Accepted Conference Papers


List of Events:




SAT 2005
8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
St. Andrews, Scotland, June 19-23, 2005
http://www.satisfiability.org/SAT05/


The following papers will be presented during the conference's paper sessions.

The following papers will be presented during the conference's poster session.






ICALP'05
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming
July 11-15, 2005, Lisboa, Portugal
http://icalp05.di.fct.unl.pt/


Accepted papers in Track A (65 papers) 
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Philip Bille and Inge Li Grtz.
The Tree Inclusion Problem: In Optimal Space and Faster

Miroslaw Kowaluk and Andrzej Lingas.
LCA queries in directed acyclic graphs

Leah Epstein and Meital Levy.
Online Interval Coloring and Variants

Bengt J. Nilsson.
Approximate Guarding of Monotone and Rectilinear Polygons

Kamal Jain, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Kunal Talwar.
The Generalized Deadlock Resolution Problem

Martin Dietzfelbinger and Christoph Weidling.
Balanced Allocation and Dictionaries with Tightly Packed Constant Size Bin

Stephanie Wehner and Ronald de Wolf.
Improved Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval

Juraj Hromkovic and Georg Schnitger.
NFAs with and without $\epsilon$-transitions

Jochen Knemann, Stefano Leonardi, Guido Schfer and Stefan van Zwam.
From Primal-Dual to Cost Shares and Back: A Stronger LP Relaxation for the
Steiner Forest Problem

Douglas Wikstrm. On the l-Ary GCD-Algorithm in Rings of Integers

Chen Avin and Gunes Ercal.
On The Cover Time of Random Geometric Graphs

Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky and Russell Martin.
Dynamic Diffusion Load Balancing

Corina E. Patrascu and Mihai Patrascu.
On Dynamic Bit-Probe Complexity

Ingo Wegener.
Simulated annealing beats Metropolis in combinatorial optimization

Christoph Ambhl.
An Optimal Bound for the MST Algorithm to Compute Energy Efficient Broadcast Trees in Wireless Networks

Martin Farach-Colton, Gad M. Landau, S. Cenk Sahinalp and Dekel Tsur.
Optimal spaced seeds for faster approximate string matching

Jiri Fiala, Peter Golovach and Jan Kratochvil.
Distance constrained labelings of graphs of bounded treewidth

Pascal Koiran, Vincent Nesme and Natacha Portier.
A quantum lower bound for the query complexity of Simon's problem

Amit Kumar, Yogish Sabharwal and Sandeep Sen.
Linear Time Algorithms for Clustering Problems in any dimensions

Charilaos Efthymiou and Paul Spirakis.
On the Existence of Hamiltonian Cycles in Random Intersection Graphs

Martin Gairing, Burkhard Monien and Andreas Woclaw.
A Faster Combinatorial Approximation Algorithm for Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Machines

Reuven Cohen, Pierre Fraigniaud, David Ilcinkas, Amos Korman and David Peleg.
Label-Guided Graph Exploration by a Finite Automaton

Nedialko B. Dimitrov and C. Greg Plaxton.
Optimal Cover Time for a Graph-Based Coupon Collector Process

Gustav Hast.
Approximating Max kCSP - outperforming a random assignment with almost a linear factor

Marie-Pierre Beal, Sylvain Lombardy and Jacques Sakarovitch.
On the equivalence of Z-automata

Eugen Czeizler and Jarkko Kari.
A tight linear bound on the neighborhood of inverse cellular automata

Robert Spalek and Mario Szegedy.
All Quantum Adversary Methods are Equivalent

Martin Beaudry, Francois Lemieux and Denis Therien.
Groupoids that recognize only regular languages

Qian-Ping Gu and Hisao Tamaki. Optimal branch-decomposition of
planar graphs in $O(n^3)$ time

Jeff Ford and Anna Gal.
Hadamard tensors and lower bounds on multiparty communication complexity

Telikepalli Kavitha.
An \tilde{O}(m^2n) Randomized Algorithm to compute a Minimum Cycle Basis of a Directed Graph

Fedor V. Fomin, Fabrizio Grandoni and Dieter Kratsch.
Measure and Conquer: Domination - A Case Study

Isaac Elias and Jens Lagergren.
Fast Neighbor Joining

Henry Lin, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos and Asher Walkover.
Braess's Paradox, Fibonacci Numbers, and Exponential Inapproximability

George Karakostas.
A better approximation ratio for the Vertex Cover problem

David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos.
Influential Nodes in a Diffusion Model for Social Networks

Stephen Alstrup, Inge Li Grtz, Theis Rauhe, Mikkel Thorup and Uri Zwick.
Union-Find with Constant Time Deletions

Bogdan Chlebus, Leszek Gasieniec, Dariusz Kowalski and Tomasz
Radzik.
On the Wake-up Problem in Radio Networks

