Review of SIROCCO 2011 Adrian Kosowski INRIA Bordeaux, France kosowski@labri.fr Dominik PajÄ
k INRIA Bordeaux, France dominik.pajak@labri.fr Zuzanna Stamirowska Ãcole Polytechnique, France zuzanna.stamirowska@polytechnique.edu The 18th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, sirocco, took place during June 26-29, 2011. This year s venue was the Hotel Hilton in GdaÅsk, Poland, located on the banks of the MotÅawa river, just a minute s walk away from the historic heritage of the city s medieval grain port. Since its rst editions, the areas of interest of sirocco have focused around the interplay between the e ciency of algorithms and systems, and the availability of information. The meeting attracts participants working in various areas of distributed computing and network optimization. It is known for its lively and relaxed atmosphere, and for its openness to new, unconventional models and ideas. During the 2011 edition, we had the opportunity to attend two invited talks, by David Peleg and Colin Cooper, a survey talk by Michel Raynal, and 24 contributed talks selected by a Programme Committee chaired by Masafumi Yamashita. The technical program included most of the evergreen topics of sirocco: problems of mobile agents and robots, distributed algorithms in graphs, and network
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