General Information

The second GASICS Meeting will take place at RWTH Aachen in October 2009, from Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd. It will start on Thursday at 11:00 and end on Friday at 15:30.

During this meeting we shall exchange news about our ongoing work, and as a special feature there will be presentations from two other projects in the LogiCCC program of the European Science Foundation, namely

The aim is to find topics and problems where a collaboration would be rewarding.

Venue

The meeting takes place at the Computer Science Center in Seminar Room 5056.

Directions

Registration

Please register by sending an email with the following information to gasics09@automata.rwth-aachen.de:

  • Your name,
  • your affiliation,
  • if you want to give a talk, then the title of your talk.

Due to the support of ESF for this cross-CRP activity and support by funds of RWTH Aachen University, there is no registration fee. We thank both institutions.

Program

Thursday, 22nd October 2009

10:30 - 11:00 Registration
11:00 - 11:30 J. De Pril: Nash-Equilibria in Quantitative Games
11:30 - 12:00 R. Brenguier: Equilibria in Timed Games
12:00 - 12:30 G. Oreiby: Nash-Equilibria for Two-Player Games on Weighted Automata
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Mensa Vita, at own cost)
14:00 - 14:50 J. Rothe (CFSC): Overview of CFSC
14:50 - 15:10 D. Baumeister (CFSC): A Computational Analysis of Minimal Unidirectional Covering Sets
15:10 - 15:30 C. Lindner (CFSC): Not Everyone Likes Mushrooms — Fair Division and the Degree of Guaranteed Envy-Freeness
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 J.-F. Raskin: Overview of GASICS
16:30 - 17:00 K. G. Larsen: Refinement Checking and Timed Game Automata
17:00 - 17:20 E. Hoogland: On the ESF EUROCORES Program LogiCCC
18:15 - 19:15 optional: Tour through Aachen cathedral and town center (Meeting Point: Cathedral entrance)
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner

Friday, 23rd October 2009

09:00 - 09:30 J.-F. Raskin: Algorithms for Energy Games and Mean-Payoff Games with Perfect and Imperfect Information
09:30 - 10:00 J. Fearnley: Non-oblivious Strategy Improvement
10:00 - 10:30 R. Lazic: Branching Vector Addition Systems
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 J. Väänänen (LINT): Overview of LINT
11:45 - 12:15 D. Berwanger (LINT): Strategy Construction with Antichains
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Mensa Vita, at own cost)
14:00 - 14:30 P. Galliani (LINT): Probabilistic Dependence Logic
14:30 - 15:00 W. Fridman: Six Types of Pushdown Games
15:00 - 15:30 M. Zimmermann: Parametric LTL Games
15:30 End of meeting for participants
 
15.30 - 16.30 GASICS Steering Committee Meeting

List of Participants

  • Baumeister, Dorothea (CFSC, Düsseldorf)
  • Berwanger, Dietmar (LINT, Cachan)
  • Bouyer, Patricia (Cachan)
  • Brenguier, Romain (Cachan)
  • Brihaye, Thomas (Mons)
  • Bruyere, Veronique (Mons)
  • Czerwinski, Wojciech (Warsaw / Dortmund)
  • David, Alexandre (Aalborg)
  • De Pril, Julie (Mons)
  • Doyen, Laurent (Cachan)
  • Ducobu, Marc (Mons)
  • Fearnley, John (Warwick)
  • Filiot, Emmanuel (Bruxelles)
  • Fischer, Diana (Aachen)
  • Fridman, Wladimir (Aachen)
  • Galliani, Pietro (LINT, Helsinki / Amsterdam)
  • Ganzow, Tobias (Aachen)
  • Gauwin, Olivier (Lille / Mons)
  • Gentilini, Raffaella (Bruxelles)
  • Grädel, Erich (LINT, Aachen)
  • Herbreteau, Frédéric (Bordeaux)
  • Hoogland, Eva (ESF, Strasbourg)
  • Horn, Florian (Wien)
  • Idziaszek, Tomasz (Hasselt / Warsaw)
  • Jurdziński, Marcin (Warwick)
  • Kaiser, Łukasz (LINT, Aachen)
  • Larsen, Kim G. (Aalborg)
  • Lazic, Ranko (Warwick)
  • Lindner, Claudia (CFSC, Düsseldorf)
  • Löding, Christof (Aachen)
  • Markey, Nicolas (Cachan)
  • Naiyong, Jin (Bruxelles)
  • Neider, Daniel (Aachen)
  • Olschewski, Jörg (Aachen)
  • Oreiby, Ghassan (Aalborg)
  • Puchala, Bernd (LINT, Aachen)
  • Rabinovich, Roman (LINT, Aachen)
  • Radmacher, Frank (Aachen)
  • Raskin, Jean-Francois (Bruxelles)
  • Rothe, Jörg (CFSC, Düsseldorf)
  • Rutkowski, Michal (Warwick)
  • Schobbens, Pierre-Yves (Namur)
  • Serre, Olivier (Paris)
  • Slaats, Michaela (Aachen)
  • Spelten, Alex (Aachen)
  • Thomas, Wolfgang (Aachen)
  • Väänänen, Jouko (LINT, Helsinki / Amsterdam)
  • Yang, Fan (Helsinki)
  • Zeitoun, Marc (Cachan)
  • Zimmermann, Martin (Aachen)