Li Zhang.
The efficiency and fairness of a fixed budget resource allocation game

Manfred Droste and Paul Gastin.
Weighted automata and weighted logics

Annamaria Kovacs.
Fast Preemptive Sum-Multicoloring on Paths

Wun-Tat Chan, Tak-Wah Lam and Prudence Wong.
Dynamic Bin Packing of Unit Fractions Items

Gianni Franceschini and Roberto Grossi.
Optimal In-Place Sorting of Vectors and Records

Liam Roditty and Uri Zwick.
Replacement paths and k simple shortest paths in unweighted directed graphs

Hema Jampala and Norbert Zeh.
Cache-Oblivious Planar Shortest Paths

Sriram Pemmaraju and Rajiv Raman.
Approximation Algorithms for the Max-Coloring Problem

Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Arash Farzan and Mehdi Mirzazadeh.
Worst Case Optimal Union-Intersection Expression Evaluation

Mihai Badoiu, Artur Czumaj, Piotr Indyk and Christian Sohler.
Facility Location in Sublinear Time

Kanela Kaligosi, Kurt Mehlhorn, J. Ian Munro and Peter Sanders.
Towards Optimal Multiple Selection

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Martin Roetteler and Pranab Sen.
On the Power of Random Bases in Fourier Sampling: Hidden Subgroup Problem in the Heisenberg Group

Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen.
Lower Bounds for Circuits With Few Modular and Symmetric Gates

Pascal Tesson and Denis Thrien.
Restricted Two-Variable FO+MOD Sentences, Circuits and Communication Complexity

Anupam Gupta and Martin Pal.
Stochastic Steiner Trees without a Root

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Fabrizio Grandoni, Gianpaolo Oriolo and Martin Skutella.
New Approaches for Virtual Private Network Design

Debora Donato, Stefano Leonardi and Panayiotis Tsaparas.
Stability and Similarity of Link Analysis Ranking algorithms

Khaled Elbassioni, Aleksei V. Fishkin, Nabil H. Mustafa and Rene Sitters.
Approximation Algorithms for Euclidean Group TSP

Manan Sanghi, Ming-Yang Kao and Robert Schweller.
Randomized Fast Design of Short DNA Words

David cashman, Avner magen and Allan borodin.
How well can Primal-Dual and Local-Ratio algorithms perform?

Gerth Brodal, Rolf Fagerberg and Gabriel Moruz.
Cache-Aware and Cache-Oblivious Adaptive Sorting

Liam Roditty, Mikkel Thorup and Uri Zwick.
Deterministic constructions of approximate distance oracles and spanners}

Scott Diehl and Dieter Van Melkebeek.
Time-Space Lower Bounds for the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy on Randomized Machines

Frederic Magniez and Ashwin Nayak.
Quantum Complexity of Testing Group Commutativity

Paul Beame, Toniann Pitassi and Nathan Segerlind.
Lower bounds for Lovasz-Schrijver systems and beyond, using multiparty communication complexity

Matthias Englert and Matthias Westermann.
Reordering Buffer Management for Non-Uniform Cost Models

Matthew Cary, Atri Rudra and Ashish Sabharwal.
On the Hardness of Embeddings Between Two Finite Metrics

Accepted papers in Track B (24 papers)
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Albert Atserias, Anuj Dawar and Martin Grohe.
Preservation under Extensions on Well-Behaved Finite Structures

Franck van Breugel, Claudio Hermida, Michael Makkai and James Worrell.
An Accessible Approach to Behavioural Pseudometrics

Parosh Abdulla, Johann Deneux, Joel Ouaknine and James Worrell.
Decidability and Complexity Results for Timed Automata via Channel Machines

Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro and Thomas A. Henzinger.
The Complexity of Stochastic Rabin and Streett Games

Damien Pous.
Up-to Techniques for Weak Bisimulation

Roberto Giacobazzi and Mila Dalla Preda.
Semantic-based Code Obfuscation by Abstract Interpretation

Michael Mislove.
Discrete Random Variables Over Domains

Rajeev Alur, Viraj Kumar, P. Madhusudan and Mahesh Viswanathan.
Congruences for Visibly Pushdown Languages

Cheng Li, Zhe Dang, Oscar Ibarra and Hsu-Chun Yen.
Signaling P Systems and Verification Problems

Wan Fokkink and Sumit Nain.
A Finite Basis for Failure Semantics

Damian Niwinski, Pawel Urzyczyn, Igor Walukiewicz and Teodor Knapik.
Unsafe grammars and panic automata

Kousha Etessami and Mihalis Yannakakis.
Recursive Markov Decision Processes and Recursive Stochastic Games

Andrzej S. Murawski, C.-H. L. Ong and Igor Walukiewicz.
Idealized Algol with Ground Recursion, and DPDA Equivalence

Eric Badouel, Jules Chenou and Goulven Guillou.
Petri Algebras

Eugene Asarin and Pieter Collins.
Noisy Turing Machines

Giovanni Conforti, Damiano Macedonio and Vladimiro Sassone. BiLogics:
Spatial-Nominal Logics for Bigraphs

