Games 08 Meeting > Programme



Monday, 8 September


8:15-8:45 Coffee and registration


8:45-9:00 Opening


9:00-10:30 Tutorial

Jouko Väänänen (Amsterdam) Dependence Logic


10:30-11:00 Coffee break


11:00-12:30

11:00 Erich Grädel (Aachen)The Descriptive Complexity of Parity Games

11:30 Jan van Eijck (Amsterdam) Determined Game Logic is Complete

12:00 Loes Olde Loohuis (Amsterdam) Multi-Player Logic

12:15 Jarmo Kontinen (Amsterdam) On Computational Complexity of Disjunction in Dependence Logic


12:30-14:00 Lunch


14:00-15:30 

14:00 Elisabetta de Maria (Udine) Games on strings with a limited ordering

14:30 Filip Murlak (Warszawa) Weak index versus Borel rank

15:00 Szczepan Hummel (Warszawa) On Borel Inseparability of Game Tree Languages

15:15 Chrysida Galanaki (Athens) Infinite-Game Semantics for Logic Programs with Negation


15:30-16:00 Coffee break


16:00-17:45

16:00 Mikołaj Bojańczyk (Warsaw) A Robust Extension of omega-Regular Languages.

16:30 Christof Löding (Aachen) The Non-Deterministic Mostowski Hierarchy and Distance-Parity Automata

17:00 Christopher Broadbent (Oxford) Higher Order Recursion Schemes with Order 0 Exceptions

17:15 Vassilis Kountouriotis (Athens) Boolean Grammars, Well-Founded Semantics and Parsing as an Infinite Game

17:30 Roman Rabinovich (Aachen) Directed Graphs of Entanglement Two


18:00 Reception (Kazmierzowski Palace)




Tuesday, 9 September


8:30-9:00 Coffee


9:00-10:30 Tutorial

Patricia Bouyer (Cachan) Quantitative Timed Games


10:30-11:00 Coffee break


11:00-12:00 

11:00 Michał Rutkowski (Warwick) Hybrid average-price/reward games for controller synthesis

11:15 Vojtěch Forejt (Brno) The Satisfiability Problem for Probabilistic CTL

11:30 Ashutosh Trivedi (Warwick) Average-Time Games

11:45 Václav Brožek (Brno) Reachability in 2~1/2-player BPA games


12:00-13:30 Lunch


13:30-15:15 

13:30 Dietmar Berwanger (Aachen) On the Succinct Expressiveness of Imperfect Information

14:00 Łukasz Kaiser (Aachen) Games Played with Graphs and Model Checking

14:30 Florian Horn (Aachen, Paris) A polynomial algorithm for explicit Muller games

14:45 Anca Muscholl (Bordeaux) Deciding properties of active documents


17:00-19:00 Game (Łazienki Park)


19:00- Dinner (Belvedere Restaurant)




Wednesday, 10 September


8:30-9:00 Coffee


9:00-10:30 Tutorial

Bernhard von Stengel (London) Mixed Equilibria in Two-Player Games


10:30-11:00 Coffee break


11:00-12:30 

11:00 Krzysztof Apt (Amsterdam) Relative Strength of Strategy Elimination Procedures

11:30 Dov Samet (Tel Aviv) The sure-thing principle and independence of irrelevant knowledge

12:00 Jacek Miękisz (Warszawa) Equilibrium selection in stochastic evolutionary games


12:30-14:00 Lunch


14:00-15:30 Tutorial

Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh) The Complexity of Nash Equilibria and Fixed Points of Algebraic Functions


15:30-16:00 Coffee break


16:00-17:15 

16:00 Dominik Wojtczak (Edinburgh) Quasi-Birth-Death Decision Processes (a.k.a., 1-Counter MDPs)

16:15 Michael Ummels (Aachen) The Complexity of Pure Nash Equilibria in Stochastic Multiplayer Games

16:30 Hugo Gimbert (Bordeaux) Do There Exist Optimal Strategies in Stochastic Games with Value 1?

17:00 Florian Horn (Aachen, Paris) How to compute the values of a prefix-independent game.




Thursday, 11 September


8:30-9:00 Coffee


9:00-10:30 Tutorial

Helmut Seidl (Munich) Precise Program Analysis, Strategy Improvement and Games


10:30-11:00 Coffee break


11:00-12:00

11:00 Jérôme Leroux (Bordeaux) An Easy Algorithm For The General Vector Addition System Reachability Problem.

11:30 Jonathan Cederberg (Uppsala) Monotonic Abstraction (Applications in Parameterized Verification and Shape Analysis)


12:00-13:30 Lunch


13:30-15:15

13:30 Blaise Genest (Rennes) Communicating Games and Quasi Static Scheduling

14:00 Anthony Widjaja To (Edinburgh) Recurrent Reachability in Regular Model Checking

14:15 Aniello Murano (Napoli) The Pushdown Module Checking Saga

14:45 Paweł Parys (Warsaw) XPath Evaluation in Linear Time

15:00 Clemens Ley (Oxford) A Note on the Expressive Power of Temporal Logics on Trees