piotr@alberta (Piotr Rudnicki) (06/07/89)
ADVANCE PROGRAM OF 8th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'89) August 14-16, 1989 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: The ACM SIG for Automata and Computability Theory and The ACM SIG for Operating Systems With support from: The Office of Naval Research, Bell Northern Research, NSERC, and The University of Alberta Conference Chair Piotr Rudnicki, The University of Alberta Program Chair Michael Merritt, AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity Chair M. Tamer Ozsu, The University of Alberta Program Committee Yehuda Afek, AT&T and Tel Aviv University Baruch Awerbuch, MIT Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon Cynthia Dwork, IBM Michael Fischer, Yale University Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin Maurice Herlihy, Carnegie Mellon Michael Merritt, AT&T David Peleg, Weizmann Institute Charles Rackoff, University of Toronto Peter Weinberger, AT&T Pierre Wolper, University of Liege -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, August 13 Registration: 16:00 - 19:00, Reception: 18:00-21:00. MONDAY, August 14 Session 1: 9:30 - 10:30 Invited Lecture Systematic and Formal Approaches to Reactive Systems, Amir Pnueli (Weizmann Institute). Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00 Session 2: 11:00 - 12:00 Equational Reasoning About Nondeterministic Processes, Jayadev Misra (University of Texas at Austin). Towards Dataflow Analysis of Communicating Finite State Machines, Wuxu Peng and S. Purushothaman (Penn State). Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00 Session 3: 14:00 - 15:30 The Intractability of Bounded Protocols for non-FIFO Channels, Yishay Mansour (MIT), and Baruch Schieber (IBM). Tight Bounds for the Sequence Transmission Problem, Da-Wei Wang and Lenore D. Zuck (Yale). Source To Destination Communication in the Presence of Faults, Oded Goldreich, Amir Herzberg (Technion) and Yishay Mansour (MIT). Coffee Break: 15:30 - 16:00 Session 4: 16:00 - 17:30 Probabilistic Knowledge and the Power of Adversary, Joseph Y. Halpern (IBM) and Mark R. Tuttle (MIT). On Reliable Message Diffusion, Yoram Moses and Gil Roth (Weizmann Institute). A Categorical Approach to Distributed Systems Expressibility and Knowledge, Ruben Michel (Yale). Cocktails and Banquet 18:30 - 21:00 TUESDAY, August 15 Session 5: 9:30 - 10:30 Ambiguity of Choosing, James E. Burns and Gary L. Peterson (Georgia Tech.). Sticky Bits and Universality of Consensus, Serge A. Plotkin (Stanford). Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00 Session 6: 11:00 - 12:00 Tight Bounds for Shared Memory Symmetric Mutual Exclusion Problems, Eugene Styer and Gary L. Peterson (Georgia Tech.). Efficient Solution to the Distributed Mutual Exclusion Problem, Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi (UC Santa Barbara). Lunch: 12:00 - 14:00 Session 7: 14:00 - 15:30 Non-Cryptographic Fault-Tolerant Computing in a Constant Number of Rounds of Interaction, Judith Bar-Ilan (Hebrew University) and Don Beaver (Harvard). Efficient Parallel Algorithms Can Be Made Robust, Paris C. Kanellakis (INRIA) and Alex A. Shvartsman (Brown). Efficient Distributed Recovery Using Message Logging, A. Prasad Sistla and Jennifer L. Welch (GTE Laboratories). Coffee Break: 15:30 - 16:00 Session 8: 16:00 - 17:30 A Structural Induction Theorem for Processes, R. P. Kurshan (AT&T) and Ken McMillan (Carnegie-Mellon). A Predicate Transformer Approach to Semantics of Parallel Programs, Ch. S. Jutla, Edgar Knapp, and Josyula R. Rao (UT Austin). Predicates are Predicate Transformers: a Unified Compositional Theory for Concurrency, Job Zwiers (Philips) and Willem-P. de Roever (TH Eindhoven and Philips). WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION 20:30 - 22:30 WEDNESDAY, August 16 Session 9: 9:00 - 10:30 Bounded Polynomial Randomized Consensus, Hagit Attiya (MIT), Danny Dolev (IBM and Hebrew University), and Nir Shavit (Hebrew University) Modular Construction of Nearly Optimal Byzantine Agreement Protocols, Brian A. Coan (Bellcore) and Jennifer L. Welch (GTE Labs). Shared-Memory vs. Message-Passing in an Asynchronous Distributed Environment, Amotz Bar-Noy (Stanford) and Danny Dolev (IBM) Coffee break: 10:30 - 11:00 Session 10: 11:00 - 12:30 Calling Names on Nameless Networks, Baruch Schieber and Marc Snir (IBM). Multiple Communication in Multi-Hop Radio Networks, Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Amos Israeli and Alon Itai (Technion). Fast Isolation of Arbitrary Forwarding Faults, Amir Herzberg (Technion) and Shay Kutten (IBM). