MFCS 2018 is organized in coopperation
with EATCS
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 20th April, 2018
Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, 24th April, 2018
Notification of authors: Tuesday, 12th June, 2018
Registration deadline (early): Monday, 25th June, 2018
Registration deadline (standard): Friday, 20th July, 2018
Conference dates: 27th-31st August, 2018
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Conference Program
Program Overview
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
time |
(August 27th) |
(August 28th) |
(August 29th) |
(August 30th) |
(August 31st) |
08:20-08:50 |
Registration |
Registration & Refreshments |
08:50-09:00 |
Opening |
09:00-10:00 |
Invited Talk: Christos H. Papadimitriou |
Invited Talk: Christel Baier |
Invited Talk: Olivier Bournez |
Invited Talk: Leslie Ann Goldberg |
Invited Talk: Herbert Edelsbrunner |
10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-12:10 |
Session 1A/1B |
Session 4A/4B |
Session 7A/7B |
Session 9A/9B |
Session 12A/12B |
Closing |
12:15-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-15:40 |
Session 2A/2B |
Session 5A/5B |
Session 8A/8B |
Session 10A/10B |
Coffee Break |
15:40-16:10 |
Coffee Break |
15:15 Social Program & Conference Dinner |
Coffee Break |
16:10-17:25 |
Session 3A/3B |
Session 6A/6B |
Session 11A/11B |
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17:30 Welcome reception |
Detailed Schedule
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MONDAY, August 27th |
08:20-08:50 |
Registration Desk Opens |
08:50-09:00 |
Official Opening of the Conference |
09:00-10:00 |
Christos H. Papadimitriou
A COMPUTER SCIENTIST THINKS ABOUT THE BRAIN
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 1A - Graphs |
Session 1B - Quantum computing |
10:30-10:55 |
Naonori Kakimura, Naoyuki Kamiyama and Kenjiro Takazawa.
The $b$-branching Problem in Digraphs |
Bill Fefferman and Shelby Kimmel
Quantum vs. Classical Proofs and Subset Verification |
10:55-11:20 |
Pavol Hell, Jing Huang, Ross McConnell and Arash Rafiey
Interval-Like Graphs and Digraphs |
Francois Le Gall, Tomoyuki Morimae, Harumichi Nishimura and Yuki Takeuchi
Interactive Proofs with Polynomial-Time Quantum Prover for Computing the Order of Solvable Groups |
11:20-11:45 |
Peter Hamburger, Ross McConnell, Attila Por, Jeremy Spinrad and Zhisheng Xu
Double Threshold Digraphs |
Marco Aldi, Niel De Beaudrap, Sevag Gharibian and Seyran Saeedi
On efficiently solvable cases of Quantum k-SAT |
11:45-12:10 |
Jakub Gajarský and Dan Kral
Recovering sparse graphs |
Sevag Gharibian, Miklos Santha, Jamie Sikora, Aarthi Sundaram and Justin Yirka
Quantum generalizations of the polynomial hierarchy with applications to QMA(2) |
12:10-14:00
| Lunch |
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Session 2A – Temporal Graphs & Graph Traversals |
Session 2B - Logic and Semantics |
14:00-14:25 |
Thomas Erlebach and Jakob T. Spooner
Faster Exploration of Degree-Bounded Temporal Graphs |
Martin Lück
On the Complexity of Team Logic and its Two-Variable Fragment |
14:25-14:50 |
Philipp Zschoche, Till Fluschnik, Hendrik Molter and Rolf Niedermeier
The Complexity of Finding Small Separators in Temporal Graphs |
Erik Paul and Manfred Droste
A Feferman-Vaught Decomposition Theorem for Weighted MSO Logic |
14:50-15:15 |
Konrad K. Dabrowski, Matthew Johnson, Giacomo Paesani, Daniël Paulusma and Viktor Zamaraev
On the Price of Independence for Vertex Cover, Feedback Vertex Set and Odd Cycle Transversal |
Andreas Krebs, Arne Meier, Jonni Virtema and Martin Zimmermann
