LATA 2015 Program

A pdf version of the program available as a banner (2M)
or a leaflet (90k - to be printed on both sides, open to the left).

For presentations (except the invited talks), we recommend to allocate 23 minutes for the slide presentation and 2 minutes for questions.

Monday, March 2
Théâtre de Valrose
09:15 - 10:15 Registration
10:15 - 10:25 Opening
10:25 - 11:15
Giancarlo Mauri
Azadeh Farzan, Matthias Heizmann, Jochen Hoenicke, Zachary Kincaid and Andreas Podelski: Automated Program Verification - Invited Lecture
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 13:00
Nicolas Peltier
Ala Eddine Ben Salem: Single-pass Testing Automata for LTL Model Checking
Conrad Cotton-Barratt, Andrzej S. Murawski and C.-H. Luke Ong: Weak and Nested Class Memory Automata
Joey Eremondi, Oscar H. Ibarra and Ian McQuillan: Insertion Operations on Deterministic Reversal-Bounded Counter Machines
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:10
Martin Sulzmann
Adrien Boiret, Vincent Hugot, Joachim Niehren and Ralf Treinen: Logics for Unordered Trees with Data Constraints on Siblings
François Gonze and Raphaël M. Jungers: On the Synchronizing Probability Function and the Triple Rendezvous Time: New Approaches to Cerny's Conjecture
Vesa Halava, Reino Niskanen and Igor Potapov: On Robot Games of Degree Two
Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Lakshmi Manasa and Ashutosh Trivedi: Time-Bounded Reachability Problem for Recursive Timed Automata is Undecidable
16:10 - 16:25 Break
16:25 - 18:10
Ryo Yoshinaka
Rui Li and Yiguang Hong: On Observability of Automata Networks via Computational Algebra
Nicolas Peltier: Reasoning on Schemas of Formulas: An Automata-Based Approach
Martin Sulzmann and Peter Thiemann: Derivatives for Regular Shuffle Expressions
Eric Allender and Ian Mertz: Complexity of Regular Functions

Tuesday, March 3
09:00 - 09:50
Štěpán Holub
Marco Autili, Paola Inverardi, Filippo Mignosi, Romina Spalazzese and Massimo Tivoli: Automated Synthesis of Application-layer Connectors from Automata-based Specifications - Invited Lecture
09:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:20
Paola Inverardi
Peter Thiemann and Martin Sulzmann: From Omega-Regular Expressions to Büchi Automata via Partial Derivatives
Guillaume Verdier and Jean-Baptiste Raclet: Quotient of Acceptance Specifications under Reachability Constraints
Parvaneh Babari and Manfred Droste: A Nivat Theorem for Weighted Picture Automata and Weighted MSO Logics
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:05
Peter Thiemann
Luc Boasson and Olivier Carton: Rational Selecting Relations and Selectors
Peter Leupold and Norbert Hundeshagen: A Hierarchy of Transducing Observer Systems
Antoine Ndione, Aurélien Lemay and Joachim Niehren: Sublinear DTD Validity
13:05 - 14:35 Lunch
14:35 - 16:15
Olivier Carton
Carl Barton, Costas S. Iliopoulos and Solon P. Pissis: Average-case Optimal Approximate Circular String Matching
Johanna Björklund, Frank Drewes and Niklas Zechner: An Efficient Best-Trees Algorithm for Weighted Tree Automata over the Tropical Semiring
Bastien Cazaux, Thierry Lecroq and Eric Rivals: Construction of a de Bruijn Graph for Assembly from a Truncated Suffix Tree
Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han and Hwee Kim: Frequent Pattern Mining with Non-overlapping Inversions
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:45
Solon P. Pissis
H. K. Dai and Z. Wang: A Parallel Algorithm for Finding All Minimal Maximum Subsequences via Random Walk
Hernán Ponce-De-León and Andrey Mokhov: Building Bridges Between Sets of Partial Orders
Vojtěch Vorel and Adam Roman: Complexity of Road Coloring with Prescribed Reset Words