MohammadReza Mousavi and Michel A. Reniers.
Orthogonal Extensions in Structural Operational Semantics

Martin Grohe, Christoph Koch and Nicole Schweikardt.
Tight Lower Bounds for Query Processing on Streaming and External
Memory Data

Aaron Bradley, Zohar Manna and Henny Sipma.
The Polyranking Principle

James Laird.
Decidability in Syntactic Control of Interference

Giorgio Delzanno and Maurizio Gabbrielli.
Compositional Verification of Asynchronous Processes via Constraint Solving

Bernhard Reus and Thomas Streicher.
About Hoare Logics for Higher-order Store

Michael Baldamus, Joachim Parrow and Björn Victor.
A Fully Abstract Encoding of the Applied pi-Calculus

Rocco De Nicola, Daniele Gorla and Rosario Pugliese.
Basic Observables for a Calculus for Global Computing

Accepted papers in Track C (24 papers)
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Klaus Kursawe and Victor Shoup
Optimistic Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast

Mitsuhiro Haneda, Mitsuru Kawazoe and Tetsuya Takahashi
Suitable Curves for Genus-4 HCC over Prime Fields: Point Counting
Formulae for Hyperelliptic Curves of Type $y^2=x^{2k+1}+ax$

An Braeken, Yuri Borissov, Svetla Nikova and Bart Preneel
Classification of Boolean Functions of 6 Variables or Less with
Respect to Cryptographic Properties

Dario Catalano and Ivan Visconti
Hybrid Trapdoor Commitments and their Applications

Marius Zimand.
Simple extractors via constructions of cryptographic
pseudo-random generators

Helger Lipmaa, Guilin Wang and Feng Bao
Designated Verifier Signature Schemes: Attacks, New Security
Notions and A New Construction

Nicholas Hopper
On Steganographic Chosen Covertext Security

Marten Trolin and Douglas Wikstrom
Hierarchical Group Signatures

Ueli Maurer and Johan Sjodin.
Single-Key AIL-MACs from any FIL-MAC

Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Aggelos Kiayias
Asynchronous Perfectly Secure Communication over One-time Pads

Giuseppe Persiano and Ivan Visconti.
On the Round Complexity of Unbounded Concurrent Security.

Combining Intruder Theories.
Chevalier Yannick and Rusinowitch Michael

Martin Abadi and Bogdan Warinschi
Password-Based Encryption Analyzed

Mathieu Baudet, Veronique Cortier and Steve Kremer
Computationally sound implementations of equational theories against passive adversaries

Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Ivan Visconti
Concurrent Zero-Knowledge in the Public-Key Model

Roberto Tamassia and Nikos Triandopoulos
Computational Bounds on Hierarchical Data Processing with
Applications to Information Security

Neeraj Kayal
Solvability of a System of Bivariate Polynomial Equations over a
Finite Field

Marc Fischlin
Completely Non-Malleable Schemes

David Galindo
Improved Identity Based Encryption

Omer Horvitz and Jonathan Katz
Lower Bounds on the Efficiency ``Black-Box'' Commitment Schemes

Hoeteck Wee
On Round-Efficient Argument Systems

Craig Gentry and Zulfikar Ramzan
Towards Computational Private Block Retrieval with Asymptotically
Optimal Communication Rate

Tal Moran and Moni Naor
Basing Cryptographic Protocols on Tamper-Evident Seals

Eike Kiltz, Anton Mityagin, Saurabh Panjwani and Barath Raghavan
Append-Only Signatures





COMMONSENSE 2005
Symposium on Logical Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning
Corfu, Greece, May 22-24, 2005

http://www.iccl.tu-dresden.de/commonsense05/


Programme:

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

  09.00 - 10.00     Conceptual Spaces as a Semantics for Nonmontonic Reasoning
  Peter Gärdenfors (Invited Talk)
  10.00 - 10.30   Complex procedures instantiated by their proper parts
  Boris Hennig
  10.30 - 11.00
Coffee Break
  11.00 - 11.30   Iterated Belief Revision, Revised
  Yi Jin, Michael Thielscher
  11.30 - 12.00   Iterated Belief Merging as Conciliation Operators
  Olivier Gauwin, Sébastien Konieczny, Pierre Marquis
  12.00 - 12.30   On the Logic of Merging: Quota and Gmin Merging Operators
  Patricia Everaere, Sébastien Konieczny, Pierre Marquis
  12.30 - 14.30
Lunch
  14.30 - 15.00   An Argumentation Framework for Merging Conflicting Knowledge Bases: The Prioritized Case  
  Leila Amgoud, Souhila Kaci
  15.00 - 15.30   Modular-E: an Elaboration Tolerant Approach to the Ramification and Qualification Problems    
  Antonis Kakas, Loizos Michael, Rob Miller
  15.30 - 16.00   Causality and Counterfactuals in the Situation Calculus
  Mark Hopkins, Judea Pearl
  16.00 - 16.30
Coffee Break
  16.30 - 17.00   Semantics for a useful fragment of the situation calculus
  Gerhard Lakemeyer, Hector J. Levesque
  17.00 - 17.30   Action Invariants and System Constraints in STRIPS
  Norman Foo, Pavlos Peppas, Yan Zhang