Team Semantics for the Specification and Verification of Hyperproperties |
15:15-15:40 |
Christian Konrad
A Simple Augmentation Method for Matchings with Applications to Streaming Algorithms |
Guillaume Burel
Linking Focusing and Resolution with Selection |
15:40-16:10
| Coffee Break |
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Session 3A - Optimization and Approximation |
Session 3B - Computational Complexity |
16:10-16:35 |
Vinodchandran Variyam, A Pavan and Peter Dixon
On Pseudodeterministic Approximation Algorithms |
Edith Hemaspaandra, Lane A. Hemaspaandra, Holger Spakowski and Osamu Watanabe
The Robustness of LWPP and WPP, with an Application to Graph Reconstruction |
16:35-17:00 |
Chen Dan, Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen, He Jiang, Liwei Wang and Yuchen Zhou
Low Rank Approximation of Binary Matrices: Column Subset Selection and Generalizations |
Egor Klenin and Alexander Kozachinskiy
One-sided error communication complexity of Gap Hamming Distance |
17:00-17:25 |
Ioannis Lamprou, Russell Martin, Sven Schewe, Ioannis Sigalas and Vassilis Zissimopoulos
Maximum Rooted Connected Expansion |
Yassine Hamoudi
Simultaneous Multiparty Communication Protocols for Composed Functions |
18:00-20:00
| Welcome reception |
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TUESDAY, August 28th |
8:30-9:00 |
Registration & Refreshments |
9:00-10:00 |
Christel Baier
ON ENERGY CONDITIONS AND STOCHASTIC SHORTEST PATH PROBLEMS FOR MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 4A – Graph Minors and Dominating Sets |
Session 4B - Automata and Languages |
10:30-10:55 |
Argyrios Deligkas and Reshef Meir
Directed Graph Minors and Serial-Parallel Width |
Louis-Marie Dando and Sylvain Lombardy
On Hadamard Series and Rotating Q-Automata |
10:55-11:20 |
Benjamin Moore, Naomi Nishimura and Vijay Subramanya
Reconfiguration of graph minors |
Andrzej Murawski, Steven Ramsay and Nikos Tzevelekos
Polynomial-time equivalence testing for deterministic fresh-register automata |
11:20-11:45 |
Remy Belmonte, Tesshu Hanaka, Ioannis Katsikarelis, Eun Jung Kim and Michael Lampis
New Results on Directed Edge Dominating Set |
Moses Ganardi, Artur Jeż and Markus Lohrey
Sliding windows over context-free languages |
11:45-12:10 |
Sayan Bandyapadhyay, Anil Maheshwari, Saeed Mehrabi and Subhash Suri
Approximating Dominating Set on Intersection Graphs of Rectangles and L-frames |
Matthew Hague, Roland Meyer, Sebastian Muskalla and Martin Zimmermann
Parity to Safety in Polynomial Time for Pushdown and Collapsible Pushdown Systems |
12:10-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 5A – Counting and Satisfiability |
Session 5B - Strings and Words |
14:00-14:25 |
Florent Madelaine and Barnaby Martin
Consistency for counting quantifiers |
P. Madhusudan, Dirk Nowotka, Aayush Rajasekaran and Jeffrey Shallit
Lagrange’s Theorem for Binary Squares |
14:25-14:50 |
Andreas Göbel, J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski and Karen Seidel
Counting Homomorphisms to Trees Modulo a Prime |
Pawel Gawrychowski, Gad Landau and Tatiana Starikovskaya
Fast entropy-bounded string dictionary look-up with mismatches |
14:50-15:15 |
Peter Jonsson and Victor Lagerqvist
Why are CSPs Based on Partition Schemes Computationally Hard? |
Laurent Bulteau and Markus L. Schmid
Consensus Strings with Small Maximum Distance and Small Distance Sum |
15:15-15:40 |
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Philipp Schlag and Stefan Walzer
A Subquadratic Algorithm for 3XOR |
Léo Exibard, Emmanuel Filiot and Ismaël Jecker
The Complexity of Transducer Synthesis from Multi-Sequential Specifications |
