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ICALP'97 - preliminary programme




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         *                      ICALP '97                      *
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         *     24th International Colloquium on Automata,      *
         *            Languages, and Programming               *
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         *               Silver Jubilee of EATCS               *
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         *       Bologna, Italy, July 7th - 11th, 1997         *
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                        PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

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This announcement and more information about the conference is available 
per www under 

        http://www.cs.unibo.it/icalp97/

or by sending e-mail to   icalp97@cs.unibo.it

Please address inquiries, registration form and hotel reservation form
to the Conference Office:

        Italiana & Co. - ICALP'97
        Via Altabella 3
        I-40126 BOLOGNA (Italy) 
        Phone: + 39 51 228716
        Fax: + 39 51 222881
        Email: italiana@bo.nettuno.it

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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The 24th annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science (EATCS) will take place in Bologna, Italy, July 7-11 1997. 
ICALP '97 comes in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the foundation 
of EATCS. To celebrate the SILVER JUBILEE, this edition of ICALP includes 
several new events:

- Celebration of EATCS and of its founders (keynote speaker M. Nivat - Paris)


- Invited Lectures on major advances in theoretical computer science since
  EATCS has been established:
        R. Milner (Cambridge)           M.O. Rabin (Jerusalem and Harvard)
        C. Papadimitriou (Berkeley)     D.S. Scott (Pittsburgh)

- Invited Lectures on the state of the art and new promising trends:
        K.R. Apt (Amsterdam)            K. Mehlhorn (Saarbruecken)
        R.J. Lipton (Princeton)         D. Perrin (Marne-la-Vallee)

- A panel on 'Funding Policies for Theoretical Computer Science' with
representatives from major research agencies and from the European Community.

- A number of Satellite Workshops, listed below, on theory and applications.


ICALP SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
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- Workshop on New Trends in Semantics - Bologna (4-5 July) Organizers:
  A.Asperti (Bologna), E.Moggi (Genova) and G.Rosolini (Genova).
  Invited Speakers: S.Abramski (Edinburgh), V.Danos (Paris), A.Joyal
  (Montreal), D.Sangiorgi (Sophia-Antipolis).
  http://www.disi.unige.it/conferences/new-trends97/

- Second International ERCIM Workshop on Formal Methods in Industrial
  Critical Systems - Cesena (4-5 July) - Organizers: S. Gnesi, D.  Latella,
  L. Simoncini (Pisa).
  Invited Speakers: E.Brinksma (Twente), U.Herzog (Erlangen), R.Mazzeo
  (Sasib Railways), G.Mongardi (Ansaldo Trasporti).
  http://fdt.cnuce.cnr.it/~latella/FMICS/WS/Cesena97/workshop.html 

- Second International Workshop on Advanced Intelligent Networks (AIN'97) -
  Cesena (4-5 July) - Organizers: T. Margaria and B. Steffen (Passau).
  Invited Speakers: P.Zave (AT&T), M.Decina (Milano), A.Limongiello
  (Telecom Italia).
  http://brahms.fmi.uni-passau.de/bs/organization/ain97/ain97.html

- Workshop on Approximation and Randomized Techniques in Computer Science
  (Random) - Bologna (11-12 July) - Organizers: J. Rolim (Geneva) and
  A. Clementi (Rome).
  Invited Speakers: S.Arora (Princeton), P.Crescenzi (Rome), R.Impagliazzo
  (San Diego), M.Karpinski (Bonn).
  http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~random97

- Workshop on Recent Developments in Formal Languages - Bologna (11-12 July)
  Organizer: S.Varricchio (L'Aquila), G.Pirillo (Firenze).
  Invited Speaker: D. Perrin (Marne-la-Vallee).
  http://univaq.it/~varricch/workshop.html

- Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Communication - Bologna (11-12 July) -
  Organizers: M. Bonuccelli (Pisa) and A. Marchetti-Spaccamela (Rome).
  http://www.di.unipi.it/~bonucce/AlAsCo.html

- Second International Workshop on Verification of Infinite State Systems
  (Infinity) - Bologna (11-12 July) - Organizer: F.Moller (Uppsala).
  http://www.csd.uu.se/~fm/infinity97cfp.html