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

  09.00 - 10.00     Drosophila, Challenge Problems, and the Furtherance of Formal Commonsense Reasoning      
  Leora Morgenstern (Invited Talk)
  10.00 - 10.30   On the reasoning of real-world agents: Toward a semantics for active logic
  Michael L. Anderson, Walid Gomaa, John Grant, Don Perlis
  10.30 - 11.00
Coffee Break
  11.00 - 11.30   Specifying and Generating Preferred Plans
  Meghyn Bienvenu, Sheila McIlraith
  11.30 - 12.00   A General Framework for Expressing Preferences in Causal Reasoning and Planning
  James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub, Hans Tompits
  12.00 - 12.30   A Causal Theory of Abduction
  Alexander Bochman
  12.30 - 14.30
Lunch
  14.30 - 15.00   Interpreting Golog Programs in Flux
  Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher
  15.00 - 15.30   Representing Flexible Temporal Behaviors in the Situation Calculus
  Alberto Finzi, Fiora Pirri
  15.30 - 16.00   Goal Change
  Steven Shapiro, Yves Lespérance, Hector J. Levesque
  16.00 - 16.30
Coffee Break
  16.30 - 17.00   Knowledge Integration for Description Logics
  Thomas Meyer, Kevin Lee, Richard Booth
  17.00 - 17.30   Updating Description Logics using the AGM Theory
  Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou
   
  20.30 - 23.00
Symposium Dinner

  John McCarthy (Invited Talk)

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

  09.00 - 09.30     Encoding Knowledge of Commonsense Psychology
  Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew S. Gordon
  09.30 - 10.00   Towards an Ontology of Information Structure
  Jerry R. Hobbs
  10.00 - 10.30   Decision-Theoretic Deliberation in Resource Bounded Self-Aware Agents
  Guido Boella, Joris Hulstijn, Leendert van der Torre
  10.30 - 11.00
Coffee Break
  11.00 - 11.30   A First-Order Axiomatization of the Surprise Birthday Present Problem
  Leora Morgenstern
  11.30 - 12.00   A Framework for Commonsense Knowledge Retrieval
  Phil Oertel, Eyal Amir
  12.00 - 12.30   A novel approach for updates based on the notion of minimal generalized answer sets                
  Fernando Zacarías, Mauricio Osorio, Juan Carlos Acosta Guadarrama, Jürgen Dix
  12.30 - 14.30
Lunch
  14.30 - 15.00   First Order Logical Filtering
  Afsaneh Shirazi, Eyal Amir
  15.00 - 15.30   Forgetting literals with varying propositional symbols
  Yves Moinard
  15.30 - 16.00   DR-Prolog: A System for Reasoning with Rules and Ontologies on the Semantic Web
  Grigoris Antoniou, Antonis Bikakis
  16.00 - 16.30
Coffee Break
  16.30 - 17.00   Tractable Reasoning with Incomplete Knowledge in Dynamic Systems
  Yongmei Liu, Hector J. Levesque
  17.00 - 17.30   Tractable Reasoning in First-Order Knowledge Bases with Disjunctive Information
  Yongmei Liu, Hector J. Levesque





LAAIC 2005
Logical Aspects and Applications of Integrity Constraints
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 26, 2005

http://www.laaic05.ruc.dk/



ACCEPTED PAPERS:
  • Indexes and path constraints in semistructured data by Yves André, Anne-Cécile Caron, Denis Debarbieux and Yves Roos
  • Fixing Inconsistent Databases by Updating Numerical Attributes by Leopoldo Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Franconi and Andrei Lopatenko
  • Embedding XML Schema Constraints in Search-Based Intersection Tests for XPath Query Optimization by Stefan Böttcher and Rita Steinmetz
  • Towards Transformation of Integrity Constraints and Database States by Fabian Büttner, Hanna Bauerdick and Martin Gogolla
  • Total Unbiased Multivalued Paraconsistent Semantics of Database Integrity by Hendrik Decker
  • Functional Dependencies on Nested Attributes: Algebraic, logical and topological Perspective by Sven Hartmann and Sebastian Link
  • Incorporating Active Rules Processing into Update Execution in XML Database Systems by Maria Rekouts
  • On Condensing Database Repairs Obtained by Tuple Deletions by Jef Wijsen






  • LICS 2005
    Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
    Chicago, Illinois, June 24-25, 2005

    http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics/lics05/


    Accepted Papers





    Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
    Lisboa, Portugal, July 11-13, 2005

    http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~afelty/ppdp05/


    A COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS FOR CHR
    Giorgio Delzanno, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Maria Chiara Meo