15:40-16:10 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 6A - Optimization and Approximation |
Session 6B - Computational Complexity |
16:10-16:35 |
Francesco Cellinese, Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, Gianpiero Monaco and Yllka Velaj
Generalized budgeted submodular set function maximization |
Manuel Bodirsky, Marcello Mamino, Barnaby Martin and Antoine Mottet
The complexity of disjunctive linear Diophantine constraints |
16:35-17:00 |
Vittorio Bilò, Michele Flammini, Gianpiero Monaco and Luca Moscardelli
Pricing Problems with Buyer Preselection |
Mikhail Andreev, Gleb Posobin and Alexander Shen
Plain stopping time and conditional complexities revisited |
17:00-17:25 |
Mareike Dressler, Adam Kurpisz and Timo de Wolff
Optimization over the Boolean Hypercube via Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials |
Ralph Bottesch
On W[1]-Hardness as Evidence for Intractability |
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WEDNESDAY, August 29th |
8:30-9:00 |
Registration & Refreshments
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9:00-10:00 |
Olivier Bournez
DESCRIPTIVE MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH POLYNOMIAL ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 7A – Scheduling and Packing |
Session 7B - Games |
10:30-10:55 |
Spyros Angelopoulos, Christoph Dürr and Shendan Jin
Online Maximum Matching with Recourse |
Guy Avni, Shibashis Guha and Orna Kupferman
Timed Network Games with Clocks |
10:55-11:20 |
Kelin Luo, Thomas Erlebach and Yinfeng Xu
Car-Sharing between Two Locations: Online Scheduling with Two Servers |
Dan Hefetz, Orna Kupferman, Amir Lellouche and Gal Vardi
Spanning-Tree Games |
11:20-11:45 |
Hugo Akitaya, Matthew Jones, David Stalfa and Csaba Toth
Maximum Area Axis-Aligned Square Packings |
Stephane Le Roux
Concurrent games and semi-random determinacy |
11:45-12:10 |
Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Søren Stiil Frederiksen, Paul Goldberg and Jie Zhang
Hardness Results for Consensus-Halving |
Matthew Hague and Arnaud Carayol
Optimal Strategies in Pushdown Reachability Games |
12:10-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 8A – Algorithms and Data Structures |
Session 8B - Security and Learning |
14:00-14:25 |
Dani Dorfman, Haim Kaplan, Laszlo Kozma and Uri Zwick
Pairing heaps: the forward variant |
Paolo D'Arco, Roberto De Prisco, Alfredo De Santis, Ángel Pérez Del Pozo and Ugo Vaccaro
Probabilistic Secret Sharing |
14:25-14:50 |
Frank Kammer and Andrej Sajenko
Extra Space during Initialization of Succinct Data Structures and Dynamical Initializable Arrays |
Hasan Abasi
Error-Tolerant Non-Adaptive Learning of a Hidden Hypergraph |
14:50-15:20 |
Coffee Break |
15:20-21:00
| Social Program + Conference Dinner |
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THURSDAY, August 30th |
8:30-9:00 |
Registration & Refreshments
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9:00-10:00 |
Leslie Ann Goldberg
COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND THE INDEPENDENCE POLYNOMIAL
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 9A – Graphs |
Session 9B - Circuit Complexity |
10:30-10:55 |
Cedric Berenger, Peter Niebert and Kevin Perrot
Balanced connected partitioning of unweighted grid graphs |
Titus Dose
Balance Problems for Integer Circuits |
10:55-11:20 |
Christian Doczkal and Damien Pous
Treewidth-Two Graphs as a Free Algebra |
Pawel Idziak, Piotr Kawałek and Jacek Krzaczkowski
Expressive power, satisfiability and equivalence of circuits over nilpotent algebras |
11:20-11:45 |
