SIROCCO 2024
31st International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity
May 27th - May 29th, 2024
Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy
Program at a glance
Sunday, May 26
Monday, May 27
- 09:00 - 12:30: Morning sessions
- 12:30 - 14:30: Lunch break
- 14:30 - 17:30: Afternoon sessions
- 17:45 - 19:00: Business meeting
Tuesday, May 28
- 09:00 - 12:30: Morning sessions
- 12:30 - 14:30: Lunch break
- 15:30 - 18:30: Excursion
- 20:00 - 21:30: Banquet
Wednesday, May 29
- 09:00 - 12:30: Morning sessions
- 12:30 - 14:30: Lunch break
- 14:30 - 17:30: Afternoon sessions
Detailed program
With the exception of the excursion, all conference events will take place at the Lloyd's Baia Hotel in Vietri, Salerno.
Specifically, talks will be held in Sala E, the welcome reception on the Terrazza panoramica,
and lunches in the hotel restaurant.
Sunday, May 26
19:00 - 21:30 Reception
Monday, May 27
09:00 - 09:10 Opening remarks
09:10 - 10:10 Keynote 1
(Chair: Yuval Emek)
Giovanni Viglietta: History Trees and Their Applications
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee and snacks
10:30 - 11:30 Session 1
(Chair: Gianluca De Marco)
- 10:30 - 10:50 Computing Replacement Paths in the CONGEST Model. Vignesh Manoharan and Vijaya Ramachandran
- 10:50 - 11:10 On Distributed Computation of the Minimum Triangle Edge Transversal. Majd Khoury and Keren Censor-Hillel
- 11:10 - 11:30 Distributed Fractional Local Ratio and IS Approximation. Magnús M. Halldórsson and Dror Rawitz
11:30 - 11:50 Coffee and snacks
11:50 - 12:30 Session 2
(Chair: Shay Kutten)
- 11:50 - 12:10 Universal Coating by 3D Programmable Matter. Irina Kostitsyna, David Liedtke and Christian Scheideler
- 12:10 - 12:30 Deterministic Leader Election for Stationary Programmable Matter in the Presence of Obstacles. Jérémie Chalopin, Shantanu Das and Maria Kokkou
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote 2
(Chair: Yuval Emek)
Fabian Kuhn: Distributed Coloring Algorithms Based on List Defective Colorings
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee and snacks
15:50 - 16:30 Session 3
(Chair: Christian Scheideler)
- 15:50 - 16:10 An Analysis of Avalanche Consensus. Philipp Schneider, Christian Chachin and Ignacio Amores Sesar
- 16:10 - 16:20 Brief Announcement: Sharding in permissionless systems in presence of an adaptive adversary. Emmanuelle Anceaume, Davide Frey and Arthur Rauch
- 16:20 - 16:30 Brief Announcement: Network Abstractions for Characterizing Communication Requirements in Asynchronous Distributed Systems. Hugo Rincon Galeana and Ulrich Schmid
16:30 - 16:50 Coffee and snacks
16:50 - 17:30 Session 4
(Chair: Giovanni Viglietta)
- 16:50 - 17:10 Awake Complexity of Distributed Minimum Spanning Tree. John Augustine, William K. Moses Jr. and Gopal Pandurangan
- 17:10 - 17:30 Towards singular optimality in the presence of local initial knowledge. Hongyan Ji and Sriram Pemmaraju
17:45 - 19:00 Business meeting
Tuesday, May 28
09:00 - 10:00 Session 5
(Chair: Yuval Emek)
- 09:00 - 09:20 Near-Optimal Fault Tolerance for Efficient Batch Matrix Multiplication via an Additive Combinatorics Lens. Keren Censor-Hillel, Yuka Machino and Pedro Soto (best student paper)
- 09:20 - 09:40 \(k\)-Center Clustering in Distributed Models. Leyla Biabiani and Ami Paz
- 09:40 - 10:00 Locally Balanced Allocations under Strong Byzantine Influence. Paweł Garncarek, Costas Busch and Dariusz Kowalski
10:00 - 10:20: Coffee and snacks
10:20 - 11:20: Session 6