    A NEW CALCULUS OF CONTEXTS
    Murdoch Gabbay

    A RESOLUTION STRATEGY FOR VERIFYING CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS WITH CBC
    ENCRYPTION AND BLIND SIGNATURES
    Veronique Cortier, Michael Rusinowitch, Eugen Zalinescu

    ABSTRACT INTERPRETATION FOR CONSTRAINT HANDLING RULES
    Tom Schrijvers, Peter J. Stuckey, Gregory J. Duck

    AUTOMATIC TYPE INFERENCE VIA PARTIAL EVALUATION
    Aaron Tomb and Cormac Flanagan

    EFFICIENTLY COMPILING A FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE ON AMD64: THE HIPE
    EXPERIENCE
    Daniel Luna, Mikael Pettersson, Konstantinos Sagonas

    FORMAL VALIDATION OF PATTERN MATCHING CODE
    Claude Kirchner, Pierre-Étienne Moreau, Antoine Reilles

    HEURISTICS, OPTIMIZATIONS, AND PARALLELISM FOR PROTEIN STRUCTURE
    PREDICTION IN CLP(FD)
    Alessandro Dal Palu', Agostino Dovier, Enrico Pontelli

    INCREMENTAL AND DEMAND-DRIVEN POINTS-TO ANALYSIS USING LOGIC
    PROGRAMMING
    Diptikalyan Saha and C. R. Ramakrishnan

    INVERTING ABSTRACT UNIFICATION FOR SET SHARING
    Xuan Li, Lunjin Lu

    ISOLATION-ONLY TRANSACTIONS BY TYPING AND VERSIONING
    Pawel T. Wojciechowski

    MONADIC CONCURRENT LINEAR LOGIC PROGRAMMING
    Pablo Lopez, Frank Pfenning, Jeff Polakow, Kevin Watkins

    NOMINAL REWRITING WITH NAME GENERATION: ABSTRACTION VS. LOCALITY
    Maribel Fernandez and Murdoch Gabbay

    OPTIMIZATION WITH MODE-DIRECTED PREFERENCES
    Hai-Feng Guo, Bharat Jayaraman, Gopal Gupta, Miao Liu

    PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION BY TEMPLATES BASED ON TERM REWRITING
    Yuki Chiba and Takahito Aoto and Yoshihito Toyama

    REACTIVEML, A REACTIVE EXTENSION TO ML
    Louis Mandel and Marc Pouzet

    SECURITY POLICY IN A DECLARATIVE STYLE
    Rachid Echahed and Frederic Prost

    SELF-TUNING RESOURCE AWARE SPECIALISATION FOR PROLOG
    Stephen-John Craig, Michael Leuschel

    TIMED CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING: A DECLARATIVE APPROACH TO USAGE CONTROL
    Radha Jagadeesan, Will Marrero, Corin Pitcher, Vijay Saraswat

    TRACE EFFECTS AND OBJECT ORIENTATION
    Christian Skalka




    Declarative Agent Languages and Technologis
    Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005

    http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Eue/DALT-2005/



    List of Accepted Papers





    CADE 2005
    International Conference on Automated Deduction
    Tallinn, Estonia, July 22-27, 2005

    http://sise.ttu.ee/it/cade


    1. Tomasz Truderung.
      Regular Protocols and Attacks with Regular Knowledge
    2. Greta Yorsh and Madan Musuvathi.
      A Combination Method for Generating Interpolants
    3. Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Konev and Renate A. Schmidt.
      Deciding monodic fragments by temporal resolution
    4. Guillaume Dufay, Amy Felty and Stan Matwin.
      Privacy-Sensitive Information Flow with JML
    5. Viktor Kuncak, Hai, Huu Nguyen and Martin Rinard.
      An Algorithm for Deciding BAPA: Boolean Algebra with Presburger Arithmetic
    6. Franz Baader and Silvio Ghilardi.
      Connecting many-sorted theories
    7. Claudio Castellini and Alan Smaill.
      Proof Planning for First-Order Temporal Logic
    8. Graham Steel.
      Deduction with XOR Constraints in Security API Modelling
    9. Tal Lev-Ami, Neil Immerman, Siddharth Srivastava, Greta Yorsh, Mooly Sagiv and Thomas W. Reps.
      Simulating Reachability using First-Order Logic with Applications to Verification of Linked Data Structures
    10. Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans.
      Hierarchic reasoning in local theory extensions
    11. Kaustuv Chaudhuri and Frank Pfenning.
      A Focusing Inverse Method Prover for First-Order Linear Logic
    12. Mizuhito Ogawa, Eiichi Horita and Satoshi Ono.
      Proving Properties of Incremental Merkel Trees
    13. Evelyne Contejean and Pierre Corbineau.
      Reflecting Proofs in First-Order Logic with Equality
    14. Chad Brown.
      Reasoning in Extensional Type Theory with Equality
    15. Christian Fermüller and Reinhard Pichler.
      Model Representation via Contexts and Implicit Generalizations
    16. Peter Baumgartner and Cesare Tinelli.
      ME-E -- The Model Evolution Calculus with Equality
    17. Brigitte Pientka.
      Tabling for higher-order logic programming
    18. Christian Urban and Christine Tasson.
      Nominal Techniques in Isabelle/HOL
    19. Kumar Neeraj Verma, Helmut Seidl and Thomas Schwentick.
      On the Complexity of Equational Horn Clauses
    20. Jordi Levy, Mateu Villaret and Joachim Niehren.
      Well-Nested Context Unification
    21. Serge R. Autexier.
      The CORE Calculus
    22. Guillem Godoy and Ashish Tiwari.
      Termination of Rewrite Systems with Shallow Right-Linear, Collapsing, and Right-Ground Rules
    23. Jian Zhang.
      Computer Search for Counterexamples to Wilkie's Identity
    24. John Harrison and Sean McLaughlin.
      A Proof Producing Decision Procedure for Real Arithmetic
    25. Ting Zhang, Henny Sipma and Zohar Manna.
      The Decidability of the First-order theory of Knuth-Bendix Order




