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Examples:
LICS 2007 - 22nd ANNUAL IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Call for Participation
July 10-14, 2007, Wroclaw, Poland
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics07/
http://july2007.ii.uni.wroc.pl/
* The LICS Symposium is an annual international forum on theoretical and
practical topics in computer science that relate to logic broadly construed.
LICS 2007 will be colocated with International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages and Programming (ICALP 2007), 9th-13th July 2007, and ASL European
Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium 2007), 14th-19th July 2007.
* Registration is now open.
* Important dates:
- May 15th 2007: Book your hotel before May 15th; it will be extremely
difficult to find a room after that.
- May 31st 2007: Early registration discount expires.
* Invited Speakers: Thomas Hales (University of Pittsburgh),
Martin Hyland (Univ. of Cambridge), Phokion Kolaitis (IBM Almaden Research
Centre), Gordon Plotkin (Univ. of Edinburgh), Michael Rabin (Harvard Univ.
and Hebrew Univ.), Colin Stirling (Univ. of Edinburgh)
* Detailed information can be found on the webpage.
PODS 2007 - 26th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Call for Papers
June 11-13, 2007, Beijing, China
http://sigmod07.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn
* The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD
conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the
communication of new advances in the theoretical foundation of
database systems. For the 26th edition, original research papers
providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation
of data management tools are called for.
* Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following
(as they pertain to databases): algorithms; complexity;
computational model theory; concurrency; constraints; data exchange;
data integration; data mining; data modeling; data on the Web; data
streams; data warehouses; distributed databases; information
retrieval; knowledge bases; logic; multimedia; physical design;
privacy; quantitative approaches; query languages; query optimization;
real-time data; recovery; scientific data; security; semantic Web;
semi-structured data; spatial data; temporal data; transactions;
updates; views; Web services; workflows; XML.
* Important dates: Abstract submission due: 28 Nov 2006;
Paper submission: 5 Dec 2006; Notification: 26 Feb 2007
BOOK ANOUNCEMENT:
Parameterized Complexity Theory
by Jörg Flum and Martin Grohe
Springer Verlag 2006, 493 Pages
ISBN: 3540299521
* Parameterized complexity theory is a recent branch of computational
complexity theory that provides a framework for a refined analysis of hard
algorithmic problems. The central notion of the theory, fixed-parameter
tractability, has led to the development of various new algorithmic
techniques and a whole new theory of intractability.
* This book is a state-of-the-art introduction into both algorithmic
techniques for fixed-parameter tractability and the structural theory of
parameterized complexity classes, and it presents detailed proofs of recent
advanced results that have not appeared in book form before. Several
chapters each are devoted to intractability, algorithmic techniques for
designing fixed-parameter tractable algorithms, and bounded fixed-parameter
tractability and subexponential time complexity. The treatment is
comprehensive, and the reader is supported with exercises, notes, a detailed
index, and some background on complexity theory and logic.
* Further information can be found at
http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~grohe/pub/pkbuch.html