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Sunday, July 6
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Registration:    Aula Prodi, 18:30-20:30
Reception:       Aula Prodi, 20:30-21:30


Monday, July 7
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Registration:    Aula Absidale,  8:30- 9:15  
Welcome address:                 9:15- 9:30  

 9:30        Invited Lecture: Dana Scott (CMU, Pittsburgh)
                             (title to be announced)
                             
10:30        An abstract data type for real numbers
             P. Di Gianantonio
    
Coffee Break: 10:55 - 11:15  

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                11:15 - 12:55  Parallel Sessions
A : Formal Languages I                B : Computability
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Enumerative sequences of leaves       Recursive Computational Depth
in rational trees                     J.Lathrop, J. Lutz
F.Bassino, M.-P. Beal,                
D. Perrin                         

A completion algorithm for codes      Some bounds on the computational      
with bounded synchronization delay    power of Piecewise Constant     
V. Bruyere                            Derivative systems 
                                      O. Bournez
                                      
The expressibility of languages       Monadic simultaneous rigid   
and relations by word equations       E-unification and related problems
J.Karhumaeki, W.Plandowski,           Y.Gurevich, A.Voronkov
F.Mignosi

Finite loops recognize exactly        Computability on the Probability  
the regular open languages            Measures on the Borel Sets of the 
M.Beaudry, F.Lemieux, D.Therien       Unit Interval
                                      K.Weihrauch
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Lunch: 12:55 - 14:45

14:45     Invited Lecture: Michael O. Rabin (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem & 
                           Harvard U.)
                           Randomization and the Correctness of Programs

15:45     Tilings and quasiperiodicity
          B. Durand

Coffee Break: 16:10 - 16:30 

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                16:30 - 18:10  Parallel Sessions
A : Computational Complexity          B : Semantics I
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Results on Resource-Bounded Measure   Game Theoretic Analysis of 
H.Buhrman, S.Fenner, L.Fortnow        Call-by-value Computation
                                      K.Honda, N.Yoshida

Randomization and nondeterminism      On modular properties of higher 
are incomparable for ordered          order extensional lambda calculi
read-once branching programs          R. Di Cosmo, N. Ghani
F. Ablayev                            

Checking Properties of Polynomials    On Explicit Substitution and Names
B.Codenotti, F.Ergun, P.S. Gemmell,   E. Ritter, V. de Paiva
S.Ravi Kumar

Exact Analysis of Dodgson Elections:  On the Dynamics of Sharing Graphs
Lewis Carroll's 1876 Voting System    A. Asperti, C. Laneve
is Complete for Parallel Access to NP
E.Hemaspaandra, L.Hemaspaandra,       
J.Rothe
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Tuesday, July 8
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 9:00        Invited Lecture: Robin Milner (U. Cambridge)
                              Graphical Calculi for Interaction
                              
10:00        Bisimulation for probabilistic transition systems:
             A coalgebraic approach
             E. de Vink, J. Rutten
    
Coffee Break: 10:25 - 10:45  

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                10:45 - 12:00  Parallel Sessions
A : Algorithms I                      B : Calculi for Concurrency I
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Minimizing Diameters of Dynamic       The name discipline of uniform 
Trees                                 receptiveness
S.Alstrup,J.Holm,K.de Lichtenberg,    D. Sangiorgi
M.Thorup      

Improving Spanning Trees by           On confluence in the pi-calculus
Upgrading Nodes                       A. Philippou, D. Walker
S.Krumke, M.Marathe, H. Noltemeier,   
R.Ravi,SS Ravi, R.Sundaram, 
H.-C. Wirth

Dynamic algorithms for graphs of      A proof theoretical approach to 
bounded treewidth                     communication
T. Hagerup                            Y. Fu

                       Break: 12:00 - 12:10
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                12:10 - 13:00  Parallel Sessions
A : Formal Languages II               B : Calculi for Concurrency II
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Solving Trace Equations Using         An Algebra-Based Method to  
Lexicographical Normal Forms          Associate Rewards with EMPA Terms
V.Diekert, Y.Matiyasevich,            M. Bernardo
A. Muscholl

