SACS ´07

Programm

8:00 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:10 Opening (H. Maurer, Dean; K.C. Posch, Vice Dean) (Room 1)

9:10 - 10:10 Plenary Talks
Ian Witten, New Zealand: How the dragons work: Searching ... in a web
Bart Preneel, Belgium: Cryptology: past, present and future

10:10 - 10:40 Break for refreshments (Coffee Area)

10:40 - 12:35 Four parallel morning tracks. Each track consists of four talks of 25 minutes each, with 5 minutes for questions/change over (Room 2 - 5)

Track 1: Foundations and Theory (Chairperson O. Aichholzer) (Room 3)
Emo WELZL, Switzerland: Counting of Crossing-Free Geometric Graphs
Cris CALUDE, New Zealand and M. A. STAY, USA: Most Programs Stop Quickly or Never Halt
Raimund SEIDEL, Germany: n Lines - n² Intersections - Subquadratic Time
Günter ROTE, Germany: Collapse

Track 2: eLearning (Chairperson A. Holzinger) (Room 4)
Martin EBNER, Graz: e-Learning for Higher Education
Bernd KRAEMER, Germany: Exposure and Support of Latent Social Networks Among Learning Object Repository Users
Gerald MAGUIRE, Sweden: Applying computer science to solve problems: Step 1: Picking problems OR Being a contrarian - don't search under the lamppost
Thomas OTTMANN, Germany: Of men and machines: More than 10 years of experience with e-lectures at universities

Track 3: Security and Graphics (Chairperson H. Bischof) (Room 2)
Wolfgang STRASSER, Germany: Modelling and Simulation of flexible materials
Vaclav HLAVAC, Czech Republic: Structure and Images
Ales LEONARDIS, Slovenia: Hierarchically Learned Representations of Objects Categories: From Pixels towards Semantic Parts
Gudrun KLINKER, Germany: Augmented Reality-based Assistance of Car Drivers

Track 4: General, Part 1 (Chairperson S. Lindstaedt) (Room 5)
Jun AZUMA, Japan: The Possibility of Implementing a Computer-Mediated Universal Symbolic Language: Hints from Sign Language and Graphic Emoticons
Gerhard CHROUST, Linz: Dichotomic Architectural Alternatives in Software Design and their Historical Origins
Günter KOCH, Vienna: Methods of identifying the knowledge of societies - and what it has to do with TU Graz
Bernd FRÖHLICH, Germany: Multi-Volume Rendering

12:35 - 14:00 Lunch Break and Time to Visit Exhibits (Gallery)

14:00 - 15:55 Four parallel afternoon tracks. Each track consists of four talks of 25 minutes each, with 5 minutes for questions/change over

Track 5: Knowledge Management, Media and WWW (Chairperson K. Tochtermann) (Room 3)
Joachim HASEBROOK, Germany: Innovation Webs and Web Innovation
Rudi STUDER, Germany: Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web - Two visions, one web?
Jürgen ALBERT, Germany: Building User Interfaces for Ancient Manuscripts
Frank KAPPE, Austria: The 3D Internet: Past, Present and Future

Track 6: Medical and Biological Computing (Chairperson K.-C. Posch) (Room 4)
Mel SLATER, Spain: Virtual Events Can Evoke Realistic Responses
Suave LOBODZINSKI, USA: Body Signal Computing
Günter SCHREIER, Graz: keep in TOUCH - Therapy Optimisation Using Computerized Healthmonitoring
Herbert EDELSBRUNNER, USA: Measuring Periodicity in Gene Expression with Persistence

Track 7: Software Technology (Chairperson F. Wotawa) (Room 2)
Georg GOTTLOB, Vienna/Oxford: Hypergraph Decompositions and their Applications to Constraint Satisfaction and Combinatorial Auctions
Richard MESSNARZ, Ireland: European Qualification Network
A Min TJOA, Vienna: Where and why we need semantic modelling in software engineering
Markus STUMPTNER, Australia: Model-based Software Debugging

Track 8: General, Part 2 (Chairperson M. Granitzer) (Room 5)
Wilfried IMRICH, Leoben: Approximate Graph Products
Roger DEBRECENY, Hawaii: The Influence of IT Governance on IT Process Maturity
Robert TRAPPL, Vienna: Programming for Peace?
Peter LANDROCK, Denmark: 30 years of PKI - from excitement through exhaustion to useful deployment

16:00 End of Symposium

16:00 - 17:00 Break with Refreshments and Registration of Attendees of the Celebration

• Dr. Daniel Weselka (as representative of Federal Minister Hahn)
• Landesrätin Kristina Edlinger-Ploder (representing the Province of Styria)
• Dr. Peter Piffl-Percevic (representing the City of Graz)
• Prof. Futschek (President of OCG, the Austrian Computer Society)
• Rektor Sünkel (President of Graz University of Technology)

17:30 - 19:00 Computer Science: The Past, the Present and the Future

• Prof. R. Posch: Computer Science in Graz bevor 1977
• Prof. H. Maurer as Dean: The 30 year History since 1977
• Prof. K.-C. Posch as Vice Dean: Computer Science Today: The Facts
• The Future of Computer Science

19:00 - 19:10 Short words from Professor Dr. Wolfgang Eichhorn, Karlsruhe

19:10 - 19:40 Stage Show INFIRE

19:40 - Open End Get Together with Sit-down Buffet

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