Conference Program

The SAND 2024 Conference Programme consists of 18 regular papers and 6 brief announcements. For their presentations, regular papers are provided with 25-minutes slots and brief announcements are provided with 10-minutes slots.

The list of all the SAND 2024 accepted papers (with/without abstracts) are provided here.

Wednesday, June 5 2024

08:30 -- 08:50 Registration
08:50 -- 09:00 Welcome & Introduction
9:00 -- 10:00 Invited Talk 1
Thomas Erlebach (University of Durham): Exploration and Rendezvous in Temporal Graphs.
10:00 -- 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 -- 11:30 SESSION 1: Temporal Graphs I
(R1) Nina Klobas, George Mertzios, Hendrik Molter and Paul Spirakis: Temporal graph realization from fastest paths.
(R2) Thomas Erlebach, Nils Morawietz and Petra Wolf: Parameterized Algorithms for Multi-Label Periodic Temporal Graph Realization.
(B1) George Mertzios, Sotiris Nikoletseas, Christoforos Raptopoulos and Paul Spirakis: On the existence of delta-temporal cliques in random simple temporal graphs.
11:30 -- 12:30 SESSION 2: Open Problems I
12:30 -- 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 -- 15:40 SESSION 3: Mobile agents / robots / exploration
(R3) Adri Bhattacharya, Giuseppe Francesco Italiano and Partha Sarathi Mandal: Black Hole Search in Dynamic Tori.
(R4) Shuma Kumamoto, Shuji Kijima and Tomoyuki Shirai: An Analysis of the Recurrence/Transience of Random Walks on Growing Trees and Hypercubes.
(B2) Duncan Adamson, Nathan Flaherty, Igor Potapov and Paul G. Spirakis: Collision-Free Robot Scheduling.
(B3) Quentin Bramas, Toshimitsu Masuzawa and Sebastien Tixeuil: Crash-tolerant Exploration of Trees by Energy Sharing Mobile Agents.
15:40 -- 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 -- 17:30 SESSION 4: Diverse Topics
(R5) Kévin Perrot, Sylvain Sené and Léah Tapin: Complexity of Boolean automata networks under block-parallel update modes.
(R6) Judith Beestermöller, Costas Busch and Roger Wattenhofer: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Directories.
(R7) Riccardo Dondi and Manuel Lafond: On the Complexity of Temporal Arborescence Reconfiguration.
17:30 -- 18:30 SESSION 5: Open Problems II, Interaction / Research
18:30 -- 19:30 Welcome Reception

Thursday, June 6 2024

09:00 -- 10:00 Invited Talk 2
Thomas Nowak (ENS Paris-Saclay): Distributed Computation with Bacteria.
10:00 -- 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 -- 11:45 SESSION 6: Mobile robots / Swarm robotics / Shape formation
(R8) Christopher Hahn, Jonas Harbig and Peter Kling: Forming Large Patterns with Local Robots in the OBLOT Model.
(R9) Avisek Sharma, Satakshi Ghosh, Pritam Goswami and Buddhadeb Sau: Space and Move-optimal Arbitrary Pattern Formation on infinite rectangular grid by oblivious robot swarm.
(R10) Caterina Feletti, Lucia Mambretti, Carlo Mereghetti and Beatrice Palano: Computational Power of Opaque Robots.
11:45 -- 12:30 SESSION 7: Open Problems III
12:30 -- 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 -- 15:30 SESSION 8: Temporal graphs II
(R11) Quentin Bramas, Jean-Romain Luttringer and Sebastien Tixeuil: Online Space-time Travel Planning in Dynamic Graphs.
(R12) Haozhi Zheng, Ryota Eguchi, Fukuhito Ooshita and Michiko Inoue: Gathering in Carrier Graphs: Meeting via Public Transportation System.
(B4) Stefan Balev, Yoann Pigné, Eric Sanlaville and Mathilde Vernet: The Dynamic Steiner Tree problem: definitions, complexity, algorithms.
15:30 -- 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 -- 17:30 Business Meeting
18:00 -- 22:00 Social Event

Friday, June 7 2024

09:00 -- 10:00 Invited Talk 3
Andrea Richa (Arizona State University): Algorithmic Programmable Matter: From Local Markov Chains to “Dumb” Robots.
10:00 -- 10:25 Coffee Break
10:25 -- 12:00 SESSION 9: Programmable matter / Shape formation
(R13) Andreas Padalkin, Manish Kumar and Christian Scheideler: Shape Formation and Locomotion with Joint Movements in the Amoebot Model.
(R14) Matthew Connor, Othon Michail and George Skretas: All for one and one for all: An O(1)-Musketeers Universal Transformation for Rotating Robots.
(R15) Kristian Hinnenthal, David Liedtke and Christian Scheideler: Efficient Shape Formation by 3D Hybrid Programmable Matter: An Algorithm for Low Diameter Intermediate Structures.
(B5) Nada Almalki, Siddharth Gupta and Othon Michail: On the Exponential Growth of Geometric Shapes.
(B6) Siddharth Gupta, Marc van Kreveld, Othon Michail and Andreas Padalkin: Collision Detection for Modular Robots -- it is easy to cause collisions and hard to avoid them.
12:00 -- 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 -- 14:45 SESSION 10: Temporal graphs III
(R16) Riccardo Dondi, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Giacomo Ortali, Tommaso Piselli and Alessandra Tappini: Partial Temporal Vertex Cover with Bounded Activity Intervals.
(R17) Duncan Adamson: Harmonious Colourings of Temporal Matchings.
(R18) Esteban Christiann, Eric Sanlaville and Jason Schoeters: On inefficiently connecting temporal networks.
14:45 End of the SAND 2024 Conference