[DMANET] GRAPHITE 2013: Call for Participation

GRAPHITE 2013
Second Workshop on GRAPH Inspection and Traversal Engineering
March 24, 2013, Rome, Italy
(affiliated with ETAPS 2013)
http://www.win.tue.nl/~awijs/graphite


Call for Participation
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Objectives
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The topic of the GRAPHITE workshop is graph analysis in all its forms in computer science.
Graphs are used to represent data in many application areas, and they are subjected to
various computational algorithms in order to acquire the desired information. These graph
algorithms tend to have common characteristics, such as duplicate detection to guarantee
their termination, independent of their application domain. Over the past few years, it has
been shown that the scalability of such algorithms can be dramatically improved by using,
e.g., external memory, by exploiting parallel architectures, such as clusters, multi-core
CPUs, and graphics processing units, and by using heuristics to guide the search. Novel
techniques to further scale graph search algorithms, and new applications of graph search
are within the scope of this workshop. Another topic of interest of the event is more
related to the structural properties of graphs: which kind of graph characteristics are
relevant for a particular application area, and how can these be measured? Finally, any
novel way of using graphs for a particular application area is on topic. The goal of this
event is to gather scientists from different communities, such as model checking, artificial
intelligence planning, game playing, and algorithm engineering, who do research on graph
search algorithms, such that awareness of each others' work is increased.

The workshop will be held as a satellite event of ETAPS 2013, the
16-th edition of The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice
of Software (ETAPS). ETAPS is a primary European forum for academic
and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science.

Workshop Specific Topics
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* Algorithms for the verification of hardware and software based on graph exploration
(e.g. the computation of an explicit state space based on an implicit description)

* Application of graph based techniques originating in one application domain, applied on
a problem in another domain (e.g. verification algorithms on artificial intelligence problems)

* Techniques to deal with potentially infinite graphs and infinite families of graphs

* Innovative or otherwise particularly significant case studies of applications of graph based
methods

* Theoretical results on the limits and possibilities of graph based methods

* Parallel algorithms for graph exploration for distributed and shared memory systems (e.g.
clusters, multi-core CPUs, GPGPUs)

* Graph algorithms in artificial intelligence; planning; game playing; social network analysis;
biological network analysis, and similar

* Graph minimisation and abstraction techniques as a preprocessing step for analysis (e.g.
bisimulation reduction, transitive reduction)

* Computation on graphs through graph transformation techniques

* I/O Efficient graph algorithms using external memory


Invited speakers
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Alberto Lluch-Lafuente (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Organization
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Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Dragan Bosnacki (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany)

Programme Committee
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Henri Bal (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dragan Bosnacki (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) (co-chair)
Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, England)
Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) (co-chair)
Ansgar Fehnker (The University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
Wan Fokkink (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Keijo Heljanko (Aalto University, Finland)
Gerard Holzmann (NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands)
Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Stefan Leue (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Ulrich Meyer (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Jun Pang (Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
David Parker (University of Birmingham, England)
Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) (co-chair)

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