Star-free picture expressions are     A Semantically Sound Actor 
strictly weaker than 1st-order logic  Translation
T. Wilke                              I. Mason, C. Talcott
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                       Lunch: 13:00 - 14:45

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                14:45 - 16:00  Parallel Sessions
A : Algorithms II                     B : Logic and Verification
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Periodic and Non-periodic Min-Max     Computation Paths Logic: An 
Equations                             Expressive, yet Elementary,  
U.Schwiegelshohn, L.Thiele            Process Logic
                                      D.Harel, E.Singerman

Efficient Parallel Graph Algorithms   Model Checking the Full Modal 
For Coarse Grained Multicomputers     Mu-Calculus for Infinite Sequential
and BSP                               Processes
E.Caceres, F.Dehne, A.Ferreira,       O.Burkart, B.Steffen
P.Flocchini, I.Rieping, A.Roncato, 
N.Santoro, S.Song

Upper bound on communication          Symbolic Model Checking for 
complexity of private information     Probabilistic Processes
retrieval                             C.Baier, M.Kwiatkowska, M.Ryan, 
A.Ambainis                            E.Clarke, V.Hartonas-Garmhausen
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                  Coffee Break: 16:00 - 16:20  

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                16:20 - 17:10  Parallel Sessions
A : Analysis of Algorithms            B : Process Equivalences
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On the concentration of the height    Distributed Processes and Location
of binary search trees                Failures
J.M. Robson                           J.Riely, M.Hennessy

An improved master theorem for        Basic Observables for Processes
divide-and-conquer recurrences        M.Boreale, R.De Nicola, R.Pugliese
S. Roura                              
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Break: 17:10 - 17:15

17:15 - 18:15    Panel: 
                 Funding Policies for Theoretical Computer Science
                 (with the participation of G.Metakides, DG III-EU)

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Wednesday, July 9
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 9:00 - 11:30   Excursion: Guided tour to the city of Bologna

11:30 - 12:30   Laurea Honoris Causa in Computer Science tributed to
                Robin Milner and Maurice Nivat by the University 
                of Bologna
                
Lunch: 12:30 - 14:45

14:45 - 15:45  Invited Lecture: Christos Papadimitriou (Berkeley)
                                NP-completeness: A Retrospective

15:45 - 16:10  Worst-case hardness suffices for derandomization: a new
               method for hardness-randomness trade-offs
               A. Andreev, A. Clementi, J. Rolim 

Coffee Break: 16:10 - 16:30
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                16:30 - 18:10  Parallel Sessions
A : Routing Algorithms                B : Petri Nets and Process Theory
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Constrained Bipartite Edge Coloring   Efficiency of Asynchronous Systems
with Applications to Wavelength       and Read Arcs in Petri Nets
Routing                               W.Vogler
C.Kaklamanis,G.Persiano,T.Erlebach,   
K.Jansen

Colouring Paths in Directed           Bisimulation equivalence is 
Symmetric Trees with Applications     decidable for one-counter processes
to WDM Routing                        P.Jancar
L.Gargano, P.Hell, S.Perennes         

On-line Routing in All-Optical        Symbolic Reachability Analysis of 
Networks                              FIFO Channel Systems with Nonregular 
Y.Bartal, S.Leonardi                  Sets of Configurations
                                      A.Bouajjani, P.Habermehl

A Complete Characterization of the    Axiomatizations for the Perpetual 
Path Layout Construction Problem for  Loop 
ATM Networks with Given Hop Count     W.Fokkink
and Load
T.Eilam, M.Flammini, S.Zaks           
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Break: 18:10 - 18:20

18:20 - 18:45   Goedel Prize
18:45 - 19:30   EATCS General Assembly

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Thursday, July 10
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 9:00        Invited Lecture: Kurt Mehlhorn and Stefan Naeher
                              (Max-Planck Institut, Saarbruecken)
                              The LEDA Platform of Combinatorial and 
                              Geometric Computing

10:00        Maintaining Minimum Spanning Trees in Dynamic Graphs
             M. Rauch Henzinger, V. King