    ProMAS 2005
    Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
    Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005

    http://www.cs.uu.nl/ProMAS/


    Accepted Papers:

  • An AgentSpeak Meta-Interpreter and its Applications
    Michael Winikoff
  • Implementing Multi-Agent Systems Organizations with INGENIAS
    Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz and Juan Pavon
  • Programming Deliberative Agents for Mobile Services: the 3APL-M Platform
    Fernando Koch, John-Jules C. Meyer, Frank Dignum, and Iyad Rahwan
  • Using a Planner for Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior
    Oliver Obst
  • Dynamic Self-Control of Autonomous Agents
    Caroline Chopinaud, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and Patrick Taillibert
  • Extending the Capability Concept for Flexible BDI Modularization
    Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr and Winfried Lamersdorf
  • Implementation Techniques for Solving POMDPs in Personal Assistant Domains
    Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv Maheswaran and Milind Tambe
  • Bridging Agent Theory and Object Orientation: Importing Social Roles in Object Oriented Languages
    and Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella and Leendert van der Torre
  • A Model-Based Executive for Commanding Robot Teams
    Anthony Barrett
  • Reusability issues in the instrumentation of agent interactions
    Juan M. Serrano, Sascha Ossowski and Sergio Saugar
  • Hermes: Implementing Goal-Oriented Agent Interactions
    Christopher Cheong and Michael Winikoff
  • FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform
    Mengqiu Wang, Mariusz Nowostawski and Martin Purvis
  • Organization and Mobility in Mobile Agent Computing
    Ichiro Satoh
  • Programming MAS with Artifacts
    Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli and Andrea Omicini






  • ICAPS 2005
    International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
    Monterrey, USA, June 5-10, 2005

    http://icaps05.icaps-conference.org/


    Detailed Technical Program

    Wednesday, June 8th

    8:15 Opening Remarks
    8:30 - 9:30 Invited Talk
    9:30 - 10:30 Applications of P&S I
    • Automated Composition of Web Services by Planning in Asynchronous Domains
      Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso, Piergiorgio Bertoli, University of Trento, Italy
    • Course of Action Generation for Cyber Security Using Classical Planning
      Mark Boddy, Johnathan Gohde, Tom Haigh, Steven Harp, Adventium Labs, USA
    10:30 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Search for P&S I
    • Beam-Stack Search: Integrating Backtracking with Beam Search
      Rong Zhou, Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University, USA
    • Contingent Planning via Heuristic Forward Search with Implicit Belief States
      Joerg Hoffmann, Ronen Brafman, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik Saarbruecken, Germany
    • A Generalized Framework for Lifelong Planning A*
      Maxim Likhachev, Sven Koenig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
    2:00 - 3:30 Dynamic and Cumulative P&S
    • Plan Repair as an Extension of Planning
      Roman van der Krogt, Mathijs de Weerdt, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
    • Online Stochastic Optimization Without Distributions
      Russell Bent, Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
    • Randomized Large Neighborhood Search for Cumulative Scheduling
      Daniel Godard, Philippe Laborie, Wim Nuitjen, ILOG, France
    3:30 Coffee Break
    4:00 - 5:30 Domain Models and Learning
    • Discovering Planning Invariants as Anomalies in State Descriptions
      Proshanto Mukherji, Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester, USA
    • Learning Partial-Order Macros from Solutions
      Adi Botea, Martin Mueller, Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Canada
    • Learning Action Models from Plan Examples with Incomplete Knowledge
      Qiang Yang, Kangheng Wu, Yunfei Jiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    5:30 - 6:30 Business Meetings and Best Paper Awards
    6:30 - 8:30 Doctoral Consortium, System Demonstrations, Poster & Snacks

    WedThuFri  

     