Accomodation

Here are some choices for hotels in Aachen offering special rates for guests of RWTH Aachen University. Please ask explicitly for these rates.

Hotel garni Baccara

Turmstr. 174, 52064 Aachen
Fon: 0241/8797960
Fax: 0241/87979620
http://www.hotel-baccara.de/

Single room (including breakfast): €65
Double room (including breakfast): €95

This hotel is close to the venue and easily reachable by bus from Central Station.

Hotel Ibis Aachen Marschiertor

Friedlandstr. 6-8, 52064 Aachen
Fon: 0241/47880
Fax: 0241/4788110
http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-0967-ibis-aachen-marschiertor-aix-la-chapelle/index.shtml

Single room (including breakfast): weekdays €76.26, weekends €82.26
Double room (including breakfast): weekdays €82.26, weekends €92.26

This hotel is close to Central Station and the venue is easily reachable by bus. WiFi is available for €9 per 24 hours. A contingent of 15 single rooms is blocked for the meeting until September 21st. Please mention the keyword "GASICS".

Aquis Grana Cityhotel

Büchel 32, 52062 Aachen
Fon: 0241/4430
Fax: 0241/443137
http://www.hotel-aquis-grana.de/

Single room (including breakfast): €85
Double room (including breakfast): €100

This hotel is close to the city center and the venue is easily reachable by bus. WiFi is available at no charge. A contingent of 15 single rooms is blocked for the meeting until September 21st. Please mention the keyword "GASICS".

Travel Information

The meeting takes place at the Computer Science Center of RWTH Aachen University, located at Ahornstraße 55 in Aachen. See venue above.

By plane

Nearby airports are Cologne-Bonn (CGN) and Dusseldorf (DUS). From there you can take the train to Aachen Central Train Station (Aachen Hbf). Trains depart hourly and take approximately 90 minutes.

By train

Aachen Central Train Station is serviced by ICE trains, the Thalys, as well as several regional trains. You can find your connections at the website of Deutsche Bahn.

Getting to the Computer Science Center from the Central Train Station

The easiest way to get to the Computer Science Center is to take a taxi to "Ahornstraße 55". This costs about €10.

Alternatively you can go by bus:
  • Opposite of the Central Train Station is the "Bahnhofstraße".
  • Follow the "Bahnhofstraße" till you reach the "Theaterstraße".
  • At the "Theaterstraße" you will find the bus stop named "Wallstraße". Take bus no. 33 in direction "Vaals (NL)/Klinikum" (the bus goes downhill).
  • The trip takes approximately 20 minutes. Get out at "Halifaxstraße" (the stop is in fact the topmost "H" on the map above).
  • The Computer Science Center is located directly across the street.

By car

Find your directions via Google Maps. Parking is free on the parking lot accessible from "Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße" (see venue above).

Contact

Local Organizer: Wolfgang Thomas.

Please send all enquiries to gasics09@automata.rwth-aachen.de.

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