Oxford Computer Science Conference 2017
The Oxford Computer Science Conference 2018 will take place on Friday, 1st June, 2018 (6th week of Trinity Term).
The Oxford Computer Science Conference 2017 will take place on Friday, 9th June, 2017 (7th week of Trinity Term) in the Wolfson Building on Parks Road, in Lecture Theatre B.
We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Prof. Samson Abramsky FRS, Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing.
Established in 2004, the Conference was originally held biennially and has since become an annual event.
All students, faculty and staff members of the department are welcome to attend the conference for which there is no registration fee. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided free of charge.
The deadline for submission of micro abstracts has now passed. Registration for attendance at the conference and/or dinner has now closed.
Programme
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Session |
9:00 |
9:05 |
Welcome Address: Martin Dehnel-Wild, General Chair |
9:05 |
10:05 |
Session 1: Algorithms (Chair: Ulrik Lyngs) |
Predicting Semantic Graphs with Neural Networks Jan Buys |
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The Complexity of Counting Compactions and Surjective Homomorphisms Jacob Focke, Leslie Ann Goldberg, and Stanislav Zivny |
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Flash Crash Contagion and Systemic Risk: An Agent-Based Model James Paulin, Anisoara Calinescu, and Michael Wooldridge |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
Session 2: Lightning Talks (Chair: Ulrik Lyngs) |
Evaluating Manual Intervention to Address the Challenges of Bug Finding in Symbolic Execution John Galea, Daniel Neville, and Sean Heelan |
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Molecular Semantics Luca Laurenti |
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Balancing cooperation and defection in a two-agent grid-world game: the Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge. Adrià Garriga, Daniel Furelos Blanco and David Tena Cucala |
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Search for Quantum Advantage in Restricted Permutational Quantum Computing Vojtech Havlicek |
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10:30 |
10:50 |
Coffee Break (Atrium) |
10:50 |
12:10 |
Session 3 (Chair: Chad Heitzenrater) |
Exploring Weak Ciphers Usage in Business Aircraft Communications Matthew Smith, Daniel Moser, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, and Ivan Martinovic |
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Broken Hearted: A Novel Cross-Device Presentation Attack Against ECG Biometrics Simon Eberz, Nicola Paoletti, Marc Roeschlin, Andrea Patané, Marta Kwiatkowska, and Ivan Martinovic |
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Model-driven-design of biological experiments: The case for the in silico lab Daniel Nichol, Peter Jeavons, and Alexander Anderson |
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Novel Parallel Watershed for Faster Image Partitioning Varduhi Yeghiazaryan and Irina Voiculescu |
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12:15 |
13:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session (Atrium) |
Hearing Attacks in Sonified Network Data Louise Axon, Sadie Creese, and Michael Goldsmith |
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Available Labelled Flexible Realistic Data-generator Alastair Janse van Rensburg and Louise Axon |
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Privacy-Preserving Targeted Advertising for Mobile Devices Yang Liu and Andrew Simpson |
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Ulysses in Cyberspace: Evaluating the Anti-Distraction Market Ulrik Lyngs |
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High arrhythmic risk and low ST segment elevation in subendocardial compared to transmural acute ischemia Hector Martinez-Navarro |
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Closed-loop quantitative verification of rate-adaptive pacemakers Nicola Paoletti, Andrea Patane, and Marta Kwiatkowska |
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Applications of Reinforcement Learning to Medical Image Segmentation Edoardo Pirovano and Irina Voiculescu |
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Automated Experiment Design for Efficient Verification of Parametric Markov Decision Processes Elizabeth Polgreen, Viraj Brian Wijesuriya, Sofie Haesaert, and Alessandro Abate |
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13:30 |
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Keynote: Prof. Samson Abramsky FRS |
14:15 |
15:00 |
Session 4 (Chair: Kevin Milner) |
Composably secure time-frequency quantum key distribution Nathan Walk |
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Data flow and signal processing for Airborne ESM Harvey Alison (Leonardo) |
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15:00 |
15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30 |
16:10 |
Session 5: Quantum |
Representing encoded operations in quantum computation, with diagrams Niel de Beaudrap |
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Completeness of qutrit ZX-calculus for stabilizer quantum computation Quanlong Wang |
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16:15 |
16:40 |
Session 6: Lightning Talks (Chair: Elizabeth Phillips) |
ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market Ulrik Lyngs |
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Security Games with Multiple Uncoordinated Defenders Jiarui Gan, Edith Elkind, and Michael Wooldridge |
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“Privacy is the boring bit”: Perceptions and behaviour in the Internet-of-Things Meredydd Williams, Jason Nurse, and Sadie Creese |
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Automatically Verifying Stateful Security Protocols in Tamarin Nicholas Moore |
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Cyber cowboys and the wild west of insurance Daniel Woods |
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16:45 |
17:00 |
Poster Judging and Awards Presentation |
17:00 |
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Reception |
19:00 |
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Conference Chairs
- Martin Dehnel-Wild, General Chair
- Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Conference co-Chair
- Kevin Milner, Conference co-Chair
Programme Committee
- Prince Abudu
- Vojtech Havlicek
- Chad Heitzenrater
- Dennis Jackson
- Ahmet Kucuk
- Ulrik Lyngs
- Alina Petrova
- Elizabeth Phillips
- Arianna Schuler Scott
- Matthew Smith
- Yuan Zhou