    Thursday, June 9th

    8:30 - 9:30 Invited Talk
    9:30 - 10:30 Mixed-Initiative P&S
    • Activity Planning for the Mars Exploration Rovers
      John Bresina, Ari Jonsson, Paul Morris, Kanna Rajan, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
    • Planning As Mixed-initiative Goal Manipulation
      Michael Cox, Chen Zhang, Wright State University, USA
    10:30 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Search for P&S II
    • Characterizing the Distribution of Low-Makespan Schedules in the Job Shop Scheduling Problem
      Matthew Streeter, Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    • External Symbolic Heursitic Search with Pattern Databases
      Stefan Edelkamp, University of Dortmund, Germany
    • Planning Graph Heuristics for Selecting Objectives in Over-subscription Planning Problems
      Romeo Sanchez, Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
    12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
    2:00 - 3:30 Temporal Planning
    • On the Tractability of Restricted Disjunctive Temporal Problems
      T. K. Satish Kumar, Stanford University, USA
    • Concurrent Probabilistic Temporal Planning
      Mausam, Daniel Weld, University of Washington, USA
    • Search Control in Planning for Temporally Extended Goals
      Froduald Kabanza, Sylvie Thiebaux, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
    3:30 Coffee Break
    4:00 - 5:00 Planning under Uncertainty
    • Pruning Conformant Plans by Counting Models on Compiled d-DNNF Representations
      Hector Palacios, Blai Bonet, Adnan Darwiche, Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
    • Fast Exact Planning in Markov Decision Processes
      H. Brendan McMahan, Geoffrey Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    5:00 - 6:30 Festivus
    7:00 - 9:30 Conference Dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

    WedThuFri  

     

    Friday, June 10th

    8:30 - 9:30 Invited Talk
    9:30 - 10:30 Applications of P&S II
    • On-line Planning and Scheduling for High-speed Manufacturing
      Wheeler Ruml, Minh Do, Markus Fromherz, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
    • Minimizing Breaks in Sport Scheduling with Local Search
      Pascal van Hentenryck, Yannis Vergados, Brown University, USA
    10:30 Coffee Break
    11:00 - 12:30 Anytime P&S
    • Enabling Fast Flexible Planning through Incremental Temporal Reasoning with Conflict Extraction
      I-hsiang Shu, Robert Effinger, Brian Williams, MIT, USA
    • Anytime Dynamic A*: An Anytime, Replanning Algorithm
      Maxim Likhachev, David Ferguson, Geoffrey Gordon, Anthony Stentz, Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    • Maximizing Availability: A Commitment Heuristic for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems
      Laurence Kramer, Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
    2:00 - 3:30 Overconstrained Problems
    • Planning with Goal Preferences and Constraints
      Ronen Brafman, Yuri Chernyavsky, NASA Ames Research Center & Stanford University, USA
    • Solving Over-constrained Disjunctive Temporal Problems with Preferences
      Bart Peintner, Michael Moffitt, Martha Pollack, University of Michigan, USA
    • Retaining Flexibility to Maximize Quality: When the Scheduler Has the Right to Decide Activity Duration
      Xiaofang Wang, Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    3:30 Coffee Break
    4:00 - 5:00 Planning via Modelchecking
    • Satisfiability Planning with Constraints on the Number of Actions
      Markus Büttner, Jussi Rintanen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
    • A Hierarchical Task-Network Planner based on Symbolic Model Checking
      Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau, Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso, University of Maryland, USA
    5:00 - 6:00 New Techniques for Planning
    • Reviving Integer Programming Approaches for AI Planning: A Branch-and-Cut Framework
      Menkes van den Briel, Thomas Vossen, Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
    • Genetic Planning Using Variable Length Chromosomes
      Alexandru Horia Brie, Philippe Morignot, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France
    6:00 Closing Remarks

    WedThuFri  







    TIME 2005
    International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
    Burlington, USA, June 23-25, 2005

    http://time2005.cse.buffalo.edu/


    PROGRAM

    Wednesday, June 22:

    6:30pm - 8:30pm WELCOME RECEPTION

    Thursday, June 23:

    9:00-10:00 INVITED TALK

    Patrice Godefroid (Lucent Bell Labs)
    Generalized Model Checking

    BREAK

    10:30-12:00 Temporal Databases 1

    Nicole Bidoit, Matthieu Objois
    Temporal query languages expressive power: muTL versus T-WHILE
    Mohammed H. Al-Kateb, Essam M. Mansour, and Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi
    CME: A Temporal Relational Model for Efficient Coalescing
    Carlo Combi and Angelo Montanari and Rosalba Rossato
    A uniform algebraic characterization of temporal functional dependencies

    LUNCH BREAK

    2:00-3:30 Temporal Logic in Computer Science 1

    Andreas Schaefer
    Axiomatisation and decidability of multi-dimensional duration calculus
    Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther and Frank Wolter
    Quantitative temporal logics: PSPACE and below
    Stephane Demri, Ranko Lazic, David Nowak
    On the freeze quantifier in Constraint LTL: decidability and complexity