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION All technical sessions, the reception, and the banquet will be held at The Chateau Lacombe Hotel, 101st Street at Bellamy Hill, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 1N7. TRANSPORTATION Edmonton International Airport is served by most major airlines and is about 30 minutes from the conference hotel by taxi (fare approximately $30). Alternatively, you may take the Airport Shuttle to the hotel (fare about $7). CLIMATE The temperatures in mid August range from the average daytime high of 20 deg C to the average nighttime low of 10 deg C. Rain showers are infrequent in August. ATTRACTIONS The hotel is right in the heart of downtown Edmonton. Shopping, fine dining, and the river valley parks are within walking distance of the hotel. The famous West Edmonton Mall can be reached by a shuttle bus (fare about $4). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVANCE REGISTRATION Please use a copy of this form to pre-register. Advance registration closes July 31, 1989. Registration after July 31 is subject to a late fee. Please mail your completed form with cheque (drawn on a North American Bank) or money order (in Canadian funds) payable to ACM PODC'89 to: ACM PODC'89 c/o Piotr Rudnicki Department of Computing Science The University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 The regular registration fee includes a reception on Sunday evening, luncheon on Monday, the banquet on Monday evening, coffee breaks, and a copy of the proceedings. Student registration fee includes everything except the banquet. Requests for refunds will be honoured until July 31, 1989. For further information please contact Piotr Rudnicki by phone at (403) 492-2983, fax (403) 492-1071, or send electronic mail to: piotr@alberta.uucp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM - PODC'89 Registration Form Surname ..................................................... Given name ..................................................... Affiliation ..................................................... ..................................................... Address ..................................................... ..................................................... ..................................................... Postal code ........... Country ............. Phone number ........... e-mail ................... Do you prefer vegetarian food? (yes or no) before July 31 after $CDN $CDN ACM Member 240 290 Membership No. __________ Non-member 300 350 Student 90 100 Addtitional banquet tickets 35 35 Total enclosed _______________$CDN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOTEL RESERVATION A block of rooms has been reserved for the PODC'89 participants. If you wish to reserve one of these rooms, please complete the form below and return to: ACM PODC'89 The Chateau Lacombe Hotel 101st Street at Bellamy Hill Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5J 1N7 Chateau Lacombe can be reached by phone (403) 428-6611, fax (403) 426-7625, and telex 037-2940. Please mention that you are part of the ACM PODC'89. Reservations must be received by July 21, 1989. Accommodations should be confirmed with a cheque for the first night deposit, or any major credit card. The conference rate at Chateau Lacombe is CDN $70, single or double occupancy, plus 5% tax. (Current exchange rate is roughly CDN $1 = US $0.84.) Check-out time is 1:00 pm. If you wish to arrive before Sunday or stay on beyond Wednesday morning, the conference fee will be honoured for at least one additional night. ACM PODC'89 Hotel Reservation Form Surname ................................................ Given name ................................................ Affiliation ................................................ Address ................................................ ................................................ ................................................ Postal code ............. Country ............ Phone number .................. Arrival date/time _________________________________ Departure date/time _______________________________ Single or double Deposit enclosed $CDN or Credit card Card No. Expiry date Signature