(Chair: Ami Paz)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Non-Negotiating Distributed Computing. Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sergio Rajsbaum, Pierre Fraigniaud and Corentin Travers
- 10:40 - 11:00 Reaching Agreement Among \(k\) out of \(n\) Processes. Gadi Taubenfeld
- 11:00 - 11:20 Better Sooner Rather Than Later. Anaïs Durand, Michel Raynal and Gadi Taubenfeld
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee and snacks
11:40 - 12:30 Session 7
(Chair: Ami Paz)
- 11:40 - 12:00 Stability of P2P Networks Under Greedy Peering. Lucianna Kiffer and Rajmohan Rajaraman (best paper)
- 12:00 - 12:20 All You Need are Random Walks: Fast and Simple Distributed Conductance Testing. Tugkan Batu, Amitabh Trehan and Chhaya Trehan
- 12:20 - 12:30 Brief Announcement: On the existence of consensus converging organized groups in large social networks. Yannis Stamatiou, Vasiliki Liagkou, Panagiotis Nastou and Paul Spirakis
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
15:30 - 18:30 Excursion
Discovering Vietri's coastal charms: town, panoramic vista, ceramics workshop tour and limoncello tasting.
20:00 - 21:30 Banquet
Wednesday, May 29
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 3
(Chair: Yuval Emek)
Shiri Chechik: Approximate Shortest Paths and Distance Oracles
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee and snacks
10:20 - 11:20 Session 8
(Chair: Gadi Taubenfeld)
- 10:20 - 10:40 Highly-Efficient Persistent FIFO Queues. Panagiota Fatourou, Nikos Giachoudis and George Mallis
- 10:40 - 11:00 On the Bit Complexity of Iterated Memory. Guillermo Toyos-Marfurt and Petr Kuznetsov
- 11:00 - 11:20 Efficient Wait-Free Linearizable Implementations of Approximate Bounded Counters Using Read-Write Registers. Colette Johnen, Adnane Khattabi, Alessia Milani and Jennifer Welch
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee and snacks
11:40 - 12:30 Session 9
(Chair: Shiri Chechik)
- 11:40 - 12:00 Distributed Binary Labeling Problems in High-Degree Graphs. Henrik Lievonen, Timothé Picavet and Jukka Suomela
- 12:00 - 12:20 Optimal Memory Requirement for Self-Stabilizing Token Circulation. Lelia Blin, Gabriel Le Bouder and Franck Petit
- 12:20 - 12:30 Brief Announcement: Online Drone Scheduling for Last-mile Delivery. Saswata Jana, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Manas Jyoti Kashyop, Athanasios L. Konstantinidis, Evangelos Kosinas and Partha Sarathi Mandal
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 SIROCCO Prize talk
(Chair: Magnús M. Halldórsson)
Shay Kutten: New problems in old subjects
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee and snacks
15:50 - 16:30 Session 10
(Chair: Gianluca De Marco)
- 15:50 - 16:10 Stand-Up Indulgent Gathering on Rings. Quentin Bramas, Sayaka Kamei, Anissa Lamani and Sebastien Tixeuil
- 16:10 - 16:20 Brief Announcement: Multi-Agent Online Graph Exploration on Cycles and Tadpole Graphs. Erik van den Akker, Kevin Buchin and Klaus-Tycho Foerster
- 16:20 - 16:30 Brief Announcement: Efficient Self-stabilizing Simulations of Energy-Restricted Mobile Robots by Asynchronous Luminous Mobile Robots. Keita Nakajima, Kaito Takase and Koichi Wada
16:30 - 16:50 Coffee and snacks
16:50 - 17:30 Session 11
(Chair: Yuval Emek)
- 16:50 - 17:10 Mutual visibility in hypercube-like graphs. Serafino Cicerone, Alessia Di Fonso, Gabriele Di Stefano, Alfredo Navarra and Francesco Piselli
- 17:10 - 17:30 In Search of the Lost Tree: Hardness and relaxation of spanning trees in temporal graphs. Arnaud Casteigts and Timothée Corsin