Workshop on Graph and Hypergraph Decompositions

December  16-18, 2004

Vienna, Austria

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Workshop Programme

 

Thursday, December 16, 2004

 

08:30-09:30: Registration

 

09:30–09:45: Welcome Plenary Session (Chair: Georg Gottlob)

 

 

Session1: Graph and Hypergraph Decompositions and Constraint Satisfaction

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09:45-10:30: Exploiting tree-decomposition in search: the AND/OR paradigm, Rina Dechter

10:30-11:00: Hinges then Hypertrees are nearly optimal, Dave Cohen

 

11:00-11:30: Refreshments

 

11:30-11:45: Graph and Hypergraph Decomposition Research at 4C, Brahim Hnich

11:45-12:15: Dulmage-Mendelsohn decompositions and SAT, Stefan Szeider

 

12:15-13:30: Lunch           

 

 

Session 2a: Hypertree Decompositions

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13:30-14:15: Hypertree width and its extensions, Francesco Scarcello

14:15-14:45: Heuristic Approaches for Hypertree Decomposition, Artan Dermaku and Marko Samer

 

14:45-15:15: Refreshments

 

Session 2b: Trees and  Queries

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15:15-15:45: Generalized Projection Pushing Revisited, Ben McMahan

15:45-16:15: Invariant Queries and Characterizations of Definability, Michael Benedikt

 

 

Friday, December 17,  2004

 

Session 3:  Clique-Width and Acyclicity

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 09:30-10:15: Graph and hypergraph decomposition and maximum weight stable sets, Andreas Brandstädt

10:15-10:45: Clique width, patchwidth and rankwidth:choosing the right notions, Johann Makowsky

 

10:45-11:15: Refreshments

 

11:15-12:00: Recognizing graphs of rank-width at most k,  Sang-il Oum

12:00-12:30: Acyclicity and Hypertree-Width versus Clique-Width, Reinhard Pichler

 

12:15-14:00: Lunch           

 

Session 4a:  Hypergraphs and Queries

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14:00-14:30: The complexity of generalized acyclic conjunctive queries, Arnaud Durand

14:30-15:00: Efficient implementation of acyclic conjunctive queries with restricted comparisons, Etienne Grandjean

 

15:00-15:30: Refreshments

 

Session 4b:  Hypertree and Tree Decompositions

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15:30-16:15: Generalized Hyper-Treewidth, Games, and Connectivity, Martin Grohe

16:15-16:45: To be announced, Georg Gottlob

16:45-17:15: Tree decomposition in discrete optimization, Oleg Shcherbina

 

 

Saturday, December 18,  2004

 

Session 5: Complexity of Directed Graphs, Geometrical Aspects of Hypergraphs, Matroids

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09:30-10:15: Entanglement -- A Measure for the Complexity of Directed Graphs, with Applications to Logic and Games, Erich Grädel and Dietmar Berwanger 

 

10:15-11:00: Tree Decompositions -- Why Matroids are Useful, Petr Hlineny

 

11:00-11:30: Refreshments

 

11:30-12:15:  Geometrical Aspects of Hypergraphs, Alain Bretto 

 

12:15: CLOSE, Lunch           

 

 

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