Coffee Break: 10:25 - 10:45 
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                10:45 - 12:00  Parallel Sessions
A : Algorithms III                    B : Rewriting
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Efficient Splitting and Merging       The Word Matching Problem is
Algorithms for Order Decomposable     Undecidable for Finite Special 
Problems                              String-Rewriting Systems that 
R.Grossi, G.F.Italiano                are Confluent
                                      P.Narendran, F.Otto

Efficient Array Partitioning          The Geometry of Orthogonal  
S.Khanna, S.Muthukrishnan, S.Skiena   Reduction Spaces
                                      Z.Khasidashvili, J.Glauert

Constructive Linear Time Algorithms   The Theory of Vaccines
for Branchwidth                       M.Marchiori
H.Bodlaender, D.Thilikos              

                       Break: 12:00 - 12:10
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                12:10 - 13:00  Parallel Sessions
A : Formal Languages III              B : Cryptography
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On recognizable and rational formal   On Characterization of Escrow 
power series in partially commuting   Encryption Schemes
variables                             Y.Frankel, M.Yung
M.Droste, P.Gastin                    

On a conjecture of J. Shallit         Randomness-Efficient Non-
J.Cassaigne                           Interactive Zero-Knowledge
                                      A.De Santis, G.Di Crescenzo, 
                                      G.Persiano
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Lunch: 13:00 - 14:45

14:45        Invited Lecture: Dominique Perrin and Olivier Carton
                              (U. de Marne-la-Vallee)
                              Chains and Superchains in Finite Automata

15:45        The Equivalence Problem for Deterministic Pushdown  
             Automata is Decidable
             G. Senizergues

Coffee Break: 16:10 - 16:30 

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                16:30 - 18:10  Parallel Sessions
A : Algorithms IV                     B : Semantics II and Automata
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Approximation results for the         Refining and Compressing Abstract 
optimum cost partition problem        Domains
K.Jansen                              R.Giacobazzi, F.Ranzato

The Minimum Color Sum of Bipartite    Labelled Reductions, Runtime 
Graphs                                Errors, and Operational Subsumption
A.BarNoy, G.Kortsarz                  L.Dami

A Primal-Dual Approach to             A Complete and Efficiently 
Approximation of Node-Deletion        Computable Topological  
Problems for Matroidal Properties     Classification of D-dimensional  
T.Fujito                              Linear Cellular Automata over Z_m
                                      G.Manzini, L.Margara

Independent sets in asteroidal        Recognizability Equals Definability
triple-free graphs                    for Partial k-Paths
H.Broersma, T.Kloks, D.Kratsch,       V. Kabanets
H.Mueller
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18:10 - 18:40  Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the EATCS

               Keynote speaker: Maurice Nivat (Paris 7)
               Towards a History of Automata: Why Were They Introduced? 
               What Are They Good for?

20:30   Banquet
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Friday, July 11
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 9:00        Invited Lecture: Krzystof R. Apt (CWI, Amsterdam)
                              Constraint Programming and the   
                              'Computation as Deduction'  Paradigm

10:00        Discrete-time control for rectangular hybrid automata
             Thomas A. Henzinger, Peter W. Kopke


Coffee Break: 10:25 - 10:45 

10:45        Invited Lecture: Richard J. Lipton (Princeton Univ.)
                              Using DNA to Compute 
Break: 11:45 - 12:00
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                12:00 - 12:50  Parallel Sessions
A : Biocomputing                      B : Logic Programming
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Molecular Computing, Bounded          Termination of Constraint Logic 
Nondeterminism, and Efficient         Programs
Recursion
R.Beigel, B.Fu                        S.Ruggieri

Constructing Big Trees from Short     The expressive power of unique
Sequences                             total stable model semantics
P.Erdos, M.Steel, L.Szekely,          F.Buccafurri, S.Greco, D.Sacca'
T.Warnow

End of ICALP'97
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RELATED CONFERENCES
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ICALP'97 will be preceded by LICS'97 and CONCUR'97, which will be
held in Warsaw, Poland, the week before. For more details see 
http://www.bell-labs.com/topic/conferences/lics/
http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/conferences/concur97/
Warsaw is easily connected to Bologna via Vienna, Frankfurt, Munich,
Rome, Paris, Bruxelles, Amsterdam, London and others. 


Further information for participants will be sent in a next mail and may
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