Wednesday, March 4
9:00 - 9:50
Andreas Podelski
Antonio Restivo: The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions - Invited Lecture
9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:20
Antonio Restivo
Marcella Anselmo, Dora Giammarresi and Maria Madonia: Structure and Measure of a Decidable Class of Two-dimensional Codes
Thibault Godin, Ines Klimann and Matthieu Picantin: On Torsion-Free Semigroups Generated by Invertible Reversible Mealy Automata
Luis-Miguel Lopez and Philippe Narbel: Coding Non-orientable Laminations
11:20 - 11:50 Group Photo and Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:05
Maciej Koutny
Pavel Panteleev: Preset Distinguishing Sequences and Diameter of Transformation Semigroups
Charalampos Zinoviadis: Hierarchy and Expansiveness in 2D Subshifts of Finite Type
Stefano Bilotta, Elisa Pergola, Renzo Pinzani and Simone Rinaldi: Recurrence Relations, Succession Rules and the Positivity Problem
13:05 - 14:35 Lunch
14:35 - 16:15
Aldo de Luca
Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz and Søren Vind: Compressed Data Structures for Range Searching
Alberto Policriti, Nicola Gigante and Nicola Prezza: Average Linear Time and Compressed Space Construction of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform
Jan Trávníček, Jan Janoušek, Bořivoj Melichar and Loek Cleophas: Backward Linearised Tree Pattern Matching
Vladimir Ulyantsev, Ilya Zakirzyanov and Anatoly Shalyto: BFS-based Symmetry Breaking Predicates for DFA Identification
17:00 - 20:00 Touristic visit


Thursday, March 5
09:00 - 09:50
Enrico Formenti
Giancarlo Mauri, Alberto Leporati, Luca Manzoni, Antonio E. Porreca and Claudio Zandron: Complexity Classes for Membrane Systems - Invited Lecture
09:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:20
Luca Manzoni
Davide Bresolin, Dario Della Monica, Angelo Montanari, Pietro Sala and Guido Sciavicco: On the Complexity of Fragments of the Modal Logic of Allen's Relations over Dense Structures
Nadia Creignou, Raïda Ktari, Arne Meier, Julian-Steffen Müller, Frédéric Olive and Heribert Vollmer: Parameterized Enumeration for Modification Problems
Martin Lück, Arne Meier and Irena Schindler: Parameterized Complexity of CTL: A Generalization of Courcelle's Theorem
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:05
Angelo Montanari
Kazuyuki Amano and Atsushi Saito: A Nonuniform Circuit Class with Multilayer of Threshold Gates Having Super Quasi Polynomial Size Lower Bounds against NEXP
Georg Bachmeier, Michael Luttenberger and Maximilian Schlund: Finite Automata for the Sub- and Superword Closure of CFLs: Descriptional and Computational Complexity
Olaf Beyersdorff, Leroy Chew and Karteek Sreenivasaiah: A Game Characterisation of Tree-like Q-resolution Size
13:05 - 14:35 Lunch
14:35 - 16:15
Kazuyuki Amano
Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, Luca Manzoni and Antonio E. Porreca: Preimage Problems for Reaction Systems
Ryo Yoshinaka: Learning Conjunctive Grammars and Contextual Binary Feature Grammars
Raphaël Bailly, François Denis and Guillaume Rabusseau: Recognizable Series on Hypergraphs
Yohan Boichut, Jacques Chabin and Pierre Réty: Towards More Precise Rewriting Approximations
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:45
Olaf Beyersdorff
Michael Codish, Luís Cruz-Filipe and Peter Schneider-Kamp: Sorting Networks: the End Game
Konrad Kazimierz Dabrowski, Shenwei Huang and Daniël Paulusma: Bounding Clique-width via Perfect Graphs
Ryszard Janicki, Jetty Kleijn, Maciej Koutny and Łukasz Mikulski: Order Structures for Subclasses of Generalised Traces

Friday, March 6
9:00 - 9:50
Thierry Lecroq
Johann A. Makowsky and Nadia Labai: Hankel Matrices: From Words to Graphs - Invited Lecture
9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:20
Johann A. Makowsky
Golnaz Badkobeh, Gabriele Fici and Zsuzsanna Lipták: On the Number of Closed Factors in a Word
Gabriele Fici, Thierry Lecroq, Arnaud Lefebvre and Élise Prieur-Gaston: Online Computation of Abelian Runs
Guilhem Gamard and Gwenaël Richomme: Coverability in Two Dimensions
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 - 13:05
Gabriele Fici
Jana Hadravová and Štěpán Holub: Equation xiyjxk=uivjuk in Words
Łukasz Mikulski, Marcin Piątkowski and Wojciech Rytter: Square-free Words over Partially Commutative Alphabets
Ananda Chandra Nayak and Kalpesh Kapoor: On the Language of Primitive Partial Words
13:05 - 13:15 Closing