The following events and publications have been dedicated to the memory of
Paris Christos Kanellakis
Symposia, conferences, workshops
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Brown University hosted a
symposium on the work of Paris Kanellakis on Friday, May 3, 1996
(see the symposium program for more information).
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There was a DIMACS workshop on finite-model theory in mid-January
at Princeton Univeristy, in New Jersey.
Paris was going to give a talk there. Instead,
his colleagues talked about his work. The proceedings of
the workshop, which will be published in the DIMACS/AMS series, will
be dedicated to Paris.
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There was a tutorial dedicated to Paris's work in
ACM PODS'96 (Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, June 1996).
The proceedings are also dedicated to Paris.
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There will be a special session in Paris's honor at
CP'96 (Constraint Programming, August 1996) organized by
Pascal Van Hentenryck (pvh@cs.brown.edu), as well as an invited lecture
series in memory of Paris. CP'96 will also give a best paper award
named after Paris, given to the paper that best exemplifies the
interdisciplinary spirit of the conference.
The proceedings will be dedicated to Paris and will feature a short technical
obituary. A workshop on Constaints and Databases, organized by
Alex Brodsky and Divesh Srivastava and held in conjunction
with CP'96, will also be dedicated to Paris.
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The proceedings of PODC'96 (Principles of Distributed Computing)
will be dedicated to Paris (as well as to Anna Pogosiants, of MIT).
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ICDT'97 (International Conference on Database Theory) will be
held in Greece in January 1997. The proceedings will be dedicated to Paris.
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The
proceedings of DBPL 95,
have been dedicated to the memory of Paris.
A report on the panel chaired by Paris is included in the proceedings.
Journals - dedications and technical obituaries
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The March 1996 issue of the Computing Surveys,
edited by Peter Wegner (pw@cs.brown.edu),
published a technical obituary of Paris.
Here is the PostScript version of it.
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Journal of Algorithms has also dedicated its March 1996
issue to Paris.
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There is a technical obituary in the April 1996 issue of
the Journal of Logic Programming, written by Pascal Van Hentenryck
(pvh@cs.brown.edu). Paris was an associate editor of the Journal.
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Moshe Vardi (vardi@cs.rice.edu) is
editing a special issue of Information and Computation
for papers from the 1993 LICS conference, Paris' among them.
The issue will be dedicated to Paris.
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Ron Fagin has taken over from Paris the job of editing a special issue
of JCSS for papers from the 1992 PODS conference. The issue
will be dedicated to Paris.
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There will be a special issue of the Constraints journal, on
Constraints and Databases, edited by Peter Stuckey and Raghu Ramakrishnan.
It will be dedicated to Paris.
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A special issue of the
Journal of Digital Libraries,
on Languages for Digital Libraries,
edited by Peter Buneman and Stan Zdonik,
was dedicated to Paris.
Dedications of individual manuscripts
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Stephane Grumbach and Jianwen Su dedicated their paper
"Queries with Arithmetical Constraints" to Paris.
It is submitted to the special issue of TCS following CP95,
edited by Ugo Montanari.
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M. Benedikt, G. Dong, L. Libkin, L. Wong dedicated their paper
"Relational expressive power of constraint query languages"
to Paris. It appeared in PODS'96.
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Alain Mayer , a PhD student at Columbia University,
dedicated his thesis to the memory of Paris.
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Dina Q Goldin dedicated her PhD thesis to the
memory of Paris.