    BREAK & POSTERS

    4:30-5:30 Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI 1

    Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti
    An efficient algorithm for minimizing time granularity periodical representations
    Mahat Khelfallah and Belaid Benhamou
    A Local Method for Prioritized Fusion of Temporal Information

    Friday, June 24:

    9:00-10:00 INVITED TALK

    Betty Salzberg (Northeastern)
    Indexing Inventory Snapshots

    BREAK

    10:30-12:00 9:00-10:30 Temporal Logic in Computer Science 2

    Marko Samer, Helmut Veith
    Deterministic CTL Query Solving
    Pieter Hartel
    A trace semantics for Positive Core XPath
    Alexei Lisitsa and Igor Potapov
    Temporal logic with predicate lambda-abstraction

    LUNCH

    2:00-3:00 Temporal Representation and Reasoning in AI 2

    Krzysztof R. Apt, Sebastian Brand
    Constraint-Based Qualitative Simulation
    Philippe Muller, Axel Reymoneti
    Using inference for evaluating models of temporal discourse

    BREAK & POSTERS

    4:00-5:00 Temporal Logic in Computer Science 3

    Ben D'Angelo, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Cesar Sanchez, Will Robinson,
    Bernd Finkbeiner, Henny B. Sipma, Sandeep Mehrotra, Zohar Manna
    Lola: Runtime Monitoring of Synchronous Systems
    Roger Villemaire, Sylvain Halle, Omar Cherkaoui
    Configuration Logic: A multi-site Modal Logic

    BOAT TOUR AND BANQUET (6:30)

    Saturday, June 25:

    9:00-10:00 TUTORIAL

    James Pustejovsky (Brandeis)
    Time and the Semantic Web

    BREAK

    10:30-12:00 Temporal Databases 2

    Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou
    Temporal XML? SQL Strikes Back!
    Amal Elnahas, Omar Karam, Ingy Ramzy, Ahmed Hamad
    "TellMe": A Novel Location Management and Prediction Protocol for Moving Object Databses
    Kiyoung Yang and Cyrus Shahabi
    Multilevel Distance-based Index Structure for Multivariate Time Series

    CONTRIBUTED POSTERS

    Seo-Young Noh, Shashi K. Gadia
    An XML-based Framework for Temporal Database Implementation

    Volker Gruhn, Ralf Laue
    Specification Patterns For Time-Related Properties

    Andre Trudel & Haiyi Zhang
    Exploiting the relationship between IA networks and finite domain CSPs

    Johann Eder and Horst Pichler
    Probabilistic Time Management for Workflow Systems

    M.A. Reniers and Y.S. Usenko
    Analysis of timed processes with data using algebraic transformations

    Song Lin, Stefano Lonardi, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos
    Applying LVQ Techniques to Compress Historical Information in Sensor Networks

    Artie Basukoski and Alexander Bolotov
    Search Strategies for Resolution in CTL-type Logics: Extension and Complexity

    INVITED POSTERS

    Angelo Montanari
    Propositional interval temporal logics: some promising paths

    The Logic and Computation Group
    Time in Liverpool - An overview of Temporal Research in the Logic and Computation Group

    Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo and Xin Zhou
    Version Management and Historical Queries in Digital Libraries

    Peter Revesz
    Efficient Rectangle Indexing Algorithms Based on Point Dominance






    CiE 2005
    Computability in Europe
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-12, 2005

    http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE/


    CiE 2005 is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from computer science and mathematics focusing on New Computational Paradigms. These include prominently connections between computation and physical systems but also higher mathematical models of computation. The researchers from the different communities will exchange ideas, approaches and techniques in their respective work, thereby generating a wider community for work on computational issues that allows uniform approaches to diverse areas, the transformation of theoretical ideas into applicable projects, and general cross-fertilization transcending disciplinary borders.

    There will be two three-hour tutorials (Buhrman and Weihrauch), eight plenary talks, six special sessions with altogether 25 talks and over 50 contributed talks covering the entire range of research in computability theory.

    Plenary Talks: http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE/index.php?page=12
    Special Sessions: http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE/index.php?page=6
    Contributed Papers: http://www.illc.uva.nl/CiE/index.php?page=15

    Regular registration (EUR 95, EUR 75 for students) will be possible until April 30th, 2005. After May 1st, 2005, there will be an option of Late Registration with higher fees.





    CAV 2005
    International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
    Edinburgh, Scotland, June 6-12, 2005

    http://www.cav2005.inf.ed.ac.uk


    CAV'05 Tutorial Day: Wednesday, July 6, 2005

    Day 1 of Main CAV'05 Conference: Thursday, July 7th

    Day 2 of Main CAV'05 Conference. Friday, July 8th.

    Day 3 of Main CAV'05 Conference. Saturday, July 9th.

    Day 4 of Main CAV'05 Conference. Sunday, July 10th.


    Co-located Events (July 6-12):

    Workshop Day 1, Monday, July 11th. (Appleton Tower Lecture Theatres.)

    Workshop Day 2, Tuesday, July 12th. (Appleton Tower Lecture Theatres.)