Pinar Heggernes, Davis Issac, Juho Lauri Paloma de Lima and Erik Jan van Leeuwen
Rainbow Vertex Coloring Bipartite Graphs and Chordal Graphs |
Ninad Rajgopal, Rahul Santhanam and Srikanth Srinivasan
Deterministically Counting Satisfying Assignments for Constant-Depth Circuits with Parity Gates, with Implications for Lower Bounds |
11:45-12:10 |
Alessio Conte, Roberto Grossi, Andrea Marino, Romeo Rizzi and Luca Versari
Listing Subgraphs by Cartesian Decomposition |
Kazuyuki Amano
Depth Two Majority Circuits for Majority and List Expanders |
12:10-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 10A – Graphs |
Session 10B - Automata and Languages |
14:00-14:25 |
Martin Grohe, Gaurav Rattan and Gerhard J. Woeginger
Graph Similarity and Approximate Isomorphism |
Mikhail Berlinkov, Robert Ferens and Marek Szykuła
Complexity of Preimage Problems for Deterministic Finite Automata |
14:25-14:50 |
Alexander Kozachinskiy
From expanders to hitting distributions and simulation theorems |
Costanza Catalano and Raphaël M. Jungers
On randomized generation of slowly synchronizing automata |
14:50-15:15 |
Mozhgan Pourmoradnasseri, Mamadou Kantéand Kaveh Khoshkhah
Enumerating Minimal Transversals of Hypergraphs Without Small Holes |
Andrew Ryzhikov and Marek Szykuła
Finding Short Synchronizing Words for Prefix Codes |
15:15-15:40 |
Akanksha Agrawal, Pallavi Jain, Lawqueen Kanesh, Saket Saurabh and Daniel Lokshtanov
Conflict Free Feedback Vertex Set: A Parameterized Dichotomy |
Lukas Fleischer and Manfred Kufleitner
Testing Simon’s congruence |
15:40-16:10 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 11A - Mobile and Distributed algorithms |
Session 11B - Computational Complexity |
16:10-16:35 |
Andreas Bärtschi, Daniel Graf and Matúš Mihalák
Collective fast delivery by energy-efficient agents |
Donald Stull and Neil Lutz
Projection Theorems Using Effective Dimension |
16:35-17:00 |
Robert Gmyr, Kristian Hinnenthal, Irina Kostitsyna, Fabian Kuhn, Dorian Rudolph and Christian Scheideler
Shape Recognition by a Finite Automaton Robot |
Jenish C Mehta
Tree Tribes and lower bounds for Switching Lemmas |
17:00-17:25 |
Aris Pagourtzis and Tomasz Radzik
Tight bounds for deterministic $h$-shot broadcast in ad-hoc directed radio networks |
Donald Stull
Results on the Dimension Spectra of Planar Lines |
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FRIDAY, August 31st |
8:30-8:55 |
Registration & Refreshments
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9:00-10:00 |
Herbert Edelsbrunner
TRI-PARTITION OF A SIMPLICIAL COMPLEX
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 12A – Analysis of Algorithms |
Session 12B - Networks and Distributed Algorithms |
10:30-10:55 |
Akitoshi Kawamura, Holger Thies and Martin Ziegler
Average-case polynomial-time computability of Hamiltonian dynamics |
Ran Ben Basat, Gil Einziger and Roy Friedman
Give Me Some Slack: Efficient Sliding Window Measurements |
10:55-11:20 |
Louisa Seelbach Benkner and Markus Lohrey
Average case analysis of leaf-centric binary tree sources |
Hendrik Fichtenberger and Yadu Vasudev
A Two-Sided Error Distributed Property Tester For Conductance |
11:20-11:45 |
Andre Droschinsky, Nils Kriege and Petra Mutzel
Largest Weight Common Subtree Embeddings with Distance Penalties |
Andrea Clementi, Mohsen Ghaffari, Luciano Gualà, Emanuele Natale, Francesco Pasquale and Giacomo Scornavacca
A Tight Analysis of the Parallel Undecided-State Dynamics with Two Colors |
11:45-12:00 |
Closing |
12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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