
    Authors: Jerome Leroux and Gregoire Sutre

    1730-1800: Closing





    ICFP 2005
    International Conference on Functional Programming
    Tallinn, Estonia, September 26-28, 2005

    http://www.brics.dk/~danvy/icfp05


    Accepted Papers: