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Parisian Master of Research in Computer Science

Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique (MPRI)

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Séminaire du MPRI

Ce séminaire a lieu le vendredi de 16h15 à 18h15 (2 heures), à Chevaleret en salle 0C2. Il s'agit d'exposés pouvant intéresser un public large, c'est-à-dire des étudiants ne suivant pas nécessairement le cours du MPRI le plus proche du sujet abordé.

Le planning des prochaines séances est


Vendredi 12 janvier 2007 : Giuseppe Longo (LIENS, CNRS et ENS de Paris)

Titre : Calculabilité et prédictibilité dynamique.

Résumé :

Références (voir: http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo )

Bailly F., Longo G. Mathématiques et sciences de la nature. La singularité physique du vivant. Hermann, Paris, 2006 (avant-propos et introduction téléchargéables)

Articles téléchargeables


Planning 2005-2006

Le planning des prochaines séances est


Vendredi 3 février 2005 : Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI, CNRS et Université Bordeaux 1)

Titre : Jeux pour la vérification.

Résumé : We will discuss applications of two player path-forming games on graphs. We will give an overview of problems in verification and synthesis were games play a fundamental role.

In what concerns verification, we will mostly concentrate on the model-checking problem, that is the problem of verifying if a given formula holds in a given state of a given model. We will discuss a close connection between this problem and the problem of deciding a winner in some games. This connection turns out to be very robust and of great help even in extensions such like pushdown systems or probabilistic concurrent games.

For the synthesis part, we will see that, here too, we can reduce synthesis problems to problems of solving games. Unlike for model-checking, there are many different approaches to the synthesis problem varying significantly, at least at the first sight. Among others, we will discuss a proposal of an extension of the mu-calculus that is capable of expressing in a unified way many of the problems found in the literature.

Time permiting we will consider some recent generalizations. We will present results on various non-regular winning conditions. We will also discuss extensions of the game model both to probabilistic and to multi-player settings.


Vendredi 10 février 2005 : Frank D. Valencia (LIX, CNRS et École Polytechnique)

Titre : On the Expressiveness of Infinite Behavior and Name Scoping in CCS.
(joint work with Gerardo Schneider and Pablo Giambiagi)

Résumé : In the literature there are several CCS-like process calculi differing in the constructs for the specification of infinite behavior and in the scoping rules for channel names. In this talk I will present various representatives of these calculi based upon both their relative expressiveness and the decidability of divergence. Two calculi are regarded equally expressive iff for every process in each calculus, there exists a weakly bisimilar process in the other.

I shall provide weak bisimilarity preserving mappings among the various variants, and show that in the context of relabeling-free and finite summation calculi: (1) CCS with parameterless (or constant) definitions is equally expressive to the variant with parametric definitions. (2) The CCS variant with replication is equally expressive to that with recursive expressions and static scoping. We also state that the divergence problem is undecidable for the calculi in (1) but decidable for those in (2). The results are obtained from (un)decidability results by Busi, Gabbrielli and Zavattaro, and by showing the relevant mappings to be computable and to preserve divergence and its negation. From (1) and the well-known fact that parametric definitions can replace injective relabelings, I will show that injective relabelings are redundant ( i.e., derived) in CCS (which has constant definitions only).