[Proof Complexity] Call for presentation of 'International Workshop on Graph Structure and Satisfiability Testing' colocated with SAT 2016

[Massimo Lauria]

The deadline in the email is wrong. The deadline in the webpage is the
correct one: May 18th.

2016-04-29 18:31 GMT+02:00 Massimo Lauria <lauria.massimo at gmail.com>:
> Call for presentations
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> International Workshop on Graph Structure and Satisfiability Testing
>
> colocated with the 19th International Conference on Theory and Applications of
> Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2016).
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> OVERVIEW
>
> A well-established way of describing the structure of SAT instances is to
> consider different graphs or hypergraphs that encode the interaction of the
> variables in CNF formulas. These graph structures have seen interest in the
> last few years both from theory and practice of SAT solving. For example, many
> tractable classes of SAT and related problems are characterized by
> restrictions of the underlying graph or hypergraph structure whereas lower
> bounds in proof complexity and knowledge compilation often use graphs that in a
> certain well-defined sense lack this structure. On the more practical side, it
> has been shown that good performance of CDCL solvers on practical SAT
> instances is related to the community structure of the underlying graphs.
> Moreover, graphs play a crucial role in some successful variable choice
> heuristics. Yet another connection between SAT and graph theory is the
> increasing use of SAT solvers in combinatorial problems, for instance in Ramsey
> theory.
>
> The goal of the International Workshop on Graph Structure and Satisfiability
> Testing is to bring together researchers from different areas in which there is
> an interaction between graph structure and problems related to propositional
> satisfiability. The aim is to foster exchange between these areas by presenting
> different perspectives, results and current challenges.
>
> The workshop will feature one 50-minute invited talk and several short
> contributed talks highlighting different perspectives.
>
>
> CALL
>
> We solicit contributions in the form of 1-2-page extended abstracts concerned
> with all aspects of current research that relates graphs and SAT, interpreted
> in a broad sense. Since there will be no proceedings, we explicitly solicit
> the submission of talk abstracts describing already published work and work in
> progress which falls into the scope of our workshop.
>
> The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
>
>     SAT algorithms based on graph structure
>     Model counting
>     Knowledge compilation
>     Proof complexity
>     Practical evaluation of graph based algorithms
>     Variable choice heuristics
>     Propagation algorithms
>     Analysis and visualization of the structure of practical instances
>     Applications of SAT-based techniques to combinatorial problems
>
> Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to give a talk at the workshop.
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> Invited Speaker
>
>     Stefan Szeider (TU Wien)
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>
> Important Dates
>
>     April, 29th, 2016: Submission
>     June, 1st, 2016: Notification
>     July, 4th, 2016: Workshop
>
>
> Program Committee
>
>     Gilles Audemard, CRIL, Université d'Artois
>     Simone Bova, TU Wien (organizer)
>     Massimo Lauria, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
>     Stefan Mengel, CNRS, CRIL (organizer)
>     Igor Razgon, Birkbeck, University of London
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>
> Additional information
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>     https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/structsat2016/



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Massimo Lauria
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